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24 November 2003
AMERICA/CANADA - BISHOP FRANÇOIS LAPIERRE OF SAINT-HYACINTHE: “MISSION HELPS US TO LOOK FURTHER TO SEE IN DAILY LIFE THE TRAGEDIES AND HOPES OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN. MISSION IS A CALL NOT ONLY TO GO OUT OF OUR COUNTRY BUT TO GO OUT OF OURSELVES”
Saint-Hyacinthe (Fides Service) – At the Second American Mission Congress in Guatemala City (25-30 November), the Church in Canada is represented by 150 delegates, many of them young people. “There is amazing interes ...
24 November 2003
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TWO MILLION CHILDREN SLAUGHTERED, 1 MILLION ORPHANS, 12 MILLION MINORS HOMELESS, 200 ADULTS ASSASSINATED, 1 MILLION REFUGEES, 100,000 WIDOWS, 400 VILLAGES DISAPPEARED: SCHOOL FOR PEACE FOR 3,000 WAR CHILDREN
Rome (Fides Service) – This is the balance in the past decade after 36 years of civil war. Children see their parents murdered, children subject to torture and sexual abuse. Children who still today have serious psych ...
24 November 2003
AMERICA/GUATEMALA – 2ND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS OPENS TOMORROW: FIRST MAJOR MISSIONARY EVENT OF THIRD MILLENNIUM
Guatemala City (Fides Service) – Tomorrow 25 November, the 2nd American Mission Congress CAM 2, will be officially inaugurated in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Pope John Paul II has sent as his Special Envoy, Cardinal Cre ...
24 November 2003
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE – CHURCH ORGANISATIONS PROTEST ARREST OF 100 TRADE UNION LEADERS
Harare (Fides Service)- Ever more concerning the situation in Zimbabwe since a serious political - social and economic crisis exploded at the beginning of 2000 when Robert Mugabe launched an accelerated agricultural re ...
24 November 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE APPOINTS NEW CARDINAL MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES
Vatican City (Fides Service ) – Pope John Paul II has appointed Members of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples the following Cardinals created on 21 October 2003: Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino (Presid ...
24 November 2003
ASIA/CHINA – DESPITE GOVERNMENT MEASURES CHINA REGISTERS CONCERNING INCREASE IN CASES OF SUICIDE
Beijing (Fides Service) – China has launched a national plan to address the serious problem of suicide. The government has ordered a study to find ways to prevent depression. Last year Beijing opened an Assistance Cent ...
24 November 2003
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS TO SOLVE CRISIS CONTINUE. PRESIDENT GBAGBO IN GABON, MALI AND BURKINA FASO
Abidjan (Fides Service)- “The fact that President Laurent Gbagbo and French Foreign minister Laurent de Villepin, met is positive in itself ” a local Church sources told Fides with regard to a meeting of the Presiden ...
24 November 2003
AFRICA/BURUNDI - BURUNDI OPTS FOR PEACE: REBELS RECEIVE GOVERNMENT POSTS, GROWING HOPES FOR END OF WAR DESPITE CONTINUING SPORADIC VIOLENCE
Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “I think that after years of disappointment and false starts this time Burundi has taken the path for peace” a priest in Bururi in Burundi told Fides after the government signed a peace agr ...
24 November 2003
ASIA/TURKEY - REGARDLESS OF TENSION AND FEAR FRANCISCAN FRIARS OPEN INTERNATIONAL FRATERNITY FOR MISSION OF ECUMENICAL AND INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE
Istanbul (Fides Service) – On November 29 with a solemn Mass at the church of Santa Maria Draperis in Istanbul a new International Fraternity will be opened by the Order of Friars Minor in the presence of Minister Gene ...
24 November 2003
ASIA/INDIA - WAVE OF VIOLENCE IN NORTH EAST INDIA LEAVES THOUSANDS HOMELESS AND DOES NOT SPARE THE CHURCH, ARCHBISHOP OF SHILLONG TELLS FIDES
Shillong (Fides Service) – “Thousands are homeless, thousands of students are without lessons. Innocent people die. May God forgive those who commit such evil. The violence does not even spare religious ministers or ...
22 November 2003
MISSION IN AMERICA IN THE EARLY PART OF THE LAST CENTURY: EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTATION FROM FIDES PHOTO ARCHIVES
See CAM2 FIDES SPECIAL (www.fides.org.) for all sorts of information on the Second American Mission Congress taking place in Guatemala, including exclusive photos from Fides historic mission archives on mission in Americ ...
22 November 2003
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - NO END TO VIOLENCE AGAINST THE CHURCH: KIDNAPPED PRIEST FOUND DEAD; SEVEN CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES HELD HOSTAGE AND ROBBED.
San Vicente del Caguan (Fides Service) – Safely back at their mission at last, seven missionaries of St John Eudes in southern Colombia lived a frightening experience at the hands of kidnappers. For several hours they ...
21 November 2003
AFRICA/IVORY COAST – ABENGOUROU: BISHOP BRUNO KOUAME RESIGNS, REV. JEAN-JACQUES KOFFI OI KOFFI APPOINTED
Vatican City (Fides Service ) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (21 November 2003) accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Abengourou (Ivory Coast), presented by Bishop Bruno Kouam ...
21 November 2003
AMERICA/ UNITED STATES - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2: 75 US MEMBERS REPRESENT THE ENTIRE COUNTRY INCLUDING ALASKA
New York (Fides Service) – The delegation of the Church in the United States to the second American Mission Congress in Guatemala, is composed of 75 members. Father John Kozar, National Director of the Pontifical Missi ...
21 November 2003
AMERICA/MEXICO - “PROGRESSIVE LOSS OF GOSPEL VALUES UNDERMINES FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL HARMONY” SAY MEXICAN BISHOPS
Mexico City (Fides Service) – At the end of its plenary assembly 10 to 14 November, the Bishops’ Conference of Mexico issued a message “Unbind him ad let him free” (inspired by the figure of Lazarus), in which t ...
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