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TRAGEDY AT MONROVIA SPORTS STADIUM ASIA/VIETNAM - BRIGHT FUTURE IN LOCAL CHURCHES IN MANY DIFFERENT COUNTRIES FOR OVERSEAS VIETNAMESE CATHOLICS CALLED TO “PREACH THE GOSPEL TO ALL CREATURES” ASIA/CAMBODIA - AFTER THE ELECTIONS THERE COULD BE A POLITICAL STALL AND PEOPLE FEAR MORE TENSION. CHURCH IS PRUDENT ASIA/IRAQ - “STOP THE BLOODSHED. THE IRAQI PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF WAR!” SAYS AN IRAQI PRIEST ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/CHAD N’DJAMENA – ARCHBISHOP CHARLES VANDAME RESIGNS, NEW METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOP MATHIA N’GARTERI MAYADI ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/ANGOLA - HUAMBO: ARCHBISHOP FRANCISCO VITI RESIGNS CEP APPOINTMENTS - AFRICA/BURUNDI - REV. PROTAIS NKURIKIYE APPOINTED NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES NOTICE FOR READERS - FROM 4 AUGUST TO 1 SEPTEMBER FIDES SERVICE WILL INTERRUPT ITS DAILY NEWS FOR A PERIOD OF TECHNICAL UPDATING FIDES SERVICE WEB SITE INFORMS TODAY 30/07/2003 EUROPE/ITALY - AT RIVA DEL GARDA AN APPOINTMENT TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE MAJOR MEANS OF MASS COMMUNICATIONS FACE THE QUESTION OF COOPERATION IN DEVELOPMENT AND INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - DESPITE UNITY IN KINSHASA THE ITURI SITUATION IS STILL A PRIORITY IN VIEW OF LASTING PEACE AFRICA/LIBERIA - “GENERATOR FUEL SUPPLIES RUNNING OUT, LAST FOOD AND MEDICINE ” ST JOSEPH’S CATHOLIC HOSPITAL SOS ASIA/THAILAND - BUDDHIST, CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM HEALTH CARE WORKERS DISCUSS JOINT ACTION AND COOPERATION IN THE FIGHT AGAINST AIDS ASIA/PHILIPPINES - CHURCH STANDS BY GOVERNMENT DURING CRISIS: FIRM CALL TO UPROOT CORRUPTION ASIA/SRI LANKA - DESPITE ISOLATED ACTS OF VIOLENCE BY GROUPS OF UNCONTROLLED GUERRILLAS AND BRAKING OF CEASE-FIRE, HOPE FOR PEACE IS STILL ALIVE: ON THE HORIZON RESUMING OF TALKS BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND REBELS FIDES SIGNALS - PRESENTATION OF MONDO E MISSIONE SPECIAL ISSUE ON MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA 29/07/2003 VATICAN - “WITNESSES AND MISSIONARIES OF A FLOCK WHICH IS DISPERSED BUT STRONG IN FAITH” CARDINAL SEPE CLOSES MEETING FOR OVERSEAS VIETNAMESE CATHOLICS CONSIGNING THE MISSIONARY CROSS EUROPE/SPAIN - FORMATION: “IS A RESPONSIBILITY FOR EVERY PERSON WHO DESIRES TO RESPOND TO THE CHALLENGES OF EVANGELISATION AND GOD’S CALL TO HOLINESS ”.- ORDINARY ASSEMBLY OF SPANISH INSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS AFRICA/LIBERIA - WHY DOES THE WORLD HESITATE TO INTERVENE? CONSOLATA MISSIONARIES IN LIBERIA LAUNCH CRY OF ALARM. MISSIONS HAVE ALSO RUN OUT OF SUPPLIES AFRICA/KENYA - NAIROBI 2 MILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN SLUMS WITHOUT WATER, SANITATION, ELECTRICITY ASIA/INDONESIA - INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR MIGRATION ALLOWED TO MAKE FACT FINDING MISSION IN NORTHERN SUMATRA, ACCESS STILL DENIED TO OTHER NGOs AS FLOW OF DISPLACED PERSONS INCREASES ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL TO NON BELIEVERS AND RE-AWAKEN GRACE OF BAPTISM AMONG CATHOLICS; LAY MEMBERS OF BASIC CHURCH COMMUNITIES MAKE COMMITMENT AMERICA/UNITED STATES - TRADITIONS ARE WHAT DISTINGUISH EACH HUMAN SOCIETY FROM ALL THE OTHERS, THEY ARE ESSENCE WHICH ENRICHES THE HUMAN SPECIES: SAYS KOFI ANNAN IN A BOOK NOT TO BE MISSED “TRADITIONS, VALUES AND HUMANITARIAN ACTION” BY DR KEVIN CAHILL AMERICA/PERU - IN THE YEAR OF THE ROSARY A MARIAN CONGRESS ON MARY, STAR OF NEW EVANGELISATION 