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6 November 2003
AFRICA/LIBERIA - MIRACLE OF LEPERS WHO ESCAPED WAR. LEPROSY SCARES WARLORDS BUT NOT CONSOLATA MISSIONARIES
Monrovia (Fides Service)- “Leaders of the two rebel movements LURD and MODEL are now negotiating with heads of the international peacekeeping force to put an end to fighting in northern Liberia” a local Consolata Mis ...
6 November 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - GIORGIO LA PIRA, “SAINTLY MAYOR” OF FLORENCE, LUMINOUS MODEL OF LAY HOLINESS. INITIATIVES FOR CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH
Florence (Fides Service) - «In Giorgio La Pira we see a shining example of lay holiness» said Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, Archbishop of Florence when he spoke of the «saintly mayor», during a special Mass for the 26th ...
6 November 2003
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS THE SECOND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) –EXPLANATION OF THE OFFICIAL LOGO: “CHRIST CAME TO SAVE MANKIND”
Guatemala City (Fides Service) - The aim of the artist who designed the logo for the 2nd American Mission Congress (CAM 2) was to highlight the most important aspect of the Gospel: “Christ came to save mankind” fro ...
6 November 2003
ASIA/INDIA - YOUNG FILM DIRECTORS PROMOTE NON VIOLENCE WITH THEIR FIRST FILMS AT “DON BOSCO FILM FESTIVAL FOR PEACE”
Bombay (Fides Service) – A campaign for peace through cinema, with the help of the figure of Saint John Bosco: this is the objective of Don Bosco Film Festival For Peace, organised by Salesian Fathers in Bombay. The Fe ...
6 November 2003
ASIA/INDIA - CHRISTIANS IN ORISSA COMMITTED TO DEFEND TRIBAL CULTURE AND PROMOTE DEVELOPMENT OF DEPRESSED AREAS THREATENED BY HINDU FUNDAMENTALISM
Bhubaneswar (Fides Service ) – The situation for Christians in the Indian state of Orissa is not one of the easiest since it is one of the states with the largest number of fundamentalist Hindu groups which in the past ...
6 November 2003
VATICAN - PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, UNIQUE IN THE WORLD MARKS 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS FOUNDATION
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Established in Rome in 1603 as the “Linceorum Academia”, today the Pontifical Academy of Science, the Institution took this name with new statutes approved by Pius XI in 1936. Since 1 ...
6 November 2003
AFRICA/SUDAN - “THE CHURCH IS THE BEST CHANNEL FOR DIALOGUE WITH THE PEOPLE OF SOUTHERN SUDAN” SAYS HASSAN AL TURABI THE COUNTRY’S CHIEF MUSLIM LEADER
Khartoum (Fides Service )- The Church is the best channel for dialogue with the people in the south. This was affirmed by main Muslim leader in Sudan Sheikh Hassan Al Turabi during an interview with Al Jazeera Arab TV af ...
6 November 2003
ASIA/INDIA - AT LEAST 600,000 INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR: “A SOCIAL TRAGEDY SOCIAL”, PROCURATOR JAMMU-SRINAGAR DIOCESE TELLS FIDES
Jammu (Fides Service ) – “There are at least 600,000 displaced persons in Kashmir: this is a social tragedy and it has gone on for too long. The problem of the homeless has exhausted Kashmir’s social and economic r ...
5 November 2003
ASIA/SRI LANKA - “IN THIS CRITICAL SITUATION IN SRI LANKA THE LOCAL CHURCH TRIES TO MEDIATE TO PREVENT TENSION FROM BURSTING INTO VIOLENCE”: PRESIDENT OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE TELLS FIDES SERVICE
Colombo (Fides Service ) – The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka is courageously making every effort to serve as a bridge between the sides in conflict with realism, Archbishop Gomis of Colombo who is also President of the ...
5 November 2003
ASIA/PAKISTAN - PRESIDENT OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE SAYS MUSLIM CHRISTIAN RELATIONS IN PAKISTAN ARE IMPROVING: THE CHURCH RESPECTS THE GOVERNMENT BUT DEMANDS ABOLITION OF BLASPHEMY LAW
Lahore (Fides Service) – Better relations with Muslims, mainly positive judgement of Musharraf’s government, but a request for the abolition of the anti-blasphemy law and Hudhud Muslim punishments. These were the mai ...
5 November 2003
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - MORE THAN 12.885 CASES OF DENGUE IN CENTRAL AMERICA, ALMOST THREE THOUSAND IN EL SALVADOR SINCE JANUARY THIS YEAR
Roma (Fides Service) – Since January this year the Health Ministry of El Salvador HAS registered 2.534 cases of ordinary Dengue fever and 108 cases of the haemorrhaging type which has already killed six children. To pr ...
5 November 2003
ASIA/INDIA - 223 DIE OF DENGUE IN ONLY THREE MONTHS
Roma (Fides Service) – Local health authorities in India say the dengue virus carried by the Aedes mosquito has killed at least 223 people in three months. The epidemic infected more than 1000 human beings of whom 926 ...
5 November 2003
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - TB KILLED TWO MILLION IN THE WORLD IN 12 MONTHS: WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION INTERVENES
Roma (Fides Service ) – TB is still one of the most dangerous infections today: according to the World Health Organisation WHO, every year about 2 million people in various parts of the world die of tuberculosis. The ...
5 November 2003
AFRICA/UGANDA - FOR GUERRILLA LEADERS THE WAR OF ATROCITIES IS NOW A WAY OF LIFE
Kampala (Fides Service)- “A military option is not a solution for the war in northern Uganda. The governments of the United States and European Union members must pressure Uganda and Sudan to find a negotiated solution ...
5 November 2003
VATICAN - PAPAL MESSAGE TO PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR THE UNITY OF CHRISTIANS: “TOGETHER WE WISH TO OVERCOME DISPUTES AND DIFFICULTIES TOGETHER WE WISH TO RECOGNISE FAILINGS AND DELAY WITH REGARD TO UNITY, WE WISH TO RESTORE THE DESIRE FOR RECONCILIATION WHEREVER IT APPEARS TO BE IN DANGER”
Vatican (Fides Service) – “Certainly the ecumenical path is no easy one way. As we progress gradually obstacles are more easily perceived and difficulties are more keenly felt. The goal declared by the various theolo ...
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