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2 December 2003
VATICAN - SYNOD OF CHALDEAN BISHOPS MEETING IN THE VATICAN WILL ELECT NEW PATRIARCH OF BABYLON
Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 1 –3 December the Synod of the Chaldean Catholic Bishops convoked by Pope John Paul II is meeting in the Synod Hall in the Vatican to elect a new Patriarch of Babylon, spiritual l ...
2 December 2003
VATICAN - THE FUTURE OF CATHOLIC/ANGLICAN DIALOGUE: THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH REMAIN COMMITTED TO CONTINUING THEIR DIALOGUE
Vatican City (Fides Service) – On Tuesday, 25th November, 2003, Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, met with the Reverend Canon John L. Peterson, Secretary ...
2 December 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE TELLS PARTICIPANTS AT COLLOQUIUM "TRUTH, JUSTICE, LOVE, FREEDOM: PILLARS OF PEACE" - “JOIN YOUR VOICES WITH MINE AS I REPEAT THAT THE HOLY NAME OF GOD MUST NEVER BE USED TO INCITE VIOLENCE OR TERRORISM”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – This morning 2 December Pope John Paul II received in audience participants at the Colloquium: "Truth, Justice, Love, Freedom: Pillars of Peace", promoted jointly by the Pontifical Counci ...
1 December 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT ANGELUS PRAYER: “TO PREPARE FOR CHRISTMAS MEANS REAWAKENING HOPE FOR PEACE AMONGST OURSELVES AND IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. HOW GREAT IS THE WORLD'S NEED OF THIS PEACE! I REPEAT MY CALL TO THE LEADERS OF THE GREAT RELIGIONS: LET US UNITE EFFORTS TO PREACH NON-VIOLENCE, FORGIVENESS AND RECONCILIATION!”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – On 30 November, the first Sunday of Advent, Pope John Paul II made yet another call for world peace urging the leaders of the great religions to unite efforts to preach pardon and reconci ...
29 November 2003
VATICAN - MESSAGE FROM CARDINAL JAVIER LOZANO BARRAGÁN, PRESIDENT DEL PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR HEALTH PASTORAL ON OCCASION OF WORLD DAY AGAINST AIDS 1 DECEMBER 2003
Vatican City (Fides) – On the occasion of World Day Against AIDS, December 1, Cardinal Lozano Barragán, President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Health workers and the Sick sent a “message of love ...
28 November 2003
VATICAN - 7TH MEETING ON SPIRITUAL CINEMA: CHRIST IN THE CINEMA
Rome (Fides Service) –“How cinema has approached themes and subjects related to religion and the sacred and in particular the figure of Christ” is the aim of the 7th international study meeting organised by the Pon ...
28 November 2003
POPE JOHN PAUL II’S MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION FOR DECEMBER 2003 “THAT THE CHURCH IN COUNTRIES STILL UNDER TOTALITARIAN REGIMES MAY BE GIVEN FULL FREEDOM TO CARRY OUT HER SPIRITUAL MISSION”
Comment by Cardinal Nicolás De Jesús López Rodríguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo.
Vatican City (Fides Service) – As sons and daughters of the Church we can all identify ourselves fully with this missionary prayer intention, most important still today.
We know that the Church has suffered from perse ...
27 November 2003
VATICAN - CONCLUSIONS OF 25TH PLENARY OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL "COR UNUM": CHARITY WORK AND THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION OF CHARITY
Vatican City (Fides Service) - "The Church does not limit herself to providing for the material needs of those in difficulty; her charitable work consists not only in building structures... it strives to meet the most hi ...
27 November 2003
VATICAN - PAPAL MESSAGE TO BISHOP FRIENDS OF FOCOLARE MOVEMENT: STRIVE TO PROMOTE UNITY IN CHRIST AND TO HEAL SERIOUS LACERATIONS IN THE WORLD TODAY
Vatican City (Fides Service ) – Pope John Paul II sent a Message to Bishop Friends of the Focolare Movement on the occasion of the 22nd Ecumenical Meeting due to take place in Istanbul but because of tragic recent even ...
26 November 2003
VATICAN – MESSAGE FROM POPE JOHN PAUL II TO SECOND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS: “RESPOND PROMPTLY TO THE LORD’S CALL! BE JOYFUL WITNESSES AND ENTHUSIASTIC APOSTLES OF THE GOSPEL TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Pope John Paul II addressed a Message to Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada Toruno, Archbishop of Guatemala, President of the Second American Mission Congress taking place in Guatemala City 25 to 3 ...
24 November 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE APPOINTS NEW CARDINAL MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES
Vatican City (Fides Service ) – Pope John Paul II has appointed Members of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples the following Cardinals created on 21 October 2003: Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino (Presid ...
24 November 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT THE ANGELUS: “LOOKING AT CHRIST ‘PANTOCRATOR’, AS THEEASTERN LITURGY SAYS, HIGHLIGHTS THE MISSION OF BELIEVERS CALLED IN A VARIETY OF MINISTRIES AND CHARISMA TO COOPERATE IN THE BUILDING UP OF HIS KINGDOM”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – As usual on Sunday 23 November Pope John Paul II came to his study window to pray the midday Angelus with people gathered in St Peter’s Square, who were several thousand. “Today, the ...
21 November 2003
VATICAN - THE POPE ADDRESSES PONTIFICAL COUNCIL "COR UNUM" PLENARY: “THE CHURCH TENDS NOT ONLY TO THE MATERIAL NEEDS OF THOSE IN DIFFICULTY… WITH SIMPLICITY AND PASTORAL PRUDENCE SHE DOES NOT HESITATE TO BEAR WITNESS TO CHRIST, WHO REVEALS THE FACE OF GOD THE FATHER, TENDER AND LOVING”
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Love of God and neighbour is a direct manifestation of the Church’s fidelity to her Lord who ‘gave himself up for us’ (Eph 5, 2). The Church was born from the pieced heart of Jes ...
21 November 2003
VATICAN - AMERICA IS EVANGELISING AMERICA AND EVEN REACHING BEYOND ITS CONTINENTAL FRONTIERS
Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 25 to 30 November 2003, the 2nd American Mission Congress, CAM 2, will take place in Guatemala. This major ecclesial event will be attended by more than 3000 delegates from every cou ...
20 November 2003
VATICAN - “A VAST FIELD FOR NEW EVANGELISATION”
THE POPE TELLS PARTICIPANTS AT 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ORGANISED BY PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PASTORAL CARE OF MIGRANTS AND ITINERANT PEOPLES
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “The work of promoting the wellbeing of the many men and women who for various reasons do not live in their homelands represents a vast field for the new evangelisation to which the who ...
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