28/07/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT ANGELUS: “EUROPE TODAY NEEDS THE PRESENCE OF CATHOLICS ADULT IN THEIR FAITH AND CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY COMMUNITIES WHO BEAR WITNESS TO GOD’S LOVE FOR ALL PEOPLES – APPEAL FOR LIBERIA VATICAN - THE POPE APPOINTS 18 CONSULTORS FOR CONGREGATION FOR EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES VATICAN - “LIKE THE EARLY CHRISTIANS WE ARE A LITTLE FLOCK CALLED TO FOLLOW IN HIS FOOTSTEPS SO AS TO BE A GREAT SIGN” EUROPE/ITALY - LIVING MISSION: YOUTH MISSION CAMP OPENS TODAY IN LORETO ORGANISED BY PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES ITALIAN BRANCH AFRICA/CONGO - BABUYU AND BABEMBE TRIBES MAKE PEACE, PROMISE RECIPROCAL FORGIVENESS FOR WRONGS SUFFERED AND TALKS TO LAY BASIS FOR LASTING PEACE AFRICA/LIBERIA - ST JOHN OF GOD CATHOLIC HOSPITAL ISSUES SERIOUS WARNING: “THOUSANDS MAY DIE BECAUSE OF FOOD AND WATER SHORTAGE ” ASIA/HONG KONG - AUXILIARY BISHOP JOHN TONG HON APPOINTED CONSULTOR OF CONGREGATION FOR EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES: RECOGNITION FOR HOLY SPIRIT STUDY CENTRE ASIA/VIETNAM - NEW MISSIONS AMONG THE POOR IN N. VIETNAM TO MARK 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF SISTERS LOVERS OF THE CROSS LOCAL CONGREGATION OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - CATHOLIC RELIGIOUS DETERMINED TO HELP RESTORE PEACE AND RECONCILIATION WHERE PEOPLE STILL SUFFER BECAUSE OF CIVIL WAR CEP APPOINTMENTS - ASIA/TAIWAN – NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PMS CONFIRMED CEP APPOINTMENTS - ASIA/TAIWAN – REV. JOHN B. LEE KEH-MIEN APPOINTED RECTOR OF TAIPEI INTERDIOCESAN SEMINARY ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - BANGUI – ARCHBISHOP JOACHIM N’DAYEN RESIGNS, MGR PAULIN POMODIMO APPOINTED METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOP 25/07/2003 EUROPE/SPAIN - YOUNG VOLUNTEERS SPEND SUMMER HOLIDAYS ON MISSION AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - WE WERE 6 NOW WE ARE 165 SAYS SISTER HELENA KOTANDOLA ONE OF THE FIRST SISTERS OF THE CONGREGATION OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI FOUNDED 50 YEARS AGO IN TSHUMBE DIOCESE ASIA/IRAQ - THERE IS NO WAR BETWEEN RELIGIONS IN IRAQ, SAYS ARCHBISHOP ISHAQ RECTOR OF THE PONTIFICAL BABEL UNIVERSITY IN BAGHDAD ASIA/VIETNAM - UNITED TO LIVE THE GOSPEL AND PROCLAIM IT TO OTHERS: FIRST MEETING OF NEW MILLENNIUM FOR VIETNAM’S OVERSEAS CATHOLICS ASIA/VIETNAM - VIETNAM’S OVERSEAS CATHOLICS, MANY FORMER ‘BOAT PEOPLE’ FERVENT IN FAITH AND COMMITTED TO MISSION FOR CIVIL AND MORAL REBUILDING OF THEIR HOMELAND AMERICA/VENEZUELA - LAY CATHOLICS AND YOUTH AT THE CENTRE OF PLENARY COUNCIL OF LOCAL CHURCH OPENS TOMORROW FIDES SIGNALS - IN NOVEMBER A SYMPOSIUM ON ST THERESA OF LISIEUX AND THE IMPORTANCE TODAY OF HER MESSAGE SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AFRICA/ANGOLA - HIV AND TRANSFUSION SECURITY: CONFERENCE IN LUANDA SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AFRICA - AIDS: BY 2010 TWENTY FIVE MILLION ORPHANS 24/07/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE’S WEEKLY TEACHING: “WE ARE NOT ABANDONED TO OURSELVES OR TO THE COSMIC FORCES, WE ARE ALWAYS IN THE HANDS OF THE LORD IN HIS PLAN FOR SALVATION” AFRICA/LIBERIA - REBELS ATTACK FRANCISCAN MISSION; ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITALLER BROTHERS IN MONROVIA REPORT: THREE IN A BED, CHILDREN DYING FROM LACK OF FOOD, ANAEMIA, MALARIA ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - FIRST BISHOP TO VISIT N. KOREA SINCE THE WAR, IS TODAY PRESIDENT OF THE BISHOPS CONFERENCE, AND CONSULTOR OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES ASIA/INDIA - MORE THAN 10,000 DELEGATES FROM ALL ASIA FROM 9-16 AUGUST IN BANGALORE FOR ASIAN YOUTH DAY – SR. NIRMALA WILL TELL YOUTH ABOUT MOTHER TERESA AMERICA/CHILE - REDEMPTORIST FATHERS LEAD SPECIAL PARISH MISSIONS AMONG THE POOR OF CERRO CORDILLERA DISTRICT TO MARK 100 YEARS OF MISSIONARY PRESENCE AMERICA/COLOMBIA - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – SECOND REGIONAL MEETING OF MEDELLIN AND SANTA FE DE ANTIOQUIA CLOSES WITH THE SENDING OF TWO DIOCESAN PRIESTS ON MISSION TO MOZAMBIQUE ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - ASIA/THAILAND – RATCHABURI - BISHOP JOHN BOSCO MANAT CHUABSAMAI RESIGNS MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION - POPE JOHN PAUL II’ MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION FOR THE MONTH AUGUST “THAT THE CATECHISTS OF THE YOUNG CHURCHES, MAY BEAR WITNESS FAITHFULLY TO THEIR ATTACHMENT TO THE GOSPEL” Comment by Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, Prefect of the congregation for the clergy. 23/07/2003 VATICAN - INTERNATIONAL LAW, A PATH TO PEACE: INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT OF PONTIFICAL COUNCIL JUSTICE AND PEACE, ARCHBISHOP RENATO MARTINO ON POPE JOHN PAUL II’S THEME FOR WORLD PEACE DAY 2004 AFRICA/LIBERIA - FIRST HAND REPORT FROM THE CAPITAL OF LIBERIA ASIA/CHINA - EXHIBITION ON THE LIFE OF MATTEO RICCI, THE MISSIONARY WHO OPENED THE PATHS OF CHINA TO FAITH IN CHRIST AMERICA/CANADA - “THE LEGACY OF WORLD YOUTH DAY CONTINUES TO GROW AND NOT ONLY AMONG YOUTH” - MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT OF CANADIAN CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS ON FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF WORLD YOUTH DAY 2002 SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AFRICA/LIBERIA - CHOLERA IS ANOTHER ENEMY FOR THE WAR TRAVAILED PEOPLE OF LIBERIA 21/07/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT ANGELUS PRAYER: THE NEW EUROPE MUST BE HELPED TO BUILD ITSELF BY REVITALISING THE CHRISTIAN ROOTS FROM WHICH IT ORIGINATED VATICAN - THE POPE ADDRESSES PARTICIPANTS AT EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON UNIVERSITY AND CHURCH IN EUROPE: JUST AS NEW EUROPE CANNOT BE PLANNED WITHOUT DRAWING FROM ITS ROOTS, THE SAME CAN BE SAID OF THE UNIVERSITY EUROPE/ITALY - FIRED BY INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, ALONGSIDE EUROPE OF MARKET AND INSTITUTIONS EUROPE OF CULTURE MUST MAKE A NEW AND BOLD START EUROPE/GERMANY - TRAVELLING BIBLE-BOX ATTRACTS MORE THAN 100,000 VISITORS, ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE, IN THIS “YEAR OF THE BIBLE” AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - BEING BOTH PATRIOTIC AND BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF ‘ENEMY’ PEOPLE AT WAR: CHALLENGES FACING EVANGELISATION IN CONGO. INTERVIEW WITH ARCHBISHOP OF KISANGANI 18/07/2003 EUROPE/ITALY - INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON “UNIVERSITY AND CHURCH IN EUROPE”. UNIVERSITIES: WHERE GOSPEL AND CULTURE MEET EUROPE/ITALY - ST JOHN’S UNIVERSITY HONORARY DOCTORATE FOR CARDINAL GIOVANNI BATTISTA RE AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - FIRST PASTORAL VISIT BY CARDINAL CRESCENZIO SEPE: THE CHURCH IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO BEGS NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - ARCHBISHOP OF KISANGANI PAX CHRISTI INTERNATIONAL VICE-PRESIDENT ASKS FOR UN MANDATE IN ITURI TO BE PROLONGED ASIA/INDIA - A CREDIT CARD FOR CHARITY: FORMER CATHOLIC SCHOOL PUPILS OFFER SCHOLARSHIPS TO POOR CHILDREN ASIA/PHILIPPINES - “OPTIMISM AND