Europe

• 10 October 2003
  EUROPE/NORWAY - NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO IRANIAN LAWYER SHIRIN EBADI FOR HER COMMITMENT TO PROMOTING RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN Oslo (Fides Service) – The Nobel Peace prize 2003 has been awarded to Iranian layer Ms Shirin Ebadi for her commitment to defending families of writers and intellectuals killed in 1998-1999. Persecuted for the investig ...
• 10 October 2003
  EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - SINCE THE BEGINNING OF 2003, THE DEATH PENALTY HAS BEEN EXECUTED 57 TIMES IN THE USA, 83 TIMES IN IRAN AND 40 IN SAUDI ARABIA, BUT “DEATH IS NOT JUSTICE”: WORLD DAY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY Rome (Fides Service) – The death penalty is still in use in 83 countries including the United States, China, Japan, Nigeria and Iran. On the occasion of the World Day World Day Against the Death Penalty - 10 October, L ...
• 10 October 2003
  EUROPE/POLAND - WORLD MISSION SUNDAY –YEAR OF THE ROSARY: THOUSANDS OF ROSARIES FOR THE MISSIONS AND THE POPE “THE GREATEST MISSIONARY OF OUR TIME” Warsaw (Fides Service) – In preparation for World Mission Sunday, the diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies took part in a three day spiritual retreat followed by a missiology session on “The mission ...
• 9 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - MEETING “THE DESIRE FOR THE TRUTH” : CARDINAL RUINI WARNS “THEOLOGY MUST NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM PHILOSOPHY” Rome (Fides Service) – “Faith and reason can never contradict one another if they both tend towards the truth, the authentic condition for the freedom of the human person” said Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the Pope’s ...
• 9 October 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - TOUCH SCREEN COMPUTERS IN SCHOOLS AND PARISHES FOR INFORMATION ON MISSION IN THE WORLD Valencia (Fides Service) - A simple touch on a pc screen in a parish or school will suffice to have information on diocesan missionaries, the country in which they work and the progress of mission projects funded by the ...
• 8 October 2003
  EUROPE/SPAIN - “THE POPE’S CONCERN FOR ALL THE CHURCHES IN THESE 25 YEARS OF HIS PONTIFICATE HAS BEEN A SPECIAL GIFT OF GOD FOR WHICH WE WISH AND WE MUST GIVE THANKS” STATEMENT TO MARK 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE ISSUED BY STANDING COMMITTEE OF SPANISH BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE Madrid (Fides Service) – “His concern for all the Churches in these twenty five years of pontificate is undoubtedly a special gift from God for which we can and we must give thanks” the Standing Committee of the Sp ...
• 7 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - EXHIBITION ON MOTHER TERESA: A FEW POOR BELONGINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, LETTERS, WRITINGS REVEAL HER SOUL – AND AFTERWARDS VISITORS ARE INVITED TO STOP A WHILE FOR EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Rome (Fides Service) – Mother Teresa is a personality known and loved all over the world, but few people know about her spirituality: this is why the Postulators of her Beatification Cause have organised an exhibition ...
• 6 October 2003
  EUROPE/AZERBAIJAN - DESPITE FALSE INSINUATIONS OF LOCAL PRESS: SAYS NUNCIO IN BAKU – WORK ON NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH TO BEGIN SOON Baku (Fides Service) – Relations between the local Catholic Church and the government in Azerbaijan are excellent Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, Nuncio in Baku tells Fides Service. Not long after a recent visit to Az ...
• 6 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - “WITH THE POPE WE WILL PRAY FOR PEACE IN THE WORLD” SAYS ARCHBISHOP SORRENTINO DELEGATE FOR THE MARIAN SHINE OF POMPEI Rome (Fides Service) – The community of Pompei is waiting with fervid expectation for the arrival of his Holiness, while spiritual and material preparation continues” Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino tells Fides Servic ...
• 4 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - SAINT DANIELE COMBONI FATHER AND APOSTLE OF CHRISTIAN AFRICA Vatican City (Fides Service) – Fides Service asked Fr. Fidel Gonzalez Fernandez mccj Rector Pontifical Urban College to comment on Bishop Daniele Comboni in the historical and social context of the 19th century. Here ...
• 4 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - COMBONI MISSIONARIES CLOSE GENERAL CHAPTER: PROGRAMME FOR EVANGELISATION, JUSTICE AND PEACE, ONGOING FORMATION IN ELABORATION Rome (Fides Service) – On the eve of the canonisation of their Founder, Daniele Comboni, on Thursday evening, 2 October the 26th chapter of the Comboni missionaries, opened in 1 September, closed. Next week a post-chap ...
• 4 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - "SEE THE PRESENT MOMENT, DARE, HOPE” SUPERIOR GENERAL OF THE COMBONI MISSIONARY SISTERS: COMBONI’S CANONISATION IS A MESSAGE FOR HIS DAUGHTERS Rome (Fides Service) – The spiritual message of the canonisation of Daniele Comboni is a call to his spiritual daughters in three words or ideas, the ideas that Comboni wrote in his famous Plan for the global mission t ...
• 3 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - COMBONI FIRST TO HARNESS “FEMALE GENIUS” FOR MISSION: FIDES INTERVIEWS SR ADELE BRAMBILLA, SUPERIOR GENERAL OF THE COMBONI MISSIONARY SISTERS Rome (Fides Service) – Where there are Sisters, mission is solid ” Daniele Comboni (1831-1881) used to say in days when few people recognised the importance of the “female genius” in every sphere of human activi ...
• 3 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY -CACAO PLANTATIONS IN IVORY COAST EXPLOIT CHILDREN WHO IN THIS PART OF AFRICA ARE USED ALSO FOR WAR. FIRST DOSSIER BY NATIONAL INDEPENDENT OBSERVATORY Rome (Fides Service) – Each year in Ivory Coast alone 615,000 children are forced to work in cacao fields and it is estimated that in the world 1.2 million children are victims of trafficking and that 5.7 million are i ...
• 3 October 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - 55 MISSIONARIES SALESIAN – RELIGIOUS AND LAY – SET OUT FOR 22 COUNTRIES ALL OVER THE WORLD Torino (Fides Service /Ans) - Some 55 Saleisan missionaries are about to depart for mission in 22 different countries in various parts of the world. The missionaries are 23 Religious (17 Salesians and 6 Daughters of Mar ...