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10 October 2003
EUROPE/POLAND - WORLD MISSION SUNDAY –YEAR OF THE ROSARY: THOUSANDS OF ROSARIES FOR THE MISSIONS AND THE POPE “THE GREATEST MISSIONARY OF OUR TIME”
Warsaw (Fides Service) – In preparation for World Mission Sunday, the diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies took part in a three day spiritual retreat followed by a missiology session on “The mission ...
10 October 2003
FIDES WEB SITE SPECIAL PAGE FOR WORLD MISSION SUNDAY
To celebrate WORLD MISSION SUNDAY this year October 19th see special Fides page on www.fides.org
You will find:
• Pope John Paul II’s message for World Mission Sunday and the messages of previous years
• Pres ...
10 October 2003
TOMORROW FIDES DOSSIER OF CHURCH STATISTICS
To mark World Mission Sunday Fides tomorrow Saturday 11 October will publish a dossier on the Statistics of the Catholic Church updated as far as available data allows.
You fill find:
World population; number ...
10 October 2003
EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - SINCE THE BEGINNING OF 2003, THE DEATH PENALTY HAS BEEN EXECUTED 57 TIMES IN THE USA, 83 TIMES IN IRAN AND 40 IN SAUDI ARABIA, BUT “DEATH IS NOT JUSTICE”: WORLD DAY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY
Rome (Fides Service) – The death penalty is still in use in 83 countries including the United States, China, Japan, Nigeria and Iran. On the occasion of the World Day World Day Against the Death Penalty - 10 October, L ...
10 October 2003
EUROPE/NORWAY - NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO IRANIAN LAWYER SHIRIN EBADI FOR HER COMMITMENT TO PROMOTING RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Oslo (Fides Service) – The Nobel Peace prize 2003 has been awarded to Iranian layer Ms Shirin Ebadi for her commitment to defending families of writers and intellectuals killed in 1998-1999. Persecuted for the investig ...
10 October 2003
EUROPE/NORWAY - NOBEL PEACE PRIZE COMMENTS: PROF. JUSTO LACUNZA EXPERT IN ISLAMIC STUDIES; MS FARIAN SABAHI PROFESSOR IN IRANIAN HISTORY; MOAZZEMI GOUDARZI IRANIAN JOURNALIST
Rome (Fides Service) – “This award reopens the challenge of human rights as a field which brings together religions and cultures” said Prof. Justo Lacunza rector of the Pontifical Institute for Arab and Islamic stu ...
10 October 2003
ASIA/INDIA - IN INDIA DENGUE KILLS 83 PERSONS AND EFFECTS MORE THAN FIVE THOUSAND
Rome (Fides Service) – In the past decade monsoons have caused a wave of Dengue fever in India killing at lest 83 people and infecting more than 5,100 in one of the worst epidemics ever known, and it is feared that the ...
10 October 2003
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - COUP FOILED. REBEL MILITARY CHIEF COMMITS SUICIDE IN PRISON
Ouagadougou (Fides Service) – An attempted military coup in Burkina Faso was foiled. According to local sources contacted by Fides Service in Ouagadougou the capital, the police have arrested 12 soldiers of the Preside ...
10 October 2003
AFRICA/SENEGAL - CASAMANCE SECESSIONISTS SAY “ THE WAR HAS ENDED”. PEACE IS NEARER BUT BEFORE WE CAN SPEAK OF PEACE WE MUST WAIT FOR THE RECONCILIATION COMMISSION TO FINISH ITS WORK
Dakar (Fides Service) – After 21 years the war over secession for Senegal’s Casamance region territory inserted between the Gambia and Guinea Bissau, has come to an end. The announcement was made by Jean-Marie Biagui ...
10 October 2003
ASIA/INDIA - KARNATAKA AND VATICAN: CELEBRATIONS FOR MOTHER TERESA, 25 YEARS OF POPE JOHN PAUL II, CLOSING OF ROSARY YEAR
Mangalore (Fides Service) – Celebrations in Rome and Mangalore will bridge the distance of thousands of kilometers in this month of October. Catholics in Managlore in the southern Indian state of Karnataka are plannin ...
10 October 2003
ASIA/INDONESIA - NEW ROAD IN THE FOREST MEANS NEW PARISH FOR PASTORAL CARE AND EVANGELISATION AMONG DAYAKS
Sintang (Fides Service) – A new parish, a point of reference for evangelisation among Dayak tribals on Borneo Island in the diocese of Sintang on the Indonesia/Malaysia border. In this area the Church is deeply involve ...
10 October 2003
ASIA/CHINA - A YEAR DEDICATED TO CHINESE HISTORY AND CULTURE: PONTIFICAL INSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS PIME
Milan (Fides Service) – “ SENTIERI CINESI Paths to China: paths of knowledge and encounter between Italy and China”: is the theme of a serious of special initiatives organised in Milan by the Pontifical Institute f ...
9 October 2003
AFRICA/SOMALIA - TWO ARRESTED SUSPECTS MAY BE ANNALENA’S MURDERERS. BUT THIS EXTRAORDINARY CHARITY WORKER WAS IN FRONT LINE TO FIGHT THE BRUTAL CUSTOM OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATIONS, SO? THE SHADOW OF FUNDAMENTALISM?
Djibouti (Fides Service) – “It was an execution. Nothing to do with a robbery” Bishop Bertin of Djibouti, apostolic delegate in Mogadishu, tells Fides referring to the murder of Annalena Tonelli on Sunday 5 October ...
9 October 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - NORTH EAST CONGO: MAP OF MASSACRES FOLLOWS MAP OF OIL DEPOSITS. PEOPLE CHASED AWAY TO EXPLOIT REGION’S WEALTH AT CHEAP PRICE
Bunia (Fides Service) – More details with regard to the massacres in Ituri, north east Congo have reached Fides Service. “On Monday 6 October, in the village of Kachele, 65 people, mostly children women and old peop ...
9 October 2003
EUROPE/SPAIN - TOUCH SCREEN COMPUTERS IN SCHOOLS AND PARISHES FOR INFORMATION ON MISSION IN THE WORLD
Valencia (Fides Service) - A simple touch on a pc screen in a parish or school will suffice to have information on diocesan missionaries, the country in which they work and the progress of mission projects funded by the ...
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