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2 February 2004
EUROPE/RUSSIA - A DELEGATION OF S. EGIDIO COMMUNITY LED BY MONS. VINCENZO PAGLIA VISITS RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN MOSCOW
Rome (Fides Service ) – From 25 to 28 January a delegation of the Rome based charity association S. Egidio Community led by its Spiritual Counsellor Bishop Vincenzo Paglia, Bishop of Terni-Narni-Amelia paid another vi ...
2 February 2004
EUROPE/GERMANY – “AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED” OPENS NEW RADIO STUDIOS WHICH WILL FOCUS ON AREAS WHERE THE CHURCH IS PERSECUTED OR IN PARTICULAR NEED
Munich (Fides Service) – The German branch of “Aid to the Church in Need” ACN recently opened a new Radio Studios in Munich. According to ACN Statement the studios will begin by broadcasting Universal Church News ...
2 February 2004
AFRICA - DAY FOR CONSECRATED LIFE – SPANISH SISTER MARINA HAS SPENT 20 YEARS HELPING AFRICAN WOMEN REALISE THEIR DIGNITY AND SPECIAL ROLE IN SOCIETY
Rome (Fides Service) - Sister Marina Martínez González, a Spanish member of the Teresian Carmelite Missionaries has spent more than 20 years in Africa promoting the conditions of women in different countries Democratic ...
2 February 2004
VATICAN - THE POPE’S REFLECTION AT THE ANGELUS: "THE FAMILY NUCLEUS, FORMED THROUGH MATRIMONY, IS THE FIRST CELL OF SOCIETY. WITHIN THE FAMILY, LIKE IN A REASSURING NEST, LIFE MUST ALWAYS BE PROMOTED, DEFENDED AND PROTECTED ”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – The theme of life and the family was the focus of the address given by Pope John Paul II before the Angelus prayer and blessing of the crowds on Sunday February 1st. In fact in many part ...
2 February 2004
VATICAN - AT ABU DHABI CATHEDRAL CARDINAL SEPE ORDAINS NEW AUXILIARY BISHOP OF ARABIA: “TAKE UP THE STAFF OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD AND WALK AHEAD OF YOUR PEOPLE WITH COURAGE AND FARSIGHTEDNESS”.
Abu Dhabi (Fides Service) – On Friday 30 January, at the Catolic Cathedral of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), filled to capacity with filled with about 8,000 people, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregat ...
2 February 2004
AFRICA/LIBERIA - MISSIONARY FATHER ARMANINO, YEARS OF EXPERIENCE SERVING LIBERIANS, EXPLAINS UNSOLVED PROBLEMS AT ROOT OF CIVIL CONFLICT
Rome (Fides Service)- “As always different factors intervene and interact in civil conflict and genocide as in the case of Liberia” Father Mauro Armanino, SMA Superior General in Liberia told Fides. Liberia is trying ...
2 February 2004
AFRICA/LIBERIA “CHILDREN KILLING CHILDREN” TRAGEDY OF LIBERIA’S CIVIL WAR
Monrovia (Fides Service) - “Children killing other children”. This is the war in Liberia according to a Human to Rights Watch report issued today Monday 2 February. According to the United Nations in the last 3 years ...
2 February 2004
AFRICA/LIBERIA – TWENTY YEARS OF CONFLICT: INFO UPDATE 2 FEBRUARY 2004
Monrovia (Fides Service) – Liberia has been in crisis since the 1980s of the last century when a coup led by sergeant Samuel K. Doe, put an end to Afro-American rule. Those rulers were former slaves in America, given t ...
2 February 2004
ASIA/PAKISTAN – PAKISTAN’S LARGEST MOSQUE WELCOMES FIRST CHRISTIAN DELEGATION BEARING MESSAGE OF PEACE FOR 3,000 WORSHIPPERS INCLUDING 100 ULEMAS
Lahore (Fides Service) – For the first time ever, Badshahi mosque in Lahore, the largest in Pakistan, welcomed a delegations of Christians to its Friday worshipping service. Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha, Archbishop of ...
2 February 2004
ASIA/INDIA – DAY FOR CONSECRATED LIFE: SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH OF TARBES MARK 100 YEARS OF MISSION HELPING POOR CHILDREN IN SOUTHERN INDIA
Bangalore (Fides) – The Sisters of St Joseph of Tarbes have worked in Kolar Gold Fields, Bangalore, capital Karnataka for a century. The community marked the 100th anniversary of missionary activity on 2 February, the ...
2 February 2004
ASIA/INDIA – DAY FOR CONSECRATED LIFE: CHRISTIAN ASHRAM VALORISES LOCAL TRADITIONS FOLLOWING IDEALS OF GANDHI
Cochin (Fides Service) – Prayer and adoration mark the Day for Consecrated Life at Kurusumala, Ashram in Kottayam, Kerala (southern India). Christians have opened ashrams, places for meditation of Hindu in various part ...
30 January 2004
EUROPE/SCOTLAND – THIS SUNDAY EVERY PARISH IN SCOTLAND WILL DISTRIBUTE LEAFLETS ON MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY AS PART OF YEAR OF THE FAMILY 2004 CALLED BY CATHOLIC BISHOPS
Glasgow (Fides Service) – The Catholic Bishops of Scotland issued comprehensive statement on Marriage and the Family on Wednesday 28 January 2004. Quarter of a million (250,000) leaflets containing the text of a compr ...
30 January 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - “CHRIST HOPE OF EUROPE”: 2ND EUROPEAN DAY FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: PRAYER VIGIL SATELLITE LINKS WITH CAPITALS OF 10 FUTURE EU MEMBERS
Rome (Fides Service) – The 2nd Day for European University Students, organised jointly by the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences, the Commission of the European Bishops’ Conferences and the Vicariate of Rome, ...
30 January 2004
AMERICA/HONDURAS – REVEREND GUY PLANTE APPOINTED NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has appointed 24 January 2004, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Honduras, ...
30 January 2004
PAPAL MESSAGE ON LIFE AND BIRTH: “WHEN WE SPEAK OF ‘NATURAL’ REGULATION, WE REFER NOT ONLY TO BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM, RATHER WE RESPOND TO THE TRUTH OF THE HUMAN PERSON AS A WHOLE, SPIRIT, PSYCHE AND BODY, A WHOLE WHICH CAN NEVER BE REDUCED TO A MERE UNIT OF BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS”.
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Today we see the consolidation of a mentality which on the one hand appears almost to fear the responsibility of procreation and on the other desires to dominate life and manipulate i ...
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