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• 28 October 2003
  MODERN EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST EXEMPLARS OF ST PETER'S NEW TESTAMENT LETTERS: ARTICLE BY MGR. RAVASI Vatican cITY(Agenzia Fides) - “The pole star is always Christ celebrated as the sacrificial lamb, the living stone, the suffering servant of the Lord sung by Isaiah, the shepherd and custodian oF our souls” Mgr. Gian ...
• 28 October 2003
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - AN IMPORTANT DAY IN BISSAU: S. EGIDIO COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, DESTROYED BY CIVIL WAR, REBUILT AND NOW WORKING Roma (Agenzia Fides) – On October 20 the S. Egidio Hospital in Bissau resumed its activity: the first departments to open were the hospital’s dispensary, radiology department and analysis laboratory. At last, after a ...
• 28 October 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - SOLIDARITY AMONG CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS FOR A RAMADAN OF PEACE IN THE MOLUCCAS– LOCAL CHURCH CELEBRATES 100 YEARS OF SACRED HEART MISSIONARIES Ambon (Fides Service) – Ramadan offers an opportunity to consolidate peace in the Moluccas Bishop Petrus Canisius Mandagi of Amboina told Fides Service. The Bishop, who is member of the Congregation of Sacred Heart Mis ...
• 28 October 2003
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - RAMADAN IN SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES COULD SEE STEPS FORWARD IN GOVERNMENT REBEL DIALOGUE - MINDANAO PREPARES FOR PEACE WEEK 2003 Manila (Agenzia Fides) – “We hope Ramadan will be a time for dialogue to move forward. In Mindanao Ramadan is deeply felt and celebrated by the local Muslims. Today many Muslims live in poverty and this challenges us ...
• 27 October 2003
  POPE JOHN PAUL II’S MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION FOR NOVEMBER 2003: THAT THE CHURCH IN AMERICA, CELEBRATING THE SECOND AMERICAN MISSIONARY CONGRESS IN GUATEMALA, MAY BE INSPIRED TO MORE GENEROUS EVANGELIZING ACTIVITY EVEN BEYOND HER OWN FRONTIERS, comment by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Rome (Fides Service) - In continuity with the 1st American Mission Congress CAM 1 (COMLA 6) held in Parana Argentina in 1999, a few months after the promulgation of the post synodal Exhortation Ecclesial in America and t ...
• 27 October 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT THE ANGELUS PRAYER: “I RENEW MY THANKS TO GOD, RICH IN MERCY, FOR THESE 25 YEARS OF MINISTRY AT THE SERVICE OF THE CHURCH…I RENEW THE ENTRUSTMENT OF MY LIFE AND MY MINISTRY TO THE VIRGIN MARY” Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Still vivid in my soul are the intense emotions of recent days, during which so many people gathered around me on the occasion of my 25th year of Pontificate. I renew my thanks to God, ...
• 27 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - THE DISTINCTIVE NATURE OF CATHOLICISM IN ITALY COMPARED TO OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: ASSISI MEETING COMES TO A CLOSE Assisi (Fides Service) – A Congress on “Italian Catholicism from 1958 to today”, held 23 to 25 October at the Sacred Convent of Assisi promoted by various Universities (Sacred Heart Catholic Unviesrity in Milan, Ro ...
• 27 October 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - AS NORMALITY GRADUALLY RETURNS IN CONGO RWANDAN ARMY STILL IN THE EASTERN REGION. 800 LOCAL BOYS RECRUITED FOR MILITARY TRAINING IN RWANDA Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “It is difficult to believe Rwanda’s statements denying the presence of troops in this part of Democratic Congo” say local missionaries in north Kivu where representatives of the civil so ...
• 27 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - “CUORE AMICO” AWARD TO THREE ITALIAN MISSIONARIES FOR LIFE TIME OF MISSION IN SOUTH AMERICA, AFRICA AND ASIA Brescia (Fides Service) - On Saturday 25 October in Brescia the 13th edition of “Cuore Amico” awarded was given to three Italian missionaries: Father Lorenzo Franzoni, who has worked in Brazil for more than forty ye ...
• 27 October 2003
  AFRICA/SUDAN - SUDAN PEACE IN SIGHT BUT SOME MATTERS REMAIN TO BE SETTLED BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND REBELS Khartoum (Fides Service)- There are growing hopes that peace in Sudan may be in sight at last. US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said he is convinced that peace in Sudan will be signed before the end of the year, � ...
• 27 October 2003
  ASIA/KOREA - FAMILY AND PRIESTS PASTORAL PRIORITIES FOR CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF KOREA Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – The determination to give more attention to families and clergy emerged from the recent annual Autumn Assembly of the Catholic Bishops of Korea held in Seoul. The Bishops will soon issue a Past ...
• 27 October 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - SIXTEEN BAPTISMS TO CELEBRATE WORLD MISSION SUNDAY AND 25 YEARS OF JOHN PAUL II’s PONTIFICATE Taiyuan (Fides Service) – Mission Sunday 19 October was a great day at Feng Sheng He parish in TaiYuan, ShanXi province central China: 16 catechumens received the Sacrament of Baptism. The parish priest and parishioner ...
• 27 October 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN - A WEB OF LIFE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT: IN COMMUNION WITH GOD, NEIGHBOUR AND CREATION. SISTER CELIA CHUA, CHAIRS 13th CONGRESS OF RELIGIOUS WOMEN IN ASIA AND OCEANIA IN TAIPEI Taipei (Agenzia Fides) - "wang luo Chinese for web, symbolises communications at many different levels, directions and functions. Our aim is to weave a web of life filled with the Holy Spirit: in communion with God, neig ...
• 27 October 2003
  EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - MORE THAN 80% LESS DEATHS FOR HIV/AIDS IN 2001 THANKS TO HAART HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY Rome (Fides Service) – HAART is made up of five or more antiretroviral drugs, both new and recycled, as well as hydroxyurea. According to studies by British doctors HAART can reduce the HIV/AIDS death rate by 80%: pati ...
• 25 October 2003
  AFRICA/ANGOLA – LUANDA REV. FILOMENO DO NASCIMENTO VIEIRA DIAS APPOINTED AUXILIARY Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II on 25 October 2003, has appointed Auxiliary of the Archdiocese of Luanda (Angola) Rev. Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias, Vice rector of the Catholic ...