HOPE IN SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES” BISHOP IN MINDANAO TELLS FIDES SERVICE – GOVERNMENT REBELS CEASE FIRE IS FRUIT OF CHURCH MEDIATION ASIA/PAKISTAN - NEW YOUTH MAGAZINE IN FAISALABAD IN MEMORY OF LATE DOMINICAN BISHOP ANDREOTTI WHO “LED YOUNG PEOPLE TO CHRIST” AMERICA/BRAZIL - TOWARDS THE AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2: CARD. SEPE URGES NATIONAL MISSION CONGRESS TO INVOLVE A GREATER NUMBER OF PERSONS AND EFFORTS AT THE SERVICE OF MISSION AD GENTES 17/07/2003 VATICAN - POPE’S WEDNESDAY TEACHING: IN THE PSALMS THE MATERNAL TENDERNESS OF JERUSALEM IS AN IMAGE OF GOD’S LOVE FOR MANKIND AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - ANOTHER MASSACRE IN ITURI REGION. TERRIFIED PEOPLE SEEK SAFETY IN PARISHES AND FOREST AFRICA/SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE - SITUATION UNCERTAIN FOLLOWING COUP: IS OIL THE TARGET? ASIA/INDIA - DISADVANTAGED YOUTH DISCOVER ARTISTIC TALENTS IN ART, CULTURE, LITERATURE THANKS TO SUMMER COMMUNICATIONS COURSE OFFERED BY JHABUA DIOCESE ASIA/MALAYSIA - ARCHBISHOP OF KUALA LUMPUR TO FIDES SERVICE: CHURCH UNITY AND DIALOGUE WITH MUSLIMS FOR AUTHENTIC LIVING WITNESS OF FAITH AMERICA/UNITED STATES - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2 – CREATING GREATER MISSION AWARENESS IS ONE OF THE MAIN OBJECTIVES OF PMS IN UNITED STATES AMERICA/CHILE - TOWARDS CAM 2 AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS – YOUNG CHILEANS ATTEND MISSIONARY FORMATION SCHOOL SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AFRICA/UGANDA - 21st GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITIES: NEW TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN PROGRESS. COMMITMENT AND RESPONSIBILITY 16/07/2003 EUROPE/GERMANY - “BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE: RELIGIONS AND CULTURES MEET” IN THE HEART OF EUROPE INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE MEETING PROMOTED BY S. EGIDIO COMMUNITY AFRICA/BURUNDI - TRUCE IN BUJUMBURA AFTER DAYS OF SHELLING, BUT FOR HOW LONG? CONCERN OVER DESPERATE CONDITIONS OF THOUSANDS OF DISPLACED PERSONS AFRICA/BURUNDI - DECADE OF WAR - BACKGROUND AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - FROM HELL IN THE CITY TO HEAVEN OF NEW LAND: PRIEST RUNS PROGRAMME TO HELP ANTANANARIVO’S RURAL REFUGEES ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - FAMILY HAS MAJOR ROLE IN NEW EVANGELISATION: SYMPOSIUM ON PASTORAL CARE FOR FAMILIES ASIA/NORTH KOREA - CARITAS HONG KONG RENEWS COMMITMENT TO PROVIDE FOOD, HEALTH AND FARMING ASSISTANCE TO IMPOVERISHED NORTH KOREA ASIA/CHINA/HONG KONG - FROM HONG KONG TO AFRICA: FIRST DIOCESAN PRIEST GOES ON MISSION AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – A HOST OF INITIATIVES INVOLVING THE CHURCH AT ALL LEVELS AS THE GREAT EVENT DRAWS NEAR AND ENROLMENT CONTINUES SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/FRANCE - NELSON MANDELA WARNS: WHERE AIDS IS WORSE, TREATMENT DOES NOT ARRIVE. 95% OF AIDS VICTIMS DIE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - ASIA/VIETNAM - KONTUM – BISHOP . PIERRE TRAN TRANH CHUNG RESIGNS, REV. MICHEL HOANG DUC OANH APPOINTED 15/07/2003 VATICAN - 102nd APOSTOLIC JOURNEY OF POPE JOHN PAUL ANNOUNCED: REPUBLIC OF SLOVAKIA WILL WELCOME THE POPE IN SEPTEMBER 11-14 VATICAN - ROLE OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE IN PROMOTING BROTHERLY RELATIONS AT THE SERVICE OF PEACE VATICAN - DIGNITY OF HUMAN PROCREATION AND REPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS. THEME OF 10TH ANNUAL MEETING OF PONTIFICAL ACADEMY FOR LIFE EUROPE/ITALY - MONASTIC VOCATIONS IN THE MODERN