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• 21 November 2003
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - 5 MILLION SOUTH AFRICANS SUFFER FROM AIDS, 600 NEW CASES EVERY 24 HOURS: GOVERNMENT WILL DISTRIBUTE ANTIRETROVIRAL DRUGS FREE Johannesburg (Fides Service ) – South Africa is the country with the highest number of people suffering from Aids in the world: 5 million out of a population of 45 million are infected. In view of the alarming spread ...
• 21 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE ADDRESSES PONTIFICAL COUNCIL "COR UNUM" PLENARY: “THE CHURCH TENDS NOT ONLY TO THE MATERIAL NEEDS OF THOSE IN DIFFICULTY… WITH SIMPLICITY AND PASTORAL PRUDENCE SHE DOES NOT HESITATE TO BEAR WITNESS TO CHRIST, WHO REVEALS THE FACE OF GOD THE FATHER, TENDER AND LOVING” Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Love of God and neighbour is a direct manifestation of the Church’s fidelity to her Lord who ‘gave himself up for us’ (Eph 5, 2). The Church was born from the pieced heart of Jes ...
• 21 November 2003
  AFRICA/EGYPT - CHRISTIANS IN EGYPT, A COUNTRY OF TOLERANCE, ARE A BRIDGE BETWEEN TWO FAITHS AND TWO CULTURES Alexandria of Egypt (Fides Service)- “This cannot be labelled as religious Muslim terrorism since its victims are also Muslims” Bishop Giuseppe Bausardo, Apostolic Vicar of Alexandria of Egypt told Fides with regard ...
• 21 November 2003
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA-ERITREA - AT THE MOMENT THERE ARE NO SIGNS OF A RETURN TO WAR BETWEEN ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA AFTER ASMARA WITHDREW ITS AMBASSADOR TO THE AFRICAN UNION Addis Ababa (Fides Service)- “This development is serious although there are no signs of a return of military tension between Ethiopia and Eritrea or, still worse, of war” local Church sources in Addis Ababa told Fid ...
• 21 November 2003
  AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO - EBOLA STRIKES AGAIN: QUARANTINE FOR MBOMBO DISTRICT Brazzaville (Fides) – Ebola disease strikes periodically in tropical forests taking a few dozen lives and then disappearing again. Unfortunately the health minister of the Republic of Congo, Alain Moka, has confirmed t ...
• 21 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - YOUTH AGAINST TERRORISM, COMMITTED TO PEACE AND A FUTURE OF BROTHERHOOD: 600 TO ATTEND WORLD YOUTH SUMMIT SPONSORED BY UNITED NATIONS Bombay (Fides Service) – Indian youth is taking up the challenge to work for peace. “Do you care about the future of humanity, are you ready to work for peace? Are you good at planning and decision making? Are you in ...
• 21 November 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS CLOSE RAMADAN IN UNITY AND HARMONY: FUNDAMENTALISM MUST BE ISOLATED – GOVERNMENT OUTLAWS THREE EXTREMIST GROUPS Islamabad (Fides Service) – Increase common initiatives, in a spirit of tolerance and harmony; isolate fundamentalists: these decisions were taken by Muslim and Christian leaders at a Dinner on 19 November in Lahore or ...
• 21 November 2003
  AFRICA - 115 MILLION SUFFER FROM DIABETES: ANOTHER KILLER OF CHILDREN IN SUBSAHARAN AFRICA Rome (Fides Service) – Children who develop diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa are dying within a year for want of insulin. Supplies of the drug and the syringes needed for daily injections are erratic in many places in Af ...
• 20 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AGENTS OF EVANGELISATION: “MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD IS A CONCRETE REALITY IN LATIN AMERICA, IT ANIMATES PARISHES, MOVEMENTS, SCHOOLS” SAYS SISTER MARIA TERESA CRESCINI ON THE EVE OF CAM2 Vatican City (Fides Service) – “In America Latina Missionary Childhood helps adults realise children’s amazing capacity for commitment giving rise to a truly surprising movement of prayer and material aid ”. Sist ...
• 20 November 2003
  SANTA CROCE UNIVERSITY STUDY DAY: «JOURNALISM AND CONFLICTS» - THE MEDIA FOR PEACE Rome (Fides Service) – «Journalism and Conflicts – what can the means of communications do to promote peace?» is the theme of a study day organised by the Social Communications Faculty of the Pontifical Santa Croce ...
• 20 November 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - WIDESPREAD CONCERN FOR KILLING OF CHRISTIANS IN CENTRAL SULAWESI: EXTREMIST GROUPS TRY TO RE-IGNITE VIOLENCE. ARRESTED PROTESTANT CHURCH INFORMATION/CRISIS CENTRE OFFICER: SERVICE OF TRUTH TARGETED Poso (Fides Service ) – Four Protestants killed on Sunday 16 November, including Pastor Oranje Tadjodja, aged 58; 10 killed in October; Pastor Rinaldy Damanik, head of Protestant Crisis Centre in central Sulawesi, arre ...
• 20 November 2003
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - LITTLENESS POVERTY’, MARTYRDOM ARE “RICHES” OF MISSION AD GENTES IN LATIN AMERICA: COMMENT FOR FIDES BY CARD. OSCAR RODRIGUEZ MARADIAGA, SPEAKER AT CAM2 Tegucigalpa (Fides Service) – The document of convocation to 2nd American Mission Congress (CAM 2), 25 to 30 November in Guatemala City (Guatemala), underlines that mission in Latin America is characterised by three ...
• 20 November 2003
  VATICAN - “A VAST FIELD FOR NEW EVANGELISATION” THE POPE TELLS PARTICIPANTS AT 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ORGANISED BY PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PASTORAL CARE OF MIGRANTS AND ITINERANT PEOPLES Vatican City (Fides Service) – “The work of promoting the wellbeing of the many men and women who for various reasons do not live in their homelands represents a vast field for the new evangelisation to which the who ...
• 20 November 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2003, WORLD CHILDREN’S DAY: NGO “INTERVITA” AFFIRMS THAT 82 MILLION YOUNG GIRLS FORCED BY POVERTY INTO MARRIAGE Rome (Fides Service) – On the occasion of World Children’s Day 20 November the Milan based NGO Intervita denounces the tragedy of child brides. According to the 2003 Report on the State of the World issued by the Uni ...
• 20 November 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “THE STATE OF INSECURITY IS SUCH THAT WE MAY HAVE TO CELEBRATE MIDNIGHT MASS AT FOUR PM ON CHRISTMAS EVE SAYS MISSIONARY IN NORTH IVORY COAST” Abidjan (Fides Service)- “For the moment, the emergency is over and all is calm” a missionary in Bouake told Fides Service. Bouake is the main town in the northern region Ivory Coast in the hands of the New Forces re ...