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23 June 2003
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - LAWLESS SOLOMONS ISLANDS LAUNCHES SOS TO AUSTRALIA: COMMITTED LAY CATHOLIC URGES PEOPLE AND PARLIAMENT TO TAKE LAST CHANCE TO SAVE NATION FROM DESTRUCTION
Honiara (Fides Service) – “Solomons last chance”, is the title of a wake up call sounded for the people and the authorities of crime ridden Solomon Islands forced call on Australia for help to restore r ...
23 June 2003
ASIA/INDIA - LIFE STORY OF MOTHER TERESA NOW AVAILABLE IN KANNADA LANGUAGE SPOKEN BY 33 MILLION INDIANS
Bangalore (Fides Service) – Also Kannada speaking Indians living mainly in central southern India will be able to learn more about Mother Teresa of Calcutta: on the occasion of the beatification of the white clad siste ...
23 June 2003
ASIA/TURKEY - ECUMENICAL SERVICE AND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM FOR THE FEAST DAY SAINTS PETER AND ST PAUL
Antioch (Fides Service) – To mark the Feast Day of Saints Peter on Paul on June 29 an ecumenical Liturgy of the Word and an international symposium will be held in Antioch. The ecumenical service, attended by represent ...
23 June 2003
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - 4,000 GATHER TO PRAY IN DEMILITARISED ZONE DIVIDING NORTH AND SOUTH ON NATIONAL DAY FOR RECONCILIATION AND UNITY OF KOREAN PEOPLE
Seoul (Fides Service) – At least 4,000 gathered in the demilitarised border zone between north and south Korea for Mass to mark the Day for Unity and Reconciliation of the Korean People on Sunday June 22. Bishops, prie ...
23 June 2003
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO-NIGER - CHURCH STILL YOUNG, DESPITE DIFFICULTIES TENDS TO MISSION, INTERVIEW WITH BISHOP OUEDRAGO, PRESIDENT OF BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Despite difficulties connected with the precarious living conditions of the local people, the missionary vitality of your diocesan Churches has expressed itself in various forms”, Po ...
23 June 2003
EUROPE/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - THE POPE TELLS CATHOLICS IN BANJA LUKA: “DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED, MULTIPLY EFFORTS TO MAKE BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ONCE AGAIN A LAND OF RECONCILIATION, ENCOUNTER AND PEACE
Banja Luka (Fides Service) – “With deep gratitude for the invitation, I return after six years to Bosnia-Herzegovina and I thank God for allowing me to meet once again these people so dear to my heart”. With these ...
23 June 2003
ASIA/MALAYSIA - KUCHING - ARCHBISHOP PETER CHAUNG HOAN TING RESIGNS, MGR JOHN HA TIONG HOCK APPOINTED
Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father Pope John Paul II has (18 June 2003) accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Kuching, Malaysia, presented by Archbishop Peter Chaung Hoa ...
23 June 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - TO FIGHT DRUG ABUSE IT IS INDISPENSABLE TO START FROM THE TRANSCENDENT AND UNIQUE VALUE OF EVERY PERSON: SYMPOSIUM FOR UN ANTI-DRUGS DAY
Rome (Fides Service) – United Nations, the Vatican and therapy communities join forces to fight a phenomenon which is medical and psychological, but also cultural, social, ethic and political. To mark UN Anti-Drugs Day ...
23 June 2003
AFRICA/NIGERIA - NEGLECT AND IGNORANCE CAUSED LATEST NIGERIAN OIL TRAGEDY SAYS ARCHBISHOP ONAIYEKAN OF ABUJA
Abuja (Fides Service) – “This is the umpteenth tragedy caused by neglect on the part of those responsible for protecting one of the largest oil installations in Nigeria” Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuj ...
23 June 2003
ASIA/MALAYSIA - NEW NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES BISHOP JAMES CHAN
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has appointed (6 June 2003), National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Malaysia, Sing ...
23 June 2003
ASIA/INDONESIA - NEW NATIONAL DIRECTOR PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES REV. PATRICK PA SVD
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has appointed (13 June 2003) National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Indonesia Reve ...
20 June 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO - FEAR AND UNCERTAINTY IN NORTH KIVU. DESPITE UNILATERAL CEASE-FIRE CALLED BY REBELS MORE VIOLENCE IS FEARED
Kinshasa (Fides Service) – Tension is still high in North Kivu, in the eastern part of Democratic Congo DRC, where rebels of the Congolese Group for Democracy (RCD-Goma) have declared a unilateral cease-fire. Local sou ...
20 June 2003
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - WORLD REFUGEE DAY: ASSISTANCE AND FORMATION FOR A BETTER FUTURE: SCALABRINI REFUGEE SERVICE IN AFRICA
Cape Town (Fides Service) – Shelter, food, medical assistance, schooling, professional training are some of the services offered by the Scalabrini Refugee Service in Cape Town, South Africa, a large port destination of ...
20 June 2003
WORLD REFUGEE DAY - INFO
Rome (Fides Service) – The Geneva Convention, 28 July 1951 and the New York Protocol 31 January 1967 define the refugee a person who, fearing persecution because of race, religion, nationality, or membership of a parti ...
20 June 2003
ASIA/INDONESIA - RECONCILIATION CEREMONY OF PROTESTANTS AND MUSLIMS IN MOLUCCAS ISLANDS AFTER YEARS OF ETHNIC CLASHES – BISHOP MANDAGI OF AMBOINA SAYS “WE START LIFE AGAIN LOOKING TO THE FUTURE WITH CONFIDENCE”
Ambon (Fides Service) – “Today there is an atmosphere of confidence and hope. People show good will in dialogue and look at each other as brothers and sisters. I am surprised to see the speed of the reconciliation pr ...
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