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THREATS TO THE CHURCH ASIA/INDIA - CATHOLIC CITY YOUTH ON MISSION AMONG RURAL YOUTH – PREPARATION FOR ASIAN YOUTH DAY CONTINUES AMERICA/UNITED STATES - A CHIP TO SPEED UP RESEARCH ON SARS ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - ASIA/CHINA - MACAO – BISHOP DOMINGOS LAM KA TSEUNG RESIGNS, SUCCEEDED BY COADJUTOR BISHOP JOSE LAI HUNG-SENG ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - ASIA/INDONESIA - MANOKWARI-SORONG – BISHOP FRANCIS XAVIER SUDARTANA HADISUMATRA RESIGNS, REV. DATUS HILARION LEGA APPOINTED 27/06/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE ENCOURAGES INDIAN BISHOPS TO PREACH CHRIST DESPITE DIFFICULTIES: “CHURCH IN INDIA, RENEW YOUR MISSIONARY COMMITMENT!” VATICAN - PAPAL MESSAGE FOR 24TH INTERNATIONAL TOURISM DAY: TOURISM CAN PLAY AN IMPORTANT ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ROLE IN THE STRUGGLE TO ELIMINATE POVERTY EUROPE/ITALY - MISSION AND YOUNG CHURCHES AGENTS OF NEW EVANGELISATION: INTERVIEW WITH FATHER PIERO GHEDDO ON HALF A CENTURY OF PROGRESS AND PROBLEMS IN THE MISSIONARY WORLD EUROPE/ITALY - A FRUIT OF THE GREAT JUBILEE: INAUGURATION OF JOHN PAUL II HOME FOR DISABLED PILGRIMS TO ROME AFRICA/LIBERIA - IN MONROVIA “KILLING, SACKING AND TERROR” MISSIONARY TELLS OF YET ANOTHER OF AFRICA’S FORGOTTEN WAR AFRICA/LIBERIA - A CRISIS LASTING MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS: BACKGROUND ASIA/JAPAN - PRIESTS IN TEAMS PROVIDE BETTER PASTORAL SERVICE AND FORMATION FOR YOUTH AND LAITY ASIA/PHILIPPINES - DEATH OF FIRST FILIPINO VICAR APOSTOLIC OF CALAPAN ASIA/INDIA - VOCATIONS AMONG TRIBAL PEOPLES: ADIVASI VILLAGE IN EASTERN INDIA REJOICES OVER ORDINATION OF FIRST LOCAL PRIEST ASIA/NEPAL - JAPANESE NOTE DAME TEACHING SISTERS RESUME MISSION HIGH IN NEPAL MOUNTAINS AMERICA/UNITED STATES - UNITED NATIONS REPORT: AVAILABLE LESS THAN HALF THE FUNDS NECESSARY FOR THE STRUGGLE AGAINST AIDS ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AMERICA/BAHAMAS - NASSAU – MGR. PATRICK PINDER APPOINTED AUXILIARY BISHOP 26/06/2003 VATICAN - POPE JOHN PAUL II’S WEEKLY AUDIENCE FOCUSSED ON THE RECENT PAPAL VISIT TO BOSNIA AND POPE PAUL VI “AN APOSTLE STRONG YET MEEK, HE LOVED THE CHURCH, WORKED FOR UNITY AND FOR MORE INTENSE MISSION” VATICAN - THE EUCHARIST AND THE PRIEST; INSEPARABLY UNITED IN GOD’S LOVE” REFLECTION FOR THE WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE SANCTIFICATION OF PRIESTS EUROPE/ITALY - HARAMBEE 2002 AFRICA PROJECT WHICH MARKED CANONISATION OF JOSEMARIA ESCRIVA, WILL FUND 18 PROJECTS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA EUROPE/ITALY - ST JOHN OF GOD BROTHERS WORK FOR HEALTH CARE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA EUROPE/ITALY - DRUG ADDICTION IS SUBORDINATED TO THIRST FOR LOVE, LATENT SUFFERING, INNER FRAGILITY AND LACK OF EDUCATION TO LIFE AFRICA/SOMALIA - UNHCR AWARD TO ITALIAN VOLUNTEER FOR THIRTY THREE YEARS OF WORK WITH TB SUFFERERS IN NORTHERN SOMALIA “TELLING THE GOOD NEWS OF THE GOSPEL