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13 June 2003
ASIA/INDIA - AGENDA FOR NEXT ASIAN YOUTH DAY: GLOBALISATION, WAR ON TERRORISM, AIDS, DRUG ABUSE, ENVIRONMENT IMBALANCE, UNEMPLOYMENT, FUNDAMENTALISM, CONSUMERISM, VALUES CRISIS
Bangalore (Fides Service) - More than one thousand youth delegates from various dioceses in many Asian countries will attend Asian Youth Day in Bangalore India, 9-16 August 2003 at the invitation of the Indian Bishops’ ...
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12 June 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT GENERAL AUDIENCE: “TO THE LORD WHO FOR ONE HUNDRED TIMES OPENED FOR ME THE ROADS OF THE WORLD AND NATIONS…I OFFER FROM THE DEPTH OF MY HEART DEEPEST GRATITUDE”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “I would like in thought to retrace with you the visit to Croatia I was able to make a few days ago…it was my one hundredth apostolic journey! To the Lord who for one hundred times op ...
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12 June 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - RECTOR OF PONTIFICAL INSTITUTE FOR ARAB AND ISLAMIC STUDIES, FATHER LACUNZA, MAKES STATEMENT TO FIDES SERVICE WITH REGARD TO PREACHERS OF HATRED: “HAVING DEDICATED 30 YEARS TO THE STUDY OF ISLAMIC WRITINGS, PERHAPS I TOO AM CONSIDERED AN ENEMY OF ISLAM?”
Rome (Fides Service) – “There can be no place for people who encourage hatred and incite to kill. This is insanity. It is a matter of public order which the government must face. To use institutional places such as c ...
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12 June 2003
AFRICA/DJIBOUTI - WITNESSES TO THE FAITH IN DJIBOUTI TODAY: CATHOLIC BISHOP OF DJIBOUTI ADDRESSES PASTORAL LETTER TO HIS LITTLE FLOCK
Djibouti (Fides Service) – “You shall be my witnesses in Djibouti” is the title of a Pastoral Letter issued by Bishop Giorgio Bertin of Djibouti at the end of special Church Meeting of reflection on the presence of ...
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12 June 2003
AFRICA/KENYA - LOOKING TO THE FUTURE, DESPITE FLOODS, STATE DEFICIT AND THREAT OF TERRORISM
Nairobi (Fides Service) – At last the torrential rains which pounded Kenya for the past month have ceased. The most affected regions were in the east, particularly Nyanza Province and West Province.
The situation has ...
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12 June 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - ITALIAN MUSLIMS ASK FOR ITALIAN IMAM – AL WAHID PALLAVICINI, PRESIDENT OF MUSLIM RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY IN ITALY MAKES STATEMENT TO FIDES SERVICE
Rome (Fides Service) – “We take our distance immediately from the violent words pronounced by Imam Ibrahim Moussa of the Rome Mosque. Those words derive from Islam immigrated into Italy, they are not part of native I ...
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12 June 2003
ASIA/INDIA - SANSKRIT, CLASSICAL LANGUAGE OF THE VEDAS, TODAY TAUGHT BY JESUITS
New Delhi (Fides Service) – It serves to understand and study ancient Indian poetry and prose : Sanskrit is a language which helps to probe the Hindu religion and culture. With this in mind the Jesuit Fathers who run S ...
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12 June 2003
AMERICA/VENEZUELA – REV. JOSE RAFAEL ROMERO LINARES, NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, has appointed (30 May 2003), National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Venezuela, R ...
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11 June 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE TELLS DEHONIANS: BE READY TO FACE CHALLENGES OF OUR DAY AND TO UPGRADE YOUR APOSTOLATE IN THE AMBITS OF SPIRITUALITY, MISSION AD GENTES, SOCIAL WORK AND SPECIAL ATTENTION FOR CULTURE
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “As the theme of the Chapter suggests, you must be “Dehonians on mission: with open hearts and solidarity” ready to face the challenges of our day and to upgrade your apostolate in ...
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11 June 2003
VATICAN - “THE HEALTHIER THE FAMILY, THE HEALTHIER SOCIETY” LETTER FROM CARDINAL SODANO TO ORGANISATION OF AMERICAN STATES GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 8-10 June in Santiago, Chile, the Organisation of American States, OAS, held its 33rd general assembly. For the occasion Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Pope’s Secretary of State, addr ...
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11 June 2003
EUROPE/GERMANY - COLOGNE: “TRUSTING IN GOD’S WORD”: THE PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES PRESENT CAMPAIGN FOR OCTOBER MISSIONARY MONTH IN YEAR OF THE BIBLE
Aachen/Munich (Fides Service) – On June 16 in Cologne, the Pontifical Mission Societies in Germany, with head offices in Aachen and Munich, will present their sensitivity campaign for the missionary month of October. B ...
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11 June 2003
AFRICA/MAURITANIA - VARIOUS HYPOTHESES ON ATTEMPTED COUP. EMERGENCY OVER. CELEBRATIONS FOR RETURN TO NORMALITY. NO DAMAGES TO CATHOLIC COMMUNITY
Nouakchott (Fides Service) – Calm is returning to Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania after the attempted coup days ago (see Fides Service link 9 June 2003). According to local sources the people have taken to the street ...
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11 June 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “WAR SOWS TERROR, DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. THE WORLD CANNOT STAND AND WATCH” URGENT APPEAL FROM BISHOP OF BUTEMBO BENI IN EAST CONGO
Butembo (Fides Service) – An urgent call for help has been sent to Fides Service by Bishop Melchisedek Sikuli Paluku of Butemebo Beni diocese in the east Democratic Congo where rebel militia of the RCD-Goma, Rassemblem ...
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11 June 2003
ASIA/EAST TIMOR - EAST TIMOR PRESIDENT XANANA GUSMAO, ACTIVIST FOR PEACE AND RECONCILIATION, RECEIVES PATH TO PEACE AWARD FROM HOLY SEE’S MISSION TO UN
New York (Fides Service) – On June 12, in New York President Xanana Gusmao of East Timor received the Path to Peace award promoted by the Holy See’s mission of permanent observation to the United Nations. Among those ...
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11 June 2003
ASIA/PAKISTAN - 200 CYCLIST CATECHISTS ATTEND TO CHRISTIANS IN MUSLIM VILLAGES IN LAHORE ARCHDIOCESE: VIGOROUS LABOUR FORCE AT THE SERVICE OF EVANGELISATION
Lahore (Fides Service) – They are the “ Workers in the Lord’s vineyard”: the 196 catechists in Lahore archdiocese are a formidable labour force for evangelisation. Each of them follows the formation, growth diffi ...
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