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• 13 June 2003
  VATICAN - MEETING OF PRESIDENT OF EUROPEAN BISHOPS CONFERENCES’ COMMISSIONS FOR THE FAMILY AND LIFE: SECULARISATION, SOME LAWS THREATEN THE FAMILY IN EUROPE AND EVERYWHERE Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 11 to 14 of June the Presidents of European Bishops Conferences’ Commissions for the Family and Life attended a meeting promoted by the Pontifical Council for the Family. This is t ...
• 13 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - TOMORROW 7,000 CHILDREN WILL RECEIVE MISSIONARY MANDATE FROM THE POPE TO MARK 160TH ANNIVERSARY OF PONTIFICAL SOCIETY MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD Rome (Fides Service) – On June 14 Pope John Paul II will meet boys and girls, members of Missionary Childhood society, on the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the society’s founding (1843-2003). At least 7,000 ch ...
• 13 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITALLER ORDER SERVES POOR SICK CHILDREN IN AFRICA Rome (Fides Service) – The Italian charity association “Uniti per Tanguieta e Afagnan” UTA supports hospitals in Tanguieta in Togo and Afagnan in Benin opened respectively in 1961 and 1970 by the Italian Lombardo-V ...
• 13 June 2003
  EUROPE/TURKEY - ALSO TURKEY SUFFERS FROM TOURISM CRISIS: CAPUCHIN MISSIONARIES CALL FOR A CONCRETE ANSWER Antioch (Fides Service) – With the war in Iraq, Turkey is living another economic crisis because of the decline in tourism: this increases poverty particularly among the lower social classes which find themselves plung ...
• 13 June 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - UN SAYS LIBERIA’S PRESIDENT IS ACCOMPLICE TO DIAMOND SMUGGLING BETWEEN SIERRA LEONE AND LIBERIA, THE CHARGE COULD ENDANGER PEACE TALKS Monrovia (Fides Service) – Peace talks organised under the aegis of the 15 countries of the Economic and Development Community of West African Nations, open today at Akosombo, near Accra. But Charles Taylor has said th ...
• 13 June 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - AGENDA FOR NEXT ASIAN YOUTH DAY: GLOBALISATION, WAR ON TERRORISM, AIDS, DRUG ABUSE, ENVIRONMENT IMBALANCE, UNEMPLOYMENT, FUNDAMENTALISM, CONSUMERISM, VALUES CRISIS Bangalore (Fides Service) - More than one thousand youth delegates from various dioceses in many Asian countries will attend Asian Youth Day in Bangalore India, 9-16 August 2003 at the invitation of the Indian Bishops’ ...
• 12 June 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT GENERAL AUDIENCE: “TO THE LORD WHO FOR ONE HUNDRED TIMES OPENED FOR ME THE ROADS OF THE WORLD AND NATIONS…I OFFER FROM THE DEPTH OF MY HEART DEEPEST GRATITUDE” Vatican City (Fides Service) – “I would like in thought to retrace with you the visit to Croatia I was able to make a few days ago…it was my one hundredth apostolic journey! To the Lord who for one hundred times op ...
• 12 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - RECTOR OF PONTIFICAL INSTITUTE FOR ARAB AND ISLAMIC STUDIES, FATHER LACUNZA, MAKES STATEMENT TO FIDES SERVICE WITH REGARD TO PREACHERS OF HATRED: “HAVING DEDICATED 30 YEARS TO THE STUDY OF ISLAMIC WRITINGS, PERHAPS I TOO AM CONSIDERED AN ENEMY OF ISLAM?” Rome (Fides Service) – “There can be no place for people who encourage hatred and incite to kill. This is insanity. It is a matter of public order which the government must face. To use institutional places such as c ...
• 12 June 2003
  AFRICA/DJIBOUTI - WITNESSES TO THE FAITH IN DJIBOUTI TODAY: CATHOLIC BISHOP OF DJIBOUTI ADDRESSES PASTORAL LETTER TO HIS LITTLE FLOCK Djibouti (Fides Service) – “You shall be my witnesses in Djibouti” is the title of a Pastoral Letter issued by Bishop Giorgio Bertin of Djibouti at the end of special Church Meeting of reflection on the presence of ...
• 12 June 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - LOOKING TO THE FUTURE, DESPITE FLOODS, STATE DEFICIT AND THREAT OF TERRORISM Nairobi (Fides Service) – At last the torrential rains which pounded Kenya for the past month have ceased. The most affected regions were in the east, particularly Nyanza Province and West Province. The situation has ...
• 12 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - ITALIAN MUSLIMS ASK FOR ITALIAN IMAM – AL WAHID PALLAVICINI, PRESIDENT OF MUSLIM RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY IN ITALY MAKES STATEMENT TO FIDES SERVICE Rome (Fides Service) – “We take our distance immediately from the violent words pronounced by Imam Ibrahim Moussa of the Rome Mosque. Those words derive from Islam immigrated into Italy, they are not part of native I ...
• 12 June 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - SANSKRIT, CLASSICAL LANGUAGE OF THE VEDAS, TODAY TAUGHT BY JESUITS New Delhi (Fides Service) – It serves to understand and study ancient Indian poetry and prose : Sanskrit is a language which helps to probe the Hindu religion and culture. With this in mind the Jesuit Fathers who run S ...
• 12 June 2003
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA – REV. JOSE RAFAEL ROMERO LINARES, NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has appointed (30 May 2003), National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Venezuela, R ...
• 11 June 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE TELLS DEHONIANS: BE READY TO FACE CHALLENGES OF OUR DAY AND TO UPGRADE YOUR APOSTOLATE IN THE AMBITS OF SPIRITUALITY, MISSION AD GENTES, SOCIAL WORK AND SPECIAL ATTENTION FOR CULTURE Vatican City (Fides Service) – “As the theme of the Chapter suggests, you must be “Dehonians on mission: with open hearts and solidarity” ready to face the challenges of our day and to upgrade your apostolate in ...
• 11 June 2003
  VATICAN - “THE HEALTHIER THE FAMILY, THE HEALTHIER SOCIETY” LETTER FROM CARDINAL SODANO TO ORGANISATION OF AMERICAN STATES GENERAL ASSEMBLY Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 8-10 June in Santiago, Chile, the Organisation of American States, OAS, held its 33rd general assembly. For the occasion Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Pope’s Secretary of State, addr ...