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15 December 2003
AFRICA/LIBERIA - PAUSE IN UN DISARMAMENT PROGRAMME. BAD PLANNING CAUSES MALCONTENT AND SHOOTING: TOO MANY TROOPS WANTING TO TURN IN RIFLES IN EXCHANGE FOR MONEY AND EDUCATION
Monrovia (Agenzia Fides)- “It was a false start” Father Mauro Armanino, SMA Provincial Superior in Monrovia, told Fides with regard to the pause in the Liberian disarmament process ordered by the United Nations after ...
12 December 2003
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - THE ATROCITY OF THE DEATH PENALTY IS NO RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES LIKE KIDNAPPING: BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT IN THE CHURCH AFTER MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY IS LIFTED
Manila (Fides ) – There is bitter disappointment among Filipino Catholics since Gloria Arroyo Philippine President Gloria Arroyo lifted a moratorium on the death penalty, opening the way for executions to resume in Jan ...
12 December 2003
THE POPE TELLS UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: “IT IS INDISPENSABLE FOR TODAY’S EUROPE TO SAFEGUARD ITS HERITAGE OF VALUES AND TO RECOGNISE THAT MAINLY CHRISTIANITY WAS THE FORCE WHICH PROMOTED, COMPOUNDED AND CONSOLIDATED THEM ”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - "Fear not, I will help you" (Is 41,13). God’s promise echoed by the Prophet found full actuation in the birth of Jesus at Bethlehem. In Him God became one of us! This is why we need not f ...
12 December 2003
MEETING-DEBATE: “FROM IRAQ TO TURKEY” – THE DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGE IN WAR TIME
Rome (Fides Service) – On Monday 15 December 2003, at 5pm at the Sala Conferenze del Centro Astalli (Via degli Astalli 17, Roma) there will be a Meeting-Debate “From Iraq to Turkey – the Democratic Challenge in Wa ...
12 December 2003
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - GUN BATTLE IN FRONT OF ABIDJAN TELEVISION STUDIOS MAY THREATEN DISARMAMENT PLAN STARTING TOMORROW
Abidjan (Fides Service )- “Unfortunately the episode came as no surprise” a local Church source told Fides with reference to the shooting incident this morning December 12 outside the national television studios in A ...
12 December 2003
AFRICA/SUDAN - CARDINAL WAKO: “THE WILL TO PUT AN END TO THE WAR IS EVER STRONGER BUT SO IS THE FEAR THAT ONCE AGAIN HOPES FOR PEACE WILL BE DISAPPOINTED ”
Rome (Fides Service)- Cardinal Wako, Archbishop of Khartoum is in Rome with the Bishops of Sudan on ad limina visit to the Pope. In a conversation with Fides the Sudanese Cardinal stressed the importance of harmony among ...
12 December 2003
AFRICA/BURUNDI - CATHOLICS PLAN CHRISTMAS SOLIDARITY FOR RETURNING REFUGEES NOW THAT GOVERNMENT AND REBELS HAVE MADE PEACE
Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “As we prepare for Christmas we are thinking above all of the thousands of refugees who are coming back from Tanzania” a priest in Bururi diocese, in Burundi, told Fides. The priest, whom w ...
12 December 2003
PONTIFICAL COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA – “NUEVA EVANGELIZACIÓN EN AMÉRICA LATINA”
New Evangelisation in Latin America is the title of a 300 page volume in Spanish containing speeches, reports, interventions during the Pontifical Commission for Latin America Plenary Assembly held in the Vatican 24 to ...
12 December 2003
ASIA/INDIA - CATHOLIC NGO WINS AWARD FOR EDUCATION OF TRIBALS
New Delhi (Fides Service) – A Catholic NGO “Gram Mangal” has received the Maschio Memorial Award, in memory of an Italian Salesian priest Aurelio Maschio who distinguished himself for his service to promote the dev ...
12 December 2003
ASIA/TAIWAN – VIRTUES OF FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY MAIN THEMES FOR EVANGELISATION CHOSEN BY TAIWAN CHURCH FOR PASTORAL YEAR 2004
Taipei (Fides Service) – The Christian virtues of Faith Hope and Charity will be the main themes of a plan for evangelisation drafted by the Church in Taiwan for 2004. This was decided during the Autumn plenary meeting ...
12 December 2003
TOMORROW FIDES DOSSIER ON TELEVISION IN AFRICA PART TWO
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Despite the diffusion of programmes from the West most people in Africa are not reached by foreign cultural influences due to a lack of adequate electricity service in vast areas of the c ...
11 December 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - FOCOLARE MOVEMENT CONCLUDES 60TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS AND DECIDES TO OPEN SPIRITUALITY AND STUDY CENTRE IN JERUSALEM WHERE JESUS PRAYED FOR THE UNITY OF CHRISTIANS
Rome (Fides Service) – Over 1,500 members of the Focolare Movement from all over Europe with representatives from communities on all five of the world’s continents gathered with their foundress Chiara Lubich and the ...
11 December 2003
ASIA/INDIA – NOW THERE IS A CEASE FIRE CATHOLICS HOPE TO RETURN TO KASHMIR
Jammu (Fides Service) – After the cease fire signed on 25 November Catholics who fled Kashmir hope soon to return to their homes. Hundreds of Catholic families left Kashmir in 1989-90 when terrorism entered the valley ...
11 December 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - 121 MILLION CHILDREN, LITTLE GIRLS IN PARTICULAR, DENIED RIGHT TO EDUCATION: UNICEF ‘STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN REPORT 2004’ FOCUSES ON EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Rome (Fides Service) - 121 million of the world’s children do not go to school: 56 million boys and 65 million girls are denied the right to education. 83% of the little girls who do not attend school live in Sub-Sahar ...
11 December 2003
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND – WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION STUDY ON CLIMATE CHANGE, ITS EFFECTS ON HEALTH AND MEASURES TO TAKE
Geneva (Fides Service) – The World Health Organisation (OMS) with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), with the support of United States Environmental Protectio ...
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