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15 January 2004
ASIA/TAIWAN - MORE THAN 7.000 CHINESE SPEAKING CHRISTIANS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD WILL MEET IN TAIPEI 23 - 25 JANUARY
Taipei (Fides Service) – Chinese speaking missionaries, intellectuals and scholars and friends of the Chinese world will meet in Taipei, from 23 to 25 January Taipei for the International Chinese Speaking Christians’ ...
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15 January 2004
ASIA/INDIA - COMMUNICATING THROUGH THE MEDIA IS A DUTY AND A CALLING FOR THE CHURCH: FINAL STATEMENT OF 26TH GENERAL BODY MEETING OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE
Trichur (Agenzia Fides) – The Church is called to communicate because God is a God of communication. Church personnel must be motivated to take an active part in the new opportunities created for spreading the good new ...
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15 January 2004
AMERICA/PERU - “ GREAT LIMA MISSION”: TO RENEW LIFE IN CHRIST AND REDISCOVER AUTHENTIC VALUES THE CHURCH IN LIMA STARTS A YEAR OF CITY MISSION
Lima (Fides Service) – In his first statement of the new year Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, Archbishop of Lima announced “a Great Lima Mission with which the Catholic Church will promote new evangelisation in the capi ...
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15 January 2004
ASIA/HONG KONG - STEPS TO STOP ANIMAL/HUMAN INFECTION: INTENSIFY VETERINARY INSPECTIONS AND BAN SALE OF LIVE ANIMALS FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION IN FOOD MARKETS
Hong Kong (Fides Service) – The people of Hong Kong are ready for any emergency but there is no panic, local sources told Fides Service. “There is some concern after two new cases of SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syn ...
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14 January 2004
ASIA/INDIA - CARDINAL TELESPHORE TOPPO NEW PRESIDENT OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE OF INDIA
Trichur (Fides Service) – Cardinal Telesphore Toppo Archbishop of Ranchi has been elected President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, CBCI, whose members belong to the three different Catholic rites in India ...
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14 January 2004
EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “JOHN PAUL II AWARD” FOR CHAMPIONS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND JUSTICE AND PEACE ESTABLISHED BY LISBON BRANCH OF AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED
Lisbon (Fides Service ) – On Saturday 10 January the Portuguese branch of the Catholic aid organisation of pontifical right, Aid to the Church in Need, established the John Paul II Award for the promotion of justice a ...
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14 January 2004
EUROPE/SPAIN - “YOU TOO ARE A MISSIONARY”, MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD DAY IN SPAIN
Madrid (Fides Service) - “You too are a missionary” is the slogan chosen by the Church in Spain for the national celebration of Missionary Childhood Day Sunday, 25 January 2004. In preparation for the event the Pont ...
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14 January 2004
ASIA/IRAN - OVER 162 CARITAS INTERNATIONALIS VOLUNTEERS PROVIDE MATERIAL ASSISTANCE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT FOR EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS IN BAM
Bam (Fides Service) – While Iran lives a difficult political moment with a battle between reformers and conservatives with regard to drafting of lists of candidates for the next parliamentary elections, in and around t ...
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14 January 2004
ASIA/PAKISTAN - “PEACE BEGINS AT HOME” FATHER BERNARD INAYAT TELLS FIDES AFTER A PEACE MARCH TO INDIA-PAKISTAN BORDER: FIDES SPEAKS TO IMAMS ABDUL KHABEER AZAD AND WAQAR-UL-HUSNAIN NAQVI
Kasur (Fides Service) – To support peace in Kashmir and dialogue between India and Pakistan at levels an interreligious peace march and prayer vigil was held in the area of Kasur along the India-Pakistan border on Janu ...
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14 January 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - MACHETE SLAUGHTER CONTINUES: AT LEAST 18 PEOPLE MURDERED IN RECENT WEEKS. 40-60,000 ARMED YOUNG MILITARY RUN WILD
Abidjan (Fides Service)-“Violence in the north west of Ivory Coast will not stop the peace process between government and rebels” local Church sources in Abidjan told Fides Service. “Sad to say these episodes come ...
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14 January 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - WITH A HISTORY OF 500 YEARS THE ORDER OF ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITALLER BROTHERS FOR THE FUTURE OF HEALTH CARE: RELIGIOUS AND LAY PEOPLE COMPARE NOTES
Rome (Fides Service) – Heal, care for, rehabilitate. This is the main mission of St John of God Hospitaller Brothers looking to the future of health care work with a proposal and a challenge: promote globalisation of h ...
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13 January 2004
ASIA/THAILAND - “POLITICAL MOTIVES BEHIND MUSLIM PROTEST IN THAILAND”, APOSTOLIC ADMINISTRATOR IN THE SOUTH TELLS FIDES
Surat Thani (Fides Service ) – A political protest reawakened old religious separatism, Reverend Peter Nichon Sarathit, Administrator Apostolic of Surat Thani diocese which covers southern Thailand, told Fides with ref ...
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13 January 2004
ASIA/INDIA - SYRO-MALABAR CATHOLIC CHURCH GRANTED FULL AUTONOMY FOR ELECTING BISHOPS IN ITS TERRITORY
Trichur (Fides Service ) – The Synod of Syro-Malabar Bishops now has full autonomy for appointing bishops and creating Eparchies. This was granted by the Holy See with a decree which the Prefect of the Congregation for ...
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13 January 2004
VATICAN - THE POPE’S ANNUAL NEW YEAR ADDRESS TO DIPLOMATIC CORPS: “IT IS MORE THAN EVER NECESSARY TO LEARN FROM THE PAST, REMOTE AND RECENT. IN ANY CASE ONE THING IS CERTAIN: WAR DOES NOT SOLVE CONFLICTS BETWEEN PEOPLES!”
Vatican City (Fides) – Pope John Paul II gave his annual new year audience to Ambassadors on 12 January in the Vatican. Today a total of 174 individual countries have diplomatic ties with the Holy See, as well as commu ...
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13 January 2004
ASIA/HOLY LAND - CATHOLIC BISHOPS FROM EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS MEET IN THE HOLY LAND TO SUPPORT HOLY LAND CHRISTIANS
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – Catholic Bishops from Europe and the Americas are meeting Bethlehem and Jerusalem on 12-15 January 2004 for a conference entitled "The Universal Church in solidarity with the Church of the ...
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