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THOUSANDS OF PILGRIMS AND DEVOTEES, FOLLOWERS OF MANY RELIGIONS HOPE SO ASIA/BANGLADESH - CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS AGREE THAT ALL ROUND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN STATE SCHOOLS WILL BUILD TOLERANCE AND HARMONY ASIA/PAKISTAN - GOVERNMENT NATIONAL EDUCATION AWARD 2003 GOES TO CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR FOR HIS WRITINGS “SOURCE OF SOCIAL HARMONY” AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “PEACE BEGINS AT HOME, PEACEFUL CONSTITUTIONAL AND ELECTORAL SOLUTION URGENT” SAY BISHOPS OF VENEZUELA AMERICA/PERU - 20,000 JOIN “MARIAN MISSIONARY MARCH” IN THANKSGIVING FOR 25 YEARS OF POPE JOHN PAUL II’S PONTIFICATE AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS SECOND AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – NATIONAL PRAYER NOVENA 14 TO 22 NOVEMBER, TO INVOKE THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ON THE GREAT MISSIONARY EVENT 30/10/2003 VATICAN - NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES IN SPAIN BISHOP PEREZ GONZALEZ APPOINTED MILITARY ORDINARY VATICAN - THE HOLY FATHER APPOINTS FIVE NEW ORDINARY MEMBERS OF THE PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE VATICAN - PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY FOR 20th WORLD YOUTH DAY 2005 IN COLOGNE, GERMANY: ORGANISERS PRESENT POPE WITH WYD LOGO AND WYD OFFICIAL HYMN CONTEST IS LAUNCHED VATICAN - NEW RECTOR OF URBAN UNIVERSITY SPEAKS WITH FIDES: “THE SEARCH FOR GOD MUST NEVER DIVIDE RATHER IT MUST UNITE OVERCOMING EVERY FORM OF INTOLERANCE” EUROPE/ITALY - “HELP US TO HELP THE POOR AND THE SICK IN AFRICA” SAYS BROTHER LEOPOLD GNAMI, ST JOHN OF GOD COUNSELLOR FOR THE PROVINCE OF AFRICA AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - AFRICAN WOMEN UNITED IN THE STRUGGLE WITH AIDS. SISTER 2 SISTER MEETS FOR SECOND TIME IN SOUTH AFRICA AFRICA/IVORY COAST - MISSIONARIES SAY: WE SEE HATRED GROWING IN PEOPLE’S HEARTS. HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO BUILD A CULTURE OF PEACE! AFRICA/UGANDA - LORD's RESISTANCE ARMY REBELS KILL 13 CIVILIANS AND KIDNAP OTHERS ASIA/PAKISTAN - CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF PAKISTAN: RAMADAN HAS STARTED UNDER BANNER OF DIALOGUE AND PEACE: CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS BREAK FAST TOGETHER IN A SPIRIT OF SOLIDARITY AND SHARING ASIA/INDIA - INDIAN GOVERNMENT AWARD TO MANASA CATHOLIC REHABILITATION CENTRE WHICH CARES FOR 155 CHILDREN WITH PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DISABILITIES ASIA/NEPAL - LIFE DEDICATED TO LEPERS DRUG ADDICTS AND AIDS SUFFERERS: A COURAGEOUS PRIEST IN NEPAL ASIA/PHILIPPINES - RECTORS OF SHRINES IN ASIA FORM INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION TO MAKE SHRINES FRONTIER POSTS OF EVANGELISATION AND HUMAN PROMOTION ON THIS VAST CONTINENT 29/10/2003 VATICAN - DURING WEDNESDAY AUDIENCE THE POPE ENCOURAGES ALL CHRISTIANS TO WALK WITH THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY THE PATH OF HOLINESS, CONTEMPLATING JESUS AND MEDITATING WITH THE ROSARY THE MYSTERIES OF SALVATION VATICAN - TOMORROW “PONTIFICAL LATERAN UNIVERSITY INAUGURATES A NEW CHAIR GLORIA CRUCIS” THE VALUE OF THE CROSS FOR EVERY PERSON AND FOR THE LIFE OF THE WORLD EUROPE/ITALY - IMMIGRATION STATISTICS DOSSIER 2003: RECOGNISE IMMIGRANTS’ EQUAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES AND ENABLE THEM TO TAKE ACTIVE PART IN SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL REALITY OF ITALY AND EUROPEAN UNION AFRICA/LIBERIA - “RENEW LIBERIA’S POLITICAL CULTURE TO END CIVIL WAR ONCE AND FOR ALL” AFRICA/LIBERIA - JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE RESUMES ACTIVITY IN LIBERIA ASIA/NEPAL - “ONLY UNITED NATIONS INTERVENTION CAN MEDIATE BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND REBELS”: PRO-PREFECT APOSTOLIC IN NEPAL LAUNCHES HEARTFELT APPEAL SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AFRICA/NIGERIA - 15 MILION CHILDREN THREATED BY POLIO: MASS VACCINATION CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT AGAINST LIFE THREATENING VIRUS 28/10/2003 AFRICA/KENYA - INFRASTRUCTURES FOR DEVELOPMENT CENTRAL THEME OF NEPAD MEETING AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - “JUSTICE AND TRANSPARENCY IN ELECTIONS”: IN VIEW OF IMMINENT POLL CATHOLIC BISHOPS ISSUE MESSAGE TO THE NATION ASIA/PHILIPPINES - SAINT BENEDETTO MENNI DECLARED PATRON OF VOLUNTARY WORKERS IN TAYTAY APOSTOLIC VICARIATE: MODEL OF GENEROUS AVAILABILITY ASIA/INDONESIA - SOLIDARITY AMONG CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS FOR A