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• 11 June 2003
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - VARIOUS HYPOTHESES ON ATTEMPTED COUP. EMERGENCY OVER. CELEBRATIONS FOR RETURN TO NORMALITY. NO DAMAGES TO CATHOLIC COMMUNITY Nouakchott (Fides Service) – Calm is returning to Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania after the attempted coup days ago (see Fides Service link 9 June 2003). According to local sources the people have taken to the street ...
• 11 June 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “WAR SOWS TERROR, DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. THE WORLD CANNOT STAND AND WATCH” URGENT APPEAL FROM BISHOP OF BUTEMBO BENI IN EAST CONGO Butembo (Fides Service) – An urgent call for help has been sent to Fides Service by Bishop Melchisedek Sikuli Paluku of Butemebo Beni diocese in the east Democratic Congo where rebel militia of the RCD-Goma, Rassemblem ...
• 11 June 2003
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - EAST TIMOR PRESIDENT XANANA GUSMAO, ACTIVIST FOR PEACE AND RECONCILIATION, RECEIVES PATH TO PEACE AWARD FROM HOLY SEE’S MISSION TO UN New York (Fides Service) – On June 12, in New York President Xanana Gusmao of East Timor received the Path to Peace award promoted by the Holy See’s mission of permanent observation to the United Nations. Among those ...
• 11 June 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - 200 CYCLIST CATECHISTS ATTEND TO CHRISTIANS IN MUSLIM VILLAGES IN LAHORE ARCHDIOCESE: VIGOROUS LABOUR FORCE AT THE SERVICE OF EVANGELISATION Lahore (Fides Service) – They are the “ Workers in the Lord’s vineyard”: the 196 catechists in Lahore archdiocese are a formidable labour force for evangelisation. Each of them follows the formation, growth diffi ...
• 11 June 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - MISSIONARY CELEBRATIONS, CONGRESSES, WEEKS, PILGRIMAGES: INTENSE PREPARATIONS FOR AMERICAN MISSIONARY CONGRESS CAM 2, SOME COUNTRIES ASK TO SEND MORE DELEGATES Guatemala City (Fides Service) – “As the date of the 2nd American Missionary Congress - CAM 2 (25-30 November, in Guatemala City) involving the entire continent of America, approaches, in the six central American cou ...
• 11 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - OBJECTS OF FOOD IMPORTED FROM COUNTRIES WITH SARS EPIDEMICS ARE NOT DANGEROUS; THERE IS NO THREAT OF INFECTION What are Corona virus-Type of diagnosis-Therapy specific-Possibility of a vaccine-Avoid useless alarm By Prof. Antonino Aceti and Dr Simone Lanini of La Sapienza University in Rome Rome (Fides Service) – An analys ...
• 10 June 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - 203,000 DISPLACED PERSONS CAMPED IN BUTEMBO-BENI DIOCESE WATCH WITH FEAR APPROACHING COMBAT Kinshasa (Fides Service) – As the peacekeeping force sent by the European Union deploys in Bunia, in the Ituri region, north-east Democratic Congo, ever more critical is the situation of displaced persons sheltering in ...
• 10 June 2003
  EUROPE/CROATIA - THE POPE CONCLUDES HIS 100TH APOSTOLIC JOURNEY: “WORDS AND EXAMPLE OF MARY A SUBLIME SCHOOL OF LIFE FOR FORMATION OF APOSTLES YESTERDAY AND TODAY” Zadar (Fides Service) – “As my Apostolic Journey to Croatia draws to an end, I am happy to join you, the faithful of the Archdiocese of Zadar and neighbouring areas, here in Forum Square, in the shadow of the Cathedr ...
• 10 June 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - A COWARDLY WAR: VIOLENCE ON WOMEN! WE PUBLISH AN E-MAIL MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM CONGO Rome (Fides Service) – Here is a moving story of the courage and fidelity to the Gospel of a young woman who gave her life rather than succumb to violence by guerrillas. The tale was sent to Fides Service by the Peace ...
• 10 June 2003
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - LAY EXAMPLE AND COMMITMENT IN THE CHURCH CAN BUILD BRIDGES TO NEIGHBOUR JAPAN AND DISTANT AMERICA Seoul (Fides Service) – The Catholic Church in Korea is striving to build ever closer relations of communion with the Church in the United States and in Japan. New agreements have been reached with regard to the pastor ...
• 10 June 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - CHRISTIANS TARGETED IN KASHMIR ACCUSED OF FORCING CONVERSIONS: BISHOP DEFENDS FREEDOM OF BELIEF AND RELIGION Jammu (Fides Service) – “We fear for the future. Christianity has been present in Kashmir for 200 years and has never had any difficulty with Muslims or Hindus. The Catholic Church has always been accepted and apprec ...
• 10 June 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - PROMOTE MISSIONARY SPIRIT AMONG CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, WHO ARE THE HOPE OF HUMANITY: PMS SPECIAL SUMMER EVENTS Madrid (Fides Service) – It is important to promote among children and young people a spirit of mission to plant the seed which will enable them to become the missionaries of tomorrow: “We must promote the missionary ...
• 10 June 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - CAPUCHIN MISSIONARIES FIGHT MICRO BACTERIA WHICH CAUSES BURULI SKIN DISEASE: AFRICA’S NEW LEPROSY Zouan-Hounien (Fides Service) – Capuchin Friars in Ivory Coast continue to work to organise monastery turned hospital centre where they assist thousands of people affected by Buruli tropical skin disease which devours ...
• 9 June 2003
  EUROPE/CROATIA - THE POPE VISITS OSIJEK/CEPIN: “AT THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM GOD IS CALLING BELIEVERS, AND THE LAITY IN PARTICULAR, TO A RENEWED MISSIONARY OUTREACH” Osijek/Cepin (Fides Service) – A vibrant call to respond with generosity to the missionary vocation proper to every baptised person was launched by the Pope during the solemn concelebration of Mass which he presided on ...
• 9 June 2003
  EUROPE/CROATIA - THE POPE SAYS: THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IS ALWAYS GATHERED IN THE UPPER ROOM IN PRAYER, AND AT THE SAME TIME, DRIVEN BY THE POWERFUL WIND OF THE SPIRIT, SHE IS ALWAYS ON THE STREETS PREACHING Rijeka (Fides Service) – On Sunday 8 June, Pope John Paul II went to Rijeka’s Delta Square which takes its name from the delta of the Rifecina River, where he presided the celebration of the Mass of Pentecost. “The ...