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23 February 2004
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “The mission of the Church in Korea is founded on Korea’s martyrs”: Bishop Lazzaro You Heung Sik, coadjutor Bishop of Daejeon speaks with Fides.
Rome (Fides Service) - “The mission of the Church in Korea is founded on the Korean martyrs who offered their life for the Lord and for the people: compared to them we feel small but we strive to be faithful to our mis ...
23 February 2004
AFRICA/KENYA - 10th anniversary Institute for Social Ministry: renewing society in the light of the Gospel and Catholic Social Teaching
Nairobi (Fides Service) -“The Institute for Social Ministry makes a significant contribution towards renewing society by motivating spiritually those called to public office with a spirit of service while offering them ...
21 February 2004
VATICAN - “Biblical Notes on Human Procreation”: Cardinal Lozano Barragan, President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Workers and the Sick addresses the general assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Biblical Notes on Human Procreation” was the title of a paper given on 19 February by Cardinal Lozano Barragan, President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Wor ...
21 February 2004
for March 2004:That in Africa cooperation between missionary Institutes and local Churches may grow with respect for the variety of gifts”
Comment by Cardinal Francis Arinze Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Very suitably the Holy Father has chosen as his missionary intention for March 2004 the intensification of collaboration between missionary institutes and the local Churches in Africa, c ...
21 February 2004
VATICAN- Cardinal Saraiva Martins presents film-dossier on the Martyrs for the Faith of the 20th Century
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - A film dossier in Italian “Martiri per Fede” (Martyrs for the Faith) produced by the Don Orione Opera on collaboration with Nova T of Turin will be presented on February 21 in Rome at ...
20 February 2004
EUROPE/SCOTLAND - In the battle against meningitis courageous Glasgow Mum calls on George the gorilla to help.
Glasgow (Fides Service) - A brand new weapon in the battle against killer disease, meningitis, is being deployed by bereaved mum and former Scotswoman of the year Eileen McKiernan and her colleagues at the Meningitis Ass ...
20 February 2004
ASIA/NORTH KOREA - Missionary Childhood children in Germany help provide food for starving children in North Korea
Aachen (Fides Service ) - To help children in North Korea threatened by starvation, children members of Missionary Childhood in Germany have offered 20,000 Euro to buy food supplies.
For many years the German branch of ...
20 February 2004
EUROPE/ RUSSIAN FEDERATION - Visit of President of Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Unity of Christians, Cardinal Walter Kasper in Moscow: brief report on meeting with Orthodox Metropolita Kirill
Moscow (Fides Service) - On the second day of his visit to Moscow Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Unity of Christians had a meeting with the head of the Orthodox Patriarchate ...
20 February 2004
OCEANIA/ TUVALU - Tuvalu submerged by giant tidal wave
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Much of Tuvalu, a small group of coral islands with a population of 11, 500 people in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Australia and Hawaii, was submerged for about one hour by a giant tidal wav ...
20 February 2004
VATICAN - “As the years pass the importance of the Pontifical Academy for Life is ever more evident. While progress in bio-medical science offer glimpses of promising prospects for the good of humanity and for the treatment for serious and distressful illnesses, not rarely serious problems arise with regard to respect for human life and the dignity of the human person” the Pope says in a Message to the Pontifical Academy for Life
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “With joy I address this Message to you on the commemoration day for the 10th anniversary of the Pontifical Academy for Life. To each of you I renew the expression of my gratitude for the ...
20 February 2004
VATICAN - Pope John Paul II sends Iranian authorities a message of sympathy after the tragic train accident on 18 February
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Pope John Paul II sent a message of condolence to the Iranian authorities after the train accident on 18 February in which hundreds of people lost their lives. In a telegramme, signed on be ...
20 February 2004
EUROPE/SLOVENIA - The role of Consecrated Life in formation of a moral conscience in the new multi-cultural Europe: Meeting of the Union of European Conferences of Religious Major Superiors
Ljubljana (Fides Service) - The Union of European Conferences of Religious Major Superiors U.C.E.S.M, established 23 years ago to promote cooperation and reciprocal help among Major Superiors in Europe and encourage col ...
20 February 2004
AMERICA/MEXICO - “A poor Church encourages us not to pass by the afflicted but to be pilgrims following the footsteps of Jesus the Good Shepherd” says President of CELAM closing celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of the Puebla Conference
Mexico City (Fides Service) - The closing act of celebrations 12-15 February in Puebla, Mexico for the 25th anniversary of the 3rd general conference of the Council of Latin American Bishop’s Conferences CELAM in Puebl ...
20 February 2004
EUROPE/FRANCE - Sacred Heart Missionaries (MSC): 150 years proclaiming God’s love for all men and women
Rome (Fides Service) - On December 8, 1854, the day Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, in France Father Jules Chevalier (1824-1907) founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart MSC who thi ...
20 February 2004
AFRICA/KENYA - “We must work to promote respect for the dignity of every human being ”. the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace visits second largest shanty town in Nairobi
Nairobi (Fides Service) - Cardinal Renato Martino, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace started his visit to Kenya in Kibera, the second largest slum in Nairobi. A report from the African Catholic n ...
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