WORLD: YOUNG BENEDICTINES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD IN ROME FOR A CONGRESS AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - TRAGIC GROWING PHENOMENON OF STREET CHILDREN: CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES HAVE THREE HOMES IN KISANGANI FOR LITTLE PEOPLE NOBODY WANTS AFRICA/LIBERIA - THOUSANDS SEEK SHELTER IN THE CAPITAL, HUMANITARIAN SITUATION DETERIORATES PEOPLE ARE STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE HOPING FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING FORCE ASIA/INDIA - THANKS TO ARCHBISHOP’S MEDIATION CONFLICTING ETHNIC GROUPS IN EAST INDIA MAKE PEACE ASIA/VIETNAM - VIETNAMESE DIASPORA DETERMINED TO “PUT OUT INTO THE DEEP”: FIRST MEETING OF NEW MILLENNIUM FOR VIETNAM’S OVERSEAS CATHOLICS 24-27 JULY IN ROME 14/07/2003 VATICAN - POPE AT ANGELUS: TO EUROPE THIRSTING FOR HOPE, THE CHURCH OFFERS THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFT WHICH NO ONE ELSE CAN GIVE: FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, SOURCE OF HOPE WHICH IS NEVER DISAPPOINTED VATICAN - PUTTING THE LAST FIRST; COMBINING GLOBAL AND LOCAL ACTION; ENSURING THAT WORK IS INSPIRED BY THE SOCIAL TEACHING OF THE CHURCH: CARITAS APPROVES FOUR YEAR PLAN 2003-2007 EUROPE/ITALY - 1,200 PROFESSORS, STUDENTS AND CHAPLAINS FROM 40 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES IN ROME FOR INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON “UNIVERSITY AND CHURCH IN EUROPE.” SATURDAY AN AUDIENCE WITH THE POPE AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - 60 MILLION AFRICANS SUFFER FROM HIV/AIDS: 2ND AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT LAUNCHES CALL TO INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - AFRICAN UNION MEETING REVEALED “A WILL TO HAVE AN AFRICAN POLICY FOR AFRICA” ARCHBISHOP OF BEIRA TELLS FIDES SERVICE AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - COUNT MORE ON LAY CATHOLICS FOR NEW EVANGELISATION AND PROMOTE JUSTICE AND PEACE: TWO MAIN OPTIONS IDENTIFIED BY CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ PLENARY ASSEMBLY AFRICA/BURUNDI - TRUCE IN BUJUMBURA BUT IT IS FEARED FIGHTING MAY START AGAIN ANY TIME ASIA/INDIA - CALCUTTA FILM FESTIVAL TO HONOUR MOTHER TERESA SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/BELGIUM - COMMISSION OF BISHOPS’ CONFERENCES OF EUROPEAN COMMUNITY SAYS: IN ITS RESEARCH ON HUMAN CELLS “SCIENCE MUST NOT CONFLICT WITH HUMAN RIGHTS” 11/07/2003 VATICAN - PAPAL MESSAGE FOR 60TH COMMEMORATION OF TRAGEDY IN WOŁHYNIEN: THE NEW MILLENNIUM DEMANDS THAT UKRAINIANS AND POLES LOOK AT ONE ANOTHER WITH EYES OF RECONCILIATION EUROPA/SPAIN - BOOST MISSION, A PRIORITY FOR THE CHURCH IN SPAIN – NATIONAL MISSION CONGRESS IN SEPTEMBER AFRICA/KENYA - BY 2005 CONTINENTAL CONFERENCE FOR RELIGIOUS LIFE IN AFRICA SHOULD BE A REALITY MISSIONARIES OF AFRICA SUPERIOR GENERAL FATHER RICHARD FRANCOIS TELLS FIDES SERVICE AFRICA/BURUNDI - FOR FIVE DAYS BUJUMBURA HAS BEEN IN GRIP OF FIERCE FIGHTING. CARITAS CENTRES OVERFLOWING WITH INJURED AND DISPLACED PERSONS ASIA/CHINA - HIV/AIDS KILLER IN CHINA, ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG MEN UNDER 30 – CATHOLIC CHURCH FULLY COMMITTED TO CARING AND FIGHTING ASIA/IRAQ - CARITAS ACTIVITY IN POST-WAR PERIOD: HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE AND SOCIAL PROMOTION FOR CHILDREN, THE SICK AND DISPLACED PERSONS ASIA/INDONESIA - IN INDONESIA DEFEAT FOR EDUCATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY IN DIVERSITY OF RELIGIONS – NEW EDUCATION BILL: THE VOICE OF THE CHURCH AMERICA/PANAMA - TOWARDS 