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• 23 September 2003
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - BISHOPS NAME NEW CONFERENCE OFFICES AFTER JOHN PAUL II: BISHOPS’ MESSAGE FOR 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE AND 15th ANNIVERSARY OF PAPAL VISIT Maputo (Fides Service) – With a symposium on 17 October, a special mass of Thanksgiving on 19 October, and the assembly of the Bishops’ Conference 21-24 October the Catholic Church in Mozambique will mark two major a ...
• 23 September 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - FOLLOWING OPENING OF BORDERS IVORY COAST/BURKINA FASO TRAIN SERVICES RESUME. BUT MONTHS AFTER TREATY STOPPED YEAR LONG CIVIL WAR SITUATION STILL FAR FROM NORMAL Abidjan (Fides Service) – Railway services between Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso have been resumed. On Sunday 21 September the first train from Burkina Faso arrived in the Ivory Coast port city of Bobo Dioulasso. “I ...
• 23 September 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - LIBERIA’S DIFFICULT JOURNEY TO PEACE Monrovia (Fides Service) – “We are moving towards the installation of the transition government and the situation in Monrovia is gradually returning to normal” Father Mauro Armanino, in the Liberian capital tells F ...
• 23 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - HAPPINESS, HEALTH WORKERS, CARING, THE SICK, FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF PASTORAL WORK AT THE AIPAS NATIONAL MEETING Rome (Fides Service) - The annual meeting of the Italian Association for Pastoral for the Sick will take place 6-10 October in Collevalenza with the theme “Happy the person who cares for the weak: the joy of giving”. ...
• 23 September 2003
  ASIA/MYANMAR - AMIDST ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL TROUBLES WITNESS OF FAITH ENTRUSTED TO ZETAMAN YOUNG CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES Vatican City (Fides Service) – Deep in the forest in central Myanmar, groups of young Catholic missionaries called Zetamans, (little evangelisers) go around villages teaching children to know and love Jesus. Fides lear ...
• 22 September 2003
  POPE JOHN PAUL II’S MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION FOR OCTOBER 2003: THAT GOD WILL NOT FAIL TO PROVIDE THE CHURCH WITH PRIESTS RICH IN WISDOM AND HOLINESS, READY TO CARRY THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH Comment by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples Vatican City (Fides Service) – “I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd offers his life for his sheep” (Jn 10,11). These words of Jesus are a good description of the Shepherd, who for the people of the Old Testam ...
• 22 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - 5TH GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON DRUG PREVENTION Rome (Fides Service) – The 5th Global Drug Prevention Conference opens today 22 September in Pomezia, near Rome. Among the special guests Archbishop Javier Lozano Barragan President of the Pontifical Council for the Pa ...
• 22 September 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - IN THE NEW IRAQ FOR THE FIRST TIME A CHALDEAN PRIEST MEMBER OF MOSUL PROVINCIAL COUNCIL: “PEACE DEPENDS ON EFFORTS OF EVERYONE” Mosul (Fides Service) – In the new Iraq, Mosul, the historical Ninive where Christians have always been present, has in its Provincial Council, the civil authority in the area, for the first time a Chaldean priest, Rev ...
• 22 September 2003
  EUROPE - PRESENT-DAY CHALLENGES FACING THE CHURCH IN EUROPE: PRESIDENTS OF EUROPE’S BISHOPS’ CONFERENCES PLENARY ASSEMBLY IN VILNIUS St Gallen (Fides Service) – The Presidents of the 34 Bishops’ Conferences in Europe, which make up the Council of European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE), are to meet in Vilnius, Lithuania, from 2-5 October. Bearing in ...
• 22 September 2003
  VATICAN - POPE SAYS AT ANGELUS: “IN THESE LAST WEEKS OF THE YEAR OF THE ROSARY LET US FEEL MORE THAN EVER UNITED IN PRAYING THE HOLY ROSARY, PARTICULARLY FOR FAMILIES AND FOR PEACE IN THE WORLD” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – Continuing his spiritual pilgrimage towards the Shrine of Pompei where he will go on 7 October the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, on Sunday 21 September, during the Angelus address P ...
• 22 September 2003
  VATICAN - PROGRAMME OF EVENTS TO MARK 25TH YEAR OF JOHN PAUL ELECTION TO THE PAPACY RELEASED: CELEBRATIONS TO CULMINATE WITH BEATIFICATION OF MOTHER TERESA ON MISSION SUNDAY Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Vatican has released the programme of events to mark the 25th anniversary of John Paul II’s election to the See of Peter, 16th October 1978-2003. On Wednesday 15 October the Pope ...
• 22 September 2003
  VATICAN - “CALLED TO HOLINESS, WITNESSES OF TRUTH AT THE SERVICE OF EVANGELISATION” SEMINAR FOR NEW BISHOPS IN ENGLISH SPEAKING MISSION TERRITORIES COMES TO A CLOSE Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Be examples of brotherhood and prayer. Let us continue along this path of fraternal friendship, aware of our call to holiness. Getting to know each other personally facilitates buildin ...
• 22 September 2003
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - TOWARDS 2ND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – CALENDAR OF EVENTS, CONGRESS HANDBOOK, CENTRAL AMERICAN MISSIONARY PROJECT FOCUS OF WORK MEETING Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – A preparatory meeting for CAM 2, organised by CELAM Department for Missions and Spirituality – Section Mission ad gentes, held at the offices of the Council of Latin American Bishops, CELAM i ...
• 22 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - “CHRIST IN THE COLD OF THE EAST” TV PROGRAMME WINS PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC QUALITY AWARD AT PRIX ITALIA Catania (Fides Service) – The award presented by the President of the Italian Republic for quality was assigned this year to “Christ in the Cold of the East” television programme produced by the present Director of ...
• 22 September 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - IRAQI CHRISTIAN HOLD FIRST CONVENTION Arbil (Fides Service) - Iraqi Chaldean Christians are holding a Meeting, the first in post-war Iraq. The five day meeting, taking place in Kosinjak near Arbil in the region of Iraqi Kurdistan, is attended by Christians f ...