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• 6 June 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - WAVE CATHOLIC CENTRE LAUNCHES CATECHESIS VIA AUDIO CASSETTES FOR PARISH AND FAMILY Lahore (Fides Service) – The National WAVE Recording Studio in Lahore, established by the Commission for Social Communications of Lahore archdiocese, has issued a new SEEKHO AUR SIKHAO cassette containing Basic Catholi ...
• 5 June 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE’S GENERAL AUDIENCE: BLESSED JOHN XXIII TELLS MEN AND WOMEN OF THIRD MILLENNIUM THAT SECRET OF PEACE AND JOY LIES IN DEEP AND CONSTANT COMMUNION WITH GOD Vatican City (Fides Service) – During the General Audience on June 4, in St Peter’s Square, Pope John Paul II spoke about Blessed John XXIII who died forty years ago on June 3. “Our thoughts return spon ...
• 5 June 2003
  VATICAN - POPE JOHN PAUL II SETS OUT FOR HIS 100TH APOSTOLIC JOURNEY: 3RD TIME IN CROATIA “MARKED BY THE WITNESS OF BOLD DISCIPLES OF THE GOSPEL” Vatican City (Fides Service) – This afternoon, Thursday 5 June, Pope John Paul II will start his third visit to Croatia where he will remain until Monday 9 June. This will be the one hundredth Apostolic Journey underta ...
• 5 June 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - KILLER HEAT: NO WATER, HARVEST LOST – CATHOLIC ARCHISHOP OF HYDERABAD APPEALS FOR HELP Hyderabad (Fides Service) – “People have no access to clean water. In the villages where people are mainly Catholic tribals, pepople are dying and the harvests are scorched. But also here in the capital Hyderabad we ...
• 5 June 2003
  OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - DON BOSCO CENTRE CELEBRATES DAY OF THE FAMILY AND LIFE Honiara (Fides Service) - A second Family Day 2003, was organised on 24 May, 2003, the feast of Mary Help of Christians, at Don Bosco Technical Indoor Hall. It was a day filled with fun and sharing, prayer and discussion ...
• 5 June 2003
  AMERICA/MEXICO - AT LEAST 10.000 YOUNG PEOPLE EXPECTED TO ATTEND NATIONAL MISSIONARY YOUTH CONGRESS: “YOUTH OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM, DO NOT BE AFRAID TO CARRY THE GOSPEL TO THE WORLD! Querétaro (Fides Service) – At least 10.000 young people from dioceses all over Mexico are expected to take part in the 8th national missionary youth congress (CONAJUM 2003) which will take place from 31 July to 3 Aug ...
• 5 June 2003
  AFRICA/TOGO - EYADEMA RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT: TENSION FOLLOWS ACCUSATIONS OF ELECTORAL FRAUD Lome (Fides Service) – Gnassingbe Eyadema has been re-elected President of Togo for another five year term. This was confirmed on 4 June by the National Independent Electoral Commission, which announced that the Presid ...
• 5 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - FATHER JOSE RODRIGUEZ CARBALLO NEW MINISTER GENERAL OF THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR – PAPAL MESSAGE Assisi (Fides Service) – Father Jose Rodriguez Carballo is the new minister general of the Order of Friars Minor. He was elected on June 5 by the Chapter gathered in Assisi from May 25 to June 21 to reflect on the them ...
• 5 June 2003
  AFRICA/CONGO - “EUROPEAN PEACE KEEPING FORCE IS WELCOME IN CONGO, BUT PERHAPS THE INTERVENTION COULD HAVE COME EARLIER” Kinshasa (Fides Service) – “The decision to send a European peacekeeping force to Ituri is a positive fact but we cannot overlook another fact that the international community did nothing two months ago when the civi ...
• 4 June 2003
  VATICANO - THE POPE RECEIVES A GROUP OF INDIAN BISHOPS IN AUDIENCE: IMITATING SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER “MAY THE CHURCH IN INDIA PROCLAIM RESPECTFULLY AND COURAGEOUSLY THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ” Vatican City (Fides Service) – “During my Pastoral Visits to India, I have been impressed by the many expressions of Christianity in your nation. The presence of the Latin and Oriental Traditions in such close proxim ...
• 4 June 2003
  VATICAN - STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT OF PONTIFICAL COUNCIL "COR UNUM" AFTER HIS VISIT TO IRAQ Vatican City (Fides Service) – At the end of a visit to Iraq (28 May - 3 June), the President of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum", Archbishop Paul Josef Cordes, issued a statement to journalists. He said he had been c ...
• 4 June 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “THE BEAUTIFUL FACE OF A CHURCH ALIVE AND DYNAMIC” DESCRIBED BY CARD. CRESCENZIO SEPE WHEN HE MET UGANDAN BISHOPS Kampala (Fides Service) – At the end of his pastoral to Uganda, this morning, June 4, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, had a meeting with the Ugandan Bishops’ ...
• 4 June 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO FRANCISCANS BEGAN HEROIC MISSION IN TIBET: INTERNATIONAL MEETING AND VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS TO MARK THIRD CENTENARY Ancona (Fides Service) - Three hundred years ago the Franciscans began an adventure in the highlands of Tibet, in China. On 14 March 1703 the Congregation de Propaganda Fide entrusted the Capuchin province of the Marche ...
• 4 June 2003
  EUROPE/FRANCE - TO MARK 160 YEARS OF HOLY CHILDHOOD MISSIONARY CHILDREN’S PARTY AT LISIEUX, BIRTHPLACE OF SAINT TERESA Nancy (Fides Service) – Last weekend 31 May – June 1, the Pontifical Mission Society of Missionary Childhood (MC) held special celebrations in Nancy and Lisieux, France, to mark the 160th anniversary of its foundatio ...
• 4 June 2003
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - NEW ARCHBISHOP OF KUALA LUMPUR ILLUSTRATES PASTORAL PLAN:“BEAR WITNESS TO CHRIST AS A UNITED LOCAL CHURCH AND BUILD HARMONY WITH OUR MUSLIM FRIENDS Kuala Lumpur (Fides Service) – “My mission is to fill broken hearts with the love and the mercy of God. Only a heart which has loved can know peace, harmony with neighbour, dialogue of life” said newly appointed Ar ...