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• 19 January 2004
  VATICAN - “WE MUST FIND WITHIN US THE COURAGE OF PEACE. WE MUST IMPLORE FROM ON HIGH THE GIFT OF PEACE AND THIS PEACE WILL SPREAD LIKE OIL WHICH SOOTHES, IF WE WALK WITHOUT RESTING THE PATH OF RECONCILIATION.”: THE POPE’S CALL ON THE OCCASION OF A VATICAN CONCERT FOR RECONCILIATION BETWEEN JEWS, CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS Vatican City (Fides Service) – “The wish which we all together express is that men may be purified from the hatred and evil which continuously threaten peace and are able to reciprocally hold out their hands unaware ...
• 19 January 2004
  EUROPE/ITALY - PARISH, COMMUNICATION AND MISSION THE FOCUS OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STANDING COUNCIL OF THE ITALIAN BISHOPS CONFERENCE WHICH OPENS TODAY Rome (Fides Service) – Today, 19 January, the Standing Council of the Italian Bishops’ Conference CEI will open its annual assembly in Rome. The opening address will be given by the chairman Cardinal Camillo Ruini, ...
• 19 January 2004
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - BISHOPS OF NORTHERN AFRICA: “THE WITNESS OFFERED BY THE CHURCH IN MAGHREB IS NOT SEEN AS AGGRESSION BY THE LOCAL PEOPLE ”. ARCHBISHOP FOUAD TWAL ELECTED PRESIDENT OF CERNA. Tunis (Fides Service) - “In Christian-Muslim relations in Maghreb we have good reason to think that the witness to the Gospel of Christ offered by the Church, through which the local society receives the Good News, is ...
• 19 January 2004
  ASIA/IRAQ – IN ADDITION TO BOMB BLASTS: THE GHOST OF ORGANISED CRIME IS BACK IN IRAQ Baghdad (Fides Service) - “Not only suicide bombings like yesterday’s attack are the cause of instability in Iraq ” a local Church source in Baghdad told Fides with regard to the latest bomb blast yesterday Sunday ...
• 19 January 2004
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - IS PEACE IN BURUNDI CLOSER? LAST RESISTING GROUP OF REBELS SITS AT NEGOTIATING TABLE WITH GOVERNMENT Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “If an agreement is reached between the FLN and the government Burundi’s dream of peace will come true” say local church sources in Bujumbura, where hope grows now that peace talks have ...
• 19 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’ Confer ...
• 19 January 2004
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - “THE FUTURE IS POSSIBLE”: AIDS IN PHOTOGRAPHS, EXHIBITION PROMOTED BY UNIDEA AND S. EGIDIO COMMUNITY Rome (Fides Service) – On 23 January at the Auditorium of the Parco della Musica viale P. De Coubertin, in Rome an exhibition of photographs on AIDS entitled “Mozambique: the Future is Possible”. Another title for ...
• 19 January 2004
  VATICAN – THE POPE’S GENERAL AUDIENCE TEACHING: “ THERE IS AN EVER GREATER NEED FOR A PROFOUND SPIRITUALITY OF PEACE AND PEACE-MAKING, NOT ONLY AMONG THOSE DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN ECUMENICAL ACTIVITY …THE CAUSE FOR UNITY IN FACT INVOLVES EVERY BELIEVER.” Vatican City (Fides Service) – “The world longs for peace, it needs peace – today as yesterday -, but very often it searches for peace with the wrong means, even at times with recourse to force or the balance of op ...
• 17 January 2004
  AFRICA/MALAWI – ZOMBA DIOCESE: BISHOP ALLAN CHAMGWERA RESIGNS, REVEREND THOMAS MSUSA APPOINTED Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 17 January 2004, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Zomba (Malawi) presented by Bishop Allan Chamgwera, in conf ...
• 17 January 2004
  EUROPE/GT. BRITAIN – WEST AND EAST MEET AT WESTMINSTER: FOR THE FIRST TIME LONDON’S CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL WILL HOST RUSSIAN ORTHODOX VESPERS. CHRISTIAN MARTYRS HONOURED WITH TOWER OF LONDON PLAQUE Rome (Fides Service) – For the first time ever the Catholic Cathedral of Westminster in London will host a Russian Orthodox liturgical service. This is one of several initiatives planned by Westminster archdiocese for ...
• 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 ...