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11 March 2004
ASIA/INDONESIA - Building a culture of peace and reconciliation: Lenten commitment in Jayapura diocese
Jayapura (Fides Service) - A Lenten campaign to build reconciliation and tolerance has been launched in Jayapura diocese in the Indonesian province of West Papua, (or Irian Jaya), affected by violence and fighting as the ...
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11 March 2004
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Dengue fever alarm: since the beginning of the year 436 cases reported
Rome (Fides Service) - Official sources say that in El Salvador since the beginning of the year 436 cases of Dengue were reported, 18 were cases of haemorrhagic dengue. The situation is concerning because the number is c ...
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10 March 2004
VATICAN - The Pope address participants at Plenary Meeting of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications: may the Inter Mirifica document give inspiration “to continue your mission of helping those who work in this vast field to animate it with a humane and Christian spirit"
Vatican City (Fides Service ) - As the last item on the agenda of his morning’s work on Tuesday 9 March, Pope John Paul II granted an audience to the participants at the Plenary Meeting of the Pontifical Council for So ...
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10 March 2004
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Gafilo cyclone swings around to strike Madagascar a second time. Unconfirmed reports of Ferry missing off Malagasy coast
Antananarivo (Fides Service)-“The news of a ferry shipwrecked yesterday 9 March in the Mozambique Channel in the midst of the cyclone raging in the area, has not been confirmed” Father Cosimo Alvati, Director of Rad ...
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10 March 2004
VATICAN - “There is no rise in the number of atheists in the world”, according to survey on ‘non belief and religious indifference’ carried out by Pontifical Council for Culture in preparation for annual Plenary 11-13 March in the Vatican
Vatican City (Fides Service) - To fulfil the mission entrusted to it by the Holy Father to be at the heart of profound changes at the beginning of this new millennium, the Pontifical Council for Culture felt the need to ...
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10 March 2004
AMERICA/PERU - Enrolment started for 10th Missiology Course organised by the National Mission Centre on basic themes of the Church’s universal mission and elements to facilitate the evangelising mission of pastoral workers
Lima (Fides Service) - Peru’s National Mission Centre CENAMIS, sponsored by the Missions Commission of the Conference of Catholic Bishops in Peru under the aegis of the Civil and Pontifical Theology Faculty in Lima, th ...
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10 March 2004
VATICAN - New "Directory on the Pastoral Ministry of the Bishop”: an aid for Bishops in their complex ecclesial service to meet the needs of the Church and of society today.
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On March 9 the Congregation for Bishops issued a note presenting a new “Directory for the Ministry of Bishops Apostolorum Successores”, (dated 22 February 2004) already in Italian, and ...
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10 March 2004
ASIA/INDIA - Catholic Bishops of India appeal to the electorate to cast ‘responsible vote’ in April general elections
New Delhi (Fides Service) - An appeal to fulfil the duty to vote and to choose candidates who respect life, promote human dignity, social equality, religious harmony and national unity has been launched to the Catholics ...
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10 March 2004
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Seven year old Catholic school girl kidnapped in Jolo, southern Philippines, rescued by security forces
Jolo (Fides Service) - Everyone in Jolo, Christians and Muslims, is relieved and happy that seven year old Catholic school girl Rachel Ann Gujit kidnapped on 19 February is safe and sound. In a massive operation on March ...
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10 March 2004
ASIA/VIETNAM - ‘Make Lent a time of prayer, sharing and evangelisation’ say Vietnamese Bishops
Ho Chi Minh City (Fides Service) - A call to live the Season of Lent as a good time for evangelisation has been issued by Bishops in Vietnam after the Catholic Bishops’ Conference declared 2004 the Year of Evangelisati ...
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10 March 2004
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - New outbreak of cholera: 60 dead and 15,000 infected in two months
Rome (Fides Service) - An outbreak of cholera is affecting central and southern regions of Mozambique. More than 60 people have died and 15,000 were infected in the past two months. Maputo, the capital, was among the mos ...
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10 March 2004
AFRICA/CONGO - A year after the peace pact which put an end to hostilities in the Pool region, government takes stock of progress made
Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides)- On March 7, a year after the signing of a peace agreement between the government and Ninja, rebels led by Frederic Bitsangou or Pastor Ntoumi as he likes to be called, the state minister for ...
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9 March 2004
ASIA/CHINA - Arrest of Catholic Bishop Wei Jingyi; from China a call for prayers
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the basis of reliable information Fides confirms that the Catholic Bishop of the diocese of Qiqihar in mainland China, Bishop Wei Jingyi, was arrested on Friday 5 March. The grounds for ...
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9 March 2004
EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Bishop Ludwig Schwarz confirmed National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has (22 February 2004), confirmed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria ...
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9 March 2004
AMERICA/HAITI - “A serious humanitarian disaster threatens. As always the people of Haiti are the loses. Every new crisis leaves them poorer and more vulnerable ”. A report from Haiti
Port-au-Prince (Fides Service)-“How can these men be disarmed ”, is the question on the lips of all Haitians, according to a local Church source contacted by Fides in Haiti where gangs of armed supporters of ousted P ...
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