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23 June 2003
AFRICA/NIGERIA - NEGLECT AND IGNORANCE CAUSED LATEST NIGERIAN OIL TRAGEDY SAYS ARCHBISHOP ONAIYEKAN OF ABUJA
Abuja (Fides Service) – “This is the umpteenth tragedy caused by neglect on the part of those responsible for protecting one of the largest oil installations in Nigeria” Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuj ...
23 June 2003
ASIA/MALAYSIA - NEW NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES BISHOP JAMES CHAN
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has appointed (6 June 2003), National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Malaysia, Sing ...
23 June 2003
ASIA/INDONESIA - NEW NATIONAL DIRECTOR PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES REV. PATRICK PA SVD
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has appointed (13 June 2003) National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Indonesia Reve ...
20 June 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO - FEAR AND UNCERTAINTY IN NORTH KIVU. DESPITE UNILATERAL CEASE-FIRE CALLED BY REBELS MORE VIOLENCE IS FEARED
Kinshasa (Fides Service) – Tension is still high in North Kivu, in the eastern part of Democratic Congo DRC, where rebels of the Congolese Group for Democracy (RCD-Goma) have declared a unilateral cease-fire. Local sou ...
20 June 2003
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - WORLD REFUGEE DAY: ASSISTANCE AND FORMATION FOR A BETTER FUTURE: SCALABRINI REFUGEE SERVICE IN AFRICA
Cape Town (Fides Service) – Shelter, food, medical assistance, schooling, professional training are some of the services offered by the Scalabrini Refugee Service in Cape Town, South Africa, a large port destination of ...
20 June 2003
WORLD REFUGEE DAY - INFO
Rome (Fides Service) – The Geneva Convention, 28 July 1951 and the New York Protocol 31 January 1967 define the refugee a person who, fearing persecution because of race, religion, nationality, or membership of a parti ...
20 June 2003
ASIA/INDONESIA - RECONCILIATION CEREMONY OF PROTESTANTS AND MUSLIMS IN MOLUCCAS ISLANDS AFTER YEARS OF ETHNIC CLASHES – BISHOP MANDAGI OF AMBOINA SAYS “WE START LIFE AGAIN LOOKING TO THE FUTURE WITH CONFIDENCE”
Ambon (Fides Service) – “Today there is an atmosphere of confidence and hope. People show good will in dialogue and look at each other as brothers and sisters. I am surprised to see the speed of the reconciliation pr ...
20 June 2003
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - DISABILITY MUST NOT BE SEEN AS A PUNISHMENT OR CURSE: ARCHBISHOP MIGLIORE ADDRESSES UNO
New York (Fides Service) – “The person with disabilities has every right to be a subject and an active agent in the everyday affairs of human existence. These persons are rich in humanity. Each has rights and duties ...
20 June 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS ON SOLEMNITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI: “LIKE THE APOSTLES AND SAINTS OF ALL TIMES WE CONTEMPLATE THE FACE OF THE ‘EUCHARISTIC’ CHRIST, LEARNING FROM MARY, WOMAN OF THE EUCHARIST WITH HER WHOLE LIFE”
Rome (Fides Service) – On the solemnity of Corpus Christi, Thursday 19 June, Pope John Paul II presided Mass in the square outside the cathedral of Rome, the Basilica of St John Lateran, and the Procession of the Bless ...
20 June 2003
EUROPE/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - THE POPE WILL FIND A CHURCH AND A SOCIETY WHOSE SCARS ARE SLOWLY HEALING, COMMITTED TO DIALOGUE AND RECONCILIATION: INTERVIEW WITH VICAR GENERAL OF BANJA LUKA DIOCESE, PRESIDENT OF COMMITTEE FOR PAPAL VISIT
Banja Luka (Fides Service) – “On Sunday next I will go to Bosnia Herzegovina, to confirm in the faith that Catholic community committed to the important path of reconciliation and harmony”. With these words Pope Jo ...
20 June 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO FRATERNITY TO WELCOME NEW PRIESTS AND DEACONS: MISSIONARIES DESTINED FOR TAIWAN, SPAIN, GERMANY AND CZECH REPUBLIC
Rome (Fides Service) – Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the Pope’s vicar General for the diocese of Rome, will ordain 6 priests and 5 deacons for the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St Charles Borromeo. The solemn ...
20 June 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - INTERNATIONAL BODIES UNABLE TO GUARANTEE JUSTICE AND PEACE TODAY MUST BE REINFORCED NOT ELIMINATED: ARCHBISHOP MARTINO TELLS NATIONAL MEETING OF ITALIAN DIOCESAN CARITAS OFFICES
Rome (Fides Service) – The present day inadequacies of international bodies must not lead to the reduction of their importance but rather to reinforce them and render them capable of fulfilling their original duty. Thi ...
20 June 2003
AFRICA/UGANDA - ACHOLI PEOPLE VICTIMS FOR YEARS OF THE WORST FORM OF TERRORISM WHICH NEVER MAKES THE HEADLINES
Kampala (Fides Service) – “It is certainly a good sign the fact that the Ugandan press is talking of the need to end the carnage in northern Uganda which has gone on for too long” said a missionary with years of ex ...
18 June 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS TO BISHOPS OF BURKINA FASO AND NIGER: “EVANGELISATION IS FUNDAMENTAL MISSION FOR THE CHURCH. PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL CANNOT BE FULLY ACHIEVED WITHOUT CONTRIBUTION OF ALL BELIEVERS”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Receiving on 17 June the Bishops of Burkina Faso and Niger, who form one Conference, for their visit ad limina, Pope John Paul II launched a new appeal to the international community “t ...
18 June 2003
EUROPE/PORTUGAL - WORLD REFUGEE DAY 2003: A MEETING ORGANISED BY THE JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE DENOUNCES: “THE NEW IMMIGRATION LAW IS IMMORAL”
Lisbon (Fides Service) - As part events to mark the international Week for Refugees, 15-22 June and World Refugee Day 20 June 2003, the Jesuit Refugee Service JRS in Portugal organised a day of study for immigrants and ...
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