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10 July 2003
AFRICA/ETHOPIA - “THESE PEOPLE NEED SOMEONE TO TAKE THEIR SIDE”: DESPERATE APPEAL FROM SALESIAN SISTERS IN ZWAY
Zway (Fides Service) – For the people of Zway it is normal to see their children die. In this year of hunger, the only thing that is different is the number of those who die: it is higher. We found one father who had l ...
10 July 2003
ASIA/INDIA - SISTER JOURNALISTS TRAIN MEDIA WORKERS IN ELECTRONIC JOURNALISM
New Delhi (Fides Service) – Sister journalists teach communications to young people. The Notre Dame Communications Centre in Patna, Bihar State, run by the Saint Peter Claver Notre Dame Sisters is offering a new course ...
9 July 2003
VATICAN - POPE TELLS MISSIONARY PRIESTS OF THE REGALITY OF CHRIST: “MAY YOUR DESIRE TO EVANGELISE LEAD YOU TO AN APOSTOLATE WHICH KNOWS NO FRONTIERS”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “I am happy to welcome you to this special audience on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the foundation of your Secular Institute…My greeting goes to those present and to all yo ...
9 July 2003
ASIA/HOLY LAND - “ONLY CHANGED HEARTS CAN BRING PEACE AND SECURITY TO THE HOLY LAND” INTERVIEW WITH FATHER DAVID JAEGER OFM, FRANCISCAN CUSTODY SPOKESMAN
Jerusalem (Fides Service) – There is an atmosphere of new hope and optimism in the Holy Land since a cease fire was agreed in the Israel-Palestine war. In this critical stage which could open the way to a resuming of p ...
9 July 2003
EUROPE/GERMANY - AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED IN 2002: 71.6 MILLION EURO FOR 6,200 PROJECTS IN 127 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES TO REBUILD CHURCHES, SUPPORT CATHOLIC CLERGY AND CATHOLIC MEDIA
Konigstein (Fides Service) – Offerings to Aid to the Church in Need increased in the past five years. In 2002 the Catholic aid agency, founded by the late Father Werenfried van Straaten collected 71.6 million Euro whic ...
9 July 2003
EUROPE/HUNGARY - FINAL STATEMENT FROM CONGRESS ON THE PASTORAL CARE OF GYPSIES: FOCUS ON EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND FAMILY HARNESSING ALSO RADIO AND THE INTERNET
Budapest (Fides Service) – “It is necessary to show more understanding and solidarity to gypsy peoples, putting aside any egoistic temptation of diffidence and indifference”: this is a passage from Pope John Paul I ...
9 July 2003
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT OFFERS HOPE FOR AFRICA SAYS FATHER RICHARD MENATSI SECRETARY GENERAL OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE
Maputo (Fides Service) – “I think that the AU meeting in Maputo which starts on July 10 will begin to map out a way of bringing about greater unity and solidarity between the 53 member countries from the continent o ...
9 July 2003
AFRICA/LIBERIA - WILL TAYLOR RELINQUISH POWER? UNCERTAINTY REIGNS IN LIBERIA; LOCAL AND MISSIONARY CHURCH PERSONNEL SUSTAIN POPULATION
Monrovia (Fides Service) – The news that President Taylor may accept Nigeria’s offer of asylum leaves many incredulous” a missionary in Monrovia tells Fides Service. “But there are signs that the President really ...
9 July 2003
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - CHURCH FOCUSES ON PASTORAL CARE FOR POLICEMEN: MORE THAN 200 OFFICERS RECEIVE SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION
Seoul (Fides Service) – To be a professed Christian but with a job which often requires the use of arms is the spiritual challenge lived daily by members of police and security forces all over the world. In Korea, in 2 ...
9 July 2003
ASIA/NEPAL - FIRST OFFICIAL VISIT BY NEW NUNCIO ARCHBISHOP PEDRO LOPEZ QUINTANA: THE GOSPEL WILL TAKE ROOT ONLY IF IT HAS A PROFITABLE MEETING WITH CULTURES AND TRADITIONS OF THE PEOPLE AMONG WHOM IT IS PROCLAIMED
Kathmandu (Fides Service) – To see the country, meet the people and the authorities and encourage church personnel Archbishop Pedro Lopez Quintana, newly appointed Papal Nuncio to India and Nepal made a first official ...
8 July 2003
EUROPE/SPAIN - HOPE IS THE DOOR TO MISSION – COMMENT ON THE POST SYNODAL EXHORTATION ECCLESIA IN EUROPA BY BISHOP FRANCISCO PEREZ OF OSMA-SORIA NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF THE PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES IN SPAIN
Osma-Soria (Fides Service) – On June 28th the eve of the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, in St Peter’s Basilica in the presence of many of the Bishops of Europe, Pope John Paul II promulgated an important Church docu ...
8 July 2003
VATICAN - POPE SENDS MESSAGE TO 17TH ASSEMBLY OF CARITAS INTERNATIONALIS: “HELP OFFERED TO NEIGHBOUR MUST NOT BE ALMSGIVING FROM RICH TO POOR, BUT RATHER SHARING IN BROTHERHOOD, RECOGNITION OF EQUALITY AMONG ALL PEOPLE
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Globalisation solidarity is the theme of the 17th general assembly (held every four years) of Caritas Internationalis being held presently in Rome 7-12 July. For the occasion Pope John Pa ...
8 July 2003
ASIA/IRAQ - CHALDEAN CHRISTIANS MOURN PATRIARCH RAPHAEL BIDAWID OF BAGHDAD
Beirut (Fides Service) – On July 7 in Beirut, Lebanon, His Beatitude Raphael I Bidawid, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, died at the age of 81, after some months in hospital. The Patriarch was born in Mosul, Iraq ...
8 July 2003
VATICAN - CONGREGATION FOR CAUSES OF SAINTS PROMULGATES 10 DECREES: HONOUR OF THE ALTARS FOR BLESSED DON ORIONE APOSTLE OF CHARITY AND LAURA OF ST CATHERINE OF SIENA MISSIONARY TO THE INDIOS
Vatican City (Fides Service) – On Monday 7 July in the Sala Clementina of the Papal Palace in the Vatican, in the presence of Pope John Paul II, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints (CCS) promulgated decrees regar ...
8 July 2003
ASIA/HOLY LAND - BETHLEHEM WELCOMES GLIMPSE OF HOPE FOR PEACE: UNIVERSITY RESUMES SUMMER COURSES
Bethlehem (Fides Service) – The town of Bethlehem is living again hopes for peace. The Christian community and all Bethlehem people are confident. Franciscan Father Ibrahim Faltas, superior of the Nativity Church tells ...
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