Vatican

• 15 March 2004
  VATICAN - “You dear university students have an important role to play in building a united Europe, firmly rooted in the spiritual traditions and values by which it was shaped”: the Pope’s entrust this task to university students whom he met for the 2nd European Day for University Students Vatican City (Fides Service) - “This Marian prayer vigil is of great symbolic importance. It is in fact you dear university students who have an important role to play in building a united Europe, firmly rooted in the ...
• 15 March 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope speaks of the tragedy in Madrid: “Above all those who believe in God, Creator and Father of all men and women must feel the need to work to build a world of more brotherhood and solidarity despite the difficulties and obstacles encountered. Vatican City (Fides Service) - Before reciting the Angelus prayer with the people gathered in St Peter’s Square on Sunday 14 March, Pope John Paul II voiced “firm condemnation” for the March 11, terrorist attacks i ...
• 13 March 2004
  ILO: CHRONOLOGY OF THE FIGHT AGAINST CHILD LABOUR. 1919: first International labour Conference adopts Convention (n. 5) on minimum age (industry). 1930: adoption of 1st Convention (n. 29) on forced labour. 1973: adoption of Convention (n. 138) minimum age 1992: ILO st ...
• 13 March 2004
  SLAVES OF MANY OWNERS. Vatican City (Fides Service) - They should be sitting at a school desk, playing with their friends, have the opportunity to live their childhood to the full. Instead they grow up too early, taking on the heavy burden of ...
• 13 March 2004
  LENT 2004 - “Humanity cannot close its eyes to such a tragedy! What have these children done to deserve such maltreatment?” (John Paul II - Message for Lent) 2 - CHILD LABOUR SLAVES OF MANY OWNERS In Asia - In Africa - In Latin America - workers without rights - will the future be any different? ILO: CHRONOLOGY OF THE FIGHT AGAINST CHILD LABOUR AFRICA/BENIN - Little girls in Cotonou: e ...
• 12 March 2004
  VATICAN - “Christ hope of Europe” - Tomorrow University students all over Europe join Rosary prayer with Pope John Paul II in live links with capitals of new EU member nations Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Christ hope for Europe” is the theme of the 2nd Day for European University Students which will take place in Rome, Saturday 13 March. Patronised by the Council of European Bishops’ ...
• 11 March 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope prays for victims of terrorist attacks in Madrid Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope John Paul II has voiced his deep grief and sympathy to the people of Spain after the string of bomb blasts in Madrid’s underground this morning in which 170 people were killed and at ...
• 11 March 2004
  VATICAN - Holy See Press office statement with regard to arrest of Chinese Bishop Vatican City (Fides Service) - On March 10 at the end of the morning the Director of the Holy See press office, Dr. Joaquín Navarro-Valls, released the following statement: “The Holy See learned with concern and sadn ...
• 11 March 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope’s weekly audience teaching: “To counter all forms of evil the just man puts faith, goodness, forgiveness and the offering of peace ”. Vatican City (Fides) - “We are in the presence of a regal psalm of ancient Israel proclaimed in the temple of Zion during a solemn rite. It invokes divine blessings on the king...” with these words Pope John Paul II ...
• 10 March 2004
  VATICAN - New "Directory on the Pastoral Ministry of the Bishop”: an aid for Bishops in their complex ecclesial service to meet the needs of the Church and of society today. Vatican City (Fides Service) - On March 9 the Congregation for Bishops issued a note presenting a new “Directory for the Ministry of Bishops Apostolorum Successores”, (dated 22 February 2004) already in Italian, and ...
• 10 March 2004
  VATICAN - “There is no rise in the number of atheists in the world”, according to survey on ‘non belief and religious indifference’ carried out by Pontifical Council for Culture in preparation for annual Plenary 11-13 March in the Vatican Vatican City (Fides Service) - To fulfil the mission entrusted to it by the Holy Father to be at the heart of profound changes at the beginning of this new millennium, the Pontifical Council for Culture felt the need to ...
• 10 March 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope address participants at Plenary Meeting of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications: may the Inter Mirifica document give inspiration “to continue your mission of helping those who work in this vast field to animate it with a humane and Christian spirit" Vatican City (Fides Service ) - As the last item on the agenda of his morning’s work on Tuesday 9 March, Pope John Paul II granted an audience to the participants at the Plenary Meeting of the Pontifical Council for So ...
• 9 March 2004
  VATICAN - “The Christian faith at the dawn of the new millennium and the challenge of non belief and religious indifference”: Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for Culture Vatican City (Fides Service) - About sixty participants from all over the world will attend the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for Culture, in the Vatican 11-13 March, presided by Cardinal Paul Poupard. The t ...
• 8 March 2004
  VATICAN - “Ethics is not a restriction for business, it is an opportunity which qualifies its efficiency and objectivity”: said Cardinal Martino at the end of an international Conference for Christian Business Executives. Soon available, Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching and Report on Poverty in the Era of Globalisation. Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Moral values - such as social responsibility, solidarity, justice, a sense of the common good, protection of the environment, respect for human rights, valorisation of human capital - ar ...
• 8 March 2004
  VATICAN - Vatican II Decree “Inter Mirifica” 40 years on: Pontifical Council for Social Communications Annual Plenary Assembly Vatican City (Fides Service) - A Concelebration of Mass in the German College Church inside Vatican City on Monday March 8, opened a four day Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. The Mass ...