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24 November 2003
ASIA/CHINA – DESPITE GOVERNMENT MEASURES CHINA REGISTERS CONCERNING INCREASE IN CASES OF SUICIDE
Beijing (Fides Service) – China has launched a national plan to address the serious problem of suicide. The government has ordered a study to find ways to prevent depression. Last year Beijing opened an Assistance Cent ...
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24 November 2003
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS TO SOLVE CRISIS CONTINUE. PRESIDENT GBAGBO IN GABON, MALI AND BURKINA FASO
Abidjan (Fides Service)- “The fact that President Laurent Gbagbo and French Foreign minister Laurent de Villepin, met is positive in itself ” a local Church sources told Fides with regard to a meeting of the Presiden ...
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24 November 2003
AFRICA/BURUNDI - BURUNDI OPTS FOR PEACE: REBELS RECEIVE GOVERNMENT POSTS, GROWING HOPES FOR END OF WAR DESPITE CONTINUING SPORADIC VIOLENCE
Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “I think that after years of disappointment and false starts this time Burundi has taken the path for peace” a priest in Bururi in Burundi told Fides after the government signed a peace agr ...
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24 November 2003
ASIA/TURKEY - REGARDLESS OF TENSION AND FEAR FRANCISCAN FRIARS OPEN INTERNATIONAL FRATERNITY FOR MISSION OF ECUMENICAL AND INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE
Istanbul (Fides Service) – On November 29 with a solemn Mass at the church of Santa Maria Draperis in Istanbul a new International Fraternity will be opened by the Order of Friars Minor in the presence of Minister Gene ...
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24 November 2003
ASIA/INDIA - WAVE OF VIOLENCE IN NORTH EAST INDIA LEAVES THOUSANDS HOMELESS AND DOES NOT SPARE THE CHURCH, ARCHBISHOP OF SHILLONG TELLS FIDES
Shillong (Fides Service) – “Thousands are homeless, thousands of students are without lessons. Innocent people die. May God forgive those who commit such evil. The violence does not even spare religious ministers or ...
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22 November 2003
MISSION IN AMERICA IN THE EARLY PART OF THE LAST CENTURY: EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTATION FROM FIDES PHOTO ARCHIVES
See CAM2 FIDES SPECIAL (www.fides.org.) for all sorts of information on the Second American Mission Congress taking place in Guatemala, including exclusive photos from Fides historic mission archives on mission in Americ ...
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22 November 2003
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - NO END TO VIOLENCE AGAINST THE CHURCH: KIDNAPPED PRIEST FOUND DEAD; SEVEN CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES HELD HOSTAGE AND ROBBED.
San Vicente del Caguan (Fides Service) – Safely back at their mission at last, seven missionaries of St John Eudes in southern Colombia lived a frightening experience at the hands of kidnappers. For several hours they ...
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21 November 2003
AFRICA/IVORY COAST – ABENGOUROU: BISHOP BRUNO KOUAME RESIGNS, REV. JEAN-JACQUES KOFFI OI KOFFI APPOINTED
Vatican City (Fides Service ) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (21 November 2003) accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Abengourou (Ivory Coast), presented by Bishop Bruno Kouam ...
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21 November 2003
AMERICA/ UNITED STATES - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2: 75 US MEMBERS REPRESENT THE ENTIRE COUNTRY INCLUDING ALASKA
New York (Fides Service) – The delegation of the Church in the United States to the second American Mission Congress in Guatemala, is composed of 75 members. Father John Kozar, National Director of the Pontifical Missi ...
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21 November 2003
AMERICA/MEXICO - “PROGRESSIVE LOSS OF GOSPEL VALUES UNDERMINES FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL HARMONY” SAY MEXICAN BISHOPS
Mexico City (Fides Service) – At the end of its plenary assembly 10 to 14 November, the Bishops’ Conference of Mexico issued a message “Unbind him ad let him free” (inspired by the figure of Lazarus), in which t ...
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21 November 2003
VATICAN - AMERICA IS EVANGELISING AMERICA AND EVEN REACHING BEYOND ITS CONTINENTAL FRONTIERS
Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 25 to 30 November 2003, the 2nd American Mission Congress, CAM 2, will take place in Guatemala. This major ecclesial event will be attended by more than 3000 delegates from every cou ...
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21 November 2003
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - 5 MILLION SOUTH AFRICANS SUFFER FROM AIDS, 600 NEW CASES EVERY 24 HOURS: GOVERNMENT WILL DISTRIBUTE ANTIRETROVIRAL DRUGS FREE
Johannesburg (Fides Service ) – South Africa is the country with the highest number of people suffering from Aids in the world: 5 million out of a population of 45 million are infected.
In view of the alarming spread ...
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21 November 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE ADDRESSES PONTIFICAL COUNCIL "COR UNUM" PLENARY: “THE CHURCH TENDS NOT ONLY TO THE MATERIAL NEEDS OF THOSE IN DIFFICULTY… WITH SIMPLICITY AND PASTORAL PRUDENCE SHE DOES NOT HESITATE TO BEAR WITNESS TO CHRIST, WHO REVEALS THE FACE OF GOD THE FATHER, TENDER AND LOVING”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Love of God and neighbour is a direct manifestation of the Church’s fidelity to her Lord who ‘gave himself up for us’ (Eph 5, 2). The Church was born from the pieced heart of Jes ...
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21 November 2003
AFRICA/EGYPT - CHRISTIANS IN EGYPT, A COUNTRY OF TOLERANCE, ARE A BRIDGE BETWEEN TWO FAITHS AND TWO CULTURES
Alexandria of Egypt (Fides Service)- “This cannot be labelled as religious Muslim terrorism since its victims are also Muslims” Bishop Giuseppe Bausardo, Apostolic Vicar of Alexandria of Egypt told Fides with regard ...
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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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