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ALAIN THIERRY RAHARISON APPOINTED RECTOR OF PAUL VI UNIVERSITY SEMINARY IN ANTANANARIVO AFRICA/TOGO - REV. PIERRE DOVI N’DANU-ALIPUI APPOINTED RECTOR OF THE JOHN PAUL II MAJOR INTER-DIOCESAN SEMINARY IN LOME ASIA/THAILAND - COMMUNICATIONS DAY: NEW LYMPH FOR ASIAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR RELIGION AND SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS ASIA/INDIA - INTERVIEW WITH CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF CALCUTTA: STOP ANTI-CONVERSION BILL. EVERY PERSON MUST ENJOY FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE –MOTHER TERESA IS “GLOBAL”, SHE BELONGS TO THE WHOLE CHURCH AND THE WHOLE WORLD ASIA/CHINA - BEIJING HOSTS TWO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS ON SARS 28/05/2003 EUROPE/ITALY - DEHONIANS ELECT NEW SUPERIOR GENERAL, PORTUGUESE FATHER JOSE ORNELAS CARVALHO EUROPE/ITALY - SARS – MISSIONARIES CALL FOR VACCINATION AGAINST EPIDEMIC; FIDES ASKED THE OPINION OF ITALIAN PROFESSOR AT LA SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY IN ROME AFRICA/RWANDA - CARDINAL SEPE TELLS BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE: “THE COUNTRY NEEDS PEOPLE ABLE TO BUILD PEACE AND NATIONAL UNITY ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF RECONCILIATION, FORGIVENESS AND MUTUAL LOVE” AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - IN BUNIA, MARTYRED CITY IN NORTH EAST, FIGHTING CONTINUES BETWEEN RIVAL LENDU AND HEMA TRIBES ASIA/INDIA - INTERVIEW WITH CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF CALCUTTA: STOP ANTI-CONVERSION BILL. EVERY PERSON MUST ENJOY FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE –MOTHER TERESA IS “GLOBAL”, SHE BELONGS TO THE WHOLE CHURCH AND THE WHOLE WORLD ASIA/INDIA - “A CHRISTIAN DOES NOT CONVERT PEOPLE: A CHRISTIAN SPEAKS ABOUT GOD AND GOD CONVERTS HEARTS” SAY THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF INDIA WHERE CHRISTIANS HAVE SUFFERED OVER 500 ATTACKS IN THE PAST FEW YEARS ASIA/IRAQ - “WE ARE WORKING WITH MUSLIMS TO ASSIST TO IRAQI PEOPLE” SAYS HEAD OF CARITAS INTERNATIONALIS IN INTERVIEW WITH FIDES SERVICE ASIA/INDIA - IN INDIA IN 1999 POPE JOHN PAUL II AFFIRMED: “NO STATE HAS THE RIGHT TO CONTROL EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY A PERSON’S RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS” ASIA/INDIA - CATHOLIC BISHOP IN GUJARAT: GROWING FUNDAMENTALISM BUT THRIVING CHURCH INTENDS TO MAKE SUPREME COURT APPEAL AGAINST ANTI-CONVERSION BILL – INTERVIEW WITH BISHOP THOMAS MACWAN OF AHMEDABAD AMERICA/ARGENTINA - IN THE YEAR OF THE ROSARY SOME 100,000 EXPECTED TO TAKE PART IN 26TH ROSARIO-SAN LORENZO YOUTH PILGRIMAGE AMERICA/PERU - “LET’S GLOBALISE SOLIDARITY WITH MIGRANTS”: BISHOPS LAUNCH SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN TO PROMOTE CULTURE OF ACCEPTANCE AS A REQUIREMENT OF CHRISTIAN LIFE 27/05/2003 VATICAN - POPE TELLS SPIRITANS: “WE THANK GOD FOR THREE CENTURIES OF EVANGELISATION: PUT OUT INTO THE DEEP, FAITHFUL TO THE HERITAGE OF YOUR FOUNDERS: ATTENTION FOR THE POOR AND FOR MISSIONARY SERVICE” EUROPE/GERMANY - CHURCHES IN GERMANY HOLD FIRST EVER “ECUMENICAL-DAY”; ENCOURAGING SIGNAL AND NEW IMPULSE FOR ECUMENISM EUROPE/ITALY - FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD 142 BROTHERS OF SAINT FRANCIS DISCUSS HOW TO RESPOND TO THE CHALLENGES OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - ARMY VOWS TO PUT AN END TO CRIME. MISSIONARIES ANXIOUS TO RESUME SERVICE THE MOMENT MINIMUM SECURITY IS GUARANTEED AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO - ANOTHER STEP TOWARDS PEACE IN POOL REGION. GUERRILLA LEADER ADMITS: “CIVIL WAR CAN NEVER BE SETTLED WITH WEAPONS” ASIA/INDIA - CATHOLIC TEACHERS IN INDIA ASK THEMSELVES: “WHO IS THE CATHOLIC TEACHER? WHAT IS HIS OR HER VOCATION AND MISSION TODAY? ASIA/TAIWAN - INTERRELIGIOUS TORCHLIGHT RALLY IN AID OF THE FIGHT AGAINST SARS, A SIGN OF SOLIDARITY AND LOVE AMERICA/COLOMBIA - EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN BISHOPS REPORT AFTER VISIT: PEOPLE SUFFER BECAUSE OF A WAR THEY FEEL FOREIGN; THE CHURCH COMMITTED AT ALL LEVELS FOR AID AND RECONCILIATION 26/05/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE TELLS PLENARY ASSEMBLY OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES: “IT IS NECESSARY TO FORM COMPETENT AND HOLY EVANGELISERS, ABLE FOR THEIR MISSION” VATICAN - THE ROSARY OF PEACE: MEDITATING ON THE MYSTERIES WITH THE POPE’S MESSAGE FOR WORLD PEACE DAY. BOOKLET ISSUED BY PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - “WE WANT THE TRUTH. WE ASK THOSE WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE SITUATION TO ACT FOR THE COMMON GOOD OR WE WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR OWN PEOPLE. WE WILL BE CONDEMNED BY HISTORY”. APPEAL FROM RELIGIOUS ORDERS IN ZIMBABWE ASIA/INDIA - CHURCH WORKS FOR TRIUMPH OF TRUTH ABOUT VIOLENT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST DALITS “UNTOUCHABLE” AND “INVISIBLE” FOR INDIA’S CASTE SOCIETY ASIA/IRAQ - UN SANCTIONS A THING OF THE PAST: AT LAST THERE IS A CHANCE FOR A NEW IRAQ PROSPEROUS FOR ALL ITS CITIZENS. “THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SHOULD TAKE CARE NOT TO REPEAT MISTAKES OF THE PAST” SAYS REV. NIZAR ASIA/KOREA - GROWING SUCCESS FOR LIFE 31 MOVEMENT PRO HUMAN LIFE, PRO HUMAN RIGHTS, PARTICULARLY THOSE OF THE UNBORN CHILD, AGAINST ABORTION AND EUTHANASIA ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - ASIA/MYANMAR - APPOINTMENT OF METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOPS IN YANGON AND MANDALAY AND BISHOP OF PATHEIN ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - ASIA/MALAYSIA - KUALA LUMPUR - ARCHBISHOP ANTONY SOTER FERNANDEZ RESIGNS, MGR. MURPHY NICHOLAS XAVIER PAKIAM, APPOINTED OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY JUNE 1: PUTTING THE MEDIA AT THE SERVICE OF PEACE, PROMOTING TRUTH, JUSTICE, FREEDOM AND LOVE MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION - POPE JOHN PAUL II MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION JUNE 2003 “THAT THE CHRISTIANS OF INDIA WHO BELONG TO VARIOUS TRADITIONS MAY BE DRAWN TO OFFER TOGETHER A TESTIMONY OF FULL UNITY AND COMMUNION IN THE ONE SPIRIT WHICH GUIDES THEM”: COMMENT BY ARCHBISHOP TELESPHORE P. TOPPO OF RANCHI, PRESIDENT OF THE CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF INDIA. 23/05/2003 VATICAN - POPE SAYS TO ITALIAN BRANCH OF PRO-LIFE: THERE CAN BE NO AUTHENTIC PEACE WITHOUT RESPECT FOR LIFE, ESPECIALLY THE INNOCENT AND HELPLESS LIFE OF THE UNBORN CHILD VATICAN - NEW WORLD ORDER IN KEEPING WITH CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING: ARCHBISHOP MARTINO OPENS INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON “THE CHURCH AND WORLD ORDER”. EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - IN AFRICA HALF THE CHILDREN WHO DIE EVERY YEAR OF MEASLES: STRATEGY OF TOTAL IMMUNISATION CAN PREVENT THESE DEATHS SAYS WHO AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - DEHONIAN MISSIONARIES WONDER WHY THE UNITED NATIONS MAKES NO EFFECTIVE