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24 July 2003
ASIA/THAILAND – RATCHABURI - BISHOP JOHN BOSCO MANAT CHUABSAMAI RESIGNS
Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (24 July 2003) accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Ratchaburi (Thailand), presented by Bishop John Bosco Manat Ch ...
24 July 2003
POPE JOHN PAUL II’ MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION FOR THE MONTH AUGUST “THAT THE CATECHISTS OF THE YOUNG CHURCHES, MAY BEAR WITNESS FAITHFULLY TO THEIR ATTACHMENT TO THE GOSPEL”
Comment by Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, Prefect of the congregation for the clergy.
Vatican City (Fides Service) - I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see how the fields are already white for harvest.” (Jn 4, 35). These words of the Lord resound today in our heart and they show the vast horizon of the ...
24 July 2003
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - FIRST BISHOP TO VISIT N. KOREA SINCE THE WAR, IS TODAY PRESIDENT OF THE BISHOPS CONFERENCE, AND CONSULTOR OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES
Seoul (Fides Service) – Archbishop Andrew Choi Chang-mou of Kwangju has been appointed Consultor of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples .
His appointment is a recognition of the important role of the ...
24 July 2003
AFRICA/LIBERIA - REBELS ATTACK FRANCISCAN MISSION; ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITALLER BROTHERS IN MONROVIA REPORT: THREE IN A BED, CHILDREN DYING FROM LACK OF FOOD, ANAEMIA, MALARIA
Monrovia (Fides Service) – “We were deeply concerned for our Sisters and for the suffering that this tragic situation is causing the people of Liberia. The Sisters are unhurt and they will continue their pastoral and ...
24 July 2003
ASIA/INDIA - MORE THAN 10,000 DELEGATES FROM ALL ASIA FROM 9-16 AUGUST IN BANGALORE FOR ASIAN YOUTH DAY – SR. NIRMALA WILL TELL YOUTH ABOUT MOTHER TERESA
Bangalore (Fides Service) – Everything is ready in Bangalore for the Asian Youth meeting, 9-16 August which will have the theme Asian Youth for Peace. The event is promoted by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Asia ...
23 July 2003
VATICAN - INTERNATIONAL LAW, A PATH TO PEACE: INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT OF PONTIFICAL COUNCIL JUSTICE AND PEACE, ARCHBISHOP RENATO MARTINO ON POPE JOHN PAUL II’S THEME FOR WORLD PEACE DAY 2004
Vatican City (Fides Service) – "Humanity is facing a crucial challenge: if it does not succeed in providing really efficacious institutions to avert the scourge of war, the risk is that the law of force will prevail ov ...
23 July 2003
AMERICA/CANADA - “THE LEGACY OF WORLD YOUTH DAY CONTINUES TO GROW AND NOT ONLY AMONG YOUTH” - MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT OF CANADIAN CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS ON FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF WORLD YOUTH DAY 2002
Ottawa (Fides Service) – One year ago, “Pope John Paul called youth of the world to gather in Toronto in July 2002 to experience a strong sense of faith, fraternity and commitment on the occasion of the 17th World Yo ...
23 July 2003
ASIA/CHINA - EXHIBITION ON THE LIFE OF MATTEO RICCI, THE MISSIONARY WHO OPENED THE PATHS OF CHINA TO FAITH IN CHRIST
Macerata (Fides Service) – To make known to a wider public the figure and work of Matteo Ricci, Jesuit missionary to China in the late 16th century, an exhibition has been opened in Macerata, the Italian town where the ...
23 July 2003
AFRICA/LIBERIA - CHOLERA IS ANOTHER ENEMY FOR THE WAR TRAVAILED PEOPLE OF LIBERIA
Rome (Fides Service) – The serious plague of cholera continues to threaten various places, the most recent outbreak has been reported in Liberia in the eye of the cyclone of civil war. Health organisations working in M ...
23 July 2003
AFRICA/LIBERIA - FIRST HAND REPORT FROM THE CAPITAL OF LIBERIA
Monrovia (Fides Service) – “Up to five minutes ago we could hear the sound of shelling coming from the port and the east side of the city” a missionary in the Liberian capital Monrovia, whose name we withhold for s ...
21 July 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT ANGELUS PRAYER: THE NEW EUROPE MUST BE HELPED TO BUILD ITSELF BY REVITALISING THE CHRISTIAN ROOTS FROM WHICH IT ORIGINATED
Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “In recent months intense work has been undertaken to draft a European Constitution, the final version of which will be examined for approval by the intergovernmental Conference from ...
21 July 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE ADDRESSES PARTICIPANTS AT EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON UNIVERSITY AND CHURCH IN EUROPE: JUST AS NEW EUROPE CANNOT BE PLANNED WITHOUT DRAWING FROM ITS ROOTS, THE SAME CAN BE SAID OF THE UNIVERSITY
Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “Just as the new Europe cannot be planned without drawing from its own roots, the same can be said of the university. It is in fact the place par excellence for research for the trut ...
21 July 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - FIRED BY INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, ALONGSIDE EUROPE OF MARKET AND INSTITUTIONS EUROPE OF CULTURE MUST MAKE A NEW AND BOLD START
Rome (Fides Service) – Sunday 20 July was the closing day of a universal Symposium, University and Church in Europe, which brought together 2,000 teachers, students, chaplains rectors and bishops from 41 European count ...
21 July 2003
EUROPE/GERMANY - TRAVELLING BIBLE-BOX ATTRACTS MORE THAN 100,000 VISITORS, ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE, IN THIS “YEAR OF THE BIBLE”
Cologne (Fides Service) – At least 100,000 people visited a travelling BibleBox exhibition which concluded its journey through Germany in Cologne on Sunday 20 July. The exhibition, inaugurated three months ago in Mannh ...
21 July 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - BEING BOTH PATRIOTIC AND BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF ‘ENEMY’ PEOPLE AT WAR: CHALLENGES FACING EVANGELISATION IN CONGO. INTERVIEW WITH ARCHBISHOP OF KISANGANI
Kinshasa (Fides Service) – The Lord is challenging his disciples in Africa of the Great Lakes region to live the Gospel radically”. Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kisangani said this in an in an interview wi ...
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