2ND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – “SPIRITUALITY OF MISSION, A CHALLENGE FOR OUR PARTICULAR CHURCHES”: PREPARATORY MEETING OF CENTRAL AMERICAN COMMISSION 10/07/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE’S WEDNESDAY TEACHING: OUR GREATEST GOOD IS THE UNION OF OUR WILL WITH THE WILL OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER EUROPE/POLAND - ANNUAL MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN VOCATIONS SERVICE: VOCATIONS PASTORAL, ORDINARY PASTORAL AND NEW EVANGELISATION AFRICA/MALAWI - MALAWI’S FIRST CONVENT OF CLOISTERED NUNS: INCESSANT PRAYER TO COMFORT ONE OF WORLD’S HUNGRIEST AND POOREST COUNTRIES AFRICA/KENYA - IN NAIROBI A HISTORY MAKING MEETING TO SET UP A CONTINENTAL CONFERENCE OF RELIGIOUS MEN AND WOMEN IN AFRICA AFRICA/ETHOPIA - “THESE PEOPLE NEED SOMEONE TO TAKE THEIR SIDE”: DESPERATE APPEAL FROM SALESIAN SISTERS IN ZWAY ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - RELIGIOUS LIFE ON THE WEB: NEW INTERNET PAGE FOR CONFERENCE OF RELIGIOUS IN KOREA ASIA/IRAQ - CHALDEANS WANT TO PLAY THEIR PART TO PROMOTE DEMOCRATIC, CIVIL AND MORAL GROWTH OF NEW IRAQ ASIA/INDIA - SISTER JOURNALISTS TRAIN MEDIA WORKERS IN ELECTRONIC JOURNALISM AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – LIKE THE FIRST DISCIPLES 1,526 INDIGENOUS LAY MISSIONARIES ANNOUNCE THE GOSPEL TO THEIR OWN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - ASIA/KOREA - TAEJON DIOCESE, REV. LAZARUS YOU HEUNG-SK APPOINTED COADJUTOR BISHOP ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - ASIA/KOREA - KWANGJU ARCHDIOCESE, REV. HYGINUS KIM HEE-JONG APPOINTED AUXILIARY 09/07/2003 VATICAN - POPE TELLS MISSIONARY PRIESTS OF THE REGALITY OF CHRIST: “MAY YOUR DESIRE TO EVANGELISE LEAD YOU TO AN APOSTOLATE WHICH KNOWS NO FRONTIERS” EUROPE/GERMANY - AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED IN 2002: 71.6 MILLION EURO FOR 6,200 PROJECTS IN 127 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES TO REBUILD CHURCHES, SUPPORT CATHOLIC CLERGY AND CATHOLIC MEDIA EUROPE/HUNGARY - FINAL STATEMENT FROM CONGRESS ON THE PASTORAL CARE OF GYPSIES: FOCUS ON EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND FAMILY HARNESSING ALSO RADIO AND THE INTERNET AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT OFFERS HOPE FOR AFRICA SAYS FATHER RICHARD MENATSI SECRETARY GENERAL OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE AFRICA/LIBERIA - WILL TAYLOR RELINQUISH POWER? UNCERTAINTY REIGNS IN LIBERIA; LOCAL AND MISSIONARY CHURCH PERSONNEL SUSTAIN POPULATION ASIA/HOLY LAND - “ONLY CHANGED HEARTS CAN BRING PEACE AND SECURITY TO THE HOLY LAND” INTERVIEW WITH FATHER DAVID JAEGER OFM, FRANCISCAN CUSTODY SPOKESMAN ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - CHURCH FOCUSES ON PASTORAL CARE FOR POLICEMEN: MORE THAN 200 OFFICERS RECEIVE SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION ASIA/NEPAL - FIRST OFFICIAL VISIT BY NEW NUNCIO ARCHBISHOP PEDRO LOPEZ QUINTANA: THE GOSPEL WILL TAKE ROOT ONLY IF IT HAS A PROFITABLE MEETING WITH CULTURES AND TRADITIONS OF THE PEOPLE AMONG WHOM IT IS PROCLAIMED 08/07/2003 VATICAN - POPE SENDS MESSAGE TO 17TH ASSEMBLY OF CARITAS INTERNATIONALIS: “HELP OFFERED TO NEIGHBOUR MUST NOT BE ALMSGIVING FROM RICH TO POOR, BUT RATHER SHARING IN BROTHERHOOD, RECOGNITION OF EQUALITY AMONG ALL PEOPLE VATICAN - CONGREGATION FOR CAUSES OF SAINTS PROMULGATES 10 DECREES: HONOUR OF THE ALTARS FOR BLESSED DON ORIONE APOSTLE OF CHARITY AND LAURA OF ST CATHERINE OF SIENA MISSIONARY TO THE INDIOS EUROPE/SPAIN - HOPE IS THE DOOR TO MISSION – COMMENT ON THE POST SYNODAL EXHORTATION ECCLESIA IN EUROPA BY BISHOP FRANCISCO PEREZ OF