WITH HER LIFE” AFRICA/LIBERIA - “OUR ONLY HOPE IS FOR AN INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION”, SAYS MISSIONARY IN THE CAPITAL IN THE GRIP OF FRESH FIGHTING AFRICA/UGANDA - RELIGIONS UNITE FOR PEACE. ARCHBISHOP ODAMA AND OTHER RELIGIOUS LEADERS SLEEP IN THE OPEN WITH 200,000 CHILDREN TO PROTECT THEM FROM WARLORDS. ASIA/CHINA - JUNE 29 BEIJING CHURCHES OPEN AFTER SARS NIGHTMARE, CATHOLICS CAN GO TO MASS AGAIN ASIA/INDIA - FUNDAMENTALISM HAS NO FUTURE IN INDIA ARCHBISHOP TELESPHORE TOPPO PRESIDENT OF LATIN RITE BISHOPS IN INDIA AMERICA/COLOMBIA - FORMATION AT A DISTANCE FOR 11.500 CATECHISTS: SIXTH NATIONAL CONGRESS FOR CATECHISTS WILL FOCUS ON NEW EVANGELISATION AND CHRISTIAN INITIATION IN PRESENT DAY CONTEXT 25/06/2003 VATICAN - EVANGELISING ON LINE WITH ART AND CULTURE: VATICAN MUSEUMS INAUGURATES WEB PAGE EUROPE/ITALY - FIRST LITURGICAL FEAST OF SAINT JOSEMARIA ESCRIVA WILL BE MARKED WITH SOLEMNITY ALL OVER THE WORLD AND A NEW WEB PAGE OFFERS INFORMATION ON THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE “SAINT OF EVERY DAY LIFE” AFRICA/LIBERIA - MONROVIA UNDER CANON FIRE, CHURCH DOES WHAT IT CAN TO HELP CIVILIAN WAR VICTIMS, HUMANITARIAN ORGANISATIONS WITHDRAWING WORKERS AFRICA/TANZANIA - RELIGIOUS MEN AND WOMEN AND EVANGELISATION IN TANZANIA: INCULTURATION OF THE FAITH, MISSIONARY ANIMATION, USE OF MEDIA ASIA/IRAQ - IN POST WAR IRAQ CARITAS AND UNHCR HELP ASSIST PEOPLE EXHAUSTED BY YEARS OF WAR AND SANCTIONS ASIA/INDIA - JESUITS IN AFGHANISTAN TO REBUILD SCHOOL SYSTEM AND WORK FOR EDUCATION OF YOUTH AMERICA/BRAZIL - 18TH MIGRANTS WEEK FOCUSES ON THE ELDERLY: MILLIONS OF MEN LEAVE HOME TO ESCAPE POVERTY 24/06/2003 EUROPE/ITALY - RELIGIOUS FORMATION AT A DISTANCE: ON LINE INFORMATION ON NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS, SECTS MODERN SPIRITUAL TENDENCIES AFRICA/LIBERIA - HOPES FOR PEACE VANISH: SHELLING IN MONROVIA AS PRESIDENT TAYLOR PREPARES FOR DECISIVE BATTLE ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - CATHOLIC MISSION OPENS FEEDING CENTRE FOR 60 CHILDREN, CATHOLICS AND MUSLIMS, AT DUSHANBE ASIA/IRAQ - IRAQ SWINGS FROM EMERGENCY TO NORMALITY: IN THE NORTH SCHOOL PUPILS PREPARE FOR EXAMS, IN THE CENTRE CLASHES AND ATTACKS CONTINUE ASIA/HONG KONG - SARS NIGHTMARE OVER: “ SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMEN, POLITICIANS, FILM STARS FADE AWAY, POPULAR HEROES NOW EIGHT DOCTORS WHO DIED TO SAVE OTHERS” MISSIONARY TELLS FIDES SERVICE AMERICA/MEXICO - RENEWING PASTORAL CARE WITH MISSIONARY PROJECT – MISSIOLOGY WEEKS PREPARE FOR CAM2 AMERICA/PORTO RICO - NEW EVANGELISING IMPULSE FOR CHURCH IN PORTO RICO: 76 LAY MISSIONARIES SENT TO EVANGELISE IN NEW ARENAS MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION - MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION “That all those in Africa who are sick - the victims of AIDS and other serious diseases - may experience the consolation and love of God thanks to the services of the doctors and those who lovingly take care of them”. 