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• 9 February 2004
  VATICAN - “The Dignity of human Procreation and Reproductive Techniques: Anthropological and Moral Aspects”: General Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 19 to 22 February 2004 the Pontifical Academy for Life PAV will hold a general assembly during which it will also mark the 10th anniversary of its institution. Members will reflect o ...
• 9 February 2004
  AFRICA/CHAD – The role of women in the Church and in Society: Pastoral Letter by Bishop Edmond Djitangar of Sarh Sarh (Fides Service)- “Women are fully members of our Church-Family” Bishop Edmond Djitangar Bishop of Sarh, southern Chad, wrote in a recent Letter Pastoral addressed to the Church-Family-of-God “To draw attention ...
• 9 February 2004
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - President announces early elections, Tamil Tigers disapprove: peace process threatened: fervid debate in the country Colombo (Fides Service) – Peace in Sri Lanka is threatened after a sudden decision on 7 February by president Chandrika Kumaratunga to dissolve parliament and announce early elections on 2 April. The decision has given ...
• 9 February 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The local Church comes to the aid of women immigrants, victims of abuse and prostitution: Taejon diocese opens Home for Women in Need Seoul (Fides Service) – Many women immigrants in South Korea and other Asian countries are victims of abuse in the family or are caught in the activity of prostitution gangs. To come to the aid of these women in Taejon ...
• 9 February 2004
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Bird influenza: 70% of infected humans die: 19 dead Rome (Fides Service) – Bird flu continues to kill. 70% of human beings infected have died. A 27 year old man in Binh Phuoc province of Vietnam was the latest victim. His death brings to total of human deaths for bird f ...
• 7 February 2004
  VATICAN - Glad you readers like our new look Vatican City (Fides Service) – We are pleased to see that many subscribers are writing in to say they like the new presentation of our daily news items. If you would like to receive Fides daily news service e-mail yo ...
• 6 February 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Interreligious dialogue women’s style: Pakistani Christian and Muslim women work together to promote reconciliation and rebuild social harmony Multan (Fides Service) – Interreligious dialogue women’s style is making progress in Pakistan. Following on a Seminar at the end of 2003, towards the end of the Muslim month of fasting and prayer Ramadan, attended by ...
• 6 February 2004
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Suwon diocese starts country’s first Catholic weekly: for information, formation and evangelisation Suwon (Fides Service) – Suwon diocese, lying south of Seoul, has its own Catholic weekly publication. After a period of trial, reflection and training of staff the first issue of Gyeonggi Catholic Times, was distribute ...
• 6 February 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “Father what is peace? A pause between battles?”… This is the challenge facing the Church in Sudan: to help bring peace to hearts hardened by 20 years of war Rome (Fides Service)- “Peace brings new challenges to the Church in Sudan” missionaries with years of experience in this country, told Fides. “If all goes well in a few months the government and separatists will si ...
• 6 February 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Mysterious shooting in Bukavu, fear that fighting has resumed. Radio Maria Malkia wa Amani reports to Fides Bukavu (Fides Service) – Mysterious shooting in the city of Bukavu, in the south of the Kivu eastern region of Democratic Congo is causing fear of a new outbreak of hostilities the local Catholic Radio Maria Malkia wa ...
• 6 February 2004
  EUROPE/RUSSIA – Archbishop Kondrusiewicz voices grief of Russia's Catholic community after tragic bomb blast in Moscow metro: "This is another appearance of the terrible face of terrorism…we ask all Catholics to pray for the repose of the souls of the dead, the recovery of the injured and the consolation of the families” Moscow (Fides Service) - Archbishop Thadeusz Kondrusiewicz of the Catholic archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow, sent Fides a copy of the official statement issued after the terrorist attack in the Moscow undergro ...
• 6 February 2004
  VATICAN - The Pope addresses the plenary assembly of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: “May the evangelising activity of the whole Church never falter before a world which has still to meet Christ or before those who have met him but still live far from him ”. Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Today’s cultural context, marked both by widespread relativism and the temptation of facile pragmatism, demands more than ever courageous proclamation of the truths which save mankin ...
• 6 February 2004
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Special two year theology course for former seminarians never ordained and clandestine priests now free to minister Nha Trang (Fides Service) – “We are very happy. This means we will soon have new co-operators in the Church’s pastoral work”, Bishop Nguyen Van Hoa, Bishop Nha Trang told Fides. The Bishop, also President of the ...
• 6 February 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - SARS: an Italian study shows how virus mutates Roma (Agenzia Fides) - The corona virus, considered responsible for SARS severe acute respiratory syndrome in 10% of its genome completes eight mutations every time it replicates itself. This was discovered by Italian re ...
• 6 February 2004
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Every day 250 new cases of diarrhoea among children. 23 die of rotavirus: 90% under 5 Rome (Fides Service) – Two weeks ago an epidemic of rotavirus struck Guatemala. 250 new cases every day and 23 deaths: 14 around Guatemala City, 1 in Suchitepéquez, 2 in Sacatepéquez and 6 in Escuintla, mostly childr ...