OSMA-SORIA NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF THE PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES IN SPAIN AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - LOCAL CHURCH DECIDES TO LAUNCH NATIONAL CATHOLIC RADIO-TELEVISION NETWORK AFRICA/NIGERIA - OIL STRIKE OVER AFTER AGREEMENT OVER PRICE. CHURCH CALLS FOR MORE TRANSPARENCY IN FUEL INDUSTRY MANAGEMENT ASIA/IRAQ - CHALDEAN CHRISTIANS MOURN PATRIARCH RAPHAEL BIDAWID OF BAGHDAD ASIA/HOLY LAND - BETHLEHEM WELCOMES GLIMPSE OF HOPE FOR PEACE: UNIVERSITY RESUMES SUMMER COURSES ASIA/PHILIPPINES - DIALOGUE AND RECONCILIATION: PROGRAMME OF NEWLY CHOSEN HEAD OF BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE, ARCHBISHOP FERNANDO CAPALLA OF DAVAO 07/07/2003 VATICAN - DURING SUNDAY ANGELUS PRAYER THE POPE OFFERS YOUTH MESSAGE OF SAINT MARIA GORETTI: “PURITY OF HEART AND BODY MUST BE DEFENDED BECAUSE CHASTITY GUARDS REAL LOVE” VATICAN - “THE TRAGIC EVENTS WHICH AFFLICT THE MODERN WORLD AND THE DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS OF UNDER-DEVELOPMENT REVEAL THE PERMANENT VALIDITY OF THE CHURCH’S SOCIAL TEACHING” PAPAL MESSAGE TO CENTESIMUS ANNUS PRO PONTEFICE FOUNDATION: EUROPE/ITALY - FINAL MESSAGE FROM ITALIAN PMS NATIONAL MEETING: REDISCOVERING IDENTITY OF ANIMATORS IN LOCAL CHURCH AND FUNDAMENTAL MISSION VOCATION OF THE FAMILY EUROPE/HUNGARY - APPEAL FROM BUDAPEST AT THE CONCLUSION OF CONGRESS FOR PASTORAL CARE OF GYPSIES: FULL INTEGRATION CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED WITH FULL RECOGNITION OF RIGHTS AND VALORISATION OF RESOURCES EUROPE/FRANCE - MONUMENT IN PARIS IN MEMORY OF PARIS FOREIGN MISSIONS SOCIETY MARTYRS IN KOREA AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - SYNERGETIC RESEARCH CAN HELP ELIMINATE FOR EVER MANY HEREDITARY DISEASE AS WELL AS AIDS FOR THE GOOD OF HUMANITY AND THE GLORY OF GOD SAYS FATHER SIMPORE MOLECULE GENETICS EXPERT ASIA/PAKISTAN - COMMUNITY MOURNS MURDERED PRIEST FATHER IBRAHIM: SOLIDARITY FROM MUSLIMS, BUT CHRISTIANS FEAR MORE FUNDAMENTALIST ATTACKS ASIA/INDONESIA - REFUGEE EMERGENCY HUMANITARIAN ALARM IN ACEH: 35,000 PEOPLE IN DESPERATE NEED OF FOOD AND MEDICINE 04/07/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE TELLS INDIAN BISHOPS: “THE CALL FOR A NEW EVANGELISATION AND RENEWED MISSIONARY COMMITMENT RESOUNDS JUST AS CLEARLY FOR YOUR ANCIENT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES AS IT DOES FOR YOUR NEWEST” VATICAN - GLOBALISING SOLIDARITY: 17TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF CARITAS INTERNATIONALIS EUROPE/ITALY - AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED CHILDREN’S BIBLE “GOD SPEAKS TO HIS CHILDREN” REACHES 40 MILLION MARK AND 135 LANGUAGES AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - YOUNG SPANISH VOLUNTEER TEACHER ON FIRST MISSION SHOT DEAD AT POLICE ROAD BLOCK AFRICA/KENYA - AFTER TEN YEARS OF PLANNING KENYA’S FIRST CATHOLIC RADIO STUDIOS RADIO WAUMINI OPENS TOMORROW: A MODERN MEANS AT THE SERVICE OF THE GOSPEL AFRICA/UGANDA - “I SPEAK BEHALF OF THE VICTIMS OF THIS ABSURD WAR WHICH HAS LASTED FOR 17 YEARS” PASTORAL LETTER BY ARCHBISHOP ODAMA OF GULU NORTHERN UGANDA ASIA/INDIA - DEVELOPMENT AND PROSPERITY PRODUCE PEACE AND HARMONY: A SALESIAN’S EXPERIENCE IN MADHYA PRADESH ASIA/VIETNAM - PARISH PROVIDES COMPUTERS AND INTERNET FOR YOUTH IN RURAL AREAS OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - PROMOTE RESPECT FOR DIGNITY OF WOMEN, EDUCATION AND FORMATION FOR LAITY AND YOUTH: NEW PASTORAL PRIORITIES FOR CATHOLIC CHURCH IN SOLOMON ISLANDS ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - KIMBE – NEW DIOCESE, FIRST