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• 13 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE PRESIDES MASS FOR THE CARDINALS AND BISHOPS WHO DIED IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS: “ALL THESE VENERABLE BROTHERS ARE NOW IN THE PROVIDENT ‘HANDS’ OF GOD WHO HAS WELCOMED INTO THE ETERNAL EMBRACE OF HIS LOVE ” Vatican City (Fides) – On Thursday 13 November at 11.30am Pope John Paul II presided a Concelebration of the Holy Eucharist in St Peter’s Basilica for the cardinals and bishops who died during the last 12 months. ...
• 13 November 2003
  VATICAN - PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PASTORAL CARE OF HEALTH WORKERS AND THE SICK STARTS ITS 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON “DEPRESSION” Vatican City (Fides Service) – Some 600 participants, health experts, cardinals, bishops and laity gathered in the New Synod Hall in the Vatican for the 18th International Conference organised by Pontifical Council for ...
• 13 November 2003
  A CHRISTIAN EUROPE BY JOSEPH H.H. WELLER WILL BE PRESENTED TO THE PRESS ON WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER Rome (Fides Service) – “A Christian Europe” is the title of a volume by Prof. Joseph H. H. Weller which will be presented to the press on Wednesday 19 November at the Palazzo del Seminario (Via del Seminario 76 in ...
• 13 November 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - CHINESE COMMUNITY IN ROME MARKS 35TH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS “AGOSTINO CHAO” CENTRE WITH A MASS PRESIDED BY CARDINAL SHAN Rome (Fides Service) – On Sunday 16 November the community of Chinese Catholics in Rome will celebrate the 35th anniversary of the opening of its religious and cultural Centre named after Agostino Chao. A special Mass ...
• 13 November 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - AREN’T THERE ENOUGH WARS IN AFRICA WITHOUT SNAPPING THE THIN THREAD OF PEACE IN IVORY COAST TOO? Abidjan (Fides Service) - Opinions differ in Ivory Coast with regard to the recent meeting of West African nations in Accra (Ghana) to promote peace in the country. The meeting was attended by the presidents of Ivory Coa ...
• 13 November 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - UNIVERSITY TEACHERS STRIKE: CATHOLIC BISHOPS URGE RESEARCHES AND GOVERNMENT TO THINK OF THE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY AT THIS TIME OF DIFFICULTY FOR ALL AFRICA Nairobi (Fides Service)- “The closing of all state universities in Kenya is a sad event” the Catholic Bishops of Kenya say in a statement with regard to a strike called by university assistants and researchers which ...
• 13 November 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - TOWARDS 2ND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM2: PERUVIAN DELEGATION ATTENDS FINAL PREPARATORY MEETINGS. DIOCESAN MISSION CONGRESSES FIRE ENTIRE NATION WITH MISSIONARY SPIRIT Lima (Fides Service) – “The Church in Peru has lived the journey towards CAM 2 with enthusiasm and commitment anxious to open ever wider to the universal dimension of missionary activity”, the National Office of P ...
• 13 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - INDIA THREATENED BY GROWING HINDU FASCISM: CATHOLIC CLERGY VOICE CONCERN Patna (Fides Service) – India’s Catholic priests are alarmed by a growing spirit of intolerance felt all over the country threatened by waves of ideological fascism and Hindu fundamentalism based on Hiindutva. This e ...
• 13 November 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - PRESIDENT ARROYO’S NATIONAL UNITY PLAN WANTS HELP FROM LOCAL CHURCH AND BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE PRESIDENT ARCHBISHOP CAPALLA Zamboanga (Fides Service) – The national plan for unity and reconciliation launched by President Gloria Arroyo “is a good opportunity to re-launch dialogue and the peace process although there is a danger that this i ...
• 12 November 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - EXCLUSIVE CONVERSATION WITH ARCHBISHOP ODAMA AFTER TALKS BETWEEN ACHOLI RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN NORTHERN UGANDA AND UN UNDER SECRETARY GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS Gulu (Fides Service)- “We were more than satisfied with the talks with the United Nations special envoy ” Archbishop John Baptist Odama Gulu, northern Uganda told Fides with regard to a meeting of representatives of ...
• 12 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE FIELD OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS SHOULD NOT BE ABANDONED BUT IT DEMANDS GREAT CAUTION: CARDINAL MARTINO CONCLUDES SEMINAR ORGANISED BY PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE Vatican City (Fides) - “The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace will continue to help enlighten consciences so that vegetable bio-technology may be an opportunity for all and not a threat, within a political and ...
• 12 November 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO – REV. RAYMOND MATAND APPOINTED RECTOR OF PAUL VI MAJOR INTERDIOCESAN SEMINARY IN KABINDA Vatican City (Fides) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has appointed 31 October 2003, rector of the Paul VI Major Inter-diocesan Seminary in Kabinda in Democratic ...
• 12 November 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - ITALIAN TROOPS KILLED: IRAQI CHRISTIANS VOICE SYMPATHY TO ITALY THROUGH FATHER NIZAR SEMAAN Rome (Fides Service)- “We firmly condemn the attack on Italian troops on a peacekeeping mission in Iraq” Catholic priest Father Nizar Semaan of Ninive tells Fides expressing sympathy with Italy of all the Christians ...
• 12 November 2003
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - CHURCH IN BRAZIL INVESTS IN RE-EVANGELISATION AMONG LAPSED CATHOLICS: “WE CANNOT BE CONTENT WITH OUR PRACTISING CATHOLICS. IF MISSIONARY DIMENSION IS NEGLECTED THE CHURCH IS IMPOVERISHED AND LOSES VITALITY ”. Brasilia (Fides Service ) – The Bishops Conference of Brazil CNBB has presented a new project: to re-evangelise lapsed Catholics and promote the missionary commitment of laity The national plan for evangelisation pre ...
• 12 November 2003
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - TOWARDS 2ND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2: NATIONAL MISSION CONGRESS TO HELP IDENTIFY NECESSITY, URGENCY AND VALIDITY OF JESUS' MISSION COMMAND Buenos Aires (Fides Service ) – In preparation for CAM 2 the Church in Argentina held a National Mission Congress 25 - 27 October in Mar del Plata. Father Jairo Calderón Benavidez IMC, National Director of the Pontifi ...