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22 October 2003
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “MURDER OF INTERNATIONAL RADIO FRANCE SYMPTOM OF CLIMATE OF VIOLENCE AND SUSPICION INTO WHICH IVORY COAST HAS BEEN PLUNGED”
Abidjan (Fides Service) – Police have arrested a member of the security forces with regard to the death of Ms Jean Helene, Radio France International reporter, killed in circumstances still to be clarified on 21 Octobe ...
22 October 2003
EUROPE/FRANCE - ALARMING INCREASE OF ALCOHOL AND ILLICIT DRUG USE AMONG YOUNG EUROPEANS
Rome (Fides Service) – “Young people are often at the leading edge of social change, and upward trends in alcohol and illicit drug use by young people constitute an important social development in the EU” according ...
21 October 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS TO NEW CARDINALS: ONLY IF YOU BECOME SERVANTS CAN YOU FULFIL YOUR MISSION AND HELP THE SUCCESSOR OF PETER TO BE, IN TURN, THE
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Resplendent in this Square is the Church of Christ, old yet always new, gathered around the Successor of Peter. Enriched with new members of the College of Cardinals, as she reflects e ...
21 October 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE ADDRESSES VISITORS WHO CAME FOR BEATIFICATION OF MOTHER TERESA “THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT MOTHER TERESA WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST MISSIONARIES OF THE 20TH CENTURY. MISSIONARY WITH THE MOST UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE: THE LANGUAGE OF CHARITY WITHOUT LIMITS OR EXCLUSION, WITHOUT PREFERENCE EXCEPT FOR THE MOST ABANDONED”.
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “I am happy to join you in giving thanks to God for the beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. I was bound to her by great esteem and sincere affection. This is why I am particular ...
21 October 2003
SPECIAL CONSISTORY: EXCLUSIVE FOR FIDES SUBSCRIBERS E-MAIL SPECIAL INFO ON COLLEGE OF CARDINALS
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Fides Service is working on a SPECIAL INFO PAGE ON THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. Fides Subscribers will receive this exclusive info by e-mail: list of Cardinals, countr ...
21 October 2003
AFRICA/BURUNDI - INFO: 10 YEARS OF WAR
Bujumbura (Fides Service) – More than 300,000 civilians killed in ten years of war in Burundi, which broke out on 21 October 1993, when a group of rebel militia assassinated Melchior Ndadaye, first president of Burundi ...
21 October 2003
AMERICA/PERU - PÉREZ DE CUELLAR TELLS FIDES: “THE HOLY FATHER’S GREATEST CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS PEACE AT THE POLITICAL DIPLOMATIC LEVEL IS THAT AS A PERSON HE IS A PERMANENT SOURCE OF INSPIRATION TO PEACE”
Lima (Fides Service) - Among the many personalities in Rome to take part in celebrations to mark the 25th year of Pope John Paul II’s Pontificate there was also Ambassador Javier Pérez De Cuellar, charged by the Peru ...
21 October 2003
AFRICA/BURUNDI - PEACE PROSPECTS AFTER TEN YEARS OF WAR
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides)- “This is perhaps the most serious effort to restore peace in Burundi” a local Church source in Bujumbura, who remains unnamed for security reasons, told Fides Service, referring to peace ag ...
21 October 2003
AMERICA/UN - PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN. ARCHBISHOP MIGLIORE HOLY SEE PERMANENT OBSERVER TO THE UNITED NATIONS ADDRESSES GENERAL ASSEMBLY
New York (Fides Service) – “The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child entered into force in September 1990. That same month, a World Summit for Children was held to adopt the Declaration on the Survival, Protectio ...
21 October 2003
AFRICA/SOMALIA - HUMANITARIAN WORKERS IN SOMALIA TARGETED AGAIN: TWO BRITISH VOLUNTEERS FOUND DEAD
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21 October 2003
AFRICA/SUDAN - AT LEAST 100 DEAD AND 15,000 HOMELESS AFTER ATTACKS ON FIFTEEN VILLAGES IN WESTERN SUDAN
Khartoum (Fides Service) – At least 100 people were killed and 15,000 forced to flee their homes when groups of armed bandits attacked 15 villages and torched homes in western Sudan. (Fides Service 21/10/2003 EM lines ...
21 October 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - KINSHASA NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE NOT THREATENED BY FLOODS SAY EXPERTS, BUT RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL COULD BE STOLEN
Kinshasa (Fides Service) – There is no danger of erosion at the CRENK Regional Centre for Nuclear Studies adjoining Kinshasa University, DIA local Catholic news service reports. Experts say although the Centre is in a ...
21 October 2003
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS – PREPARATION FOR CAM2 AND MISSION YEAR AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK TOGETHER AT THE SERVICE OF THE COMMON MISSION AMONG THE PEOPLES OF CENTRAL AMERICA SAY PMS NATIONAL DIRECTORS
Guatemala City (Fides Service) - “The fact that we have assumed responsibility both for the preparation of CAM 2 and for the celebration of Mission Year has united us all the more and given us the chance to engage in c ...
20 October 2003
VATICAN - TOMORROW POPE JOHN PAUL II HOLDS 9TH CONSISTORY TO CREATE 31 NEW CARDINALS
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Tomorrow 21 October at 10.30 am Pope John Paul II will hold an Ordinary Public Consistory in St Peter’s Square for the creation of thirty new Cardinals, one of them in pectore. It will ...
20 October 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - SAVE THE CHILDREN WELCOMES DEVELOPED COUNTRIES’ DECISION FOR GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TB AND MALARIA
Rome (Fides Service) – More than 14 million children under 15 in the world have lost one or two parents because of AIDS. At present only 3% of the Global Fund goes to support this category. Half of the amount is spent ...
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