BISHOP ALPHONSE CHAUPA 03/07/2003 AFRICA/ERITREA - TOWARDS A CULTURE OF PEACE: RELIGIONS ARE A BRIDGE FOR ETHIOPIA-ERITREA DIALOGUE AFRICA/LIBERIA - “IN LIBERIA, TAYLOR IS NOT THE ONLY PROBLEM” SAYS LOCAL MISSIONARY ASIA/TURKEY - NEW ECUMENICAL IMPULSE FROM SYMPOSIUM ON SAINT PAUL IN TARSUS AND ANTIOCH ASIA/INDONESIA - EVANGELISATION AND INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE VIA RADIO AT YOGYAKARTA AMERICA/ARGENTINA - IN THE PRESENT SITUATION OF CRISIS THE CHURCH HAS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN BUILDING A NEW SOCIETY IN THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL VALUES: INTERVIEW WITH ARCHBISHOP GUILLERMO JOSE GARLATTI, OF BAHIA BLANCA AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS (CAM 2) AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS, GUATEMALA CITY PREPARES TO WELCOME 300 DELEGATES OF MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AMERICA/CHILE - EVERY HUMAN BEING HAS A RIGHT TO RESPECT NO MATTER WHAT THEIR STATE OF HEALTH: AN ETHIC-SCIENTIFIC STUDY ON AIDS 02/07/2003 VATICAN - IN WEDNESDAY AUDIENCE TEACHING THE POPE SAYS: “WE ARE NOT LEFT ALONE, OUR DAYS ARE NOT RULED BY CHAOS OR FATE” AND HE APPEALS FOR PEACE IN LIBERIA AND UGANDA EUROPE/ITALY - EURO-AFRICAN PACT TO WIPE OUT MALARIA EUROPE/ITALY - WOMEN OF COMMUNION, IN DIALOGUE WITH MUSLIMS IN AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE: NEW SUPERIOR OF MISSIONARERY SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF THE APOSTLES SPEAKS TO FIDES SERVICE AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - SOS FROM BUNIA: HELP US BUILD A CULTURE OF PEACE ASIA/INDIA - NO TO THE CULTURE OF ANTAGONISM YES TO DIALOGUE WITH HINDUS: JESUITS WORK TO SAFEGUARD INDIA’S TRADITIONAL INTERRELIGIOUS CO-EXISTENCE AMERICA/BRAZIL - ARCHBISHOP OF MARINGA: THE PALLIUM STANDS FOR A CHALLENGE TO MAINTAIN IDENTITY OF THE LOCAL CHURCH WHILE BUILDING COMMUNION WITH THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH AMERICA/COSTA RICA - TOWARDS 2ND ALL AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) - FIRST ARCHDIOCESAN MEETING, 400 DIOCESAN DELEGATES “UNITED FOR MISSION” 01/07/2003 VATICAN - “BEING THE VOICE THAT THE HUMAN CONSCIENCE WANTS TO HEAR” IS THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE HOLY SEE’S PRESENCE IN THE COMMUNITY OF NATIONS – A COLLECTION OF THE HOLY SEE’S INTERVENTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS EUROPE/ITALY - FROM SERVICE TO SERVANTS: IDENTITY AND ROLE OF LAY LEADERS FOCAL POINT OF MEETING OF ITALIAN PMS STARTING TODAY EUROPE/ITALY - MALARIA STILL FOUGHT WITH INEFFECTIVE TREATMENT TO WHICH THE DISEASE HAS BECOME RESISTANT AFRICA/MALAWI - THE YEAR OF THE ROSARY BRINGS A NEW SPRINGTIME FOR THE CHURCH IN MALAWI – ROSARY POSTERS IN CHICHEWA AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - “ WE MUST WORK WITH PATIENCE TO OVERCOME THE CULTURE OF VIOLENCE LEFT BY THE WAR PROMOTING THE VALUES OF THE GOSPEL” SAYS ARCHBISHOP OF MAPUTO AFRICA/IVORY COAST - CRISIS OR HITCH? THIS IS THE QUESTION AFTER REBELS DECIDE TO STOP DISARMING ASIA/PAKISTAN - LARGEST NUMBER OF NEW PRIESTS ORDAINED IN LAHORE: FIVE CAPUCHINS WILL MINISTER IN PUNJAB ASIA/MYANMAR - ARCHBISHOP OF YANGON: THE LITTLE CHURCH OF MYANMAR GROWS DESPITE TRIALS AND DIFFICULTIES, ALSO THANKS TO COMMITTED LAITY ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - ASIA/INDONESIA - PALEMBANG – NEW ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE AND NEW METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOP 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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