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• 15 May 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE AT GENERAL AUDIENCE SAYS: THE SACRIFICE MOST PRECIOUS AND ACCEPTABLE TO THE LORD IS A CONTRITE HEART AND HUMBLE SPIRIT During the general audience on Wednesday 14 May, held in St Peter’s Square, Pope John Paul II resumed his teaching on the Psalms used in Morning and Evening Prayer of the Church, commenting the Canticle in Daniel 3,26 ...
• 15 May 2003
  VATICAN - POPE RECEIVES SYRO-MALABAR AND SYRO-MALANKARA BISHOPS: BE LEAVEN OF EVANGELISATION FOR A NEW INDIA Vatican City (Fides Service) – Working in communion and unity for evangelisation to meet the challenges of secularism: this is the encouragement made by Pope John Paul II when on 13 May he received in audience Bishops ...
• 15 May 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - "THE SYRO-MALABAR CHURCH RICH IN MISSIONARY VOCATIONS, IS READY TO ANNOUNCE THE GOSPEL” SAYS CARDINAL VARKEY VITHAYATHIL Vatican City (Fides Service) – Our Church is flourishing, rich in priestly and religious vocations, committed to family pastoral, filled with a keen missionary spirit: the Syro-Malabar Church in India, fruit of the pre ...
• 15 May 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CHURCH AND CATHOLIC MEANS OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY OPENS TODAY Murcia (Fides Service – Catholic Means of social communications in the 21st century is the title of the 2nd International Congress on Church and Catholic Means of Social Communications which opens today, 15 May, in Mu ...
• 15 May 2003
  INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS - “FAMILY – CHILD – STATE” AT KIEV (UKRAINE) The Ukraine-wide “Pro Human Dignity” Charitable Endowment has organised an International Congress “Family – Child – State” At Kiev. Key Experts in family rights, childhood and motherhood protection, medics, ...
• 15 May 2003
  AMERICA/PERU - FIRST SUB-REGIONAL MEETING OF ANDES GROUP FOR THE PASTORAL CARE OF CHILDREN Lima (Fides Service) – The first sub-regional meeting of the Andes group for Pastoral Care of Children was held in Lima, Peru, 13-15 May. The purpose of the meeting was to present a Guide for the Pastoral Care of Child ...
• 15 May 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO- CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA LAUNCHES APPEAL: “UNITED NATIONS MUST INTERVENE TO DISMANTLE NETWORKS OF INTERESTS BACKING AFRICA’S WARS ” Kinshasa (Fides Service) - Dismantle the networks of arms trafficking and financial support behind wars in Africa! This appeal was launched to the United Nations Organisation from the Democratic Republic of Congo at th ...
• 15 May 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - CATHOLIC RELIGIOUS IN PAKISTAN SUPPORT INDIA/PAKISTAN PEACE INITIATIVES Multan (Fides Service) – Peace between India and Pakistan may be at last at hand and full support for initiatives of reconciliation between the two neighbour countries has been expressed by the Justice and Peace Commis ...
• 15 May 2003
  ASIA/HONG KONG - CHURCH IN HONG KONG GUARANTEES SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL ASSISTANCE FOR QUARANTINED SARS VICTIMS AND HOSPITAL PERSONNEL Hong Kong (Fides Service) – Responding to an appeal made by the Bishop of Hong Kong Joseph Zen, the diocesan commission for Hospital Pastoral Care organised special collections for quarantined victims of SARS Severe Ac ...
• 14 May 2003
  VATICAN - EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN BISHOPS, WITH PONTIFICAL COUNCIL COR UNUM, WILL VISIT COLOMBIA CARRYING PAPAL MESSAGE OF SOLIDARITY AND ENCOURAGEMENT Bogota (Fides Service) – At the invitation of the Colombian Bishops’ Conference, a delegation of European and North American Bishops is visiting Colombia (12-19 May) to deliver a Message from Pope John Paul II and al ...
• 14 May 2003
  ASIA/TURKEY - MISSION TODAY IN ANTIOCH, CRADLE OF EARLY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES Antioch (Fides Service) – Antioch on the Oronte River was the cradle of early the early Christian communities mentioned in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles. Here for the first time the disciples of Jesus came to be ...
• 14 May 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - BUNIA, BLOODIED CITY NOW FACES FOOD SHORTAGE: POPE GRIEVES FOR VICTIMS AT NYAKANZA PARISH Kinshasa (Fides Service) – There is still an atmosphere of calm charged with tension in Bunia, in Ituri region, north-east Congo, disrupted in the past few days by violence which did not spare civilians. “The most s ...
• 14 May 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - REPORTS OF ESCAPE OF SOME KIDNAPPED SEMINARIANS IN NORTHERN UGANDA ARE FALSE Kampala (Fides Service) – “Unfortunately there is no confirmation of reports that some of the seminarians, hostages of rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army LRA, have escaped” Comboni missionary Father Joseph tel ...
• 14 May 2003
  ASIA/CHINA - PRAYERS AND SOLIDARITY TO FIGHT SARS: CATHOLICS OFFER SUPPORT TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF CHINA Beijing (Fides Service) – Since the outbreak of the epidemic of SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Catholics in Beijing have been fighting the virus with every means possible, prayer in the first place. The Cathol ...
• 14 May 2003
  ASIA/THAILAND - CARITAS WORKS TO PROMOTE RECONCILIATION AND PREVENT CONFLICTS Bangkok (Fides Service) – Among the challenges facing Caritas offices in South East Asia is to find solutions to situations of conflict and prevent violence, through peace-building and reconciliation programmes and sem ...