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18 December 2003
AFRICA/UGANDA - ARCHBISHOP OF GULU ILLUSTRATES FOR FIDES JOINT CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM RELIGIOUS LEADERS TO WAR STRICKEN PEOPLE IN NORTHERN UGANDA: “TRUST IN GOD, PRAY CONSTANTLY FOR PEACE WHICH COMES ONLY FROM GOD”.
Gulu (Fides Service)-“The purpose was to launch a Christmas message of hope and reconciliation” Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu (Northern Uganda), told Fides with regard to a visit of solidarity made by religio ...
18 December 2003
VATICAN - CELEBRATIONS ISSUES NOTICE OF CHRISTMAS SERVICES PRESIDED BY POPE JOHN PAUL II: OFFICE FOR PAPAL LITURGICAL
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Office for Papal Liturgical Celebrations today issued a notice signed by Archbishop Piero Marini, Maestro of Liturgical Celerbations to Pope John Paul II, with regard to Religious Servi ...
18 December 2003
ASIA/INDIA - CHRISTMAS 2003 MESSAGE OF “UNITY IN DIVERSITY”: GOA CHRISTMAS CONCERT OF SONGS IN SIX LANGUAGES FOR AN INTERRELIGIOUS AUDIENCE
Goa (Fides Service ) – This year in Goa the Christmas Concert will be polyphonic and multilingual. “We want to express unity in diversity, to show that the message of Christ is addressed to all men and women of all l ...
18 December 2003
ASIA/PAKISTAN - CHRISTMAS IN PAKISTAN: HOPE OR FEAR? DESPITE GROWING FEAR OF TERRORISM AFTER PRESIDENT NARROWLY ESCAPES BOMB BLAST PAKISTANI CHRISTIANS READY TO CELEBRATE WITH HOPE
Rawalpindi (Fides Service) – In Pakistan Christians will live Christmas with top security measures but with firm hope Bishop Anthony Lobo of Islamabad-Rawalpindi told Fides days after the 14 December bomb blast against ...
18 December 2003
AMERICA/BRAZIL - “TO BE MISSIONARY MEANS IGNORING BORDERS, GOING BEYOND FRONTIERS. THIS IS OUR CHARISMA”: GUIDELINES PROMOTE MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD ACTIVITY IN BRAZIL
Brasilia (Fides Service) – Study, reflection and programming of activities regarding the Pontifical Mission Society of Missionary Childhood for 2004 was the focus of the annual national meeting of Missionary Childhood ...
18 December 2003
AFRICA/IVORY COAST – SIGNS OF HOPE FOR PEACE, BUT CARE MUST BE TAKEN TO PREVENT PREVAILING OF LOGIC OF VIOLENCE
Abidjan (Fides Service)- “We hope this Christmas will be different from the last when because of the curfew we had to celebrate midnight Mass at three in the afternoon” a local Church source in Abidjan told Fides. In ...
17 December 2003
ASIA/IRAQ - IRAQI CHRISTIANS APPEAL TO PEOPLE OF MOSUL: “A MINORITY OF EXTREMISTS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO DESTROY MOSUL’S TRADITIONAL IMAGE OF RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE AND PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE ”
Baghdad (Fides Service) –The Christian community in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul is subject to increasing pressure by Muslim extremists. Local sources told Fides that one night last week a group of at least 10 arme ...
17 December 2003
ASIA/JAPAN - CHURCH IN JAPAN FOR MISSION AD GENTES: FIVE LAY MISSIONARIES SET OUT FOR RUSSIA, CAMBODIA, EAST TIMOR AND PALAU
Tokyo (Fides Service ) – The Church in Japan is ever more committed to mission ad gentes: recently five lay missionaries aged between 26 and 62 set out for mission in Russia, Cambodia, East Timor and Palau. After a sev ...
17 December 2003
AFRICA/NIGERIA – ARCHDIOCESE OF CALABAR: ARCHBISHOP BRIAN DAVID USANGA RESIGNS, BISHOP JOSEPH EDRA UKPO APPOINTED
Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 17 December 2003, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Calabar (Nigeria), presented by Archbishop Brian Davi ...
17 December 2003
WYD 2005 IN COLOGNE, GERMANY: OMI PREPARATORY MEETING 11 TO 15 AUGUST 2005
The Youth Service Department of the German Province of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate (OMI) is already at work to organise a pre-WYD 2005 meeting for groups accompanied by Oblates as they did before WYD in To ...
17 December 2003
VATICAN – POPE JOHN PAUL II PRESIDES FUNERAL FOR CARDINAL PAULOS TZADUA EMERITUS ARCHBISHOP OF ADDIS ABABA
Vatican City (Fides Service)- On December 16 in St Peter’s basilica Pope John Paul II presided the funeral mass for Cardinal Paulos Tzadua, Emeritus Archbishop of Addis Ababa. The Mass was celebrated by Cardinal Joseph ...
17 December 2003
EUROPE/SCOTLAND - SCOTTISH BISHOPS MAKE 2004 YEAR OF "LIFE AND FAMILY"
Glasgow (Fides Service) - In a letter to all Catholics in Scotland made public on 15 December, Cardinal Keith O'Brien calls on them to support marriage and the family and to build "a culture of life" in Scotland, Peter K ...
17 December 2003
ASIA/INDIA - “THE CHURCH MUST COMMUNICATE THE GOOD NEWS, AT ALL TIMES AND WITH ALL MEANS ”, ARCHBISHOP BASELIOS, PRESIDENT OF THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE OF INDIA TOLD MEETING OF CATHOLIC COUNCIL
New Delhi (Fides Service) – The Church has to engage in social communications at all times and by all means because her very existence has relevance only if she is a proclaiming and an evangelising Church” said the ...
17 December 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE’S TEACHING AT GENERAL AUDIENCE: “THE MEANING OF CHRISTIAN HOPE, RE-PROPOSED IN ADVENT, IS CONFIDENT WAITING, INDUSTRIOUS READINESS AND JOYOUS OPENING TO THE ENCOUNTER WITH THE LORD. WITH HIS COMING IN BETHLEHEM HE CAME TO US TO STAY FOREVER.”
Vatican City (Fides Service ) – “Advent quickens our expectancy for Christ, who comes to visit us with his salvation, bringing to completion his Kingdom of justice and peace. The annual commemoration of the birth of ...
17 December 2003
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA – ALL IS QUIET IN GAMBELLA AFTER RECENT ETHNIC CLASHES. AT LEAST 200 HOMELESS PEOPLE FIND SHELTER AT SALESIAN MISSION AND HUNDREDS MORE ARE IN DANGER OF STARVATION
Addis Ababa (Fides Service)- All is quiet in Gambella, in south east Ethiopia, the scene of ethnic clashes last week (see Fides 16 December 2003). “Army troops dispatched by the government restored order and are now pa ...
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