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30 October 2003
VATICAN - NEW RECTOR OF URBAN UNIVERSITY SPEAKS WITH FIDES: “THE SEARCH FOR GOD MUST NEVER DIVIDE RATHER IT MUST UNITE OVERCOMING EVERY FORM OF INTOLERANCE”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – At the beginning of the academic year at the pontifical Urban University Fides interviewed the newly appointed Rector Mgr Giuseppe Cavallotto, former dean of the Faculty of Missiology.
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29 October 2003
ASIA/NEPAL - “ONLY UNITED NATIONS INTERVENTION CAN MEDIATE BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND REBELS”: PRO-PREFECT APOSTOLIC IN NEPAL LAUNCHES HEARTFELT APPEAL
Kathmandu (Fides Service) – “The situation is precipitating, it calls for a third party to mediate. We ask for an intervention by the United Nations Organisation. Only this will restore dialogue”. This heartfelt ap ...
29 October 2003
VATICAN - DURING WEDNESDAY AUDIENCE THE POPE ENCOURAGES ALL CHRISTIANS TO WALK WITH THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY THE PATH OF HOLINESS, CONTEMPLATING JESUS AND MEDITATING WITH THE ROSARY THE MYSTERIES OF SALVATION
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Due to heavy rain in Rome this morning, Wednesday 29 October, the Holy Father held his audience in two parts, first he addressed thousands of visitors gathered inside St Peter’s and the ...
29 October 2003
AFRICA/NIGERIA - 15 MILION CHILDREN THREATED BY POLIO: MASS VACCINATION CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT AGAINST LIFE THREATENING VIRUS
Rome (Fides Service) – A new epidemic of polio has been registered in Nigeria, the counry which has the highest number of polio cases in the whole world. Epidemologists say the cause is insufficent vaccination in this ...
29 October 2003
VATICAN - TOMORROW “PONTIFICAL LATERAN UNIVERSITY INAUGURATES A NEW CHAIR GLORIA CRUCIS” THE VALUE OF THE CROSS FOR EVERY PERSON AND FOR THE LIFE OF THE WORLD
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Instituted on June 13 this year, at the Pontifical Lateran University a new Gloria Crucis Cathedra will be officially inaugurated tomorrow 30 October is the framework of a Study Seminar p ...
29 October 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - IMMIGRATION STATISTICS DOSSIER 2003: RECOGNISE IMMIGRANTS’ EQUAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES AND ENABLE THEM TO TAKE ACTIVE PART IN SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL REALITY OF ITALY AND EUROPEAN UNION
Rome (Fides Service) – In the world there are at least 175 million migrants according to a census taken by the United Nations Organisation in 2000. Surprisingly there are more migrants in developing countries (98.678.0 ...
29 October 2003
AFRICA/LIBERIA - “RENEW LIBERIA’S POLITICAL CULTURE TO END CIVIL WAR ONCE AND FOR ALL”
Monrovia (Fides Service)- “This is the usual ballet about appointments which weighs on the shoulders of the poor people” Father Mauro Armanino SMA Provincial tells Fides commenting the compromise reached between LURD ...
29 October 2003
AFRICA/LIBERIA - JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE RESUMES ACTIVITY IN LIBERIA
Monrovia (Fides Service)- Civil war in Liberia forced humanitarian workers to suspend, temporary aid programmes for numerous displaced persons in this west African country. The Jesuit Refugee Service JRS says in a statem ...
28 October 2003
AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO – REVEREND JULIUS NDINGA DJAMA APPOINTED RECTOR OF FATHER CHARLES MAHONDE SEMINARY IN OUESSO
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has (23rd October 2003) appointed Rector of Father Charles Mahonde Inter-diocesan Propaedautic Semina ...
28 October 2003
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - SAINT BENEDETTO MENNI DECLARED PATRON OF VOLUNTARY WORKERS IN TAYTAY APOSTOLIC VICARIATE: MODEL OF GENEROUS AVAILABILITY
Taytay (Fides Service) - Bishop Edgardo Sarabia Juanich, Apostolic Vicar of Taytay, has obtained a decree from the Holy See declaring Saint Benedetto Menni patron of voluntary workers all over the Vicariate: Taytay is th ...
28 October 2003
AFRICA/KENYA - INFRASTRUCTURES FOR DEVELOPMENT CENTRAL THEME OF NEPAD MEETING
Nairobi (Fides Service)- Development policies in East Africa will be the main subject for discussion at the regional meeting of NEPAD New Partnership for Africa’s Development which opens tomorrow 29 October in Nairobi ...
28 October 2003
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - “JUSTICE AND TRANSPARENCY IN ELECTIONS”: IN VIEW OF IMMINENT POLL CATHOLIC BISHOPS ISSUE MESSAGE TO THE NATION
Maputo (Fides Service)- “We call on all Mozambicans to reflect on the social and economic reality in which we live and to assume their duty to choose, by means of elections, candidates able to find solutions to the pro ...
28 October 2003
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – PROGRAMME FOR AMERICAN MISSIONARY INTERVENTION NOW COMPLETE: ALMOST READY CONGRESS HANDBOOK AND CENTRAL-AMERICAN MISSION PLAN
Bogota (Fides Service) – The organisation and programme for the celebration of the 2nd American Mission Congress CAM2, which the organisers hope will be a truly “Mission event for the Church in America”, is now com ...
28 October 2003
MODERN EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST EXEMPLARS OF ST PETER'S NEW TESTAMENT LETTERS: ARTICLE BY MGR. RAVASI
Vatican cITY(Agenzia Fides) - “The pole star is always Christ celebrated as the sacrificial lamb, the living stone, the suffering servant of the Lord sung by Isaiah, the shepherd and custodian oF our souls” Mgr. Gian ...
28 October 2003
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - AN IMPORTANT DAY IN BISSAU: S. EGIDIO COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, DESTROYED BY CIVIL WAR, REBUILT AND NOW WORKING
Roma (Agenzia Fides) – On October 20 the S. Egidio Hospital in Bissau resumed its activity: the first departments to open were the hospital’s dispensary, radiology department and analysis laboratory. At last, after a ...
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