23/06/2003 EUROPE/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - THE POPE TELLS CATHOLICS IN BANJA LUKA: “DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED, MULTIPLY EFFORTS TO MAKE BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA ONCE AGAIN A LAND OF RECONCILIATION, ENCOUNTER AND PEACE EUROPE/ITALY - TO FIGHT DRUG ABUSE IT IS INDISPENSABLE TO START FROM THE TRANSCENDENT AND UNIQUE VALUE OF EVERY PERSON: SYMPOSIUM FOR UN ANTI-DRUGS DAY AFRICA/BURKINA FASO-NIGER - CHURCH STILL YOUNG, DESPITE DIFFICULTIES TENDS TO MISSION, INTERVIEW WITH BISHOP OUEDRAGO, PRESIDENT OF BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE AFRICA/NIGERIA - NEGLECT AND IGNORANCE CAUSED LATEST NIGERIAN OIL TRAGEDY SAYS ARCHBISHOP ONAIYEKAN OF ABUJA ASIA/INDIA - LIFE STORY OF MOTHER TERESA NOW AVAILABLE IN KANNADA LANGUAGE SPOKEN BY 33 MILLION INDIANS ASIA/TURKEY - ECUMENICAL SERVICE AND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM FOR THE FEAST DAY SAINTS PETER AND ST PAUL ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - 4,000 GATHER TO PRAY IN DEMILITARISED ZONE DIVIDING NORTH AND SOUTH ON NATIONAL DAY FOR RECONCILIATION AND UNITY OF KOREAN PEOPLE OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - LAWLESS SOLOMONS ISLANDS LAUNCHES SOS TO AUSTRALIA: COMMITTED LAY CATHOLIC URGES PEOPLE AND PARLIAMENT TO TAKE LAST CHANCE TO SAVE NATION FROM DESTRUCTION ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - ASIA/MALAYSIA - KUCHING - ARCHBISHOP PETER CHAUNG HOAN TING RESIGNS, MGR JOHN HA TIONG HOCK APPOINTED CEP APPOINTMENTS - ASIA/MALAYSIA - NEW NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES BISHOP JAMES CHAN CEP APPOINTMENTS - ASIA/INDONESIA - NEW NATIONAL DIRECTOR PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES REV. PATRICK PA SVD 20/06/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS ON SOLEMNITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI: “LIKE THE APOSTLES AND SAINTS OF ALL TIMES WE CONTEMPLATE THE FACE OF THE ‘EUCHARISTIC’ CHRIST, LEARNING FROM MARY, WOMAN OF THE EUCHARIST WITH HER WHOLE LIFE” EUROPE/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - THE POPE WILL FIND A CHURCH AND A SOCIETY WHOSE SCARS ARE SLOWLY HEALING, COMMITTED TO DIALOGUE AND RECONCILIATION: INTERVIEW WITH VICAR GENERAL OF BANJA LUKA DIOCESE, PRESIDENT OF COMMITTEE FOR PAPAL VISIT EUROPE/ITALY - SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO FRATERNITY TO WELCOME NEW PRIESTS AND DEACONS: MISSIONARIES DESTINED FOR TAIWAN, SPAIN, GERMANY AND CZECH REPUBLIC EUROPE/ITALY - INTERNATIONAL BODIES UNABLE TO GUARANTEE JUSTICE AND PEACE TODAY MUST BE REINFORCED NOT ELIMINATED: ARCHBISHOP MARTINO TELLS NATIONAL MEETING OF ITALIAN DIOCESAN CARITAS OFFICES AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO - FEAR AND UNCERTAINTY IN NORTH KIVU. DESPITE UNILATERAL CEASE-FIRE CALLED BY REBELS MORE VIOLENCE IS FEARED AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - WORLD REFUGEE DAY: ASSISTANCE AND FORMATION FOR A BETTER FUTURE: SCALABRINI REFUGEE