INTERVENTION IN CONGO? AFRICA/RWANDA - KIBEHO MARIAN SHRINE MUST BECOME A BEACON OF PEACE FOR AFRICA: SAYS BISHOP MISAGO OF GIKONGORO AFRICA/IVORY COAST - SMALL STEPS TOWARDS PEACE. REGIONAL SOLUTION FOR ARMED BANDITS ON BORDER WITH LIBERIA: BURKINA FASO AND IVORY COAST TO RESTORE MUTUAL COMMUNICATIONS CEP APPOINTMENTS - ASIA/KOREA - REVEREND JOHN SUNG HO APPOINTED RECTOR OF TAEGU INTER-DIOCESAN SEMINARY ASIA/VIETNAM - SUDDEN DEATH OF HEROIC HERALD OF THE GOSPEL, APOSTLE OF VOCATIONS, BISHOP VAN NHO COADJUTOR OF NHA TRANG, ASIA/SRI LANKA - FLOODS LEAVE 250 DEAD AND 44,000 HOMELESS FAMILIES: FEARS FOR ECONOMY IN THE SOUTH: CARITAS FULLY COMMITTED FOR AID ASIA/KOREA - KOREAN CATHOLICS KEEP UP MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL AID FOR IRAQI PEOPLE SUFFERING AFTERMATH OF WAR 22/05/2003 VATICAN - POPE’S WEEKLY CATECHESIS: ONLY WITH GOD’S HELP CAN WE OVERCOME THE DANGERS AND DIFFICULTIES WITH WHICH EVERY DAY OF OUR LIFE IS STUDDED VATICAN - DEVELOP INTELLIGENCE METHODS, RESTORE ROLE TO POLITICS, EMPOWER THE UNITED NATIONS, FIGHT INJUSTICES IN ORDER TO STOP THE SPIRAL OF TERROR: AN EDITORIAL BY THE DIRECTOR OF VATICAN RADIO VATICAN -“THE INJUSTICE THAT EXISTS BETWEEN INDUSTRIALISED COUNTRIES AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IS NOT IN THE LEAST SUSTAINABLE,» SAYS PRESIDENT OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR THE PASTORAL CARE OF HEALTH WORKERS AT THE 56TH PLENARY ASSEMBLY OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION EUROPE/ITALY - BIO-DIVERSITY AND RELIEF OF POVERTY – CHALLENGES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY DAY AFRICA/ANGOLA - TEN YEARS AFTER LIBERALISATION OF EDUCATION, STATE AND CHURCH REACH AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE BETTER SCHOOLING FOR ANGOLAN YOUTH AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "DO NOT FORGET THAT 12 MILLION ETHIOPIANS RISK STARVATION” SAYS FATHER CESARE BULLO ANIMATOR OF A CAMPAIGN IN AID OF ETHIOPIA AFRICA/MOROCCO - ARCHBISHOP VINCENT LANDEL OF RABAT OFFER FIDES A PERSONAL REFLECTION ON THE EXTREMIST ATTACKS: “NOT CLOSED DOORS BUT MORE INVESTMENT IN OUR COUNTRY MUST BE EUROPE’S REACTION, OTHERWISE THE INFERNAL CYCLE WILL NEVER END ASIA/INDONESIA - STUDIES SOON TO BE RESUMED IN THE MOLUCCAS: PATTIMURA UNIVERSITY TO RE-OPEN ASIA/INDIA - IDEOLOGICAL NATIONALISM OF EXTREMIST GROUPS STRIKES MISSIONARIES. NEW AHAD ASSOCIATION PROMOTES SOCIAL HARMONY. EVER STRONGER INDIAN BISHOPS’ NO TO ANTI-CONVERSION LAW IN GUJARAT ASIA/CHINA - MEDICINES SANS FRONTIERS COMMITTED TO FIGHTING SARS IN CHINA AMERICA/PARAGUAY - “THE CHALLENGE IS TO RE-LAUNCH EVANGELISATION IN ORDER TO REVIVE PEOPLE'S HOPE”: FINAL MESSAGE OF CELAM ASSEMBLY. ELECTION OF NEW DIRECTION COMPLETED 21/05/2003 VATICAN - POPE ASKS ITALIAN BISHOPS FOR STRONG COMMITMENT TO NEW EVANGELISATION AND HANDING ON THE FAITH TO THE NEW GENERATIONS VATICAN - PLENARY ASSEMBLY OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES: THEME, FORMATION IN MISSION TERRITORIES EUROPE/ITALY - SALESIANS RE-STYLE WEB PORTAL: MORE SPACE FOR INFORMATION ON THE WORLD OF YOUTH, DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLES, MISSION EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - SMOKERS ALARM IN DEVELOPING REGIONS, TOBACCO ALREADY KILLS 5 MILLION EVERY YEAR. HISTORY MAKING AGREEMENT TO CLAMP DOWN ON SMOKING 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 AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - IN WAR TORN CONGO A MIRACLE…CARITAS PEACE CONVOY RE-UNITES SEPARATED FAMILY MEMBERS