News
9 September 2003
ASIA/THAILAND - CHRISTIANS, BUDDHISTS AND MUSLIMS JOIN FORCES TO ASSIST 217,000 HIV/AIDS PATIENTS AND 300,000 AIDS ORPHANS
Bangkok (Fides Service) – Religious communities can do a lot to prevent the spread of AIDS in Asia: this was said during a recent meeting of Christians, Buddhists and Muslims in Bangkok, Thailand.
The local Catholic ...
9 September 2003
EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - VICTIMS OF COMMUNIST PERSECUTION TELL THEIR STORY: FOR YEARS VATICAN RADIO ONLY CONTACT WITH UNIVERSAL CHURCH AND FREE WORLD
Bratislava(Fides Service) – To give an idea of what happened in Slovakia during 40 years of persecution under Communist atheism, we offer testimony from some eye witnesses taken from a television programme “Cristo ne ...
9 September 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE TELLS CLARETIAN MISSIONARIES: MISSIONARY SERVICE MUST FLOW FROM INTIMATE UNION WITH THE LORD WHO SENDS YOU AND IT MUST BE LIVED ON THE PATH OF SELF-GIVING EVEN TO THE CROSS”
Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “In order to comprehend adequately the signs of the times and the task of evangelisation which you, Claretian missionaries, are called to promote and develop in various regions of th ...
9 September 2003
AFRICA/SUDAN - SECESSIONISTS ACCUSE GOVERNMENT OF VIOLATING TREATY IN WEST SUDAN
Khartoum (Fides Service) – The treaty signed on 3 September in Darfur, eastern Sudan between the government of the Southern Sudan Liberation Movement SLM, has fallen through. On September 6 the SLM rebels said that two ...
9 September 2003
EUROPE/GERMANY - HEAD OF DELEGATION FROM MOSCOW PATRIARCHATE AT “PEOPLE AND RELIGIONS MEETING” SAYS: “IT IS TIME TO CHANGE THE PRESENT SITUATION OF DIFFICULTY BETWEEN MOSCOW AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH”
Aachen (Fides Service) – “This is a time in which dialogue, over and above the misunderstandings of the past, is possible” said Metropolita Kyrill of Smolensk and Kalilinigrad, head of the delegation from the Ortho ...
9 September 2003
EUROPE/GERMANY - EUROPEAN IDENTITY AND VALUES AT “PEOPLES AND RELIGIONS MEETING”: “EUROPE MUST BE A LEADER IN ACTIVE POLICY FOR WORLD PEACE”
Aachen (Fides Service) – In view of the imminent approval of a European Constitution, the ‘old continent’ is called to play a central role in international politics. This opinion was voiced by various speakers at t ...
9 September 2003
AFRICA/NIGERIA - THROWING THE FIRST STONE AND THROWING THE FIRST SATELLITE
Lagos (Fides Service) – Africa is more than ever today a land of contradiction, swinging between a search for modernity often imposed by the West and a return to old customs and laws which violate human rights. Emblem ...
9 September 2003
ASIA/INDIA - MISSION IN CHINA: MOTHER TERESA HAD A DREAM AND IT WILL COME TRUE
Calcutta (Fides Service) – Mother Teresa of Calcutta dreamed of opening a Home for the poor in China. This did not happen during her life time but there is hope that it may soon come true. On 5 September, the 5th anniv ...
9 September 2003
AFRICA/UGANDA - YET ANOTHER MISSIONARY ATTACKED IN NORTHERN UGANDA: ITALIAN COMBONI MISSIONARY FATHER MAFFEIS
Kampala (Fides Service) – The conditions of Italian Comboni Missionary, Father Guglielmo Maffeis, attacked by bandits at Iceme Catholic Mission in northern Uganda on 6 September are improving, his confreres at Lira mis ...
8 September 2003
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - FIRST BISHOP OF ULAAN BAATOR, THANKS CHURCH IN KOREA FOR MISSIONARIES AND SUPPORT TO GROWING CATHOLIC COMMUNITY IN MONGOLIA
Seoul (Fides Service) – “Mongolia, a world where in the past the Catholic faith was banned, has begun to taste the first fruits of evangelisation. For this we offer heartfelt thanks to the Church in Korea for her mis ...
8 September 2003
VATICAN - POPE APPOINTS CARD. SEPE SPECIAL ENVOY TO AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS IN GUATEMALA
Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, has appointed, 6 September, his Special Envoy to CAM 2, the 2nd all American Mission Congress which will take place in Guatemala, Guatemala City, 25 ...
8 September 2003
AFRICA/NIGERIA – ARCHBISHOP OBIEFUNA OF ONITSHA RESIGNS SUCCEEDED BY COADJUTOR OKEKE
Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, (1 September 2003) accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the archdiocese Onitsha (Nigeria) presented by Archbishop Albert Kanene ...
8 September 2003
VATICAN – POPE EXPRESSES GRIEF FOR DEATH OF CARDINAL MAURICE MICHAEL OTUNGA, EMERITUS ARCHBISHOP OF OTTUNGA, KENYA’S FIRST CARDINAL
Castel Gandolfo ( Fides Service) – Cardinal Maurice Michael Otunga, emeritus of Archbisop of Ottunga, died on Saturday 6 September at the age of 80 in Mater Misericordiae Catholic hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. His health ...
8 September 2003
VATICAN – THE POPE ANNOUNCES OCTOBER PILGRIMAGE TO POMPEI IN THIS YEAR OF THE ROSARY AND BEGINS SPIRITUAL PREPARATION CONTEMPLATING WITH MARY THE FACE OF CHRIST IN HIS JOYFUL, SORROWFUL, GLORIOUS AND LUMINOUS MYSTERIES
Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “A month today exactly, on Sunday October 7, God willing, I will be at the Shrine of Pompei. It will be a highly significant event in this Year of the Rosary which opened on 16 Octob ...
8 September 2003
ASIA/INDIA - RELICS OF GREAT MISSIONARY ST FRANCIS XAVIER WILL BE SHOWN TO THE PUBLIC IN 2004
Goa (Fides Service) – The general public will be able to view the relics of the great Spanish missionary Saint Francis Xavier at the end of next year 2004 in Goa, India. This was announced with a decree signed by Archb ...
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