SERVICE IN AFRICA AFRICA/UGANDA - ACHOLI PEOPLE VICTIMS FOR YEARS OF THE WORST FORM OF TERRORISM WHICH NEVER MAKES THE HEADLINES ASIA/INDONESIA - RECONCILIATION CEREMONY OF PROTESTANTS AND MUSLIMS IN MOLUCCAS ISLANDS AFTER YEARS OF ETHNIC CLASHES – BISHOP MANDAGI OF AMBOINA SAYS “WE START LIFE AGAIN LOOKING TO THE FUTURE WITH CONFIDENCE” AMERICA/UNITED STATES - DISABILITY MUST NOT BE SEEN AS A PUNISHMENT OR CURSE: ARCHBISHOP MIGLIORE ADDRESSES UNO WORLD REFUGEE DAY - INFO 18/06/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS TO BISHOPS OF BURKINA FASO AND NIGER: “EVANGELISATION IS FUNDAMENTAL MISSION FOR THE CHURCH. PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL CANNOT BE FULLY ACHIEVED WITHOUT CONTRIBUTION OF ALL BELIEVERS” EUROPE/PORTUGAL - WORLD REFUGEE DAY 2003: A MEETING ORGANISED BY THE JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE DENOUNCES: “THE NEW IMMIGRATION LAW IS IMMORAL” 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 AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - A YOUNG CHURCH FULL OF ENTHUSIASM AFRICA/LIBERIA - DISBELIEF AND SCEPTICISM IN LIBERIA AFTER CEASE-FIRE BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND REBELS IS ANNOUNCED ASIA/MALAYSIA - FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SARS: 8,460 INFECTED, 6,989 RECOVERED ASIA/INDIA - CHRISTIANITY IN WORDS AND DEEDS BROADCAST ON PRIVATE TV: “VOICE OF CHRISTIANITY” PROGRAMME MARKS FIRST ANNIVERSARY 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 AMERICA/BRAZIL - CHURCH IN BRAZIL, YOUR LIFE IS MISSION: FIRST NATIONAL MISSION CONGRESS IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE DISCIPLES AT EMMAUS 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 17/06/2003 EUROPE/ITALY - BUILDING PEACE AND DIALOGUE THROUGH ITINERANT EVANGELISATION, SIDE BY SIDE WITH ORDINARY PEOPLE: FRANCISCAN PROGRAMME FOR THIRD MILLENNIUM AFRICA/ETHIOPIA-ERITREA - AS TENSION RISES, ONLY COLLABORATION CAN COMBAT LOGIC OF WAR WHICH STILL DIVIDES ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - ITURI: THE ROOTS OF A CONFLICT WHICH IS CAUSING THOUSANDS OF VICTIMS ASIA/IRAQ - “ESTATE RAGAZZI” CHILDREN’S SUMMER CAMP IN MOSUL: WAR OVER, SALESIANS HELP REBUILD SOCIAL TISSUE ASIA/PAKISTAN - CHRISTIAN ACQUITTED OF BLASPHEMY CHARGES AFTER FOUR YEARS IN PRISON AMERICA/GUATEMALA - THE AMERICAN CONGRESS MISSIONARY (CAM 2) WILL TRIGGER A DETAILED MISSIONARY PROJECT FOR CENTRAL AMERICA 16/06/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE RECEIVES YOUNGSTERS OF PONTIFICAL MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD SOCIETY: AN IMMENSE CHOIR OF CHILDREN ALL OVER THE WORLD SINGING TOGETHER “HERE I AM LORD” WITH THEIR PRAYERS, ENTHUSIASM AND CONCRETE COMMITMENT VATICAN - POPE SAYS AT ANGELUS: “THE TRAGEDY OF REFUGEES CALLS ON THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO WORK TO TREAT NOT ONLY THE SYMPTOMS BUT IN THE FIRST PLACE THE CAUSES OF THE PROBLEM” - ANOTHER APPEAL FOR THE HOLY LAND EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - FREEING