AFRICA/CONGO - MASSACRES, HUNGER, SCARCITY OF MEDICINES…ANGUISHED CALL FROM NORTH EAST CONGO ASIA/PAKSITAN - CENTENARY OF FRANCISABAD ST FRANCIS CITY, A LITTLE ASSISI IN PAKISTAN, CHRISTIAN OASIS IN A MAINLY MUSLIM LAND ASIA/INDIA - SCHOOL FOR 5000 PUPILS; IT SCHOOL FOR 3,000; HOME FOR LEPERS; 300 BED HOSPITAL AND NURSING SCHOOL: HERITAGE LEFT BY ITALIAN MISSIONARY WHO SPENT 50 YEARS ON MISSION IN INDIA AMERICA/PARAGUAY - COMMUNION AND SOLIDARIETY: THE CHURCH’S ANSWER TO GLOBALISATION IN CELAM’S GLOBAL PLAN 2003-2007 20/05/2003 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 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” 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 AFRICA/TOGO - BISHOPS CONCERNED ABOUT PEACE IN TOGO UNLESS FREE DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS ARE GUARANTEED AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “LOST YOUTH COMBAT NAMES COSA NOSTRA AND MAFIA ”…SAYS MISSIONARY WHO CRITICISES BEHAVIOUR OF FRANCE IN THIS TRAGEDY ASIA/INDIA - MORE THAN 700 PEOPLE ATTEND PRESENTATION OF ALBERIONE AWARD TO “OUTLOOK” WEEKLY, COMMITTED TO PEACE AND SOCIAL HARMONY IN INDIA ASIA/INDIA - TURA DIOCESE HAS A SCHOOL, A CHURCH AND A SMALL HOSPITAL NAMED AFTER PADRE PIO, MISSIONARY TO THE WORLD ASIA/TAIWAN - LOCAL CATHOLIC CENTRE FOR SARS EMERGENCY: CARDINAL SHAN SAYS DO NOT BE AFRAID OF ONE ANOTHER 19/05/2003 VATICAN - ON HIS 83rd BIRTHDAY POPE CANONISES 4 NEW SAINTS: “OUR LIFE IS CHRIST, LIVING AND PRESENT IN THE CHURCH AND IN THE WORLD, TODAY AND FOR EVER” EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - WHO ANNUAL ASSEMBLY TO DISCUSS: INFECTIOUS DISEASES, SMALL POX, POLIOMYELITIS, TABAGISM, ONLY SOME OF THE CHALLENGES FACING THE WORLD TODAY EUROPE SPAIN - THE PRESIDENT OF PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS: “CATHOLIC COMMUNICATORS MUST PASS THROUGH THE WALLS THAT DIVIDE PEOPLE” AFRICA/UGANDA - FREE SINCE YESTERDAY EVENING ANOTHER HOSTAGE SEMINARIAN KIDNAPPED IN LACHOR ON 11 MAY AFRICA/D.CONGO - TWO UN PEACEKEEPING SOLDIERS KILLED IN BUNIA, MARTYR CITY VICTIM OF CLASHES BETWEEN LENDU AND HEMA TRIBES ASIA/CHINA - SARS: MORE CATHOLIC CHURCH PERSONNEL VOLUNTEER FOR HOSPITAL PASTORAL, BELIEVERS OF ALL FAITHS MAKE JOINT COLLECTION TO FIGHT DISEASE IN HEBEI PROVINCE ASIA/INDONESIA - FROM ACEH: “NOT FIGHTING BUT PATIENCE AND REBUILDING TRUST” THE VOICE OF FATHER FERDINANDO FRANCISCAN FRIAR IN THE ONLY PARISH IN THE PROVINCE 16/05/2003 VATICAN - POPE RECEIVES 12 NEW AMBASSADORS: CONCERN FOR INDIVIDUALS AND NATIONS, INTEREST FOR DIALOGUE AND SOLIDARITY AT THE BASIS OF DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF BUILDING PEACE VATICAN - THE POPE TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES: “DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED BY DIFFICULTIES, REMIND EVERYONE THAT COOPERATION, INDISPENSABLE FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF THE WORLD, IS A DUTY AND A RIGHT FOR ALL THE BAPTISED" EUROPE/FRANCE - PARIS FOREIGN MISSIONS OPENS WEB PAGE ON MISSION IN ASIA AFRICA/CAMEROON - SALESIANS IN AFRICA: FIFTY PERCENT LOCAL MEN, A SOURCE OF HOPE FOR THE FUTURE TO BE ENCOURAGED ASIA/HONG KONG - PRIESTS VOLUNTEER TO CARRY COMFORT OF SACRAMENTS TO HOSPITALISED SARS PATIENTS ASIA/INDIA - THE ROLE OF CATHOLIC TEACHERS IN INDIA IS TO BUILD HARMONY BETWEEN CULTURES AND RELIGIONS ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - CARDINAL SECRETARY OF STATE IN KAZAKHSTAN ON 2ND ANNIVERSARY OF HISTORY MAKING PAPAL VISIT ASIA/CHINA BENEDICTINES THE WORLD OVER PRAY FOR PEOPLE OF CHINA