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• 24 September 2003
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - BY 2010 AFRICA WILL HAVE 40 MILLION AIDS ORPHANS, 95% HIV CARRIERS: IN 2001 3.1 CHILDREN UNDER 15 DIED. MORE EFFECTIVE POLICIES TO FIGHT HIV/AIDS CARD. HUMMES ADDRESSES UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY Rome (Fides Service) – Cardinal Claudio Hummes archbishop of Sao Paulo in Brazil, led the Holy See Delegation to general assembly of the United Nations in new Yor, The them of the assembly was “Implementation of the ...
• 24 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - CHARITY SOIREE IN AID OF BAMBINO GESU HOSPITAL AND MISSION ENFANCE Rome (Fides Service) – On Friday 26 September at Palazzo Colonna in Rome there will be a charity Soiree in aid of Bambino Gesu hospital in Rome and Mission Enfance, a charity organisation in Monte Carlo presided by Pri ...
• 24 September 2003
  VATICAN - ON 7 OCTOBER THE POPE TRAVELS TO POMPEI MARIAN SHRINE TO LEAD RECITATION OF ROSARY FOR PEACE Vatican City (Fides Service) – The programme for Pope John Paul II’s one day pilgrimage to the Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Pompei, in Pompei, near Naples, on October 7th feast of Our Lady Queen of the Rosary, has be ...
• 24 September 2003
  VATICAN - POPE SENDS MESSAGE TO INTERRELIGIOUS MEETING IN KAZAKHSTAN: RELIGION, PROPERLY UNDERSTOOD, SHOWS ITSELF TO BE A SOLID INSTRUMENT FOR THE PROMOTION OF PEACE Vatican City (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II sent a message through Cardinal Jozef Tomko to an Interreligious Meeting taking place in Astana, Kazakhstan. Cardinal Tomko is leading the Holy See delegation to the me ...
• 24 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - BISHOPS ASK FOR CLEMENCY FOR MISSIONARY’S MURDERER: “WE ALWAYS DEFEND VALUE OF LIFE” New Delhi (Fides Service) – Justice but not revenge has been requested by the Catholic Bishops of India with regard to a death sentence issued to Dara Singh found guilty of murdering Australian Protestant missionary Gr ...
• 24 September 2003
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - THE LOCAL CHURCH IS A PEACEMAKER Rome (Fides Service) – “My concern is the good of all the people entrusted to my care, Catholics and non” Bishop Matthew Ishaya Audu of Lafia in the Nigerian state of Nasarawa told Fides Service. The Bishop on a vi ...
• 24 September 2003
  AFRICA - DIFFICULT PATHS TO PEACE Rome (Fides Service) – Africa is known to the general public for its humanitarian emergencies, its wars, its calamities. For a moment media attention is riveted on the continent, humanitarian organisations go into acti ...
• 24 September 2003
  ASIA/LAOS - FRUITS OF WORLD YOUTH DAYS: VOCATIONS AMONG YOUNG CATHOLIC, SIGNS OF HOPE FOR LITTLE ISOLATED CHURCH Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Our community welcomes as signs of hope its young vocations which will enrich and strengthen the Church in Laos. These young people who want to become priests trace their calling back ...
• 23 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - PEACE AND RECONCILIATION IN THE NAME OF MOTHER TERESA, ANTIDOTE FOR INTERRELIGIOUS VIOLENCE IN GUJARAT STATE: BISHOPS SPEAK TO FIDES SERVICE Ahmedabad (Fides Service) – Mother Teresa is an antidote for religious fundamentalism, the Catholic Bishops of the four dioceses in Gujarat State of India tell Fides Service. On the occasion of the Beatification of the ...
• 23 September 2003
  VATICAN/CANONISATION 5 OCTOBER - DANIEL COMBONI 1831-1881: PIONEER OF EVANGELISATION IN CENTRAL AFRICA: “SAVING AFRICA WITH AFRICA” Vatican City (Fides Service) - Daniel Comboni: the son of poor gardeners became the first Catholic Bishop of Central Africa, and one of the great missionaries in the Church's history. It is a fact. When God decides to t ...
• 23 September 2003
  AMERICA/CHILE - SCRIPTURE SOURCE AND MODEL OF PRAYER AND EVANGELISATION: MEETING OF LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN CATHOLIC BIBLE FEDERATION Santiago de Chile (Fides Service) – As part of celebrations for Bible Month in Chile, the Cono Sur Latin American and Caribbean Bible Federation will hold its 6th Meeting of 29 September 3 October in Santiago de Chile, ...
• 23 September 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – EVEN HIGH IN PERUVIAN ANDES MISSION CALL SOUNDS: ABANCAY HOLDS FIRST MISSION CONGRESS AFTER YEAR OF PREPARATION Abancay (Fides Service ) – Missionary zeal is spreading all over America even high in the Peruvian Andes Mountains, stirring new mission awareness among the native peoples. From 2 to 5 October 2003 Abancay will hold it ...
• 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 ...