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21 November 2003
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA-ERITREA - AT THE MOMENT THERE ARE NO SIGNS OF A RETURN TO WAR BETWEEN ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA AFTER ASMARA WITHDREW ITS AMBASSADOR TO THE AFRICAN UNION
Addis Ababa (Fides Service)- “This development is serious although there are no signs of a return of military tension between Ethiopia and Eritrea or, still worse, of war” local Church sources in Addis Ababa told Fid ...
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21 November 2003
AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO - EBOLA STRIKES AGAIN: QUARANTINE FOR MBOMBO DISTRICT
Brazzaville (Fides) – Ebola disease strikes periodically in tropical forests taking a few dozen lives and then disappearing again. Unfortunately the health minister of the Republic of Congo, Alain Moka, has confirmed t ...
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21 November 2003
ASIA/INDIA - YOUTH AGAINST TERRORISM, COMMITTED TO PEACE AND A FUTURE OF BROTHERHOOD: 600 TO ATTEND WORLD YOUTH SUMMIT SPONSORED BY UNITED NATIONS
Bombay (Fides Service) – Indian youth is taking up the challenge to work for peace. “Do you care about the future of humanity, are you ready to work for peace? Are you good at planning and decision making? Are you in ...
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21 November 2003
ASIA/PAKISTAN - CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS CLOSE RAMADAN IN UNITY AND HARMONY: FUNDAMENTALISM MUST BE ISOLATED – GOVERNMENT OUTLAWS THREE EXTREMIST GROUPS
Islamabad (Fides Service) – Increase common initiatives, in a spirit of tolerance and harmony; isolate fundamentalists: these decisions were taken by Muslim and Christian leaders at a Dinner on 19 November in Lahore or ...
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21 November 2003
AFRICA - 115 MILLION SUFFER FROM DIABETES: ANOTHER KILLER OF CHILDREN IN SUBSAHARAN AFRICA
Rome (Fides Service) – Children who develop diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa are dying within a year for want of insulin. Supplies of the drug and the syringes needed for daily injections are erratic in many places in Af ...
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20 November 2003
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AGENTS OF EVANGELISATION: “MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD IS A CONCRETE REALITY IN LATIN AMERICA, IT ANIMATES PARISHES, MOVEMENTS, SCHOOLS” SAYS SISTER MARIA TERESA CRESCINI ON THE EVE OF CAM2
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “In America Latina Missionary Childhood helps adults realise children’s amazing capacity for commitment giving rise to a truly surprising movement of prayer and material aid ”. Sist ...
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20 November 2003
SANTA CROCE UNIVERSITY STUDY DAY: «JOURNALISM AND CONFLICTS» - THE MEDIA FOR PEACE
Rome (Fides Service) – «Journalism and Conflicts – what can the means of communications do to promote peace?» is the theme of a study day organised by the Social Communications Faculty of the Pontifical Santa Croce ...
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20 November 2003
ASIA/INDONESIA - WIDESPREAD CONCERN FOR KILLING OF CHRISTIANS IN CENTRAL SULAWESI: EXTREMIST GROUPS TRY TO RE-IGNITE VIOLENCE. ARRESTED PROTESTANT CHURCH INFORMATION/CRISIS CENTRE OFFICER: SERVICE OF TRUTH TARGETED
Poso (Fides Service ) – Four Protestants killed on Sunday 16 November, including Pastor Oranje Tadjodja, aged 58; 10 killed in October; Pastor Rinaldy Damanik, head of Protestant Crisis Centre in central Sulawesi, arre ...
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20 November 2003
AMERICA/HONDURAS - LITTLENESS POVERTY’, MARTYRDOM ARE “RICHES” OF MISSION AD GENTES IN LATIN AMERICA: COMMENT FOR FIDES BY CARD. OSCAR RODRIGUEZ MARADIAGA, SPEAKER AT CAM2
Tegucigalpa (Fides Service) – The document of convocation to 2nd American Mission Congress (CAM 2), 25 to 30 November in Guatemala City (Guatemala), underlines that mission in Latin America is characterised by three ...
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20 November 2003
VATICAN - “A VAST FIELD FOR NEW EVANGELISATION”
THE POPE TELLS PARTICIPANTS AT 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ORGANISED BY PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PASTORAL CARE OF MIGRANTS AND ITINERANT PEOPLES
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “The work of promoting the wellbeing of the many men and women who for various reasons do not live in their homelands represents a vast field for the new evangelisation to which the who ...
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20 November 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2003, WORLD CHILDREN’S DAY: NGO “INTERVITA” AFFIRMS THAT 82 MILLION YOUNG GIRLS FORCED BY POVERTY INTO MARRIAGE
Rome (Fides Service) – On the occasion of World Children’s Day 20 November the Milan based NGO Intervita denounces the tragedy of child brides. According to the 2003 Report on the State of the World issued by the Uni ...
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20 November 2003
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “THE STATE OF INSECURITY IS SUCH THAT WE MAY HAVE TO CELEBRATE MIDNIGHT MASS AT FOUR PM ON CHRISTMAS EVE SAYS MISSIONARY IN NORTH IVORY COAST”
Abidjan (Fides Service)- “For the moment, the emergency is over and all is calm” a missionary in Bouake told Fides Service. Bouake is the main town in the northern region Ivory Coast in the hands of the New Forces re ...
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19 November 2003
AMERICA/COSTARICA - BISHOP GIRARDI, SPEAKER AT AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS: “BEING A MISSIONARY TODAY; A TIME OF VAST POSSIBILITIES AND GREAT CHALLENGES FOR MISSIONARY ACTIVITY WITH NEW FORUMS TO BE EVANGELISED”
Tilaran (Fides Service) – CAM 2, the 2nd American Mission Congress which will be held next week 25 to 30 November in Guatemala City, is the first major missionary event in the third millennium. It will be an opportunit ...
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19 November 2003
VATICAN - POPE’S TEACHING AT GENERAL AUDIENCE: “WITH US IN SUFFERING AND IN DEATH, CHRIST NOW DRAWS US TO BE WITH HIM IN HIS GLORY, BLESSING US AND CALLING US TO SHARE IN HIS ETERNITY
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II met visitors who had come for his Wednesday Audience on October 19 in the Paul VI Hall. This week his teaching on the psalms of Vespers, focussed on the Canticle Fil 2,6 ...
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19 November 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - 1 MILLION OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN LED TO PROSTITUTION; 2 MILLION KILLED IN WAR AND 6 MILLION WOUNDED OR MUTILATED; EVERY DAY 7000 CHILDREN ARE INFECTED BY AIDS: ITALY’S NATIONAL DAY FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
Rome (Fides Service) – November 20 in Italy and in several other countries is National Day for Childhood and Adolescence to highlight the importance of building a world suitable for children. Every year 1 million of th ...
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