STRUGGLING AGAINST SARS AMERICA/PARAGUAY - CELAM ASSEMBLY – ECCLESIAL SITUATION OF THE LATIN AMERICAN CONTINENT: WE CANNOT ALLOW FAITH IN THE SON OF GOD TO BE REPLACED WITH RELIGIOUS INDIFFERENCE 15/05/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE AT GENERAL AUDIENCE SAYS: THE SACRIFICE MOST PRECIOUS AND ACCEPTABLE TO THE LORD IS A CONTRITE HEART AND HUMBLE SPIRIT VATICAN - POPE RECEIVES SYRO-MALABAR AND SYRO-MALANKARA BISHOPS: BE LEAVEN OF EVANGELISATION FOR A NEW INDIA EUROPE/SPAIN - 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CHURCH AND CATHOLIC MEANS OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY OPENS TODAY AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO- CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA LAUNCHES APPEAL: “UNITED NATIONS MUST INTERVENE TO DISMANTLE NETWORKS OF INTERESTS BACKING AFRICA’S WARS ” ASIA/INDIA - "THE SYRO-MALABAR CHURCH RICH IN MISSIONARY VOCATIONS, IS READY TO ANNOUNCE THE GOSPEL” SAYS CARDINAL VARKEY VITHAYATHIL ASIA/INDIA - LOCAL CALCUTTA COMMITTEE FOR OCTOBER BEATIFICATION OF MOTHER TERESA ASIA/PAKISTAN - CATHOLIC RELIGIOUS IN PAKISTAN SUPPORT INDIA/PAKISTAN PEACE INITIATIVES ASIA/HONG KONG - CHURCH IN HONG KONG GUARANTEES SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL ASSISTANCE FOR QUARANTINED SARS VICTIMS AND HOSPITAL PERSONNEL AMERICA/PERU - FIRST SUB-REGIONAL MEETING OF ANDES GROUP FOR THE PASTORAL CARE OF CHILDREN FIDES SIGNALS - INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS - “FAMILY – CHILD – STATE” AT KIEV (UKRAINE) 14/05/2003 VATICAN - EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN BISHOPS, WITH PONTIFICAL COUNCIL COR UNUM, WILL VISIT COLOMBIA CARRYING PAPAL MESSAGE OF SOLIDARITY AND ENCOURAGEMENT AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - BUNIA, BLOODIED CITY NOW FACES FOOD SHORTAGE: POPE GRIEVES FOR VICTIMS AT NYAKANZA PARISH AFRICA/UGANDA - REPORTS OF ESCAPE OF SOME KIDNAPPED SEMINARIANS IN NORTHERN UGANDA ARE FALSE ASIA/CHINA - PRAYERS AND SOLIDARITY TO FIGHT SARS: CATHOLICS OFFER SUPPORT TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF CHINA ASIA/TURKEY - MISSION TODAY IN ANTIOCH, CRADLE OF EARLY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES ASIA/THAILAND - CARITAS WORKS TO PROMOTE RECONCILIATION AND PREVENT CONFLICTS AMERICA/PARAGUAY - IN TUPARENDA (PARAGUAY) 29th ORDINARY ASSEMBLY OF CELAM COUNCIL OF LATIN AMERICAN BISHOPS’ CONFERENCES 13/05/2003 VATICAN - THE CHURCH NEEDS SCIENCE AND SCIENCE NEEDS RELIGION AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “NEW OUTBREAK OF WAR IN CONGO IS NOT ACCIDENTAL, ONCE AGAIN ECONOMIC INTEREST ARE AT WORK” SAYS MISSIONARY AFRICA/BENIN - ARCHBISHOP MARTINO: AFRICA NEEDS NOT PITY BUT SOLIDARITY AND JUSTICE: TOO MANY ARE CONCERNED ONLY WITH EXPLOITING AFRICA’S RESOURCES AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REP. CONGO - IN BUNIA APPARENT CALM CHARGED WITH TENSION. BISHOPS AND MISSIONARIES CALL ON INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO INTERVENE TO PREVENT MORE VIOLENCE ASIA/INDIA - MAJOR SUPERIORS DISCUSS: FORMATION OF RELIGIOUS FOR MISSION IN INDIA TODAY AMERICA/COLOMBIA - FINAL DOCUMENT OF NATIONAL RECONCILIATION CONGRESS: LET’S WORK TO BUILD A SOCIETY WHERE FORGIVENESS IS POSSIBLE AND VALORISED AS A VIRTUE OF GREATNESS AND GENEROSITY 12/05/2003 VATICAN - ON VOCATIONS DAY THE POPE ORDAINS 31 NEW PRIESTS FOR HIS OWN DIOCESE: THE PRIEST, MAN OF THE WORD, MAN OF THE EUCHARIST, MINISTER OF DIVINE MERCY VATICAN - THE POPE RECEIVES DOCENTS AND STUDENTS OF LATERAN UNIVERSITY: THE