Europe
23 May 2003
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - IN AFRICA HALF THE CHILDREN WHO DIE EVERY YEAR OF MEASLES: STRATEGY OF TOTAL IMMUNISATION CAN PREVENT THESE DEATHS SAYS WHO
Geneva (Fides Service) – According to the World Health Organisation every year about 750,000 children, half of them in Africa, die of measles. Now thanks to a strategy of total immunisation it is possible to prevent th ...
22 May 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - BIO-DIVERSITY AND RELIEF OF POVERTY – CHALLENGES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY DAY
Rome (Fides Service) – UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme, as made 22 May International Biological Diversity Day ” to spread awareness and knowledge on questions related to bio-diversity. The theme this y ...
21 May 2003
EUROPE/UKRAINE - “BELIEVERS MUST USE EVERY POSSIBLE LEGAL MEANS TO AVOID THE LOSS OF HUMAN LIFE AND THE HUMILIATION OF HUMAN DIGNITY” SAYS VICE -PRESIDENT OF THE PONTIFICAL ACADEMY FOR LIFE ADDRESSING INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM ON BIO-ETHICS
Kiev (Fides Service) – Scientists, scholars and journalists from Ukraine, Italy, Poland, Croatia and Belo-Russia took part in a Scientific Symposium promoted by a Ukrainian charitable organisation the Pro-Human Dignity ...
21 May 2003
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - SMOKERS ALARM IN DEVELOPING REGIONS, TOBACCO ALREADY KILLS 5 MILLION EVERY YEAR. HISTORY MAKING AGREEMENT TO CLAMP DOWN ON SMOKING
Geneva (Fides Service) - The 192 members of the World Health Organization today unanimously adopted the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) aimed at curbing tobacco-related deaths and disease. This is the firs ...
21 May 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - SALESIANS RE-STYLE WEB PORTAL: MORE SPACE FOR INFORMATION ON THE WORLD OF YOUTH, DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLES, MISSION
Torino (Fides Service) – On Saturday 24 May, Feast of Mary Auxiliatrix from whom the Salesians draw their inspiration, in Torino where the Congregation was founded by Saint John Bosco the Rector Major Rev. Pascual Chav ...
20 May 2003
EUROPE/POLAND - CHURCHES FOR THE PROTECTION OF CREATION: FORMATION AND CONCRETE INITIATIVES NEEDED SINCE “THERE CAN BE NO PEACE BETWEEN PEOPLES UNLESS THERE IS PEACE WITH NATURE”
Wroclaw (Fides Service) - Some sixty delegates from 22 countries took part in the Consultation on the Environment, entitled “Formation for responsibility towards Creation and Sustainable Development” and organised by ...
20 May 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - AT LAST SCHOLARS FROM LA SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY PROVIDE CLEAR INFORMATION ABOUT SARS: HOW IT SPREADS, WHAT SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT, WHAT TO DO TO AVOID IT
Roma (Fides Service) – A group of Virologists at the Clinic of Infectious Diseases at the La Sapienza in Rome have prepared for Fides Service a report on the main characteristics of SARS, sources of infection, diagnosi ...
20 May 2003
EUROPE/CROATIA - THIRD PAPAL VISIT TO CROATIA: YET ANOTHER SIGN OF THE POPE’S LOVING CONCERN FOR A CHURCH AND NATION YOUNG BUT GROWING DESPITE DIFFICULTIES
Zagreb (Fides Service) – From 5-9 June Pope John Paul II will visit Croatia. This will be his 100th apostolic journey and the third to this Balkan nation. National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Croati ...
19 May 2003
EUROPE SPAIN - THE PRESIDENT OF PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS: “CATHOLIC COMMUNICATORS MUST PASS THROUGH THE WALLS THAT DIVIDE PEOPLE”
Murcia (Fides Service) – “The world of today is not alien to values, as one might think. Although at times the search for meaning takes inconsistent and commonplace paths, this must not lead us to ignore the anxietie ...
19 May 2003
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - WHO ANNUAL ASSEMBLY TO DISCUSS: INFECTIOUS DISEASES, SMALL POX, POLIOMYELITIS, TABAGISM, ONLY SOME OF THE CHALLENGES FACING THE WORLD TODAY
Geneva (Fides Service) – The 56th session of the World Health Organisation opens today in Geneva and it will close on 28 May. Every year 192 WHO members states attend this Assembly. On the agenda this year the eliminat ...
16 May 2003
EUROPE/FRANCE - PARIS FOREIGN MISSIONS OPENS WEB PAGE ON MISSION IN ASIA
Paris (Fides Service) – The Paris Foreign Missions Society MEP has opened a new web page focussing on mission in Asia. At the address www.mepasie.org you will find information with regard to the history and the mission ...
15 May 2003
EUROPE/SPAIN - 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CHURCH AND CATHOLIC MEANS OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY OPENS TODAY
Murcia (Fides Service – Catholic Means of social communications in the 21st century is the title of the 2nd International Congress on Church and Catholic Means of Social Communications which opens today, 15 May, in Mu ...
8 May 2003
EUROPE/ITALY - 21ST CHAPTER OF THE DEHONIAN FATHERS FOR A HEART OPEN WITH SOLIDARITY AT THE SERVICE OF MISSION
Rome (Fides Service) – The Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Dehonian Fathers) will hold their 21st Chapter in Rome, 12 May to 13 June at their General Curia house on the theme “Dehonians in M ...
8 May 2003
EUROPE/BELGIUM - IN 2004 PILGRIMAGE TO SANTIAGO TO CELEBRATE EUROPEAN UNITY: BISHOPS ANNOUNCE A EUROPE DAY
Brussels (Fides Service) – On May 9, Europe Day which recalls the history making event on May 1950 when the bases were laid for a united Europe, the Bishops of the COMECE Commission of Bishops Conferences of the Europe ...
7 May 2003
EUROPE/SPAIN - PAPAL VISIT INAUGURATED NEW LAP IN EVANGELISATION FOR SPAIN: BEING A MISSIONARY DOES NOT MEAN FORGOING SELF-FULFILMENT SAYS BISHOP PEREZ GONZALES
Madrid (Fides Service) – Bishop Francisco Perez Gonzales of Osma-Soria diocese and National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain, gave Fides Service his impression of Pope John Paul II’s two day visi ...
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