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• 8 September 2003
  VATICAN – POPE EXPRESSES GRIEF FOR DEATH OF CARDINAL MAURICE MICHAEL OTUNGA, EMERITUS ARCHBISHOP OF OTTUNGA, KENYA’S FIRST CARDINAL Castel Gandolfo ( Fides Service) – Cardinal Maurice Michael Otunga, emeritus of Archbisop of Ottunga, died on Saturday 6 September at the age of 80 in Mater Misericordiae Catholic hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. His health ...
• 8 September 2003
  VATICAN – THE POPE ANNOUNCES OCTOBER PILGRIMAGE TO POMPEI IN THIS YEAR OF THE ROSARY AND BEGINS SPIRITUAL PREPARATION CONTEMPLATING WITH MARY THE FACE OF CHRIST IN HIS JOYFUL, SORROWFUL, GLORIOUS AND LUMINOUS MYSTERIES Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – “A month today exactly, on Sunday October 7, God willing, I will be at the Shrine of Pompei. It will be a highly significant event in this Year of the Rosary which opened on 16 Octob ...
• 8 September 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - RELICS OF GREAT MISSIONARY ST FRANCIS XAVIER WILL BE SHOWN TO THE PUBLIC IN 2004 Goa (Fides Service) – The general public will be able to view the relics of the great Spanish missionary Saint Francis Xavier at the end of next year 2004 in Goa, India. This was announced with a decree signed by Archb ...
• 8 September 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - ITALIAN NATIONAL MEETING: INFECTION NEWS 2003 MEETINGS: LATEST RESULTS OF RESEARCH ON INFECTIVE DISEASES Rome (Fides Service) – Famous doctors, scholars, researchers, health workers are meeting in Rome for the 6th National Meeting on Infectious Diseases, “Gli incontri di Infection News 2003” Infection News Meeting, 8 ...
• 8 September 2003
  VATICAN - PAPAL MESSAGE TO MEETING IN AACHEN: THE WORLD HAS NEED OF PEACE, MUCH NEED…WITH THE WEAPONS OF PRAYER AND DIALOGUE WE WALK THE PATH TO THE FUTURE!” Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II sent a message to the ecumenical and interreligious Meeting organised by S. Egidio Community in Aachen Germany. Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, former president of the Pon ...
• 8 September 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY - “THE COURAGE TO FIRE OUR WORLD WITH HOPE, TO MAKE IT DREAM AND DREAM OF PEACE: S. EGIDIO 17TH ‘MEETING OF PEOPLES AND RELIGION’ Aachen (Fides Service) – With a solemn Mass for Peace presided by German Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, held at the Catholic cathedral of Aachen built ...
• 8 September 2003
  AFRICA/RWANDA - KINYAMATEKA CATHOLIC PAPER COMMENTS ON RECENT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS Rome (Fides Service) – Rwandans gave a 95% victory to President Paul Kagame in elections on 25 August. We publish here an article on the vote printed in Kinyamateka Catholic paper in French. Here is our English transla ...
• 8 September 2003
  ASIA/IRAQ - FATHER NIZAR IN IRAQ SAYS FIVE MONTHS AFTER THE “END “ OF THE WAR, THE SITUATION IS UNBEARABLE Baghdad (Fides Service) – Five months have passed since the fall of Saddam Hussein and his regime and the Iraqi people who hoped for a better life than the one they left behind, are disappointed” Iraqi Catholic pries ...
• 5 September 2003
  VATICAN - DESPITE YEARS OF PERSECUTION PEOPLE ARE STILL THIRSTING FOR GOD: SAYS CARDINAL SEPE AFTER HIS VISIT TO MONGOLIA WHERE ON BEHALF OF THE POPE HE PRESIDED THE ORDINATION OF THE FIRST BISHOP AND THE CONSECRATION OF THE FIRST CATHEDRAL IN ULAAN BAATOR Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 21 to 31 August Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, made a pastoral visit to Mongolia as special envoy of Pope John Paul II, to p ...
• 5 September 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO – REV. CLEOPHA MUJIKA APPOINTED RECTOR OF ST FRANCIS XAVIER SEMINARY IN MBUJIMAYI DIOCESE Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has appointed (23 August 2003) Rector of St Francis Xavier inter-diocesan philosophy seminary in Mbu ...
• 5 September 2003
  VATICAN - STUDY-SEMINAR FOR NEWLY APPOINTED BISHOPS OF ENGLISH-SPEAKING MISSIONARY TERRITORIES OPENS ON MONDAY PROMOTED BY CONGREGATION FOR EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES Vatican City (Fides Service) – A Study-Seminar for newly appointed Bishops of English-speaking missionary territories promoted by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples (CEP) opens on Monday, September 8, i ...
• 5 September 2003
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - SCHOOL ATTENDANCE RATE RISES DESPITE DIFFICULT ECONOMIC SITUATION Ouagadougou (Fides Service) - Burkina Faso, listed among the world’s poorest countries, is living one of the worst economic crisis in its history. In fact the number of Burkina people living below the poverty line in ...
• 5 September 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS CAM 2 AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS – PILGRIM IMAGES OF CRUCIFIED CHRIST OF ESQUIPULAS OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE ARRIVE IN GUATEMALA AFTER VISITING CENTRAL AMERICA Guatemala City (Fides Service) – A special pilgrimage of Sacred Images in preparation for the Second American Mission Congress has arrived in Guatemala, where the Congress will take place. Since November 2002 images of ...
• 5 September 2003
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - PRESBITEROS.COM.BR NEW PORTUGUESE WEB SITE TO BOOST PASTORAL WORK AND MISSION São Paulo (Fides Service) – www.presbíteros.com.br is the name of a new web site in Portuguese offering ongoing formation for the clergy. Inaugurated recently by Father Antônio Carlos Rossi Keller of the archdioces ...
• 5 September 2003
  ASIA/INDONESIA - STILL 200,000 MOLUCCAS PEOPLE WITHOUT HOMES: WAR MADE ISLANDS ONE OF INDONESIA’S POOREST REGIONS Ambon (Fides Service) – Still 200,000 displaced persons, an economy which cannot find its legs, tourism still at the starting line, no public funds for rebuilding infrastructures, roads, schools, hospitals, universitie ...