GOSPEL MESSAGE - BEACON OF LIGHT AND SALVATION FOR MEN AND WOMEN OF EVERY RACE AND CULTURE IN WHATEVER SITUATION THEY MAY LIVE VATICAN - MISSION AND THE YOUNG CHURCHES: INTERVENTION BY CARD. CRESCENZIO SEPE AT THE CONGRESS PROMOTED BY THE PONTIFICAL LATERAN UNIVERSITY TO MARK 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE OF POPE JOHN PAUL II AFRICA/UGANDA - REBELS ATTACK LACHOR SEMINARY: LOCAL BOY SEEKING SHELTER FROM REBEL TERROR KILLED, FORTY ONE SEMINARIANS TAKEN HOSTAGE, ARCHBISHOP ASKS THE WORLD TO PRAY ASIA/INDONESIA - SPECIAL MASS FOR DAYAK GOOD HARVEST DAY ON BORNEO ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - CHINESE NUNS VISIT KOREAN SISTERS: AN ENRICHING EXPERIENCE OF SHARING ASIA/MONGOLIA - SARS WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION LIFTS TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS TO MONGOLIA ASIA/IRAQ - CHALDEAN BISHOPS IN THE UNITED STATES READY TO WORK FOR NEW IRAQ AS CHALDEAN NEWS AGENCY FROM THE DIASPORA RESUMES ACTIVITY 09/05/2003 VATICAN - PAPAL AUDIENCE: THE PRINCIPLE TASK OF BISHOPS AND PRIESTS IS TO BUILD UP THE CHURCH THROUGH PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD OF GOD AND THE TEACHING OF CATECHISM VATICAN - CARDINAL SEPE TO THE PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES GENERAL ASSEMBLY: OUR DUTY OF MISSIONARY ANIMATION IS TODAY AS IMPORTANT AND URGENT AS EVER IN THE FACE OF THE CHALLENGES AWAITING US VATICAN - PAPAL LETTER TO ARCHDIOCESE OF KRAKOW AND THE CHURCH IN POLAND FOR 750TH ANNIVERSARY OF CANONISATION OF SAINT STANISLAUS AFRICA/KENYA - AT LEAST 20,000 HOMELESS AS TORRENTIAL RAINS CONTINUE: WEAKENED BY DROUGHT AND A FOOD CRISIS PEOPLE NOW FACE FLOODS AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - VIOLENT FIGHTING IN ITURI REGION, PRIEST KILLED IN BUNIA AFRICA/IVORY COAST - UNITED NATIONS SAY 85 MILLION DOLLARS URGENTLY NEEDED FOR 3 MILLION VICTIMS OF WAR ASIA/IRAQ - “TWELVE YEARS OF UN SANCTIONS REDUCED THE IRAQI PEOPLE TO POVERTY BUT NOW WE LOOK WITH HOPE TO THE FUTURE” CATHOLIC PRIEST IN NINIVE LAUNCHES APPEAL TO HELP IRAQI CHRISTIANS ASIA/INDIA - CENTENARY FOR NIROPYA CATHOLIC MONTHLY VERY POPULAR WITH HINDUS AMERICA/ARGENTINA - WORK SHOP FOR PASTORAL WORKERS: MISSIONARY ANIMATION AMONG CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AMERICA/BOLIVIA - BISHOPS SAY: “LET’S BUILD TOGETHER A BETTER BOLIVIA” SUNDAY 25 MAY NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER FOR PEACE OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - EVANGELISATION THROUGH SONG AND DANCE: SAINT FRANCIS MUSICAL PRODUCED ENTIRELY BY YOUNG PEOPLE REAPS HUGE SUCCESS IN PNG 08/05/2003 VATICAN - PAPAL AUDIENCE: MY APOSTOLIC VISIT TO SPAIN CONFIRMED MY PROFOUND CONVICTION THAT THE ANCIENT NATIONS OF EUROPE STILL HAVE A CHRISTIAN HEART VATICAN - PONTIFICAL LATERAN UNIVERSITY SYMPOSIUM ON POPE JOHN PAUL 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE: THE CHURCH AT THE SERVICE OF MANKIND EUROPE/BELGIUM - IN 2004 PILGRIMAGE TO SANTIAGO TO CELEBRATE EUROPEAN UNITY: BISHOPS ANNOUNCE A EUROPE DAY EUROPE/ITALY - 21ST CHAPTER OF THE DEHONIAN FATHERS FOR A HEART OPEN WITH SOLIDARITY AT THE SERVICE OF MISSION AFRICA/UGANDA - MARGINALISATION AND NO ASSISTANCE FOR REFUGEES WITH AIDS ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS AND TRENDS HARMFUL TO CATHOLICS: A BOOKLET PUBLISHED BY THE CHURCH IN KOREA ASIA/INDONESIA - IN ACEH WHERE TENSION BETWEEN REBELS AND ARMY RISES, THE FRANCISCAN CATHOLIC COMMUNITY IS THE ONLY BULWARK AMERICA/MEXICO - FOR A CULTURE OF LIFE STARTING WITH FAMILY