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27 June 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - MISSION AND YOUNG CHURCHES AGENTS OF NEW EVANGELISATION: INTERVIEW WITH FATHER PIERO GHEDDO ON HALF A CENTURY OF PROGRESS AND PROBLEMS IN THE MISSIONARY WORLD
Milan (Fides Service) – Father Piero Gheddo, missionary of PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions) is one of the most known “missionary faces” in Italy and abroad. Ordained a priest on 28 June 1953 by Card ...
27 June 2003
AMERICA/BAHAMAS - NASSAU – MGR. PATRICK PINDER APPOINTED AUXILIARY BISHOP
Vatican City (Fides Service) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, (12 June 2003) appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Nassau archdiocese (Bahamas) Mgr Patrick Pinder, vicar general of the same archdiocese, assigning to h ...
27 June 2003
VATICAN - PAPAL MESSAGE FOR 24TH INTERNATIONAL TOURISM DAY: TOURISM CAN PLAY AN IMPORTANT ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ROLE IN THE STRUGGLE TO ELIMINATE POVERTY
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “It is impossible to be indifferent and inert in front of poverty and underdevelopment. We cannot close ourselves in egoistic interests, abandoning numerous brothers and sisters in dire ...
27 June 2003
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - UNITED NATIONS REPORT: AVAILABLE LESS THAN HALF THE FUNDS NECESSARY FOR THE STRUGGLE AGAINST AIDS
New York (Fides Service) – Governments and centres of research all over the world have diminished funds for treating AIDS to give more to producing a vaccine, prevention and distribution of medicines for HIV people. Th ...
27 June 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - A FRUIT OF THE GREAT JUBILEE: INAUGURATION OF JOHN PAUL II HOME FOR DISABLED PILGRIMS TO ROME
Rome (Fides Service) – On Sunday June 29, feast of Saints Peter and Paul, the patron saints of Rome, the John Paul II Home for the Disabled - Opera Don Orione will be officially inaugurated. The Home is situated in Rom ...
27 June 2003
ASIA/JAPAN - PRIESTS IN TEAMS PROVIDE BETTER PASTORAL SERVICE AND FORMATION FOR YOUTH AND LAITY
Yokohama (Fides Service) – To improve pastoral work priests of Yokohama archdiocese in Japan, have told their Bishop that they would like to form “common administration parishes” in the different areas of the archd ...
27 June 2003
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - DEATH OF FIRST FILIPINO VICAR APOSTOLIC OF CALAPAN
Manila (Fides Service) – On 23 June at Quezon City Seminary after a long illness, which afflicted him for three years, Bishop Simeon Valerio, Divine Word Missionary, passed away.
The Bishop, who was 86 will be remem ...
27 June 2003
ASIA/INDIA - VOCATIONS AMONG TRIBAL PEOPLES: ADIVASI VILLAGE IN EASTERN INDIA REJOICES OVER ORDINATION OF FIRST LOCAL PRIEST
Ranchi (Fides Service) – Tribal peoples in India are very open to the message of Christ and they embrace the faith with joy. In remote villages in eastern India there are Catholic communities which live the faith with ...
27 June 2003
ASIA/NEPAL - JAPANESE NOTE DAME TEACHING SISTERS RESUME MISSION HIGH IN NEPAL MOUNTAINS
Tokyo (Fides Service) – For over twenty years the School Sisters of Notre Dame taught poor children in Bandipur village in the mountains of Nepal. In 2001, because of disorder and danger due to spreading violence on th ...
27 June 2003
AFRICA/LIBERIA - IN MONROVIA “KILLING, SACKING AND TERROR” MISSIONARY TELLS OF YET ANOTHER OF AFRICA’S FORGOTTEN WAR
Monrovia (Fides Service) – Killing, sacking, terror. This is how a missionary stationed in Monrovia, capital of Liberia, describes to Fides Service the situation in the town for days caught in conflict between troops l ...
27 June 2003
AFRICA/LIBERIA - A CRISIS LASTING MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS: BACKGROUND
Monrovia (Fides Service) – Liberia has been in crisis since the 1980s of the last century, since a coup in 1980 led by Sergeant Samuel K. Doe put an end to centres of dominion of the so-called “Afro-Americans”. The ...
26 June 2003
VATICAN - POPE JOHN PAUL II’S WEEKLY AUDIENCE FOCUSSED ON THE RECENT PAPAL VISIT TO BOSNIA AND POPE PAUL VI “AN APOSTLE STRONG YET MEEK, HE LOVED THE CHURCH, WORKED FOR UNITY AND FOR MORE INTENSE MISSION”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – During his weekly audience on June 25 in St Peter’s Square, Pope John Paul II spoke about Pope Paul VI on the 40th anniversary of his election as Supreme Pontiff, his ministry marked ma ...
26 June 2003
VATICAN - THE EUCHARIST AND THE PRIEST; INSEPARABLY UNITED IN GOD’S LOVE” REFLECTION FOR THE WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE SANCTIFICATION OF PRIESTS
Vatican City (Fides Service) – The divine gift par excellence, the Eucharist, is given in particular to priests who, receiving it, are responsible for its effectiveness in the world. This is the theme for reflection pr ...
26 June 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - HARAMBEE 2002 AFRICA PROJECT WHICH MARKED CANONISATION OF JOSEMARIA ESCRIVA, WILL FUND 18 PROJECTS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Rome (Fides Service) – Out of 122 education projects in 20 countries presented to the Harambee 2002 Office (a solidarity programme started to mark the canonisation of the founder of Opus Dei, Saint Josemaria Escriva) 1 ...
26 June 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - ST JOHN OF GOD BROTHERS WORK FOR HEALTH CARE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
Rome (Fides Service) – The St John of God Hospitaller Brothers have reached an agreement for health cooperation in Cameroon. The president of the Association of the Brothers for Distant Sick, AFMAL Brother Pietro Cicin ...
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