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9 October 2003
VATICAN - HOLY FATHER TELLS PHILIPPINE BISHOPS ON AD LIMINA VISIT: MAJOR PASTORAL COMMITMENT DEVELOPING INTO A COMMUNITY OF DISCIPLES OF THE LORD
Vatican City ( Fides Service) – A major pastoral commitment must be to “develop into a community of disciples of the Lord” Pope John Paul II said to a group of Philippine Bishops from the provinces of Caceres, Capi ...
9 October 2003
AFRICA/CHAD - OIL REVENUE REVOLUTION: BY LAW 80 PERCENT OF OIL INCOME WILL SERVE TO IMPROVE HEALTH, EDUCATION, AGRICULTURE AND INFRASTRUCTURES
N’Djamena (Fides Service) – On October 10, in the presence of some 600 guests, Canadian President Idriss Deby will inaugurate a new oil field in southern Chad which is expected to produce 950,000 barrels of oil a day ...
9 October 2003
AMERICA/PERU - ROSARY AND MISSION: COURSE ON MISSIONARY SPIRITUALITY AND FORMATION WITH MARY AS MODEL
Lima (Fides Service) – “The Holy Rosary and Mission” is the theme of a course in Missionary Spirituality and Formation which will be held 5-7 November in Lima at the Auditorium of the Conference of Major Superiors ...
9 October 2003
ASIA/CHINA - WINDS OF PEACE IN ASIA: SECURITY PACT SIGNED BY CHINA INDIAN AND JAPAN AND 10 ASEAN COUNTRIES
Bali (Fides Service) – Besides closer economic ties themselves, the member nations of Asean Brunei Burma Cambodia Indonesia Laos Malaysia Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam meeting in Bali, Thailand, on 8 October s ...
9 October 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - MEETING “THE DESIRE FOR THE TRUTH” : CARDINAL RUINI WARNS “THEOLOGY MUST NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM PHILOSOPHY”
Rome (Fides Service) – “Faith and reason can never contradict one another if they both tend towards the truth, the authentic condition for the freedom of the human person” said Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the Pope’s ...
9 October 2003
UNITED NATIONS - WORLD HAS MORE YOUNG PEOPLE BUT THEIR FUTURE IS UNCERTAIN THREATENED BY DISEASE: EVERY 14 SECONDS ANOTHER YOUNG PERSON BECOMES HIV POSITIVE
Rome (Fides Service) – The UN Population Fund presented its State of the World Population Report 2003. According to the report one in five of the people on the earth are aged between 10 and 19 and they are faced with t ...
8 October 2003
VATICAN - “THE WHITE CLAD PILGRIM RETURNS TO POMPEI”: A REFLECTION ON THE POPE’S MARIAN PILGRIMAGE
Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Pope returned to launch once again his call for peace through the primary path of God’s mercy, forgiveness received and offered, assured to us by Christ the Redeemer. He did it with ...
8 October 2003
AFRICA/BURUNDI - AGREEMENT REACHED BY GOVERNMENT AND MAIN REBEL MOVEMENT: REBELS TAKE 4 MINISTRIES AND 40% ARMY OFFICER POSTS
Bujumbura (Fides Service) – The Burundian government and main rebel movement Force for Defence of Democracy FDD have reached an agreement. The agreement was signed in Pretoria, South Africa by President Domitien Ndayiz ...
8 October 2003
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - SYMPOSIUM AT UNITED NATIONS IN NEW YORK TO MARK 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF PACEM IN TERRIS BY JOHN XXII AND THE 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE OF JOHN PAUL II. SERVITOR PACIS PRIZE AWARDED TO LATE DR. CARLO URBANI AND TO MOTHER TERESA’S MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY
New York (Fides Service) – “It is ever more opportune to consider the valuable indications offered by Pacem in Terris in front of the necessity, once again so urgent, to clarify the figure of world public powers. Par ...
8 October 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE COMMENCES WEEKLY TEACHING FOCUSED ON VESPERS: “MORNING AND EVENING ARE OPPORTUNE TIMES FOR PRAYER…TO ORIENT OUR DAILY JOURNEY AND DIRECT IT TOWARDS CHRIST”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – During the general audience on Wednesday 8 October, Pope John Paul II commenced a new cycle of teaching on the Psalms, this time dedicated to the psalms prayed by the Church at Vespers. ...
8 October 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - NO END TO MASSACRES IN ITURI: 40 CHILDREN MURDERED, GROWING ANXIETY AMONG THE PEOPLE
New York (Fides Service) – Anguish grows in the Ituri region of Democratic Congo. According to Fred Eckart, United Nation Organisation spokesman, early on Monday 6th October in Katchele village in Ituri, at least 67 ci ...
8 October 2003
ASIA/NEPAL - LORETO SISTERS THREATENED, MISSION TORCHED BY REBELS
Kathmandu (Fides Service) – Despite a situation of fear and tension the Catholic community in Nepal continues its work of evangelisation, human promotion and education. In the small mountain kingdom there are about 6,0 ...
8 October 2003
EUROPE/SPAIN - “THE POPE’S CONCERN FOR ALL THE CHURCHES IN THESE 25 YEARS OF HIS PONTIFICATE HAS BEEN A SPECIAL GIFT OF GOD FOR WHICH WE WISH AND WE MUST GIVE THANKS” STATEMENT TO MARK 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE ISSUED BY STANDING COMMITTEE OF SPANISH BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE
Madrid (Fides Service) – “His concern for all the Churches in these twenty five years of pontificate is undoubtedly a special gift from God for which we can and we must give thanks” the Standing Committee of the Sp ...
8 October 2003
AFRICA/SENEGAL - CHILD PROSTITUTES, CHILD SOLDIERS, SEX TOURISM ARE NEW FORMS OF SLAVERY AND EXPLOITATION IN AFRICA SAYS ARCHBISHOP MONSENGWO PASINYA PRESIDENT OF SCEAM/SECAM
Dakar (Fides Service) – “The emotion at this African shrine of black suffering (John Paul II) is strong and intense for us Christians and it is an expression of the special presence of the Holy Spirit, the first prot ...
8 October 2003
AFRICA/LIBERIA - THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION HAS PROMISED TO REMOVE ALL WEAPONS FROM MONROVIA IN 72 HOURS, BUT THE ARMS WILL ONLY BE HIDDEN SOME FEAR
Monrovia (Fides Service) - The United Nations Organisation has promised to collect all the weapons from the hands of civilians in Monrovia, capital of Liberia. “The UN leaders promised to make Monrovia a weapon free c ...
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