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24 September 2003
VATICAN/CANONISATIONS 5 OCTOBER:ARNOLD JANSSEN (1837-1909)“ANNOUNCING THE GOOD NEWS IS FIRST AND BEST WAY TO LOVE OUR NEIGHBOUR”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Arnold Janssen was born on November 5, 1837 in Goch, a small city in lower Rhineland (Germany). The second of ten children, his parents instilled in him a deep devotion to religion. He was ...
24 September 2003
ASIA/INDIA - BEATIFICATION OF MOTHER TERESA: OPPORTUNITY TO RE-LAUNCH INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE THROUGHOUT INDIA – “SAVE A MILLION LIVES” PROJECT
Bangalore (Fides Service) – The Beatification of Mother Teresa will be an opportunity to re-launch interreligious dialogue throughout India at a time of tension between communities of different religious faiths. Mother ...
24 September 2003
EUROPE/SPAIN - 69TH CONGREGATION OF JESUIT PROCURATORS COMES TO A CLOSE: LAITY, FORMATION, GOVERNMENT AND GLOBALISATION AMONG THEMES DISCUSSED
Loyola (Fides Service) – At Loyola Cathedral in Spain with a solemn concelebration of Mass presided by Father Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Preposito General of the Society of Jesus, the 69th congregation of Jesuit procurator ...
24 September 2003
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - BY 2010 AFRICA WILL HAVE 40 MILLION AIDS ORPHANS, 95% HIV CARRIERS: IN 2001 3.1 CHILDREN UNDER 15 DIED. MORE EFFECTIVE POLICIES TO FIGHT HIV/AIDS CARD. HUMMES ADDRESSES UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Rome (Fides Service) – Cardinal Claudio Hummes archbishop of Sao Paulo in Brazil, led the Holy See Delegation to general assembly of the United Nations in new Yor, The them of the assembly was “Implementation of the ...
24 September 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - CHARITY SOIREE IN AID OF BAMBINO GESU HOSPITAL AND MISSION ENFANCE
Rome (Fides Service) – On Friday 26 September at Palazzo Colonna in Rome there will be a charity Soiree in aid of Bambino Gesu hospital in Rome and Mission Enfance, a charity organisation in Monte Carlo presided by Pri ...
24 September 2003
VATICAN - ON 7 OCTOBER THE POPE TRAVELS TO POMPEI MARIAN SHRINE TO LEAD RECITATION OF ROSARY FOR PEACE
Vatican City (Fides Service) – The programme for Pope John Paul II’s one day pilgrimage to the Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Pompei, in Pompei, near Naples, on October 7th feast of Our Lady Queen of the Rosary, has be ...
24 September 2003
VATICAN - POPE SENDS MESSAGE TO INTERRELIGIOUS MEETING IN KAZAKHSTAN: RELIGION, PROPERLY UNDERSTOOD, SHOWS ITSELF TO BE A SOLID INSTRUMENT FOR THE PROMOTION OF PEACE
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II sent a message through Cardinal Jozef Tomko to an Interreligious Meeting taking place in Astana, Kazakhstan. Cardinal Tomko is leading the Holy See delegation to the me ...
24 September 2003
ASIA/INDIA - BISHOPS ASK FOR CLEMENCY FOR MISSIONARY’S MURDERER: “WE ALWAYS DEFEND VALUE OF LIFE”
New Delhi (Fides Service) – Justice but not revenge has been requested by the Catholic Bishops of India with regard to a death sentence issued to Dara Singh found guilty of murdering Australian Protestant missionary Gr ...
24 September 2003
AFRICA/NIGERIA - THE LOCAL CHURCH IS A PEACEMAKER
Rome (Fides Service) – “My concern is the good of all the people entrusted to my care, Catholics and non” Bishop Matthew Ishaya Audu of Lafia in the Nigerian state of Nasarawa told Fides Service. The Bishop on a vi ...
24 September 2003
AFRICA - DIFFICULT PATHS TO PEACE
Rome (Fides Service) – Africa is known to the general public for its humanitarian emergencies, its wars, its calamities. For a moment media attention is riveted on the continent, humanitarian organisations go into acti ...
24 September 2003
ASIA/LAOS - FRUITS OF WORLD YOUTH DAYS: VOCATIONS AMONG YOUNG CATHOLIC, SIGNS OF HOPE FOR LITTLE ISOLATED CHURCH
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Our community welcomes as signs of hope its young vocations which will enrich and strengthen the Church in Laos. These young people who want to become priests trace their calling back ...
23 September 2003
ASIA/INDIA - PEACE AND RECONCILIATION IN THE NAME OF MOTHER TERESA, ANTIDOTE FOR INTERRELIGIOUS VIOLENCE IN GUJARAT STATE: BISHOPS SPEAK TO FIDES SERVICE
Ahmedabad (Fides Service) – Mother Teresa is an antidote for religious fundamentalism, the Catholic Bishops of the four dioceses in Gujarat State of India tell Fides Service. On the occasion of the Beatification of the ...
23 September 2003
VATICAN/CANONISATION 5 OCTOBER - DANIEL COMBONI 1831-1881: PIONEER OF EVANGELISATION IN CENTRAL AFRICA: “SAVING AFRICA WITH AFRICA”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Daniel Comboni: the son of poor gardeners became the first Catholic Bishop of Central Africa, and one of the great missionaries in the Church's history.
It is a fact. When God decides to t ...
23 September 2003
AMERICA/CHILE - SCRIPTURE SOURCE AND MODEL OF PRAYER AND EVANGELISATION: MEETING OF LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN CATHOLIC BIBLE FEDERATION
Santiago de Chile (Fides Service) – As part of celebrations for Bible Month in Chile, the Cono Sur Latin American and Caribbean Bible Federation will hold its 6th Meeting of 29 September 3 October in Santiago de Chile, ...
23 September 2003
AMERICA/PERU - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – EVEN HIGH IN PERUVIAN ANDES MISSION CALL SOUNDS: ABANCAY HOLDS FIRST MISSION CONGRESS AFTER YEAR OF PREPARATION
Abancay (Fides Service ) – Missionary zeal is spreading all over America even high in the Peruvian Andes Mountains, stirring new mission awareness among the native peoples. From 2 to 5 October 2003 Abancay will hold it ...
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