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29 April 2004
VATICAN - “Re-launch mission ad gentes with courage”: Presentation of "Eucharist and Mission" Pope John Paul II’s Message for World Mission Sunday 2004 (24 October)
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Catholic Church has altogether in the world 1,081 ecclesiastical circumscriptions (Archdioceses, Dioceses, Vicariates and Apostolic Prefectures...) considered missionary territories and ...
29 April 2004
AFRICA/UGANDA - Fierce fighting between army and rebels continues in northern Ugandan district of Gulu
Gulu (Fides Service)- Gulu, 332 km from the Ugandan capital Kampala, is traditionally seen as the capital city of northern, it has an area of 11,732 sq. km and a population of 479,496 (2002), 85% Acholi. Other ethnic gro ...
29 April 2004
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Young followers of St Francis of Assisi are on the web with Franciscan Youth International
New York (Agenzia Fides) - Franciscan Youth International has opened a web site under the aegis of the United Nations Programme on Youth. From today news, activities, and information on the Franciscan Youth International ...
29 April 2004
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Mission of dialogue and service for two new deacons in a mainly Muslim district of Mindanao
Kidapawan (Fides Service) - Two new deacons are about to start a mission of service and dialogue in the diocese of Kidapawn, a mainly Muslim area near Cotabato, on the Island of Mindanao. The local Catholic community he ...
29 April 2004
ASIA/INDONESIA - Occult actors in Moluccas conflict: “Tension and fear in Ambon; Moluccas are paying for the electoral campaign in Jakarta ”, Bishop of Amboina told Fides
Ambon (Fides Service) - Christian and Muslim city districts rigidly separated, fear reigns and a new conflict threatens: Moluccas is paying for the electoral campaign in Jakarta, Bishop Petrus Canisius Mandagi, Bishop of ...
28 April 2004
AFRICA/MALI - Mali, one of the poorest countries in the world suffers from lack of water and lack of health care
Rome (Fides Service) - Lack of infrastructures, almost non existent roads, poor economy, low literacy rate, make northern Mali one of the poorest regions of one of the poorest countries in the world. The country has 8 re ...
28 April 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Xaverian Missionaries in Italy elect new directing staff: Father Pozzobon, new regional Superior, animates vocations pastoral and Missionary Childhood initiatives
Ravenna (Fides Service) - On 27 April at San Pietro in Vincoli in Ravenna, Italy, the Xaverian Missionaries in Italy elected new directing staff for the next four years, Father Marcello Storgato, communications officer t ...
28 April 2004
5th International Festival of Christian Music: “The world sings about Mary” - Friday 30 April 2004 Don Bosco Palasport Schio
Rome (Fides Service - The Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe Association in Schio of RADIO KOLBE SAT is organising the 5th International Concert of Christian Music “The world sings about Mary” on Friday 30 April 2004 at 8. ...
28 April 2004
EUROPE/LITHUANIA - “The red flag of Communism has gone and the flag of Christ flies once again in Lithuania”: Father Marko Mikalonis from Argentina tells Fides about his mission in Pumpenai, Lithuania.
Pumpenai (Fides Service) - “It was Divine Providence which led our Congregation to this lands which is living a crucial moment in its history. Twelve years after the country was freed of Soviet occupation the Catholic ...
28 April 2004
VATICAN - The Pope’s weekly teaching at the general audience : “Even in solitude, forsaken by his loved ones, the praying believer is never completely alone, the all merciful God is with him”.
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In his teaching for the general audience in St Peter’s Square this morning Wednesday 28 April, Pope John Paul II continued his reflections on the Liturgy of Vespers, commenting Psalm 26,7 ...
28 April 2004
ASIA/THAILAND - Motives behind violence in southern Thailand are political not religious Apostolic Administrator of Surat Thani diocese told Fides
Bangkok (Fides Service) - “This uprising is political not religious. Radical Islamic groups launched attacks on the government accusing it of thwarting certain Muslim leaders in the past. They want revenge for reasons ...
28 April 2004
AFRICA/UGANDA - “Every open door, even only a crack may be an opening for peace” Archbishop of Gulu told Fides
Gulu (Fides Service)- “Every open door, even only a crack may be an opening for peace” ” said Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu, commenting a possible intervention of mediation ib the conflict between the gover ...
28 April 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic Bishop issues message for “Labour Day”
Seoul (Fides Service) - Unemployment, illegal work, illegal immigrants are some of the problems afflicting South Korea which the local Catholic Church is committed to helping to solve in the light of the Church’s Socia ...
27 April 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - “Terrorism is a threat to Muslims as well” Father Nizar told Fides
Baghdad (Fides Service)- “Western diplomacy must make every effort to help democratic forces in the Arab world voice loud and clear condemnation of extremism ” Rev. Nizar Semaan, Iraqi Catholic priest in Mosul told F ...
27 April 2004
ASIA/CHINA - Chinese health ministry isolates new nest of SARS: 600 in quarantine in Beijing
Rome (Fides) - To prevent a new epidemic of SARS more than 600 people in Beijing have been put in quarantine. In the capital two reported cases of SARS have been confirmed and five are still suspect. It is also thought t ...
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