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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 ...
28 October 2003
ASIA/INDONESIA - SOLIDARITY AMONG CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS FOR A RAMADAN OF PEACE IN THE MOLUCCAS– LOCAL CHURCH CELEBRATES 100 YEARS OF SACRED HEART MISSIONARIES
Ambon (Fides Service) – Ramadan offers an opportunity to consolidate peace in the Moluccas Bishop Petrus Canisius Mandagi of Amboina told Fides Service. The Bishop, who is member of the Congregation of Sacred Heart Mis ...
28 October 2003
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - RAMADAN IN SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES COULD SEE STEPS FORWARD IN GOVERNMENT REBEL DIALOGUE - MINDANAO PREPARES FOR PEACE WEEK 2003
Manila (Agenzia Fides) – “We hope Ramadan will be a time for dialogue to move forward. In Mindanao Ramadan is deeply felt and celebrated by the local Muslims. Today many Muslims live in poverty and this challenges us ...
27 October 2003
POPE JOHN PAUL II’S MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION FOR NOVEMBER 2003: THAT THE CHURCH IN AMERICA, CELEBRATING THE SECOND AMERICAN MISSIONARY CONGRESS IN GUATEMALA, MAY BE INSPIRED TO MORE GENEROUS EVANGELIZING ACTIVITY EVEN BEYOND HER OWN FRONTIERS, comment by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples
Rome (Fides Service) - In continuity with the 1st American Mission Congress CAM 1 (COMLA 6) held in Parana Argentina in 1999, a few months after the promulgation of the post synodal Exhortation Ecclesial in America and t ...
27 October 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT THE ANGELUS PRAYER: “I RENEW MY THANKS TO GOD, RICH IN MERCY, FOR THESE 25 YEARS OF MINISTRY AT THE SERVICE OF THE CHURCH…I RENEW THE ENTRUSTMENT OF MY LIFE AND MY MINISTRY TO THE VIRGIN MARY”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Still vivid in my soul are the intense emotions of recent days, during which so many people gathered around me on the occasion of my 25th year of Pontificate. I renew my thanks to God, ...
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