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13 October 2003
EUROPE/GERMANY - MISSION SUNDAY – “TRUSTING IN THE WORD”: IN THE YEAR OF THE BIBLE THE PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES IN GERMANY LOOK TO CATHOLICS IN THE PHILIPPINES TO HELP GERMAN COMMUNITIES TO GROW
Aachen/Munich (Fides Service) – The 2003 October mission campaign launched by the Pontifical Mission Societies in Germany has been planned to fit the framework of the Year of the Bible being celebrated in local Churche ...
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13 October 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - ROME CITY COUNCIL HOLDS SPECIAL SESSION TO MARK POPE JOHN PAUL II’s 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE
Rome (Fides Service) – On Monday 13 October Rome City Council will hold a special session to mark the 25 years of pontificate of Pope John Paul II. The programme will include an introduction by the City Council preside ...
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13 October 2003
EUROPE/ENGLAND AND WALES - MISSION SUNDAY: TODAY NOT ONLY ANGLO SAXONS; MULTI-CULTURAL CATHOLICS IN UNION WITH THE POPE SUPPORT UNIVERSAL MISSION WITH PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES
London (Fides Service) – In this third millennium Catholics in England and Wales are no longer only Anglo Saxons, they come from many other cultures and this rich diversity of traditions is harnessed for universal miss ...
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10 October 2003
EUROPE/NORWAY - NOBEL PEACE PRIZE COMMENTS: PROF. JUSTO LACUNZA EXPERT IN ISLAMIC STUDIES; MS FARIAN SABAHI PROFESSOR IN IRANIAN HISTORY; MOAZZEMI GOUDARZI IRANIAN JOURNALIST
Rome (Fides Service) – “This award reopens the challenge of human rights as a field which brings together religions and cultures” said Prof. Justo Lacunza rector of the Pontifical Institute for Arab and Islamic stu ...
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10 October 2003
EUROPE/NORWAY - NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO IRANIAN LAWYER SHIRIN EBADI FOR HER COMMITMENT TO PROMOTING RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Oslo (Fides Service) – The Nobel Peace prize 2003 has been awarded to Iranian layer Ms Shirin Ebadi for her commitment to defending families of writers and intellectuals killed in 1998-1999. Persecuted for the investig ...
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10 October 2003
EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - SINCE THE BEGINNING OF 2003, THE DEATH PENALTY HAS BEEN EXECUTED 57 TIMES IN THE USA, 83 TIMES IN IRAN AND 40 IN SAUDI ARABIA, BUT “DEATH IS NOT JUSTICE”: WORLD DAY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY
Rome (Fides Service) – The death penalty is still in use in 83 countries including the United States, China, Japan, Nigeria and Iran. On the occasion of the World Day World Day Against the Death Penalty - 10 October, L ...
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10 October 2003
EUROPE/POLAND - WORLD MISSION SUNDAY –YEAR OF THE ROSARY: THOUSANDS OF ROSARIES FOR THE MISSIONS AND THE POPE “THE GREATEST MISSIONARY OF OUR TIME”
Warsaw (Fides Service) – In preparation for World Mission Sunday, the diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies took part in a three day spiritual retreat followed by a missiology session on “The mission ...
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9 October 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - MEETING “THE DESIRE FOR THE TRUTH” : CARDINAL RUINI WARNS “THEOLOGY MUST NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM PHILOSOPHY”
Rome (Fides Service) – “Faith and reason can never contradict one another if they both tend towards the truth, the authentic condition for the freedom of the human person” said Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the Pope’s ...
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9 October 2003
EUROPE/SPAIN - TOUCH SCREEN COMPUTERS IN SCHOOLS AND PARISHES FOR INFORMATION ON MISSION IN THE WORLD
Valencia (Fides Service) - A simple touch on a pc screen in a parish or school will suffice to have information on diocesan missionaries, the country in which they work and the progress of mission projects funded by the ...
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8 October 2003
EUROPE/SPAIN - “THE POPE’S CONCERN FOR ALL THE CHURCHES IN THESE 25 YEARS OF HIS PONTIFICATE HAS BEEN A SPECIAL GIFT OF GOD FOR WHICH WE WISH AND WE MUST GIVE THANKS” STATEMENT TO MARK 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE ISSUED BY STANDING COMMITTEE OF SPANISH BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE
Madrid (Fides Service) – “His concern for all the Churches in these twenty five years of pontificate is undoubtedly a special gift from God for which we can and we must give thanks” the Standing Committee of the Sp ...
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7 October 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - EXHIBITION ON MOTHER TERESA: A FEW POOR BELONGINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, LETTERS, WRITINGS REVEAL HER SOUL – AND AFTERWARDS VISITORS ARE INVITED TO STOP A WHILE FOR EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
Rome (Fides Service) – Mother Teresa is a personality known and loved all over the world, but few people know about her spirituality: this is why the Postulators of her Beatification Cause have organised an exhibition ...
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6 October 2003
EUROPE/AZERBAIJAN - DESPITE FALSE INSINUATIONS OF LOCAL PRESS: SAYS NUNCIO IN BAKU – WORK ON NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH TO BEGIN SOON
Baku (Fides Service) – Relations between the local Catholic Church and the government in Azerbaijan are excellent Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, Nuncio in Baku tells Fides Service.
Not long after a recent visit to Az ...
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6 October 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - “WITH THE POPE WE WILL PRAY FOR PEACE IN THE WORLD” SAYS ARCHBISHOP SORRENTINO DELEGATE FOR THE MARIAN SHINE OF POMPEI
Rome (Fides Service) – The community of Pompei is waiting with fervid expectation for the arrival of his Holiness, while spiritual and material preparation continues” Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino tells Fides Servic ...
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4 October 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - SAINT DANIELE COMBONI FATHER AND APOSTLE OF CHRISTIAN AFRICA
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Fides Service asked Fr. Fidel Gonzalez Fernandez mccj
Rector Pontifical Urban College to comment on Bishop Daniele Comboni in the historical and social context of the 19th century. Here ...
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4 October 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - COMBONI MISSIONARIES CLOSE GENERAL CHAPTER: PROGRAMME FOR EVANGELISATION, JUSTICE AND PEACE, ONGOING FORMATION IN ELABORATION
Rome (Fides Service) – On the eve of the canonisation of their Founder, Daniele Comboni, on Thursday evening, 2 October the 26th chapter of the Comboni missionaries, opened in 1 September, closed. Next week a post-chap ...
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