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17 November 2003
ASIA/CAMBODIA - CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS AT ANNUAL MEETING DISCUSS CATECHESIS, FORMATION AND MISSION IN DIFFICULT SOCIAL POLITICAL CONTEXT
Phnom Penh (Fides Service) – “The meeting was a positive event lived in an atmosphere of brotherhood and sharing. We discussed priorities for the Church today, including the building of new communities, catechesis an ...
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17 November 2003
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - VANIMO DIOCESE HAS FIRST HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: INCREASING EFFORTS BY LOCAL CHURCH FOR THE EDUCATION AND PROMOTION OF WOMEN
Vanimo (Fides Service ) – The Catholic diocese of Vanimo has launched a bold plan for the education and promotion of young girls in Papua new Guinea. The plan will cost about 3 million Euro which Bishop Cesare Bonivent ...
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17 November 2003
AMERICA/CHILE - TOWARDS SECOND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2 - “CONGRESS DELEGATES PROMISE TO BE POINTS OF INFORMATION AND FORMATION FOR THEIR RESPECTIVE DIOCESES”
Santiago (Fides Service) – “Through our publications “Chile Misionero” and “Pablito Misionero” read in parishes, formation centres, lay groups, families and among Missionary Childhood members, we have diffuse ...
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14 November 2003
ASIA/IRAQ - “WE DO NOT WANT IRAQ TO BE ANOTHER PALESTINE! NO STATE, A NATION LEFT AT THE MERCY OF TERRORISTS”: HEARTFELT PLEA TO FIDES BY SUPERIOR GENERAL OF CHALDEAN CATHOLIC MONKS
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – “We do not want Iraq to be another Palestine! No state, a nation left at the mercy of terrorist groups and its people dying of hunger!”. This was the heartfelt plea launched by Father Den ...
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14 November 2003
ASIA/CHINA - DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM MUST RESPECT THE HUMAN PERSON AND IT CAN HELP CHINESE CATHOLICS TO FULFIL THEIR DREAM TO MAKE A PILGRIMAGE TO EUROPE
Beijing (Fides Service) – Following the summit meeting between China the European Union, the tourist industry is China has been fully alerted. A tourist operator in Beijing tells Fides “the China UE talks opened new ...
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14 November 2003
TOMORROW 1ST FIDES DOSSIER ON CAM 2, AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS IN GUATEMALA CITY
From 25 to 30 November, the Second American Mission Congress CAM 2, will take place in Guatemala City, Guatemala. This is a missionary event of exceptional importance. See first Fides Dossier on CAM 2:
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14 November 2003
VATICAN - “IT IS IMPORTANT TO PROPOSE TO PEOPLE, YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR, FIGURES AND EXPERIENCES THAT HELP THEM TO GROW AT THE HUMAN, PSYCHOLOGICAL, MORAL AND SPIRITUAL LEVEL”, POPE JOHN PAUL II ADDRESSES 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR THE PASTORAL CARE OF HEALTH WORKERS AND THE SICK
Vatican City (Fides Service) – This morning in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican Pope John Paul II granted a special audience to participants at the 18th International Conference organised by the Pontifical Council for t ...
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14 November 2003
VATICAN - LEO XIII AND PEACE CONVENTIONS PROMOTED BY THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE AND THE GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY TO MARK THE CENTENARY OF THE DEATH OF THIS GREAT POPE
Vatican City (Fides Service) – In history’s passage from the 19th to the 20th centuries and the definitive turn towards modernity, the impulse given by Pope Leo XIII to a new presence and activity of the Holy See at ...
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14 November 2003
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - “WE WANT TO SHARE THE HOPES AND FEARS OF OUR PEOPLE ” CATHOLIC BISHOPS SAY; URGENT NEED FOR ATTENTION TO FORMATION OF CONSCIENCES, PROMOTE ETHIC EDUCATION, OBSERVANCE OF THE LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS”
Asuncion (Fides Service) – The Catholic Bishops of Paraguay have voiced their commitment to accompany the life of the people sharing their hopes and concerns and that as Bishops they “wish to offer a clear word of a ...
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14 November 2003
ASIA/INDIA - MALARIA: CASES REGISTERED WHERE MALARIA WAS HITHERTO UNKNOWN. CONCERN OVER CASES OF UNCLEAR NATURE
Rome (Fides Service) – Hospitals in Manimajra-Chinargarh and Panchkula have recently reported 15 cases of malaria and 25 of an unidentified fever. The cases of malaria come from Burj Kotia a Pinjore. 5 of the 15 patien ...
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14 November 2003
AFRICA/ANGOLA - AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED DENOUNCES VIOLENCE IN CABINDA ENCLAVE: BESIDES SUMMARY EXECUTION, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS
Luanda (Fides Service) – Catholic priests in Angola have denounced crimes against humanity, aggression of civilians by Angolan army troops in Cabina enclave, separated from Angola by the Republic of Congo. A report sen ...
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14 November 2003
AFRICA/LIBERIA - THE CHURCH IN FAVOUR OF DISARMAMENT OF LOCAL MILITIA. FIGHTING CONTINUES IN SEVERAL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY
Monrovia (Fides Service)- The Catholic Church in Liberia supports the process to disarm local militia and for this reason it has asked to be represented in the national Commission for Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reha ...
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14 November 2003
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - “RE-LAUNCH VALUES OF SCOUTING FOR THE FORMATION OF AUTHENTIC DEMOCRATIC LEADERS”: NEW WORLD SECRETARY OF THE SCOUT MOVEMENT, EDUARDO MISSONI TELLS FIDES ABOUT HIS COMMITMENTS
Geneva (Fides Service) – “The strategy of the Scout Movement works at two levels: valorise the patrimony of cultural, social e religious identity at local level; act at the global level, because Scouting has always ...
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13 November 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE PRESIDES MASS FOR THE CARDINALS AND BISHOPS WHO DIED IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS: “ALL THESE VENERABLE BROTHERS ARE NOW IN THE PROVIDENT ‘HANDS’ OF GOD WHO HAS WELCOMED INTO THE ETERNAL EMBRACE OF HIS LOVE ”
Vatican City (Fides) – On Thursday 13 November at 11.30am Pope John Paul II presided a Concelebration of the Holy Eucharist in St Peter’s Basilica for the cardinals and bishops who died during the last 12 months.
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13 November 2003
VATICAN - PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PASTORAL CARE OF HEALTH WORKERS AND THE SICK STARTS ITS 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON “DEPRESSION”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Some 600 participants, health experts, cardinals, bishops and laity gathered in the New Synod Hall in the Vatican for the 18th International Conference organised by Pontifical Council for ...
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