PASTORAL: 2ND CONTINENTAL MEETING OF FAMILY PASTORAL AMERICA/COLOMBIA - ARCHBISHOP RENATO MARTIN TELLS COLOMBIAN CLERGY: THE NEW NAMES FOR PEACE ARE JUSTICE, DEVELOPMENT AND SOLIDARITY 07/05/2003 VATICAN - A NEW ERA IN RELATIONS NOT ONLY BETWEEN SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY BUT ALSO BETWEEN SCIENCE AND THE CHURCH EUROPE/ITALY - TODAY FROM ST PETER’S A MARATHON 12 LAP PILGRIMAGE FOR PEACE: THE “TORCH OF LOVE AND HOPE AND PEACE” WILL BE CARRIED 1,604 KM FROM ROME TO THE GROTTO AT LOURDES EUROPE/SPAIN - PAPAL VISIT INAUGURATED NEW LAP IN EVANGELISATION FOR SPAIN: BEING A MISSIONARY DOES NOT MEAN FORGOING SELF-FULFILMENT SAYS BISHOP PEREZ GONZALES AFRICA/KENYA - NOW THE NIGHTMARE OF MALARIA HANGS OVER A MILLION HOMELESS AS FLOODS INUNDATE EASTERN REGIONS OF KENYA AFRICA/KENYA - FLOODS STILL AN EMERGENCY: COUNTRY ASKS ITSELF HOW CAN SUCH DISASTERS BE AVOIDED AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - SLOW RETURN TO NORMALITY: MISSIONARIES PICK UP THE PIECES AT SACKED AND LOOTED MISSIONS ASIA/TAIWAN - DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES SAYS SARS HELPS LOOK BEYOND LABELS AND SEE PEOPLE AS CREATURES OF GOD ASIA/TAIWAN - SARS: THREE MORE PEOPLE DIE, BRINGING TOTAL NUMBER OF VICTIMS TO 14 ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - CHURCH IN KOREA SENDS MESSAGE TO HINDUS FOR CELEBRATIONS ON 2547TH ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTH OF BUDDHA ASIA/TAIWAN - CARD. SHAN: NO PANIC, PRAYER AND SOLIDARITY TO FIGHT SARS: SUNDAY MAY 11 DAY OF PRAYER IN TAIWAN AMERICA/VENEZUELA-COLOMBIA - VENEZUELA AND COLOMBIA MAKE A PACT TO END THE TRAGEDY OF REFUGEES ON THEIR MUTUAL BORDERS AMERICA/COLOMBIA - 2ND NATIONAL RECONCILIATION CONGRESS: BUILDING PEACE AND PROGRESS FOR A SOCIETY OF BROTHERHOOD 06/05/2003 EUROPE/ITALY - SARS CHAPLAIN OF LARGEST CHINESE COMMUNITY IN ITALY: NO PROBLEM IN PRATO, ALTHOUGH DEEP CONCERN FOR SITUATION IN CHINA AFRICA/SENEGAL - VOICES OF WOMEN, CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM, AGAINST INTRODUCTION OF ISLAMIC RULES IN SENEGAL’S NEW CODE OF THE FAMILY ASIA/SRI LANKA - AFTER TWENTY YEARS OF CIVIL STRIFE “TIGERS” AND “LAMBS” EAT AT THE SAME TABLE: IS PEACE REALLY POSSIBLE? ASIA/VIETNAM - HE WAS A DOCTOR FOR LEPERS THEN HE ASKED HIMSELF, BESIDES CURING DISEASE HOW COULD HE TREAT SOLITUDE? TODAY HE IS A PRIEST AMERICA/PERU - MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD HOLDS NATIONAL FESTIVAL: MARY MOTHER OF ALL CHILDREN AMERICA/MEXICO - BISHOPS MESSAGE TO FAMILIES: “ENOUGH WITH ALL THIS DESTRUCTION OF OUR FAMILIES!” CEP APPOINTMENTS - EUROPE/GERMANY - REV. HERMANN SCHALÜCK CONFIRMED NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES AACHEN-GERMANY CEP APPOINTMENTS - EUROPE/ITALY - REV. GIUSEPPE ANDREOZZI CONFIRMED NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES IN ITALY ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/GUINEA - CONAKRY – MONS. VINCENT COURBALY, APPOINTED METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOP CEP APPOINTMENTS - ASIA/INDIA - REV. SEBASTIAN PERIANNAN APPOINTED RECTOR OF ST PETER APOSTLE MAJOR SEMINARY IN BANGALORE 05/05/2003 VATICAN - ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OPENS WITH SPECIAL SESSION FOR NEW NATIONAL DIRECTORS EUROPE/SPAIN - THE POPE SAYS TO SPANISH YOUTH: LEARN FROM THE VIRGIN MARY…AND YOU WILL BE ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE BIRTH OF A NEW EUROPE OF THE SPIRIT”. EUROPE/SPAIN - THE POPE CANONISES FIVE RELIGIOUS: CHRISTIANS ARE DISTINGUISHED BY BOLD AND COURAGEOUS