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16 January 2004
ASIA/INDIA – GOA and DAMAO, ARCHBISHOP RAUL GONSALVES RESIGNS, MGR FILIPE NERI ANTÓNIO SEBASTIÃO DO ROSARIO FERRÃO APPOINTED ARCHBISHOP
Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (16 January 2004) accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Goa and Damão (India), presented by Archbishop Raul Ni ...
16 January 2004
VATICAN - FEAST DAY OF BLESSED PAOLO MANNA FOUNDER OF THE PONTIFICAL MISSIONARY UNION: A SOUL OF FIRE AFLAME WITH ARDENT LOVE FOR GOD AND PEOPLE
Vatican City (Fides Service) – January 16 is the feast day of Blessed Paolo Manna, a priest of the PIME Missionaries (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions), founder of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU), beat ...
16 January 2004
EUROPE/GERMANY - “THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS AN EXCELLENT PARTNER IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST AIDS ” SAYS DESMOND JOHNS OF UNAIDS IN NEW YORK
Aachen (Fides Service ) – In a recent interview with the Pontifical Mission Societies in Germany “missio Aachen”, a representative of the United Nations department for AIDS, UNAIDS stressed the important role of th ...
16 January 2004
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 2ND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS BEARS FIRST FRUITS: POOR DIOCESE OF NUEVE DE JULIO IN ARGENTINA SENDS PARISH PRIEST AND GROUP OF LAY PEOPLE TO HELP IN AN EVEN POORER PARISH IN GUATEMALA
Buenos Aires (Fides Service/Aica) – “We are going to stay a while with our brothers and sisters who have no faith, or only a little faith and little chance to celebrate it ” said Father Justo Juan Cariz, parish pri ...
16 January 2004
VATICAN - THE POPE RECEIVES CHIEF RABBIS OF ISRAEL: “WE MUST SPARE NO EFFORT IN WORKING TOGETHER TO BUILD A WORLD OF JUSTICE, PEACE AND RECONCILIATION FOR ALL PEOPLES” THE RABBIS ARE IN ROME TO ATTEND CONCERT FOR RECONCILIATION AMONG CHRISTIANS, JEWS AND MUSLIMS
Vatican City (Fides Service) – On January 16 Pope John Paul II granted a private audience to Chief Rabbi of Israel Jona Metzgher, Chief Rabbi of Israel Slomo Amar and Oded Wiener, Director General of Chief Rabbinate, w ...
16 January 2004
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA AND BURUNDI - INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERS FOR DEVELOPMENT HELP
Rome (Fides Service)- “The situation has certainly improved: the last harvest was good and the food emergency is under control, but malnutrition is chronic as FAO and World Food Programme have announced. More than 7 mi ...
16 January 2004
ASIA/HOLY LAND - “NOT WALLS BUT BRIDGES”: BISHOPS OF EUROPE AND AMERICA SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH CHRISTIANS IN THE HOLY LAND
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – “Not walls but bridges”, a quote from the Holy Father (Pope John Paul II 16 November 2003), was the title chosen for the declaration issued in Jerusalem by Catholic Bishops of Europe an ...
16 January 2004
ASIA/INDIA - ANTI-CHRISTIAN VIOLENCE IN INDIA HAS ABATED ON THE WHOLE BUT CONCERN REMAINS OVER TENDENCY TO CONFUSE POLITICAL LIFE WITH RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS
Trichur (Fides Service) – On the one hand satisfaction because episodes of violence against Christians or Christian institutions have decreased in the last two years; on the other concern for the climate of tension and ...
16 January 2004
ASIA/INDIA - A CATHOLIC VOICE AT THE “WORLD SOCIAL FORUM”: MORE THAN 1000 JESUITS STAND FOR PEACE, SOCIAL JUSTICE, RESPECT FOR RIGHTS AND DIGNITY OF EVERY HUMAN PERSON
Bombay (Fides Service) – There is a large Catholic presence at the 4th World Social Forum (WSF) which opens today in Bombay and closes on 21 January: 1,350 Jesuits from all over the world have arrived in India to rea ...
16 January 2004
ASIA/PAKISTAN – LOCAL CHURCH’S CONCERN FOR POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN PAKISTAN CONFIRMED IN RECENT REPORT ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTHERN ASIA
Islamabad (Fides Service) – The economic and social situation of the people of Pakistan has always been a major concern for the local Catholic Church which more than once, also recently, has stressed the need to decrea ...
16 January 2004
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “WE MUST BE AUTHENTIC SERVANTS OF THE POOR”: VENEZUELAN BISHOPS’ STATEMENT ON PEACE
Caracas (Fides Service ) – “We must be authentic servants of the Poor” was the title of a statement issued by the Bishops of Venezuela at the end of the 81st Ordinary Assembly of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conferen ...
15 January 2004
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND CASES OF CHOLERA IN THE WORLD, 5.000 DEATHS EVERY YEAR: WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION PROMOTES A NEW ORAL VACCINE TO CHECK THE DISEASE
Rome (Fides Service) – Existing tools to control cholera may soon be supplemented with something new – mass vaccination with an oral cholera vaccine. The idea is being put to the test in a demonstration project in Mo ...
15 January 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - WOMEN: WORRIES, RESOURCES AND PROSPECTS, INQUIRY ON CONDITION OF WOMEN IN ITALY
Rome (Fides Service) – The Institute for Higher Studies on Women at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum College in Rome will focus a series of studies on the condition of women in the different regions of Italy .
The fi ...
15 January 2004
AFRICA/BURUNDI - WE MUST NEVER STOP THE PATH OF LOVE!
Rome(Fides Service) – Here is a message of hope and cheer sent to Fides Service by Archbishop Simon Ntamwana of Gitega who is also President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Burundi. His words of love and hope ...
15 January 2004
VATICAN - THE POPE RECEIVES ADMINISTRATORS OF LAZIO REGION AND ROME CITY AND PROVINCE: “THE FAMILY IS THE HUMAN SPACE IN WHICH THE PERSON, FROM THE BEGINNING OF LIFE, CAN EXPERIENCE THE WARMTH OF AFFECTION AND GROW IN HARMONY”.
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “The way to defeat and prevent all forms of violence is to work to build the "civilisation of love"... How can we fail to think of the family as the principle place in which to achieve ...
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