PEOPLE FROM POVERTY IS A MORAL OBLIGATION FOR THE CONSCIENCE OF HUMANITY: HEAD OF HOLY SEE DELEGATION ADDRESSES WORLD LABOUR CONFERENCE AFRICA/UGANDA - MISSIONARIES IN THE NORTH NOT AFRAID OF THREATS FROM LORD’S RESISTANCE ARMY: ARMY OR BANDITS? AFRICA/IVORY COAST - THE PROBLEM OF WAR AND NATIONAL RECONCILIATION AT THE CENTRE OF PLENARY ASSEMBLY OF IVORY COAST’S CATHOLIC BISHOPS ASIA/PAKISTAN - MUSLIMS TUNE IN TO CATHOLIC RADIO: INCREASINGLY POPULAR RADIO VERITAS PROGRAMMES ON SOCIAL, MORAL AND RELIGIOUS MATTERS AND NEWS ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - CHURCH IN KOREA CHALLENGES YOUNG PEOPLE TO USE EYES OF FAITH TO VIEW INTERNET, CHAT-LINES, DRESS AND DISCOS ASIA/PHILIPPINES - CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM RELIGIOUS LEADERS TELL PEOPLE OF MINDANAO: “HAVE COURAGE, DIALOGUE, FORGIVE AND MAKE PEACE” ASIA/PHILIPPINES - WILL FUNDAMENTALIST EXTREMISM BRING ARMY OF SUICIDE BOMBERS TO THE PHILIPPINES? A RESPONSE BY FATHER D’AMBRA PIME MISSIONARY IN MINDANAO 13/06/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE RECEIVES IN AUDIENCE PARTICIPANTS AND ORGANIZERS OF 100 PAPAL JOURNEYS: SINCE THE DAY OF MY ELECTION AS BISHOP OF ROME I HAVE HEARD IN MY HEART JESUS’ COMMAND: “GO OUT TO THE WHOLE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE” (Mk 16,15) VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS THAT DESPITE THE DIFFICULTIES IT ENCOUNTERS FAMILY INSTITUTION HAS GREAT RESOURCES SINCE IT IS FIRMLY ROOTED IN HUMAN NATURE VATICAN - MEETING OF PRESIDENT OF EUROPEAN BISHOPS CONFERENCES’ COMMISSIONS FOR THE FAMILY AND LIFE: SECULARISATION, SOME LAWS THREATEN THE FAMILY IN EUROPE AND EVERYWHERE EUROPE/ITALY - TOMORROW 7,000 CHILDREN WILL RECEIVE MISSIONARY MANDATE FROM THE POPE TO MARK 160TH ANNIVERSARY OF PONTIFICAL SOCIETY MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD EUROPE/ITALY - ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITALLER ORDER SERVES POOR SICK CHILDREN IN AFRICA EUROPE/TURKEY - ALSO TURKEY SUFFERS FROM TOURISM CRISIS: CAPUCHIN MISSIONARIES CALL FOR A CONCRETE ANSWER AFRICA/LIBERIA - UN SAYS LIBERIA’S PRESIDENT IS ACCOMPLICE TO DIAMOND SMUGGLING BETWEEN SIERRA LEONE AND LIBERIA, THE CHARGE COULD ENDANGER PEACE TALKS ASIA/INDIA - AGENDA FOR NEXT ASIAN YOUTH DAY: GLOBALISATION, WAR ON TERRORISM, AIDS, DRUG ABUSE, ENVIRONMENT IMBALANCE, UNEMPLOYMENT, FUNDAMENTALISM, CONSUMERISM, VALUES CRISIS 12/06/2003 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” 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?” EUROPE/ITALY - ITALIAN MUSLIMS ASK FOR ITALIAN IMAM – AL WAHID PALLAVICINI, PRESIDENT OF MUSLIM RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY IN ITALY MAKES STATEMENT TO FIDES SERVICE AFRICA/DJIBOUTI - WITNESSES TO THE FAITH IN DJIBOUTI TODAY: CATHOLIC BISHOP OF DJIBOUTI ADDRESSES PASTORAL LETTER TO HIS LITTLE FLOCK AFRICA/KENYA - LOOKING TO THE FUTURE, DESPITE FLOODS, STATE DEFICIT AND THREAT OF TERRORISM ASIA/INDIA - SANSKRIT, CLASSICAL LANGUAGE OF THE VEDAS, TODAY TAUGHT