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3 June 2004
EUROPE/SLOVENIA - “Ethical Responsibility in the World in Transformation”: Interdisciplinary Convention on Science and Faith promoted by the Pontifical Counsel for Culture and by the Slovenian Academy of Science
Ljubljana (Fides Agency) - From June 3rd to 6th, 2004, the Pontifical Council for Culture and the Slovenian Academy of Science have organised an Interdisciplinary Meeting on science and faith, titled Ethical Responsibili ...
3 June 2004
AFRICA/CONGO DR - The Congolese Bishops express alarm for the hundred thousand Congolese expelled from Angola and forced to survive in desperate conditions in southern Congo.
Kinshasa (Fides Agency) - The Congolese Bishops express their alarm for the Congolese people driven out of Angola (see Fides April 21st and April 26th, 2004). DIA Catholic Agency says that Bishops of the Ecclesiastic Pro ...
3 June 2004
AFRICA/CONGO RD - Bukavu. Enraged crowd plunders UN offices in four Congolese cities, accusing international troops of not having defended east Congo cities from the guerrilla
Kinshasa (Fides Agnecy) - An enraged crowd has attacked UN headquarters in four cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC). The demonstrators accuse UN forces of not having prevented occupation of Bukavu, in northe ...
3 June 2004
ASIA/INDIA - India and Pakistan start new negotiation on Kashmir and nuclear safety on June 27th and 28th.
New Delhi (Fides Agency) - Peace seems behind the corner: the new Indian government declared it wants to put an end as soon as possible to its dispute with Pakistan on the Kashmir region and now dates have been selected ...
3 June 2004
ASIA/INDIA - New Regional Seminary in Gujarat
Ahmedabad (Fides Agency) - On June 12th His Excellency Monsignor Pedro Lopez Quintana, Apostolic Nuncio in India, shall preside over the Eucharistic Celebration opening the new Regional Seminary in the Diocese of Baroda, ...
3 June 2004
ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - The courageous witness of five doctors urges us not to sell off the values of democracy, peace and development.
Vatican City (Fides Agency) - The five doctors belonging to Médecins Sans Frontières were killed in an ambush in north-western Afghanistan. Their mission was to bring medical relief to people in danger, to the sick, th ...
3 June 2004
ASIA/CHINA - The Catholic Church exhorts the families to promote religious vocations
Shaan Xi (Fides Agency) - The Catholic community of San Yuan, in the province of Shaan Xi, has always focused much of its attention on religious vocations. In the area, many families have offered several of their childre ...
3 June 2004
ASIA/HONG KONG - The parish of St Joseph of FanLing celebrates its fiftieth anniversary at the presence of the Bishop, H.E. Monsignor Joseph Zen
Hong Kong (Fides Agency) - On May 1st, the day of St Joseph, the parish of St Joseph of FanLing in Hong Kong celebrated its 50th anniversary remembering its history and especially its first parish priest, the well known ...
3 June 2004
AFRICA/SUDAN - In the past three months 5% of the children under five years old have died, most of them simply because of hunger, diarrhoea and malaria: it is the Darfur emergency. There are huge necessities, caused by the violence, hunger and by the people’s vulnerability to very simple diseases
Rome (Fides Agency) - According to a recent survey, the people in Darfur (western Sudan) live under the threat of famine. Rates of mortality and malnutrition are dangerously high, and the alimentary situation is worsenin ...
2 June 2004
VATICAN - The Pope’s catechesis at the general audience: “I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfil the scripture: ‘He who shares my bread has lifted up his heel against me.” (Jn 13,18).
Vatican City (Fides Agency) - continuing on his cycle of catecheses on the Liturgy of the Vespers, the Holy Father John Paul II commented on Psalm 40, The Prayer of a Sick Person, during the today’s general audience (R ...
2 June 2004
VATICAN - His Excellency Monsignor Michel Gagnon, Bishop of Laghouat, unexpectedly passed away.
Vatican City (Fides Agency) - The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples has learnt with grief of the death of His Excellency Monsignor Michel Gagnon, Bishop of Laghouat, a diocese in the south of Algeria. The bi ...
2 June 2004
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bukavu: Fighting has broken out once again and Radio Maria has been hit. The situation is becoming increasingly serious in Eastern Congo.
Bukavu (Fides Agency) - Fighting has broken out once again in Bukavu, a city in northern Kivu region, in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC), which has now been a prey to the fighting between the army loya ...
2 June 2004
AFRICA/UGANDA - New rules for Nile water management are the focus of a meeting in Uganda.
Kampala (Fides Agency) - The legal framework regulating the Nile basin is the focus of a meeting starting yesterday in Entebbe, in Uganda. The meeting gathers together the representatives of the ten countries overlooking ...
2 June 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - The new Iraqi government is “a decisive step towards free and democratic Iraq” said Fr Nizar Semaan, Iraqi priest
Baghdad (Fides Agency) - “A very important step for the creation of a free and independent Iraq, fully re-inserted into the international community”: this is how Fr Nizar Semaan, a Syrian priest from Mosul, welcomed ...
2 June 2004
ASIA/HONG KONG - The executive secretary of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences Laypeople Committee visits Hong Kong and stresses the importance of promoting women in society today
Hong Kong (Fides Agency) - The Executive Secretary of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) Laypeople Committee, Mrs V. Saldhana, paid visit to Hong Kong and stressed the importance of the promotion of wo ...
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