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• 31 July 2003
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - HUAMBO: ARCHBISHOP FRANCISCO VITI RESIGNS Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (31 July 2003) accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Huambo (Angola) presented by Archbishop Francisco Viti in ...
• 31 July 2003
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - REV. PROTAIS NKURIKIYE APPOINTED NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has appointed, 25 July 2003, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Burundi, Rever ...
• 31 July 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - FOUR THOUSAND SHELTER AT CONSOLATA MISSION AT BUCHANAN. TRAGEDY AT MONROVIA SPORTS STADIUM Monrovia (Fides Service) – There are at least 3 or 4 thousands displaced persons sheltering inside the compound of the Consolata Mission at Buchanan, the main port of Liberia about 90 km from the capital Monrovia. This ...
• 31 July 2003
  VATICAN - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, FUNDAMENTAL FOR MISSION TO OBEY THE COMMAND OF JESUS: MEDICINE AND MISSION THEME OF 2004-2005 CORRESPONDENCE COURSE OFFERED BY PONTIFICAL MISSIONARY UNION Vatican City (Fides Service) – The 2004-2005 Correspondence Course offered by the Pontifical Missionary Union will focus on Medicine and Mission. The Course, available in four languages, English, French, Italian and Sp ...
• 31 July 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “MARY STARTS EVANGELISATION FORMALLY WITH HER YES”: REFLECTION ON “MARY STAR OF EVANGELISATION” BY BISHOP FRANCISCO PEREZ GONZALEZ, NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES IN SPAIN Madrid (Fides Service) – “Is the Blessed Virgin Mary the Star of Evangelisation because she was with the Apostles in the Upper Room on the day of Pentecost? Was it only by chance that she was with them and therefore ...
• 31 July 2003
  ASIA/VIETNAM - BRIGHT FUTURE IN LOCAL CHURCHES IN MANY DIFFERENT COUNTRIES FOR OVERSEAS VIETNAMESE CATHOLICS CALLED TO “PREACH THE GOSPEL TO ALL CREATURES” Vatican City (Fides Service) – “An authentic Pentecost of the Vietnam community in the Diaspora”: this was how Mgr Joseph Dinh Duc Dao, director of the Office for the Co-ordination of Pastoral care for overseas Vie ...
• 31 July 2003
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - AFTER THE ELECTIONS THERE COULD BE A POLITICAL STALL AND PEOPLE FEAR MORE TENSION. CHURCH IS PRUDENT Phnom Penh (Fides Service) – “Cambodia is threatened with political stall, people are concerned: they fear the return of social disorder which followed 1998elections”. Salesian missionary Father Leo Ochoa, director ...
• 31 July 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - “STOP THE BLOODSHED. THE IRAQI PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF WAR!” SAYS AN IRAQI PRIEST Rome (Fides Service) – “As the Christian community in Iraq we are deeply saddened by the loss of human lives, Iraqi and American” Father Nizar Semaan an Iraqi Catholic priest, tells Fides Service with regard to the ...
• 31 July 2003
  EUROPE/POLAND - EIGHT THOUSAND CATHOLIC SCOUTS AND GUIDES FROM 19 EUROPEAN NATIONS AT EUROJAM FOR THE FIRST TIME IN POLAND WHERE SCOUTING WAS BANNED UNTIL 1989 Zelazko (Fides Service) – More than 8,000 scouts and guides between 11 and 16 years of age are taking part in the 6th International Rally of Catholic Scouts from 1-12 August in Zelazko in Poland. This edition is specia ...
• 30 July 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - DESPITE UNITY IN KINSHASA THE ITURI SITUATION IS STILL A PRIORITY IN VIEW OF LASTING PEACE Kinshasa (Fides Service) – “We are pleased that the new government has decided to send security forces to Ituri to re-establish law and order, on the condition that they are given the proper means for their mission a ...
• 30 July 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - AT RIVA DEL GARDA AN APPOINTMENT TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE MAJOR MEANS OF MASS COMMUNICATIONS FACE THE QUESTION OF COOPERATION IN DEVELOPMENT AND INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY Rome (Fides Service) - From 24 to 29 August hundreds of people will gather at Riva del Garda (Italy) with important experts for the 14th Week of Education to Globalisation to reflect on the theme: “Information and Dev ...
• 30 July 2003
  ASIA/THAILAND - BUDDHIST, CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM HEALTH CARE WORKERS DISCUSS JOINT ACTION AND COOPERATION IN THE FIGHT AGAINST AIDS Bangkok (Fides Service) – About 80 experts on HIV/AIDS, Buddhist monks, Christian priests and nuns, Muslim leaders and Protestant pastors took part in a meeting held at Nonthaburi University situated north of Bangkok t ...
• 30 July 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - CHURCH STANDS BY GOVERNMENT DURING CRISIS: FIRM CALL TO UPROOT CORRUPTION Manila (Fides Service) – The local Catholic Church was not a bystander in the crisis which hit the Philippines when 296 army soldiers staged a mutiny occupying a shopping centre in Manila and taking some 300 hostages o ...
• 30 July 2003
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - DESPITE ISOLATED ACTS OF VIOLENCE BY GROUPS OF UNCONTROLLED GUERRILLAS AND BRAKING OF CEASE-FIRE, HOPE FOR PEACE IS STILL ALIVE: ON THE HORIZON RESUMING OF TALKS BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND REBELS Colombo (Fides Service) – Marco Polo described it as the most beautiful island in the world, but in the last twenty years Sri Lanka, known as Ceylon under British colonial rule, has known nothing but civil war, cruel t ...
• 30 July 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - “GENERATOR FUEL SUPPLIES RUNNING OUT, LAST FOOD AND MEDICINE ” ST JOSEPH’S CATHOLIC HOSPITAL SOS Monrovia (Fides Service) – “People are fleeing southwards as LURD (Liberian United for Reconciliation and Democracy) rebels advance a St John of God Hospitaller Brothers missionary doctor at St Joseph’s Catholic ho ...