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29 January 2004
VATICAN - THE POPE’S MESSAGE FOR LENT 2004: “WHOEVER RECEIVES ONE SUCH CHILD IN MY NAME RECEIVES ME (MT 18,5): “TO BECOME” ONE OF THE LEAST AND “TO RECEIVE” THE LITTLE ONES
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “ Jesus had a particular love for children because of “their simplicity, their joy of life, their spontaneity, and their faith filled with wonder”. For this reason he wishes the com ...
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29 January 2004
EUROPE/SPAIN - 400 MILLION CHILD SLAVES: EXHIBITION UNMASKS SLAVERY “THESE ARE NOT CHILD WORKERS THEY ARE CHILD SLAVES”
Madrid (Fides Service) – “The different faces of slavery: these are not child workers they are child slaves ” is the title of an exhibition which opened on 26 January at the Alfonso X el Sabio House of Culture prom ...
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29 January 2004
AMERICA/MEXICO - LATIN-AMERICAN BISHOPS’ CONFERENCES START PREPARATION FOR 5TH CELAM CONFERENCE AND COMMEMORATE POPE JOHN PAUL II’S FIRST VISIT TO MEXICO IN 1979
Puebla (Fides Service ) – To mark the 25 years of pontificate of Pope John Paul II, the Holy Father’s first visit to Mexico in January 1979 and the 3rd General Conference of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ ...
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29 January 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - MARIANNHILL MISSIONARIES MOURN DEATH OF GENERAL SUPERIOR FATHER DIETER GAHLEN
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - German born Father Dieter Gahlen, Superior General of the Mariannhil Missionaries CMM died at the age of 56 on 24 January, in hospital in Rome where he had been in care since January 3. The funeral ...
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29 January 2004
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - CHILD SOLDIERS IN SIERRA LEONE: DEEPLY TRAUMATISED BUT NO HATRED IN THEIR HEARTS, SAYS MISSIONARY
Freetown (Fides Service) -“Now that the process of disarming child soldiers has been completed there is the difficult stage of reinsertion in normal life” Father Giuseppe Berton, Xaverian missionary in Sierra Leone t ...
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29 January 2004
AFRICA – EDUCATION IS A RIGHT, BUT IN AFRICA THERE ARE CLASSES WITH 100 PUPILS AND NO BLACKBOARD
Kinshasa (Fides Service ) – When the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa achieved independence they all gave absolute priority to education as a means not only to avoid but also to eradicate poverty. Every country has the ...
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29 January 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - IVORY COAST WOULD WELCOME THE UNITED NATIONS, EVERYONE WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE UN INVOLVEMENT. CATHOLIC BISHOPS URGE PEOPLE TO PRACTICE MODERATION TO HELP RETURN OF PEACE
Abidjan (Fides Service )- “The news that the United Nations may take a more active role in the peace process has been welcomed by all in Ivory Coast” a local Church source in Abidjan, told Fides with regard to the ar ...
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29 January 2004
ASIA/PAKISTAN - CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM AUDIENCE ENJOY RADIO VERITAS IN URDU: MORE THAN 700 PROGRAMMES COVER WIDE VARIETY OF SUBJECTS RANGING FROM SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND NEWS TO LITERATURE AND RELIGION
Manila (Fides Service) – Radio Veritas in Urdu (the official language in Pakistan) has become a reference point for Catholic media in this country. The programmes are appreciated by Christians and Muslims alike and the ...
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29 January 2004
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - 30 DAYS OF HOPE FOR TWO MEN DESTINED TO BE EXECUTED TOMORROW: THE LOCAL CHURCH’S BATTLE TO HAVE DEATH PENALTY ABOLISHED
Manila (Fides Service) – “We welcome with joy and hope the Supreme Court’s decision. The judges hold the lives of two men in their hands. We have full trust in the magistrates who must decide whether to re-open th ...
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29 January 2004
ASIA/SRI LANKA - CHRISTIANS PROMOTE PEACE NOT VIOLENCE: LOCAL CHURCH MAKES SUNDAY 1 FEBRUARY DAY OF PRAYER AND FASTING FOR INTERRELIGIOUS HARMONY
Colombo (Fides Service) – Catholics in Colombo will pray and fast to obtain from God the gift of harmony among religions on Sunday February 1. The recent wave of anti-Christian violence is causing Christians to lose si ...
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28 January 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - PROFILE OF MISSIONARY PARISH FOR NEW EVANGELISATION: FOCUS OF NEXT GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF ITALIAN BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE IN MAY
Rome (Fides Service) – Mission in parishes in view of new evangelisation will be the main theme for the work of the next General Assembly of the Italian Bishops Conference in May. The topic emerged from the Winter sess ...
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28 January 2004
AFRICA/SENEGAL/MAURITANIA – NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES REV. GIUSEPPE GIORDANO CONFIRMED
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has ( 25 January 2004) confirmed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Senegal- ...
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28 January 2004
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - GROUP OF RESEARCHERS START SUCCESSFUL STUDY ON NEW WAYS TO CONTROL DENGUE FEVER WHICH STILL STRIKES IN WAVES
Rome (Fides Service) – Recently a group of American researchers who monitor epidemics of Dengue fever dengue undertook a study of the waves of this disease which invade the planet. They started with Thailand and contin ...
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28 January 2004
AFRICA/BURUNDI - MURDERED NUNCIO ARCHBISHOP COURTNEY COMMEMORATED TOMORROW A MONTH AFTER TRAGIC AMBUSH, WITH A SOLEMN MASS IN BUJUMBURA CATHEDRAL
Bujumbura (Fides Service). There is still deep grief all over the country for the violent killing of Archbishop Michael Aidan Courtney, papal nuncio in Burundi, killed in an ambush on 29 December 2003 (see Fides 30 Decem ...
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28 January 2004
VATICAN - THE POPE’S TEACHING AT GENERAL AUDIENCE: THE FONT OF ALL CONFIDENCE AND THE SOURCE OF ALL HOPE IN THE HOUR OF TRIAL IS THAT GOD IS NOT INDIFFERENT TOWARDS GOOD AND EVIL, HE IS A GOOD GOD NOT SOME INDECIPHERABLE AND MYSTERIOUS FATE
Vatican City (Fides Service) – For his teaching during the weekly Wednesday audience on 28 January the Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, took Psalm 10: “Unshaken confidence in the Lord” which is part of Vespers of Mo ...
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