News
18 November 2003
ASIA/INDIA - WORD OF GOD NOW ACCESSIBLE TO MORE THAN 200 MILLION PEOPLE THANKS TO 35 YEARS OF DEDICATED WORK TO PRODUCE BIBLE IN BENGALI
Calcutta (Fides Service) – The complete Bible has been translated and published in Bengali thanks to the Xavier Publications House in Calcutta. The Bengali Bible was presented to the press at the Jesuit Communications ...
18 November 2003
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - PREVENT ABORTION AND SUICIDE “SAVE ANOTHER LIFE!”: “LIFE 31” CAMPAIGN TO SAVE AN ESTIMATED 4.000 UNBORN BABIES KILLED IN THEIR MOTHER’S WOMB EVERY DAY
Seoul (Fides Service) – The figures are frightening: it is estimated that in South Korea at least 4.000 women abort a child every day and this means that about 1,5 unborn babies are denied a chance to live. In this sit ...
18 November 2003
VATICAN - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PASTORAL CARE FOR MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES: “WE VOICE THE CHURCH’S CONCERN FOR THE WORLD’S 175 MILLION MIGRANTS AND 40 MILLION REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS ”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – This morning, 18 November, the 5th International Conference on the Pastoral Care for Migrants and Refugees promoted by the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itiner ...
18 November 2003
ASIA/INDIA - FUNDAMENTALISTS LAUNCH GRENADE AT GOOD SHEPHERD SCHOOL INJURING THREE OFFICE STAFF AND A SECURITY GUARD
Srinagar (Fides Service) – There is fear among Christians in Kashmir after grenade was launched on 15 November at Good Shepherd Catholic School in Pulwama, 35 km from Srinagar, in Kashmir. Three office staff and a sec ...
18 November 2003
AFRICA/BURUNDI - “AGREEMENT OF HISTORIC IMPORTANCE. NOW PEACE MUST BE MADE WITH THE OTHER REBEL GROUP” BISHOP OF BUJUMBURA COMMENTS GOVERNMENT/FDD PEACE PACT
Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “This is a history making agreement for Burundi” Bishop Evariste Ngoyagoye of Bujumbura told Fides with regard to peace prospects after the government and the rebel group FDD (Forces for De ...
17 November 2003
ASIA/IRAQ - INTIMIDATION AGAINST CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN NORTHERN IRAQ. FUNDAMENTALISTS PAY YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN TO ADOPT EXTREMIST ATTITUDES
Mosul (Fides Service )- Fides has received news of serious acts of intimidation against Christian communities in Mosul northern Iraq. “Last week a bomb was found in front of Catholic school in Mosul; luckily it was def ...
17 November 2003
AFRICA/KENYA – EMBU, REV. ANTHONY MUHERIA APPOINTED BISHOP
Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, (30 October 2003) appointed Bishop of Embu (Kenya), Reverend Father Anthony Muheria of the Prelature of Opus Dei.
The Bishop elect was born on 2 ...
17 November 2003
ASIA/SRI LANK – ANURADHAPURA, REV. NORBERT ANDRADI APPOINTED BISHOP
Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, (30 October 2003) appointed Bishop of Anuradhapura, (Sri Lanka) Reverend Father Norbert Andradi OMI, Superior of the OMI Scholasticate in Kandy and ...
17 November 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT THE ANGELUS: “ONCE AGAIN TERRORISM HAS COMMITTED ITS TERRIBLE ACT, PARTICULARLY DEVASTATING IN IRAQ AND TURKEY.... I RENEW MY FIRM CONDEMNATION ALSO FOR EVERY TERRORIST ATTACK IN THE HOLY LAND... THE HOLY LAND NEEDS NOT WALLS BUT BRIDGES!”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Once again in the past few days, terrorism has committed its terrible act particularly devastating in Iraq and in Turkey. As I continue to pray for the victims, I confirm my spiritual ...
17 November 2003
VATICAN - PRESIDENT OF PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE CARDINAL MARTINO DECLARES: “AS POPE JOHN PAUL II HAS SO OFTEN SAID UNEQUIVOCALLY, NO JUSTIFICATION CAN BE GIVEN TO INDISCRIMINATE MASSACRE OF HELPLESS AND INNOCENT VICTIMS ”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Referring to the tragic bombing in Istanbul, also on behalf of participants at a Seminar taking place at the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in the Vatican on Leo XIII and the Ho ...
17 November 2003
AFRICA/UGANDA - GOVERNMENT CONSIDERS OFFERING SAFE HAVEN TO GUERRILLA LEADERS TO STOP WAR IN NORTHERN UGANDA, BEFORE IT SPREADS TO INVOLVE MORE TRIBES
Kampala (Fides Service)- “At the moment it is difficult to say whether there are concrete facts behind the news ” local observers in Kampala told Fides with regard to reports of a possible agreement between the Ugand ...
17 November 2003
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - BISHOPS CLOSE 86TH PLENARY ASSEMBLY: CONCERN ABOUT PROPOSED BILL TO LEGALISE ABORTION
Rome (Fides Service) – At the end of their 86th plenary assembly the Catholic Bishops of Argentina voiced deep concern for a proposed bill to legalise abortion. The Bishops made an explicit request for “laws which pr ...
17 November 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO – REVEREND CHARLES KIPILI APPOINTED RECTOR OF ST PAUL SEMINARY IN LUBUMBASHI
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has (October 24th 2003) appointed Rector of St Paul Major Theology Inter-diocesan Seminary in Lubumb ...
17 November 2003
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - DEVELOPMENT, ASSISTANCE TO RETURNING REFUGEES, COMMUNICATIONS AND CULTURE TO PROMOTE EVANGELISATION IN MOZAMBIQUE
Maputo (Fides Service)- “The fact that three of the newly created Cardinals are Africans from Ghana, Nigeria e Sudan demonstrates that the Christian faith has taken deep root in Africa and this is an encouragement to c ...
17 November 2003
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE”: NATIONAL BIBLE WEEK IN SOUTH KOREA 23 TO 30 NOVEMBER
Seoul (Fides Service) – From 23 to 30 November the Church in South Korea will celebrate a National Bible Week promoted by the Biblical Commission of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference CBCK. The theme for reflection is ...
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