Europe

• 23 June 2003
  EUROPE/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - THE POPE TELLS CATHOLICS IN BANJA LUKA: “DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED, MULTIPLY EFFORTS TO MAKE BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ONCE AGAIN A LAND OF RECONCILIATION, ENCOUNTER AND PEACE Banja Luka (Fides Service) – “With deep gratitude for the invitation, I return after six years to Bosnia-Herzegovina and I thank God for allowing me to meet once again these people so dear to my heart”. With these ...
• 20 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - INTERNATIONAL BODIES UNABLE TO GUARANTEE JUSTICE AND PEACE TODAY MUST BE REINFORCED NOT ELIMINATED: ARCHBISHOP MARTINO TELLS NATIONAL MEETING OF ITALIAN DIOCESAN CARITAS OFFICES Rome (Fides Service) – The present day inadequacies of international bodies must not lead to the reduction of their importance but rather to reinforce them and render them capable of fulfilling their original duty. Thi ...
• 20 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO FRATERNITY TO WELCOME NEW PRIESTS AND DEACONS: MISSIONARIES DESTINED FOR TAIWAN, SPAIN, GERMANY AND CZECH REPUBLIC Rome (Fides Service) – Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the Pope’s vicar General for the diocese of Rome, will ordain 6 priests and 5 deacons for the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St Charles Borromeo. The solemn ...
• 20 June 2003
  EUROPE/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - THE POPE WILL FIND A CHURCH AND A SOCIETY WHOSE SCARS ARE SLOWLY HEALING, COMMITTED TO DIALOGUE AND RECONCILIATION: INTERVIEW WITH VICAR GENERAL OF BANJA LUKA DIOCESE, PRESIDENT OF COMMITTEE FOR PAPAL VISIT Banja Luka (Fides Service) – “On Sunday next I will go to Bosnia Herzegovina, to confirm in the faith that Catholic community committed to the important path of reconciliation and harmony”. With these words Pope Jo ...
• 18 June 2003
  EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - TRNAVA UNIVERSITY AWARDS HONORARY DOCTORATE IN THEOLOGY TO CHIARA LUBICH, FOR HER CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS THEOLOGY OF UNITY AND COMMITMENT TO PROMOTE DIALOGUE AT EVERY LEVEL Trnava (Fides Service) – On Monday June 23 at 11 am, at Castel Gandolfo (just outside Rome) Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement will be awarded an honorary doctorate in theology. By conferring this title on ...
• 18 June 2003
  EUROPE/PORTUGAL - WORLD REFUGEE DAY 2003: A MEETING ORGANISED BY THE JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE DENOUNCES: “THE NEW IMMIGRATION LAW IS IMMORAL” Lisbon (Fides Service) - As part events to mark the international Week for Refugees, 15-22 June and World Refugee Day 20 June 2003, the Jesuit Refugee Service JRS in Portugal organised a day of study for immigrants and ...
• 17 June 2003
  EUROPE/ITALY - BUILDING PEACE AND DIALOGUE THROUGH ITINERANT EVANGELISATION, SIDE BY SIDE WITH ORDINARY PEOPLE: FRANCISCAN PROGRAMME FOR THIRD MILLENNIUM Rome (Fides Service) – To strive to fill gap between the rich and the poor, reaffirm in situations of violence and conflict, the possibility of peace, justice and forgiveness; fight fundamentalism in all its forms thro ...
• 16 June 2003
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - FREEING PEOPLE FROM POVERTY IS A MORAL OBLIGATION FOR THE CONSCIENCE OF HUMANITY: HEAD OF HOLY SEE DELEGATION ADDRESSES WORLD LABOUR CONFERENCE Geneva (Fides Service) – “Poverty is not longer a fatality! To free people from it is therefore a moral obligation for the conscience of humanity”. This quote from Pope John Paul II’s Message for World Peace Day ...
• 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
  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/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 ...
• 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
  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 ...
• 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 ...
• 11 June 2003
  EUROPE/GERMANY - COLOGNE: “TRUSTING IN GOD’S WORD”: THE PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES PRESENT CAMPAIGN FOR OCTOBER MISSIONARY MONTH IN YEAR OF THE BIBLE Aachen/Munich (Fides Service) – On June 16 in Cologne, the Pontifical Mission Societies in Germany, with head offices in Aachen and Munich, will present their sensitivity campaign for the missionary month of October. B ...