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• 29 September 2003
  VATICAN/CANONISATIONS 5 OCTOBER - ARNOLD JANSSEN “TEACHES US TO FIND NEW WAYS TO PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL ESPECIALLY IN DIFFICULT TIMES” INTERVIEW WITH FATHER ANTONIO PERNIA, SUPERIOR OF THE DIVINE WORD MISSIONARIES Rome (Fides Service) – On Sunday 5 October Pope John Paul II will canonise Arnold Janssen founder of the Divine Word Missionaries and Joseph Freinademetz first missionary of this Congregation. On this occasion Fides Se ...
• 29 September 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “MAKE THE EUCHARIST THE VITAL, THROBBING HEART OF PARISH LIFE” SAY KOREAN BISHOPS TO THEIR PRIESTS,DIOCESAN AND RELIGIOUS Seoul (Fides Service) “The Church draws her very life from the Eucharist” is the title of a Letter issued by the Commission for the Clergy and the Religious of the Korean Bishops’ Conference in which the Bishops ur ...
• 29 September 2003
  AMERICA/BRAZIL – VIGOROUS DEFENCE OF LIFE, PROMOTION OF HUMAN DIGNITY AND FAMILY VALUES: BRAZIL’S BISHOPS ISSUE MESSAGE TO MARK 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE FOR JOHN PAUL II Brasilia (Fides Service) – In a Message to the People of God dated 25 September 2003 to mark the occasion of the 25th year of Pontificate of Pope John Paul II”, the Conference of the Catholic Bishops of Brazil CNBB e ...
• 29 September 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN - PARISH ARCHIVES GET ORGANISED WITH COMPUTERS: CHURCH KEEPS UP WITH THE TIMES PUTTING MODERN TECHNOLOGY AT SERVICE OF THE APOSTOLATE Taipei (Fides Service) – Every parish in every diocese in Taiwan will soon have a computer to improve communication within the local Church, be more effective in the field of social communications, update parish archiv ...
• 29 September 2003
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - RE-ORGANISATION OF FARMS AND SCHOOLS, PRIORITIES FOR SLOW REBUILDING OF ANGOLA. LOCAL CATHOLIC CHURCH CONTRIBUTES Luanda (Fides Service) – “The country still feels the effects of so many years of civil war and hardship. People are disappointed with the government which promises a lot but does little. Nevertheless there are some ...
• 29 September 2003
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - BARNABITE FATHERS 70 YEARS OF SERVICE IN AFGHANISTAN: KABUL MISSION FIRST STEP FOR GROWTH OF LOCAL CHURCH” SAYS NUNCIO TO PAKISTAN, ARCHBISHOP ALESSANDRO D’ERRICO Kabul (Fides Service) – Sincere gratitude to the Barnabite Fathers for their pastoral zeal and also the Catholic humanitarian agencies, Caritas Internationalis, Caritas Germany Trocaire (Caritas Ireland) Misereor (Germ ...
• 26 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - FATHER TERESINO SERRA NEW SUPERIOR GENERAL OF COMBONI MISSIONARIES Rome (Fides Service) – The 16th general chapter of the Comboni Missionaries elected this morning Father Teresino Serra new Superior General of the Institute. Father Serra was presently Vice-Provincial for Italy. Born i ...
• 26 September 2003
  ASIA/TAIWAN - TAIPEI SENDS POPE SPIRITUAL BOUQUET TO MARK 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS ELECTION TO SEE OF PETER Taipei (Fides Service) – The Archdiocese of Taipei has launched a special prayer campaign to render homage to His Holiness Pope John Paul II on the occasion of his 25 years of Pontificate. On 13 September Taipei dioces ...
• 26 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY RECONSTRUCTION OF MATERNITY DEPARTMENT ST MARY’S HOSPITAL KHARTOUM TO MARK COMBONI CANONISATION: IN ROME WEEK OF EXHIBITIONS, FESTIVITIES AND PRAYER GETS UNDERWAY Rome (Fides Service) – As a tangible sign of the canonisation of Blessed Daniele Comboni and a sign of hope for the nation and the people to whom Comboni devoted his entire life, the Comboni institutes he founded have ...
• 26 September 2003
  AFRICA/SUDAN - MIRACULOUS HEALING OF LUBNA ABDEL AZIA, PRACTISING MUSLIM WOMAN, OPENED WAY TO COMBONI’S CANONISATION Khartoum (Fides Service) – On 11 November 1997, Lubna Abdel Aziz, aged 38, mother of four children, was admitted to St Mary’s hospital in Khartoum run by the Comboni Sisters, for the birth of her fifth child with a c ...
• 26 September 2003
  AFRICA - 3,000 CHILDREN DIE EVERY DAY OF MALARIA. UNICEF, WHO AND ACUMEN FOUNDATION UNITE TO DIFFUSE NEW MOSQUITO NET Rome (Fides Service) – A new Japanese product which can save millions of lives has just be taken to Africa by UNICEF, World Health Organisation, ACUMEN Foundation and other private organisations. The product could save ...
• 26 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - CANONISATION OF DON ORIONE: ORGANISING COMMITTEE GETS TO WORK, INITIATIVES INCLUDE WEB SITE Rome (Fides Service) – Yesterday at the general Curia, there was a meeting of the organising committee for the canonisation of Don Orione (COC). “The meeting marks the passage from the theoretical to the practical st ...
• 26 September 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE RECEIVES PHILIPPINES BISHOPS: BE A CHURCH OF THE POOR, TRUE COMMUNITY OF THE LORD’S DISCIPLES, COMMITTED TO RENEWED INTEGRAL EVANGELISATION Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “Three key pastoral priorities emerged from the plenary council: the need to be a Church of the poor, the pledge to become a true community of the Lord’s disciples, and the commitm ...
• 26 September 2003
  AFRICA - ELECTRICITY ADVANCES IN AFRICA. POWER DOUBLED IN CONGO. CONTINENT’S HYDRO-ELECTRIC RESOURCES ARE TURNED TO ITS OWN ADVANTAGE AT LAST Rome (Fides Service) – Projects for providing electricity throughout sub-Saharan Africa are making progress. On 23 September at Imboulou in Republic of Congo work began to construct the largest hydroelectric plant the ...
• 26 September 2003
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - CONCLUDED INTERRELIGIOUS MEETING IN ASTANA: EXTREMISM TERRORISM AND OTHER FORMS OF VIOLENCE IN THE NAME OF RELIGION HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH GENUINE UNDERSTANDING OF RELIGION, BUT ARE A THREAT TO HUMAN LIFE Astana (Fides Service) – At the end of the “First Congress of Leaders of the World and Traditional Religions” held from 23 to 24 September in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, the participants, representing the ma ...