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18 June 2003
EUROPE/SLOVAKIA - TRNAVA UNIVERSITY AWARDS HONORARY DOCTORATE IN THEOLOGY TO CHIARA LUBICH, FOR HER CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS THEOLOGY OF UNITY AND COMMITMENT TO PROMOTE DIALOGUE AT EVERY LEVEL
Trnava (Fides Service) – On Monday June 23 at 11 am, at Castel Gandolfo (just outside Rome) Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement will be awarded an honorary doctorate in theology. By conferring this title on ...
18 June 2003
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - A YOUNG CHURCH FULL OF ENTHUSIASM
Ouagadougou (Fides Service) – In 2000 the Catholic Church in Burkina Faso celebrated the centenary of evangelisation in the region. The first mission here was opened by the White Fathers, today known as Missionaries of ...
18 June 2003
AFRICA/LIBERIA - DISBELIEF AND SCEPTICISM IN LIBERIA AFTER CEASE-FIRE BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND REBELS IS ANNOUNCED
Monrovia (Fides Service) – Liberia awoke with surprise, uncertainty and hope following the announcement of a cease-fire agreement and the resignation of President Charles Taylor. On June 17 at midnight the Liberian go ...
18 June 2003
ASIA/MALAYSIA - FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SARS: 8,460 INFECTED, 6,989 RECOVERED
Kuala Lumpur (Fides Service) – Where does the virus come from? Why did it not appear earlier? Is the natural reservoir really an animal? These are some of the queries raised and discussed by experts mainly from Asia an ...
18 June 2003
ASIA/INDIA - CHRISTIANITY IN WORDS AND DEEDS BROADCAST ON PRIVATE TV: “VOICE OF CHRISTIANITY” PROGRAMME MARKS FIRST ANNIVERSARY
New Delhi (Fides Service) – On June 15 in Delhi the first anniversary of “Voice of Christianity” programmes on a local private broadcasting company Jain TV was marked with special enthusiasm.
Archbishop Vincent ...
18 June 2003
AMERICA/BRAZIL - CHURCH IN BRAZIL, YOUR LIFE IS MISSION: FIRST NATIONAL MISSION CONGRESS IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE DISCIPLES AT EMMAUS
Brasilia (Fides Service) – The Church in Brazil is preparing for its first National Mission Congress which will take place 17-20 July in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais (in south east Brazil). At the Pontifical Catholic U ...
18 June 2003
UNITED NATIONS - WORLD REFUGEE DAY 2003: REFUGEE YOUTH – BUILDING THE FUTURE. GIVING A FUTURE BACK TO 36 MILLION YOUTH SEPARATED FROM FAMILY, DEPRIVED OF EDUCATION, TRAUMATISED BY WAR, EXPOSED TO VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ABUSE
Rome (Fides Service) – “Refugee Youth – Building the future” is the theme of World Refugees Day 20th June. The day, adopted by the United Nations in 2000, marked world wide in 2001, and dedicated to women refugee ...
18 June 2003
ASIA/INDONESIA - WORLD REFUGEE DAY 2003: EDUCATION FOR YOUNG REFUGEES IN THE MOLUCCAS, RE-UNITING FAMILIES IN TIMOR, HELPING PEOPLE IN ACEH: JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE IN INDONESIA
Yogyakarta (Fides Service) - “We will celebrate World Refugee Day with activities to increase awareness in parishes and diocese, providing information on the tragic situation of refugees in various parts of Indonesia. ...
17 June 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - BUILDING PEACE AND DIALOGUE THROUGH ITINERANT EVANGELISATION, SIDE BY SIDE WITH ORDINARY PEOPLE: FRANCISCAN PROGRAMME FOR THIRD MILLENNIUM
Rome (Fides Service) – To strive to fill gap between the rich and the poor, reaffirm in situations of violence and conflict, the possibility of peace, justice and forgiveness; fight fundamentalism in all its forms thro ...
17 June 2003
ASIA/IRAQ - “ESTATE RAGAZZI” CHILDREN’S SUMMER CAMP IN MOSUL: WAR OVER, SALESIANS HELP REBUILD SOCIAL TISSUE
Mosul (Fides Service) – The Salesian Fathers in the Middle East are anxious to go back among the children of Mosul now the tragedy of the war is over. As for the Summer 2002, they will start a week of preparation for A ...
17 June 2003
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA-ERITREA - AS TENSION RISES, ONLY COLLABORATION CAN COMBAT LOGIC OF WAR WHICH STILL DIVIDES ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA
Addis Ababa (Fides Service) – As the United Nations Organisation is about to start the process of boundary marking between Ethiopia and Eritrea, tension between the two countries increases. Local Fides Service sources, ...
17 June 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - ITURI: THE ROOTS OF A CONFLICT WHICH IS CAUSING THOUSANDS OF VICTIMS
Ituri (Fides Service) – From the Ituri region in north east Democratic Congo, reports of massacres and war continue despite the deployment of a European peacekeeping force under the aegis of the UN. Yesterday, 16 June, ...
17 June 2003
ASIA/PAKISTAN - CHRISTIAN ACQUITTED OF BLASPHEMY CHARGES AFTER FOUR YEARS IN PRISON
Lahore (Fides Service) – Christians in Pakistan are rejoicing with Aslam Masih, a Protestant charged with blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed, and detained in prison for four years. On June 4 the Supreme Court of La ...
17 June 2003
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - THE AMERICAN CONGRESS MISSIONARY (CAM 2) WILL TRIGGER A DETAILED MISSIONARY PROJECT FOR CENTRAL AMERICA
Guatemala City (Fides Service) - One of the challenges which the Church in America will discuss during CAM “, the Second American Missionary Congress, is the elaboration of a specific Missionary Project for Central Am ...
16 June 2003
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - FREEING PEOPLE FROM POVERTY IS A MORAL OBLIGATION FOR THE CONSCIENCE OF HUMANITY: HEAD OF HOLY SEE DELEGATION ADDRESSES WORLD LABOUR CONFERENCE
Geneva (Fides Service) – “Poverty is not longer a fatality! To free people from it is therefore a moral obligation for the conscience of humanity”. This quote from Pope John Paul II’s Message for World Peace Day ...
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