TESTIMONY OF THE RISEN LORD JESUS CHRIST AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - HOW TO PUT AN END TO AFRICA’S WARS: SEMINAR AT CONGO’S CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY 7-11 MAY ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/CAMEROON - BAFIA - BISHOP ATHANASE BALA RESIGNS, REV. JEAN MARIE BALLA, APPOINTED BISHOP AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “CEASE-FIRE? REAL PEACE IS NOT SIMPLY THE ABSENCE OF FIGHTING. PEOPLE WANT A DECENT LIFE, LOOTING MUST STOP” SAY MISSIONARIES IN IVORY COAST ASIA/SRI LANKA - SINHALESE SEMINARIANS WILL SPEND TIME IN TAMIL DIOCESES TO PROMOTE RECONCILIATION AMONG ETHNIC GROUPS AFTER 20 YEARS OF CIVIL WAR ASIA/NORTH KOREA - CARITAS APPEALS FOR MORE FOOD HEALTH AND AGRICULTURAL AID FOR NORTH KOREA ASIA/CHINA - MORE ACCESS, MORE TRAFFICK, MORE FREEDOM ON THE INTERNET SINCE OUTBREAK OF SARS, ALSO HELPS STUDENTS WITH SCHOOLS SHUT DOWN ASIA/IRAQ - NON CONFESSIONAL PARTIES, SCHOOL REFORM, SECULAR STATE, TRIBALISM OUTLAWED: THIS IS THE IRAQ IRAQI CHRISTIANS WANT ASIA/INDONESIA - BORNEO : THE INTERNET REACHES ACROSS 5000 KM OF INDONESIAN ARCHIPELAGO TO FORM CATHOLIC TEACHERS 02/05/2003 VATICAN - ANNUAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES OPENS MAY 5: HOW TO MEET THE GROWING NEEDS OF MISSIONARY ACTIVITY? VATICAN - ROSARY AND MISSION: AT THE START OF THE MARIAN MONTH OF MAY IN THE YEAR OF THE ROSARY WE PRESENT A REFLECTION BY REV. FERNANDO GALBIATI, SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE PONTIFICAL MISSIONARY UNION VATICAN - POPE AT GENERAL AUDIENCE: MODEL OF POLITICAL LEADER SHOULD BE: DIVINE INTERVENTION IN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE WORLD EUROPE/ITALY - TREATMENT AND VACCINATION FOR SARS REQUIRE LONG EXPERIMENTATION DIFFICULT TO QUANTIFY EUROPE/ITALY - CONTINUE TO DIFFUSE NORMAL PROCEDURE OF DIRECT PREVENTIVE TREATMENT TO CONTROL SARS IN VIEW OF A VACCINE EUROPE/ITALY - PRIESTS AND CATECHESIS: MEETING FOR EUOPE’S BISHOPS AND CATECHESIS DELEGATES EUROPE/ALBANIA - CARITAS ALBANIA: FORGIVENESS AND LOVE TO OVERCOME HATRED AND FEUDS, DEEPLY ROOTED CUSTOMS EUROPE/ALBANIA - CARITAS MARKS TENTH ANNIVERSARY: MATERIAL AND OTHER ASSISTANCE TO BE NEAR TO THE PEOPLE AFRICA/BURUNDI - BISHOPS TELL NATIONAL LEADERS: WE HOPE YOU WILL BE GUIDED BY A SPIRIT OF DIALOGUE AS YOU CREATE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS WHICH WILL REASSURE ALL BURUNDIANS AFRICA/BURUNDI - CHANGEOVER OF PRESIDENTS AS AGREED WITH ALTERNATION OF HUTU AND TUTSI AN EXAMPLE OF STABILITY FOR THE REST OF AFRICA AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - REV. LAURENT SONDITYA APPOINTED RECTOR OF REGINAE PACIS SEMINARY BUTEMBO-BENI ASIA/INDIA - LEADERS OF HINDU MOVEMENT REACH OUT TO CHRISTIANS ANXIOUS TO BUILD BROTHERHOOD AND UNIVERSAL FAMILY, REMOVING BARRIERS WHICH DIVIDE HUMANITY ASIA/INDIA - LAWYER SISTER GRACE THOMAS DEFENDS RIGHTS OF POOR AND EXCLUDED PEOPLES ASIA/CHINA - RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES COMMITTED TO FIGHTING SARS: CATHOLICS CALL FOR SUPPORT OF UNIVERSAL CHURCH AMERICA/CHILE - REV. GEORGE VEGA VELASCO APPOINTED NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES Archivio 2005 JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DICEMBER Archivio 2004 JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DICEMBER Archivio 2003 JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DICEMBER Archivio 2002 JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DICEMBER

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