BY JESUITS CEP APPOINTMENTS - AMERICA/VENEZUELA – REV. JOSE RAFAEL ROMERO LINARES, NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES 11/06/2003 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 - “THE HEALTHIER THE FAMILY, THE HEALTHIER SOCIETY” LETTER FROM CARDINAL SODANO TO ORGANISATION OF AMERICAN STATES GENERAL ASSEMBLY EUROPE/GERMANY - COLOGNE: “TRUSTING IN GOD’S WORD”: THE PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES PRESENT CAMPAIGN FOR OCTOBER MISSIONARY MONTH IN YEAR OF THE BIBLE EUROPE/ITALY - OBJECTS OF FOOD IMPORTED FROM COUNTRIES WITH SARS EPIDEMICS ARE NOT DANGEROUS; THERE IS NO THREAT OF INFECTION AFRICA/MAURITANIA - VARIOUS HYPOTHESES ON ATTEMPTED COUP. EMERGENCY OVER. CELEBRATIONS FOR RETURN TO NORMALITY. NO DAMAGES TO CATHOLIC COMMUNITY 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 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 ASIA/PAKISTAN - 200 CYCLIST CATECHISTS ATTEND TO CHRISTIANS IN MUSLIM VILLAGES IN LAHORE ARCHDIOCESE: VIGOROUS LABOUR FORCE AT THE SERVICE OF EVANGELISATION AMERICA/GUATEMALA - MISSIONARY CELEBRATIONS, CONGRESSES, WEEKS, PILGRIMAGES: INTENSE PREPARATIONS FOR AMERICAN MISSIONARY CONGRESS CAM 2, SOME COUNTRIES ASK TO SEND MORE DELEGATES 10/06/2003 EUROPE/CROATIA - THE POPE CONCLUDES HIS 100TH APOSTOLIC JOURNEY: “WORDS AND EXAMPLE OF MARY A SUBLIME SCHOOL OF LIFE FOR FORMATION OF APOSTLES YESTERDAY AND TODAY” EUROPE/SPAIN - PROMOTE MISSIONARY SPIRIT AMONG CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, WHO ARE THE HOPE OF HUMANITY: PMS SPECIAL SUMMER EVENTS AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - 203,000 DISPLACED PERSONS CAMPED IN BUTEMBO-BENI DIOCESE WATCH WITH FEAR APPROACHING COMBAT AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - A COWARDLY WAR: VIOLENCE ON WOMEN! WE PUBLISH AN E-MAIL MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM CONGO AFRICA/IVORY COAST - CAPUCHIN MISSIONARIES FIGHT MICRO BACTERIA WHICH CAUSES BURULI SKIN DISEASE: AFRICA’S NEW LEPROSY ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - LAY EXAMPLE AND COMMITMENT IN THE CHURCH CAN BUILD BRIDGES TO NEIGHBOUR JAPAN AND DISTANT AMERICA ASIA/INDIA - CHRISTIANS TARGETED IN KASHMIR ACCUSED OF FORCING CONVERSIONS: BISHOP DEFENDS FREEDOM OF BELIEF AND RELIGION 09/06/2003 EUROPE/CROATIA - THE POPE VISITS OSIJEK/CEPIN: “AT THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM GOD IS CALLING BELIEVERS, AND THE LAITY IN PARTICULAR, TO A RENEWED MISSIONARY OUTREACH” EUROPE/CROATIA - THE POPE SAYS: THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IS ALWAYS GATHERED IN THE UPPER ROOM IN PRAYER, AND AT THE SAME TIME, DRIVEN BY THE POWERFUL WIND OF THE SPIRIT, SHE IS ALWAYS ON THE STREETS PREACHING EUROPE/SPAIN - “LAY CHRISTIANS BUILDERS OF PEACE”: BISHOPS’ MESSAGE FOR DAY OF CATHOLIC ACTION AND LAY APOSTOLATE AFRICA/CHAD - RADIO DUJI LOKAR CALLS FIDES TO HELP STOP THE SLAUGHTER OF CENTRAL AFRICAN REFUGEES IN CHAD MOWED DOWN BY FAMINE AFRICA/MAURITANIA - AFTER THE ATTEMPTED COUP FIGHTING CONTINUES. ISLAMIST