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21 May 2004
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Dialogue and unity with Buddhists, no to “immoral” conversions: Catholic Bishops pay a visit to Sri Lanka’s leading Buddhists
Colombo (Fides Service) - Maintain good relations with Buddhists; offer them the Holy See’s annual message of good wishes on their feast of Vesak; reaffirm that the Catholic Church has nothing to do with so called “i ...
19 May 2004
AFRICA - Death of Cardinal Hyacinthe Thiandoum, for 38 years Archbishop of Dakar in Senegal
Rome (Fides Service) - Cardinal Hyacinthe Thiandoum, emeritus Archbishop of Dakar in Senegal, died yesterday evening at a clinic in the southern French city of Marseilles. The Cardinal was born at Poponguine, Dakar, on 2 ...
19 May 2004
VATICAN - The Pope’s weekly teaching: “Blessed the man whose guilt is removed and whose sins are forgiven!”: a call to live with our eyes set on heaven putting first the "things of heaven".
Vatican City (Fides Service) - A comment on Psalm 31 (“Gratitude for the forgiveness of sins” - Vespers Thursday week 1) was the subject of Pope John Paul II’s teaching at the General audience today 19 may in St Pe ...
19 May 2004
ASIA/CHINA - First Catholic dispensary opened in China to show God’s love by caring for the sick: first step to building a Catholic Health Care network
TianJing (Fides Service) - A Catholic Dispensary, the first of its kind in mainland China, was recently opened in the small town on GuanPuTou, in the JingHai district of TianJing. The Hui Ze Tang , as the Dispensary is c ...
19 May 2004
ASIA/HONG KONG - Diocesan Centre for Pastoral Care of Workers hold Round Table discussion on unemployment and how to promote development
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Unemployment and how to promote development were the topics discussed at a Round Table discussion organised by Hong Kong’s Catholic Diocesan Centre for Pastoral Care of Workers. The Centre p ...
19 May 2004
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “We will make our parish missionary”: 23 May opens year of preparation for National Mission Congress called by Bishops Conference for May 2005
Guatemala City (Fides) - After having the joy of hosting the Second Mission Congress Missionario (CAM 2), held in Guatemala City in November 2003, the Bishops of Guatemala decided to hold, as a first fruit of that major ...
19 May 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Cooperazione Italia contributes 268 million Euro to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and malaria
Rome (Fides Service) - In the past three years Cooperazione Italiana has contributed almost 270 million Euro to the struggle to fight AIDS, particular through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria set up in 2001 ...
19 May 2004
EUROPE/RUSSIA - More than 4,500 Russians including 240 children under 14 have died of AIDS since registration of cases started
Rome (Fides Service) - According to the Russian Research Centre for the Prevention and Elimination of AIDS more than 4,500 people including 240 children under 14 died of HIV/AIDS since the registration of HIV+ cases star ...
19 May 2004
AFRICA/CHAD - “Military mutiny in Chad connected with conflict over the border in Sudan” local sources told Fides
N’Djamena (Fides Service)-“Today the situation is calm. There is no shooting although the curfew remains” local Church sources in N’Djamena, capital of Chad, told Fides following a mutiny staged by troops station ...
19 May 2004
AFRICA/SENEGAL - “For all the people of Senegal, Christians and non Christians, Cardinal Thiandoum was one of the most significant personalities of our country” successor of late Cardinal tells Fides
Rome (Fides Service)- Archbishop Théodore-Adrien Sarr Archbishop of Dakar since 2000 when he succeeded the late Cardinal Thiandoum who died yesterday 18 May, told Fides how important the late Cardinal was for the whole ...
18 May 2004
VATICAN - To John Paul II: Peter, the “Rock” of our day!
Vatican City (Fides Service) - It is true that the Pope John Paul II would prefer to celebrate the day of his Baptism and even more the day of his ordination to the priesthood rather than his birthday, but because we lov ...
18 May 2004
VATICAN - The Courage of Mercy
"Modern man often anxiously wonders about the solution to the terrible tensions which have built up in the world and which entangle humanity. And if at times he lacks the courage to utter the word "mercy," or if in his c ...
18 May 2004
EUROPE/GERMANY - New national director of Pontifical Mission Societies-Munich takes office. For Cardinal Wetter, Germany needs to “renew its spirit of mission”.
München (Agenzia Fides) - The new national director of Pontifical Mission Societies-Munich-Germany Father Eric Englert OSA, appointed last October 16 by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evan ...
18 May 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Tumours caused by virus can be prevented
Rome (Fides Service) - 8.5% of tumours affecting people in industrialised countries and about 30% of those diagnosed in developing countries can be attributed to viruses. For example the Human Papilloma Virus HPV involv ...
18 May 2004
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Less than 7% of the world’s six million new cases of AIDS every year receive proper medical treatment. World Health Organisation starts annual meeting
Rome (Fides Service) - The World Health Organisation WHO started its week long annual meeting yesterday 17 May in Geneva, attended by delegations from 192 nation members. Among the main topics on the busy agenda, how to ...
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