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• 27 October 2003
  POPE JOHN PAUL II’S MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION FOR NOVEMBER 2003: THAT THE CHURCH IN AMERICA, CELEBRATING THE SECOND AMERICAN MISSIONARY CONGRESS IN GUATEMALA, MAY BE INSPIRED TO MORE GENEROUS EVANGELIZING ACTIVITY EVEN BEYOND HER OWN FRONTIERS, comment by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Rome (Fides Service) - In continuity with the 1st American Mission Congress CAM 1 (COMLA 6) held in Parana Argentina in 1999, a few months after the promulgation of the post synodal Exhortation Ecclesial in America and t ...
• 27 October 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT THE ANGELUS PRAYER: “I RENEW MY THANKS TO GOD, RICH IN MERCY, FOR THESE 25 YEARS OF MINISTRY AT THE SERVICE OF THE CHURCH…I RENEW THE ENTRUSTMENT OF MY LIFE AND MY MINISTRY TO THE VIRGIN MARY” Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Still vivid in my soul are the intense emotions of recent days, during which so many people gathered around me on the occasion of my 25th year of Pontificate. I renew my thanks to God, ...
• 27 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - THE DISTINCTIVE NATURE OF CATHOLICISM IN ITALY COMPARED TO OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: ASSISI MEETING COMES TO A CLOSE Assisi (Fides Service) – A Congress on “Italian Catholicism from 1958 to today”, held 23 to 25 October at the Sacred Convent of Assisi promoted by various Universities (Sacred Heart Catholic Unviesrity in Milan, Ro ...
• 27 October 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - AS NORMALITY GRADUALLY RETURNS IN CONGO RWANDAN ARMY STILL IN THE EASTERN REGION. 800 LOCAL BOYS RECRUITED FOR MILITARY TRAINING IN RWANDA Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “It is difficult to believe Rwanda’s statements denying the presence of troops in this part of Democratic Congo” say local missionaries in north Kivu where representatives of the civil so ...
• 27 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - “CUORE AMICO” AWARD TO THREE ITALIAN MISSIONARIES FOR LIFE TIME OF MISSION IN SOUTH AMERICA, AFRICA AND ASIA Brescia (Fides Service) - On Saturday 25 October in Brescia the 13th edition of “Cuore Amico” awarded was given to three Italian missionaries: Father Lorenzo Franzoni, who has worked in Brazil for more than forty ye ...
• 27 October 2003
  AFRICA/SUDAN - SUDAN PEACE IN SIGHT BUT SOME MATTERS REMAIN TO BE SETTLED BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND REBELS Khartoum (Fides Service)- There are growing hopes that peace in Sudan may be in sight at last. US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said he is convinced that peace in Sudan will be signed before the end of the year, � ...
• 27 October 2003
  ASIA/KOREA - FAMILY AND PRIESTS PASTORAL PRIORITIES FOR CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF KOREA Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – The determination to give more attention to families and clergy emerged from the recent annual Autumn Assembly of the Catholic Bishops of Korea held in Seoul. The Bishops will soon issue a Past ...
• 27 October 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - SIXTEEN BAPTISMS TO CELEBRATE WORLD MISSION SUNDAY AND 25 YEARS OF JOHN PAUL II’s PONTIFICATE Taiyuan (Fides Service) – Mission Sunday 19 October was a great day at Feng Sheng He parish in TaiYuan, ShanXi province central China: 16 catechumens received the Sacrament of Baptism. The parish priest and parishioner ...
• 27 October 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN - A WEB OF LIFE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT: IN COMMUNION WITH GOD, NEIGHBOUR AND CREATION. SISTER CELIA CHUA, CHAIRS 13th CONGRESS OF RELIGIOUS WOMEN IN ASIA AND OCEANIA IN TAIPEI Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - "wang luo Chinese for web, symbolises communications at many different levels, directions and functions. Our aim is to weave a web of life filled with the Holy Spirit: in communion with God, neig ...
• 27 October 2003
  EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - MORE THAN 80% LESS DEATHS FOR HIV/AIDS IN 2001 THANKS TO HAART HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY Rome (Fides Service) – HAART is made up of five or more antiretroviral drugs, both new and recycled, as well as hydroxyurea. According to studies by British doctors HAART can reduce the HIV/AIDS death rate by 80%: pati ...
• 25 October 2003
  AFRICA/ANGOLA – LUANDA REV. FILOMENO DO NASCIMENTO VIEIRA DIAS APPOINTED AUXILIARY Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II on 25 October 2003, has appointed Auxiliary of the Archdiocese of Luanda (Angola) Rev. Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias, Vice rector of the Catholic ...
• 25 October 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - FIRST CHRISTIAN CONGRESS CONCLUDES WITH FORMATION OF INDEPENDENT CHURCH COUNCIL Rome (Fides Service) – The first Christian Congress in Iraq on the theme “Our unity and our Rights” held in Baghdad attended also by Patrick Kanadi, delegate of Paul Bremer civil administrator in Iraq. Kanadi said ...
• 25 October 2003
  WHO/EUROPE - WHO SUPPORTS NEW INITIATIVES TO REDUCE AIDS DRUGS Rome (Fides Service) – Reduce prices of drugs to treat AIDS in developing countries is one of the most recent initiatives sponsored by the World Health Organisation. “Guarantee therapy for Aids sufferers in the poore ...
• 25 October 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - “SUFFERING A VOCATION TO SERVE”: FOR AN INTEGRAL AND HUMANISED VISION OF SICKNESS AND SUFFERING Santiago de Chile (Fides Service ) – As part of celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the Catholic University Hospital in Santiago de Chile and the Year of Vocations called by the Catholic Church in Chile, the Hosp ...
• 25 October 2003
  WHO/USA - GUARANTEE EFFICIENT HEALTH SERVICE FOR THE POOR, INCREASE INVESTMENTS IN HEALTH SECTOR, GRADUAL ELIMINATION OF FINANCIAL RESTRICTIONS Rome (Fides Service) – Health is an intrinsic right of every human person as well as a central factor in the reduction of poverty and the promotion of social-economic development. There are many interventions to contro ...