EXTREMIST BEHIND THE COUP? ASIA/MALAYSIA - BORNEO, CROSSROADS OF CIVILISATIONS, PEOPLES AND TRADITIONS: JESUITS WORK TO PRESERVE THE CULTURE OF THE NATIVE PEOPLE ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - ECUMENICAL NETWORK FOR SOLIDARITY WITH THE POOR AND THE MARGINALISED IN THE MIDDLE EAST ASIA/TAIWAN - YOUNG ITALIAN MISSIONARY TELLS OF APPALLING INCREASE IN SUICIDE IN TAIWAN WHICH KILLS MORE THAN SARS ASIA/INDIA - IN DELHI CATHOLICS OF ORIENTAL RITE NOW HAVE THEIR OWN PARISHES AMERICA/GUYANA - DIALOGUE AMONG CULTURES AND RELIGIONS: JESUITS OPEN NEW INSTITUTE 06/06/2003 EUROPE/ITALY - “HERE I AM LORD, SEND ME!” LITTLE MISSIONARIES TO VISIT POPE FOR 160TH ANNIVERSARY OF MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD PONTIFICAL SOCIETY AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - RECOGNITION OF PRESIDENT BOZIZE BY SOME NEIGHBOURS OPENS DOOR FOR SENDING OF INTERNATIONAL AID AND NORMALISATION OF THE COUNTRY AFRICA/RWANDA - GOSPEL CHARITY TO OVERCOME DIVISIONS AND CULTURE OF VIOLENCE IN ORDER TO BUILD A NEW SOCIETY ASIA/SRI LANKA - THIS IS THE HOUR OF PEACE: A HISTORY-MAKING OPPORTUNITY NOT TO BE LOST! ARCHBISHOP GOMIS URGES GOVERNMENT AND TAMIL MOVEMENT TO RESUME TALKS ASIA/PAKISTAN - CATECHESIS AND COMMUNICATIONS IN FORMATION OF PRIESTS FOR MORE EFFECTIVE MISSION ASIA/PAKISTAN - WAVE CATHOLIC CENTRE LAUNCHES CATECHESIS VIA AUDIO CASSETTES FOR PARISH AND FAMILY AMERICA/ARGENTINA - NATIONAL ROSARY CONGRESS: DISCOVERING THE ROSARY AS A METHOD OF PREACHING AND EMINENTLY CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER 05/06/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE’S GENERAL AUDIENCE: BLESSED JOHN XXIII TELLS MEN AND WOMEN OF THIRD MILLENNIUM THAT SECRET OF PEACE AND JOY LIES IN DEEP AND CONSTANT COMMUNION WITH GOD VATICAN - POPE JOHN PAUL II SETS OUT FOR HIS 100TH APOSTOLIC JOURNEY: 3RD TIME IN CROATIA “MARKED BY THE WITNESS OF BOLD DISCIPLES OF THE GOSPEL” EUROPE/ITALY - FATHER JOSE RODRIGUEZ CARBALLO NEW MINISTER GENERAL OF THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR – PAPAL MESSAGE AFRICA/CONGO - “EUROPEAN PEACE KEEPING FORCE IS WELCOME IN CONGO, BUT PERHAPS THE INTERVENTION COULD HAVE COME EARLIER” AFRICA/TOGO - EYADEMA RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT: TENSION FOLLOWS ACCUSATIONS OF ELECTORAL FRAUD ASIA/INDIA - KILLER HEAT: NO WATER, HARVEST LOST – CATHOLIC ARCHISHOP OF HYDERABAD APPEALS FOR HELP AMERICA/MEXICO - AT LEAST 10.000 YOUNG PEOPLE EXPECTED TO ATTEND NATIONAL MISSIONARY YOUTH CONGRESS: “YOUTH OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM, DO NOT BE AFRAID TO CARRY THE GOSPEL TO THE WORLD! OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - DON BOSCO CENTRE CELEBRATES DAY OF THE FAMILY AND LIFE 04/06/2003 VATICANO - THE POPE RECEIVES A GROUP OF INDIAN BISHOPS IN AUDIENCE: IMITATING SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER “MAY THE CHURCH IN INDIA PROCLAIM RESPECTFULLY AND COURAGEOUSLY THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ” VATICAN - STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT OF PONTIFICAL COUNCIL "COR UNUM" AFTER HIS VISIT TO IRAQ EUROPE/FRANCE - TO MARK 160 YEARS OF HOLY CHILDHOOD MISSIONARY CHILDREN’S PARTY AT LISIEUX, BIRTHPLACE OF SAINT TERESA AFRICA/UGANDA - “THE BEAUTIFUL FACE OF A CHURCH ALIVE AND DYNAMIC” DESCRIBED BY CARD. CRESCENZIO SEPE WHEN HE MET UGANDAN BISHOPS AFRICA/LIBERIA - GHANA HOSTS PEACE TALKS BETWEEN LIBERIAN GOVERNMENT AND REBEL GROUPS: US CATHOLIC BISHOPS VOICE SOLIDARITY WITH VICTIMS OF LIBERIA's CIVIL WAR ASIA/CHINA - THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO FRANCISCANS BEGAN HEROIC MISSION IN TIBET: INTERNATIONAL MEETING AND VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS TO MARK THIRD CENTENARY ASIA/MALAYSIA - NEW ARCHBISHOP OF KUALA LUMPUR ILLUSTRATES PASTORAL PLAN:“BEAR WITNESS TO CHRIST AS A UNITED LOCAL CHURCH AND BUILD HARMONY WITH OUR MUSLIM FRIENDS 03/06/2003 EUROPE/ITALY - EUROPEAN YEAR FOR THE DISABLED: “COOPERATION AT THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL LEVEL MUST BE INTENSIFIED” DON ORIONE FATHERS SAY AS THEY PREPARE TO TAKE DISABLED TO MEET THE POPE AFRICA/UGANDA - MAY THE EXAMPLE AND INTERCESSION OF THE MARTYRS OBTAIN FOR UGANDA AND THE WHOLE OF AFRICA THE GREAT GIFTS OF FAITH AND PEACE: CARDINAL SEPE CELEBRATES MASS AT THE SHRINE OF UGANDA’S MARTYRS AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - BISHOPS REFLECT ON FORMATION OF PRIESTS AND YOUTH IN GENERAL AFRICA/TOGO - TENSION IN TOGO AFTER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ON 1 JUNE. SOME PEOPLE KILLED IN CLASHES AROUND CAPITAL ASIA/PAKISTAN - CHRISTIANS CONCERNED SINCE SHARIA LAW WAS APPROVED IN NORTH WEST PROVINCE WHERE, SO FAR, MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS LIVED IN FRIENDSHIP AND DIALOGUE AMERICA/PERU - “TODAY MORE THAN EVER THE CHURCH MUST BE CLEAR ABOUT HER MISSIONARY DIMENSION”: FIRST NATIONAL MISSIONARY CONGRESS AMERICA - WHILE THE WORLD’S ATTENTION IS RIVETED ON SARS THE “BREAK BONE” FEVER CONTINUES TO KILL THOUSANDS OF THE POOREST PEOPLE IN TROPICAL AND SEMI-TROPICAL COUNTRIES 02/06/2003 VATICAN - POPE SAYS AT REGINA CAELI HYMN: BY VIRTUE OF THEIR VOCATION AND PROFESSION MEDIA WORKERS ARE CALLED TO BE PEACE MAKERS AFRICA/UGANDA - CARDINAL SEPE FOR CENTENARY OF EVANGELISATION OF MBARARA PROVINCE: “THE GOSPEL SEED HAS GROWN AND TODAY IT IS A LARGE TREE, BUT THE MISSIONARY TASK IS STILL GREAT” AFRICA/UGANDA - MISSIONARIES CONCERNED AFTER ATTACKS ON MISSION: “FOREIGN INTERVENTION NOW INDISPENSABLE” ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - ANDONG DIOCESE STARTS SPECIAL MISSION TOWARDS THE POOREST OF THE POOR ASIA/INDONESIA - ALARM IN ACEH: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, WIDESPREAD VIOLENCE AGAINST CIVILIANS – RELIGIOUS LEADERS CALL FOR AN END TO HOSTILITIES ASIA/TAIWAN - PASTORAL LETTER FROM CARDINAL PAUL SHAN: “WE ARE LIVING A NEW LENT TO FIGHT SARS” 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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