News
16 December 2003
AMERICA/PERU - “THE CHRISTMAS OFFER OF FORGIVENESS AND NEW LIFE MUST NOT BE LEFT TO PASS IN VAIN: MESSAGE OF PERUVIAN BISHOPS FOR INTEGRAL RECONCILIATION BASED ON TRUTH AND JUSTICE”
Lima (Fides Service) – “Let us make way for the Lord” is the title of a Christmas Message issued by the Catholic Bishops of Peru a copy of which was sent to Fides by Bishop Juan José Larrañeta Olleta, Vicar Apos ...
16 December 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE SPEAKS TO BISHOPS OF SUDAN: “THE EXAMPLE OF STEADFAST COMMITMENT AND OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY GIVEN BY THESE TWO DEVOTED SERVANTS OF THE LORD CAN SHED MUCH LIGHT ON THE PRESENT REALITIES FACING THE CHURCH IN YOUR COUNTRY.”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Addressing the Bishops of Sudan received for their ad limina visit on 15 December Pope John Paul II said “May the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways’” (2 ...
16 December 2003
ASIA/PHILIPPINES – FOR CHRISTMAS GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNIST GUERRILLA IN SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES CALL A TRUCE
Davao (Fides Service) – Peace talks between the Philippines government and rebel groups fighting for secession in the southern Islands have not yet started but for Christmas there will at least be a truce for the marty ...
16 December 2003
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - PEACE AMONG POLITICAL LEADERS MUST BE FOLLOWED BY PEACE AMONG HEARTS
Abidjan (Fides Service) - Slowly but surely withdrawal of heavy arms continues from the strip of no man’s land which divides army controlled territory from the zone in the hands of the New Forces rebels. Fides was told ...
16 December 2003
ASIA/INDIA - RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS MEET TO DISCUSS WAYS AND MEANS OF PROMOTING ETHNIC PEACE IN NORTH EAST INDIA
Guwahati (Fides Service) – Promote united efforts to stop ethnic violence in north east India, particularly in Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, where hundreds of victims have been reported in recent weeks. This was ...
16 December 2003
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - AFRICA STILL IN THE GRIP OF TRIBALISM: RIVAL ETHNIC GROUPS CLASH IN WESTERN ETHIOPIA. MISSIONARIES ASSIST REFUGEES
Addis Ababa (Fides Service)- It is still very difficult to have a precise picture of what is happening in the Gambella region, about 400 km west of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, for several days the scene of tribal ...
16 December 2003
VATICAN - POPE JOHN PAUL II ISSUES MESSAGE FOR THE CHURCH’S 37TH WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR PEACE 1ST JANUARY 2004: “AN EVER TIMELY COMMITMENT: TEACHING PEACE”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “An Ever Timely Commitment: Teaching Peace” is the theme of Pope John Paul II’s Message for World Day of Prayer for Peace 2004 which was released on 16 December in the Vatican. Pres ...
15 December 2003
ASIA/HOLY LAND - CHRISTMAS 2003: YOUNG MUSICIANS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD CARRY MESSAGE OF PEACE WITH CONCERTS IN JERUSALEM AND SCHOLARSHIPS FOR ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN MUSIC STUDENTS
Jerusalem (Fides Service) – Peace in the Holy Land can be launched by youth: with this conviction, this Christmas 28 people aged between 16 and 26 from 21 different countries, “will stage a peaceful invasion of the H ...
15 December 2003
AFRICA/CAPE VERDE - MINDELO NEW DIOCESE, FIRST BISHOP REV. GOMES FURTADO
Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, has (14 November 2003) created the diocese of Mindelo in Cape Verde with territory taken from the diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde, rendering it immed ...
15 December 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE’S REFLECTIONS AT SUNDAY ANGELUS: “TO KNOW THAT GOD IS NOT DISTANT, BUT CLOSE, NOT INDIFFERENT, BUT COMPASSIONATE, NOT A STRANGER, BUT A MERCIFUL FATHER WHO FOLLOWS US LOVINGLY WITH RESPECT FOR OUR FREEDOM, IS A MOTIVE OF PROFOUND JOY WHICH THE ALTERNATING EVENTS OF EVERY DAY CANNOT AFFECT”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Liturgy of the 3rd Sunday of Advent, also called Gaudete Sunday, contains a repeated and explicit call to joy, to rejoice, as St Paul recommends: " Rejoice in the Lord always. … Th ...
15 December 2003
AMERICA/WHO - BY 2020 UNLESS TB GLOBAL EMERGENCY DISEASE IS CHECKED 36 MILLION WILL BE INFECTED: NEWLY PRODUCED CHANGING FORM OF BACTERIA EVEN MORE LETHAL
Rome (Fides) – A study by the Berkeley University in California obtained a changing of the factor which generates TB by dis-activating a group of TB bacteria genes which is even more lethal. After only two weeks from t ...
15 December 2003
VATICAN - INDIAN PRIESTS, SISTERS AND BROTHERS UNION HOLDS CHRISTMAS-CULTURAL-HOMECOMING-FEST-2003
Vatican City (Fides Service) – On 14 December, at the Pontifical Angelicum University in Rome, The Indian Priests, Sisters and Brothers Union IPSBU held a Christmas-Cultural-Homecoming-Fest-2003 event. The Union, fou ...
15 December 2003
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - FIRST CONGRESS FOR ITALIAN MISSIONARIES: IN RURAL AREAS, IN GREAT CITIES, AMONG NATIVE PEOPLES, ITALIAN PRIESTS, RELIGIOUS AND LAY MISSIONARIES INSERTED IN ARGENTINEAN CULTURE ADOPT AUTHENTIC SPIRIT OF SERVICE
Buenos Aires (Fides Service ) – The first Congress for Italian Missionaries in Argentina closed on 12 December with a Concelebration of Mass presided by Archbishop Eduardo Mirás of Rosario also President of the Argent ...
15 December 2003
ASIA/SRI LANKA - HEALING WAR TRAUMA: MISSIONARIES WORK TO RESTORE HARMONY IN SOCIETY: CHURCH CONTINUES TO WORK TO PROTECT PEACE PROCESS
Colombo (Fides Service) – “Healing War Trauma” is the theme of Seminar for Formation Staff organised by the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate OMI in Sri Lanka from 14 to 21 December. About 20 participants, rel ...
15 December 2003
ASIA/IRAQ - WITH REGARD TO WHO SHOULD JUDGE SADDAM HUSSEIN, “MOST OF US WERE VICTIMS OF HIS DICTATORSHIP, WE ALL APPLAUDED HIM WHEN HE WAS IN POWER” IRAQI PRIEST TOLD FIDES
Rome (Fides Service) -“The news that Saddam Hussein had been captured was welcomed with great joy by the people of Iraq despite uncertainty about the future because we know that behind the repeated acts of terrorism in ...
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