News
25 November 2003
ASIA/TAIWAN - NEW JESUIT PUBLICATION “RENLAI” TO PROMOTE DIALOGUE WITH THE CHINESE WORLD
Taipei (Fides Service) – With a new monthly publication Renlai, Jesuits in Taiwan intend to promote authentic dialogue with the Chinese world. Renlai, meaning “Flute of Humanity”, is published by the “Ricci Cultu ...
25 November 2003
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - KOREAN RELIGIOUS PROMISE GREATER COMMITMENT TO MISSION AD GENTES IN ASIA AND AFRICA
Seoul (Fides Service) – Religious in South Korea have vowed to increase their commitment for missionary activity. This fact emerged from a recent General Assembly of Superiors Major of Religious Institutes and Societi ...
25 November 2003
30 NOVEMBER: INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST DEATH PENALTY, INITIATIVES ORGANISED IN ROME BY S. EGIDIO COMMUNITY AND IN 150 OTHER CITIES
Roma (Fides Service) - Wednesday 26 November 2003 at midday in Piazza S. Egidio, 3/a there will be the presentation of initiatives for World Day Against the Death Penalty. S. Egidio Community, Rome city council and a co ...
25 November 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - ITALY’S SUPERIOR HEALTH INSTITUTE AUTHORISES TAT PROTEIN ANTI HIV/AIDS VACCINE TESTING ON HUMANS: VOLUNTEERS WANTED
Rome (Fides Service) - The President of Italy Superior Health Institute Enrico Garaci has announced the start of clinical testing of phase 1 of an anti-HIV/AIDS vaccine based on the protein TAT. Testing on humans has bee ...
25 November 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - RELIGIOUS HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION MARKS 40TH ANNIVERSARY: PRESIDENT FRIAR CICINELLI STRESSES NEED TO FIND BALANCE BETWEEN STATE, MARKET AND NON PROFIT, THREE POLES IN SYNERGY WITH EQUAL DIGNITY
Rome (Fides Service) – The Italian Religious Association of Social-Health Institutes ARIS is marking 40 years of activity. Representatives of government, the Catholic Church and local health bodies met to discuss the p ...
25 November 2003
ASIA/HONG KONG - DEMOCRATIC PARTY WINS ELECTIONS: LOCAL CHURCH ENCOURAGES CATHOLICS TO “PRESERVE DEMOCRACY AND PUT INTO PRACTICE THE CHURCH’S SOCIAL TEACHING”.
Hong Kong (Fides Service) – Catholic observers in Kong Kong describe the triumph of the Democratic Party in November 23 elections as a history making event. Local church sources tell Fides that another page has been wr ...
25 November 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - CANCER SECOND CAUSE OF DEATH IN ITALY AND EUROPE
Rome (Fides Service) – According to a EUROCARE report to be released on 26 November at ISS the Italian Higher Institute for Health-Care during a Conference on the theme “Recent Tendencies Cancer Survival in Italy and ...
24 November 2003
EUROPE/AFRICA - MEETING OF FRENCH/AFRICAN TWIN DIOCESES ORGANISED BY PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES TO GROW IN THE UNIVERSAL DIMENSION OF FAITH
Lyons (Fides Service)- A two day meeting of “twin” dioceses has been organised by the Pontifical Mission Societies in France, 22-23 November in Lyons, France. Some 85 participants have gather representing French dioc ...
24 November 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT THE ANGELUS: “LOOKING AT CHRIST ‘PANTOCRATOR’, AS THEEASTERN LITURGY SAYS, HIGHLIGHTS THE MISSION OF BELIEVERS CALLED IN A VARIETY OF MINISTRIES AND CHARISMA TO COOPERATE IN THE BUILDING UP OF HIS KINGDOM”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – As usual on Sunday 23 November Pope John Paul II came to his study window to pray the midday Angelus with people gathered in St Peter’s Square, who were several thousand. “Today, the ...
24 November 2003
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS 2ND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2: MAJOR SUPERIORS OF AMERICAN MISSION INSTITUTES REFLECT ON THE PROGRESS BETWEEN CAM 1 AND CAM 2
Guatemala City (Fides Service) – On 22 and 23 November in Guatemala City there was a meeting of Superior Majors of America (SOMIVA). Father Antonio Camacho Muñoz, of the communications office of the Missionaries of G ...
24 November 2003
AMERICA/CANADA - BISHOP FRANÇOIS LAPIERRE OF SAINT-HYACINTHE: “MISSION HELPS US TO LOOK FURTHER TO SEE IN DAILY LIFE THE TRAGEDIES AND HOPES OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN. MISSION IS A CALL NOT ONLY TO GO OUT OF OUR COUNTRY BUT TO GO OUT OF OURSELVES”
Saint-Hyacinthe (Fides Service) – At the Second American Mission Congress in Guatemala City (25-30 November), the Church in Canada is represented by 150 delegates, many of them young people. “There is amazing interes ...
24 November 2003
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TWO MILLION CHILDREN SLAUGHTERED, 1 MILLION ORPHANS, 12 MILLION MINORS HOMELESS, 200 ADULTS ASSASSINATED, 1 MILLION REFUGEES, 100,000 WIDOWS, 400 VILLAGES DISAPPEARED: SCHOOL FOR PEACE FOR 3,000 WAR CHILDREN
Rome (Fides Service) – This is the balance in the past decade after 36 years of civil war. Children see their parents murdered, children subject to torture and sexual abuse. Children who still today have serious psych ...
24 November 2003
AMERICA/GUATEMALA – 2ND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS OPENS TOMORROW: FIRST MAJOR MISSIONARY EVENT OF THIRD MILLENNIUM
Guatemala City (Fides Service) – Tomorrow 25 November, the 2nd American Mission Congress CAM 2, will be officially inaugurated in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Pope John Paul II has sent as his Special Envoy, Cardinal Cre ...
24 November 2003
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE – CHURCH ORGANISATIONS PROTEST ARREST OF 100 TRADE UNION LEADERS
Harare (Fides Service)- Ever more concerning the situation in Zimbabwe since a serious political - social and economic crisis exploded at the beginning of 2000 when Robert Mugabe launched an accelerated agricultural re ...
24 November 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE APPOINTS NEW CARDINAL MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES
Vatican City (Fides Service ) – Pope John Paul II has appointed Members of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples the following Cardinals created on 21 October 2003: Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino (Presid ...
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