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22 November 2004
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Catholic media operators and journalists discuss freedom of expression and mass media at the service of peace
Dacca (Fides Service) - Freedom of expression as a fundamental right in every society, media at the service of peace and harmony, the importance of sharing of information among countries in Southern Asia were some of the ...
22 November 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - In Europe tropical diseases, TB, skin infections are ever more frequent
Rome (Fides Service) - In Europe in the past four years cases of tropical diseases have steadily increased in number: cases of TB and skin diseases caused by parasites and mycosis have doubled. The latest figures were pr ...
22 November 2004
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - “The fight was with poachers not Sudanese guerrillas” local sources told Fides commenting an army intervention in which 16 people were killed after an attack on a village a hundred kilometres from the Sudanese border
Bangui (Fides Service) -“Local media and government authorities say it was a battle with poachers, not Sudan guerrilla groups” said local Church sources in the Central African Republic where on Friday 19 November 16 ...
22 November 2004
VATICAN - “Those who destroy the family, the fundamental tissue of human co-existence, fail to respect its identity and distort its duties and cause in society a profound wound and irreparable damage”: the Pope said in an address to the Plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Addressing participants at the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family on 20 November, Pope John Paul II said: “The family, founded on marriage, is a natural and irrepla ...
20 November 2004
VATICAN - Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, Cardinal Sepe on pastoral visit in Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, is making a pastoral visit to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia to meet the local Catholic co ...
20 November 2004
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The Pope creates new diocese of Dori and appoints first Bishop
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II created, on 20 November 2004, the diocese of Dori (Burkina Faso) with territory taken from the dioceses of Fada N’Gourma and Ouahigouya, making it suffr ...
20 November 2004
AFRICA/MALAWI - Bishop of Mangochi resigns, the Pope appoints successor
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II accepted, 20 November 2004, the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Mangochi (Malawi), presented by Bishop Alessandro Assolari, S.M ...
20 November 2004
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Many initiatives for the Year of the Eucharist include National Seminar to form pastoral animators and reflect on the impact of the Eucharist on the life of the Church in Brazil
São Paolo (Fides Service) - In the context of the Year of the Eucharist and the next Synod of Bishops in Rome on the theme of the Eucharist and also in preparation for a National Eucharistic Congress in 2006 at Florian ...
20 November 2004
ASIA/MYANMAR - Info:
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the occasion of Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe's visit to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, here is some basic information on Myanmar.
area 676.563 sq. km.
population 48.85 million (mid ...
20 November 2004
EUROPE/ BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA - Banja Luka Cathedral will host funeral of Catholic priest brutally murdered in his parish at Bosanska Gradiska
Sarajevo (Fides Service) - The funeral of Father Kazimir Viseticki found dead in his home next to the parish church of Saint Roko at Bosanska Gradiska, in the north of the country near the border with Croatia will take p ...
20 November 2004
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Invasion of locusts combined with lack of rain destroys 90% of harvests in northern Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou (Fides Service) -Harvests in northern Burkina Faso will be 90% less because of an invasion of locusts. The situation is most serious in the province of Oudalan, which has borders with Mali and Niger. The wors ...
20 November 2004
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Great Lakes Summit participants sign declaration of commitment to work for “A region of lasting peace and security”. Catholic Bishops of Tanzania urge them to take the “path of dialogue”
Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides)- - Transform the Great Lakes region in an “area of lasting peace and security” was the goal established today 20 November by African heads of state taking part in the first Internationa ...
17 November 2004
VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the general audience: “we must pull down walls of division, hostility and hatred so that the family of God’s children may find itself in harmony at the same table, to praise and bless the Creator for the gifts he gives to all”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Psalm 66 “All people will glorify the Lord” (vespers Wednesday week 2, reading: Ps 66,2-4.7-8) was the subject of Pope John Paul II’s weekly teaching during his Wednesday Audience thi ...
17 November 2004
VATICAN - Cardinal Paul Poupard in Moscow to promote recognition of Europe’s shared Christian roots
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Paul Poupard, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, accompanied by the Council’s Secretary Father Bernard Ardura, is visiting Moscow, 14 to 21 November to promote reco ...
17 November 2004
EUROPE/GT. BRITAIN - Global Report on Child Soldiers 2004 says governments are incapable of stopping children’s involvement: “children are fighting in almost every major conflict, in both government and opposition forces. They are being injured, subjected to horrific abuse and killed”
London (Fides Service) - In London this morning the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers released its report on child soldiers 2004. The report was presented by the Coalition international director Casey Kelso.
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