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• 17 January 2004
  VATICAN - 18/25 JANUARY, WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY: “MY PEACE I GIVE YOU” Vatican City (Fides Service) – The annual week of prayer for Christian Unity 18 to 25 January, this year has the theme of peace, peace of believers in Christ for peace for the whole of humanity: “My Peace I Give You� ...
• 17 January 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - STRONG SPIRIT OF ECUMENISM IN KENYA, LOCAL CHRISTIAN CONFESSIONS PREPARE TO CELEBRATE WEEK FOF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY Nairobi (Fides Service/Cisa) – The spirit of ecumenism is lively in Kenya and it has been for some years. The Nairobi Ecumenical Group has a long history of ecumenical meetings and collaboration, especially between th ...
• 16 January 2004
  ASIA/INDIA – GOA and DAMAO, ARCHBISHOP RAUL GONSALVES RESIGNS, MGR FILIPE NERI ANTÓNIO SEBASTIÃO DO ROSARIO FERRÃO APPOINTED ARCHBISHOP Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (16 January 2004) accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Goa and Damão (India), presented by Archbishop Raul Ni ...
• 16 January 2004
  VATICAN - FEAST DAY OF BLESSED PAOLO MANNA FOUNDER OF THE PONTIFICAL MISSIONARY UNION: A SOUL OF FIRE AFLAME WITH ARDENT LOVE FOR GOD AND PEOPLE Vatican City (Fides Service) – January 16 is the feast day of Blessed Paolo Manna, a priest of the PIME Missionaries (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions), founder of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU), beat ...
• 16 January 2004
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS AN EXCELLENT PARTNER IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST AIDS ” SAYS DESMOND JOHNS OF UNAIDS IN NEW YORK Aachen (Fides Service ) – In a recent interview with the Pontifical Mission Societies in Germany “missio Aachen”, a representative of the United Nations department for AIDS, UNAIDS stressed the important role of th ...
• 16 January 2004
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 2ND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS BEARS FIRST FRUITS: POOR DIOCESE OF NUEVE DE JULIO IN ARGENTINA SENDS PARISH PRIEST AND GROUP OF LAY PEOPLE TO HELP IN AN EVEN POORER PARISH IN GUATEMALA Buenos Aires (Fides Service/Aica) – “We are going to stay a while with our brothers and sisters who have no faith, or only a little faith and little chance to celebrate it ” said Father Justo Juan Cariz, parish pri ...
• 16 January 2004
  VATICAN - THE POPE RECEIVES CHIEF RABBIS OF ISRAEL: “WE MUST SPARE NO EFFORT IN WORKING TOGETHER TO BUILD A WORLD OF JUSTICE, PEACE AND RECONCILIATION FOR ALL PEOPLES” THE RABBIS ARE IN ROME TO ATTEND CONCERT FOR RECONCILIATION AMONG CHRISTIANS, JEWS AND MUSLIMS Vatican City (Fides Service) – On January 16 Pope John Paul II granted a private audience to Chief Rabbi of Israel Jona Metzgher, Chief Rabbi of Israel Slomo Amar and Oded Wiener, Director General of Chief Rabbinate, w ...
• 16 January 2004
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA AND BURUNDI - INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERS FOR DEVELOPMENT HELP Rome (Fides Service)- “The situation has certainly improved: the last harvest was good and the food emergency is under control, but malnutrition is chronic as FAO and World Food Programme have announced. More than 7 mi ...
• 16 January 2004
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - “NOT WALLS BUT BRIDGES”: BISHOPS OF EUROPE AND AMERICA SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH CHRISTIANS IN THE HOLY LAND Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – “Not walls but bridges”, a quote from the Holy Father (Pope John Paul II 16 November 2003), was the title chosen for the declaration issued in Jerusalem by Catholic Bishops of Europe an ...
• 16 January 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - ANTI-CHRISTIAN VIOLENCE IN INDIA HAS ABATED ON THE WHOLE BUT CONCERN REMAINS OVER TENDENCY TO CONFUSE POLITICAL LIFE WITH RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS Trichur (Fides Service) – On the one hand satisfaction because episodes of violence against Christians or Christian institutions have decreased in the last two years; on the other concern for the climate of tension and ...
• 16 January 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - A CATHOLIC VOICE AT THE “WORLD SOCIAL FORUM”: MORE THAN 1000 JESUITS STAND FOR PEACE, SOCIAL JUSTICE, RESPECT FOR RIGHTS AND DIGNITY OF EVERY HUMAN PERSON Bombay (Fides Service) – There is a large Catholic presence at the 4th World Social Forum (WSF) which opens today in Bombay and closes on 21 January: 1,350 Jesuits from all over the world have arrived in India to rea ...
• 16 January 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN – LOCAL CHURCH’S CONCERN FOR POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN PAKISTAN CONFIRMED IN RECENT REPORT ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTHERN ASIA Islamabad (Fides Service) – The economic and social situation of the people of Pakistan has always been a major concern for the local Catholic Church which more than once, also recently, has stressed the need to decrea ...
• 16 January 2004
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “WE MUST BE AUTHENTIC SERVANTS OF THE POOR”: VENEZUELAN BISHOPS’ STATEMENT ON PEACE Caracas (Fides Service ) – “We must be authentic servants of the Poor” was the title of a statement issued by the Bishops of Venezuela at the end of the 81st Ordinary Assembly of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conferen ...
• 15 January 2004
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND CASES OF CHOLERA IN THE WORLD, 5.000 DEATHS EVERY YEAR: WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION PROMOTES A NEW ORAL VACCINE TO CHECK THE DISEASE Rome (Fides Service) – Existing tools to control cholera may soon be supplemented with something new – mass vaccination with an oral cholera vaccine. The idea is being put to the test in a demonstration project in Mo ...
• 15 January 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - WOMEN: WORRIES, RESOURCES AND PROSPECTS, INQUIRY ON CONDITION OF WOMEN IN ITALY Rome (Fides Service) – The Institute for Higher Studies on Women at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum College in Rome will focus a series of studies on the condition of women in the different regions of Italy . The fi ...