RAMADAN OF PEACE IN THE MOLUCCAS– LOCAL CHURCH CELEBRATES 100 YEARS OF SACRED HEART MISSIONARIES ASIA/PHILIPPINES - RAMADAN IN SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES COULD SEE STEPS FORWARD IN GOVERNMENT REBEL DIALOGUE - MINDANAO PREPARES FOR PEACE WEEK 2003 AMERICA/COLOMBIA - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS (CAM 2) – PROGRAMME FOR AMERICAN MISSIONARY INTERVENTION NOW COMPLETE: ALMOST READY CONGRESS HANDBOOK AND CENTRAL-AMERICAN MISSION PLAN CEP APPOINTMENTS - AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO – REVEREND JULIUS NDINGA DJAMA APPOINTED RECTOR OF FATHER CHARLES MAHONDE SEMINARY IN OUESSO FIDES SIGNALS - MODERN EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST EXEMPLARS OF ST PETER'S NEW TESTAMENT LETTERS: ARTICLE BY MGR. RAVASI SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - AN IMPORTANT DAY IN BISSAU: S. EGIDIO COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, DESTROYED BY CIVIL WAR, REBUILT AND NOW WORKING 27/10/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT THE ANGELUS PRAYER: “I RENEW MY THANKS TO GOD, RICH IN MERCY, FOR THESE 25 YEARS OF MINISTRY AT THE SERVICE OF THE CHURCH…I RENEW THE ENTRUSTMENT OF MY LIFE AND MY MINISTRY TO THE VIRGIN MARY” EUROPE/ITALY - THE DISTINCTIVE NATURE OF CATHOLICISM IN ITALY COMPARED TO OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: ASSISI MEETING COMES TO A CLOSE EUROPE/ITALY - “CUORE AMICO” AWARD TO THREE ITALIAN MISSIONARIES FOR LIFE TIME OF MISSION IN SOUTH AMERICA, AFRICA AND ASIA AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - AS NORMALITY GRADUALLY RETURNS IN CONGO RWANDAN ARMY STILL IN THE EASTERN REGION. 800 LOCAL BOYS RECRUITED FOR MILITARY TRAINING IN RWANDA AFRICA/SUDAN - SUDAN PEACE IN SIGHT BUT SOME MATTERS REMAIN TO BE SETTLED BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND REBELS ASIA/KOREA - FAMILY AND PRIESTS PASTORAL PRIORITIES FOR CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF KOREA ASIA/CHINA - SIXTEEN BAPTISMS TO CELEBRATE WORLD MISSION SUNDAY AND 25 YEARS OF JOHN PAUL II’s PONTIFICATE ASIA/TAIWAN - A WEB OF LIFE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT: IN COMMUNION WITH GOD, NEIGHBOUR AND CREATION. SISTER CELIA CHUA, CHAIRS 13th CONGRESS OF RELIGIOUS WOMEN IN ASIA AND OCEANIA IN TAIPEI MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION - POPE JOHN PAUL II’S MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION FOR NOVEMBER 2003: THAT THE CHURCH IN AMERICA, CELEBRATING THE SECOND AMERICAN MISSIONARY CONGRESS IN GUATEMALA, MAY BE INSPIRED TO MORE GENEROUS EVANGELIZING ACTIVITY EVEN BEYOND HER OWN FRONTIERS, comment by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - MORE THAN 80% LESS DEATHS FOR HIV/AIDS IN 2001 THANKS TO HAART HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY 25/10/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE TELLS STUDENTS OF CHURCH UNIVERSITIES: “NEVER LET YOUR HEARTS BE DISTRACTED FROM CONTEMPLATION, BUT AT THE SAME TIME KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE EVENTS IN THE WORLD AND IN HISTORY!” EUROPE/ITALY - SPECIAL ITALIAN POST MARK FOR DON ORIONE CENTENARY ASIA/IRAQ - FIRST CHRISTIAN CONGRESS CONCLUDES WITH FORMATION OF INDEPENDENT CHURCH COUNCIL AMERICA/CHILE - “SUFFERING A VOCATION TO SERVE”: FOR AN INTEGRAL AND HUMANISED VISION OF SICKNESS AND SUFFERING AMERICA/CUBA - APOSTOLIC NUNCIO TO CUBA TAKES LEAVE TO ASSUME APPOINTMENT AS VICE PRESIDENT OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICA. ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/ANGOLA – LUANDA REV. FILOMENO DO NASCIMENTO VIEIRA DIAS APPOINTED AUXILIARY SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - WHO/EUROPE - WHO SUPPORTS NEW INITIATIVES TO REDUCE AIDS DRUGS SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - WHO/USA - GUARANTEE EFFICIENT HEALTH SERVICE FOR THE POOR, INCREASE INVESTMENTS IN HEALTH SECTOR, GRADUAL ELIMINATION OF FINANCIAL RESTRICTIONS 24/10/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE RECEIVES IN AUDIENCE BISHOPS OF ENGLAND AND WALES: IN THE FACE OF THE PERVASIVE ADVANCE OF SECULARISM WHICH DESTROYS ALSO SOCIAL LIVING, THE EVANGELISATION OF CULTURE, A CENTRAL ASPECT OF NEW EVANGELISATION, IS EVER MORE URGENT VATICAN - THE POPE CALLS US TO “OPEN THE DOORS TO CHRIST” AND TO MARY: A MARIAN REFLECTION ON 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE EUROPE/ITALY - CARDINAL CAMILLO RUINI AND EDUCATION MINISTER LETIZIA MORATTI SIGN “SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES” FOR TEACHING THE CATHOLIC RELIGION IN INFANT AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS EUROPE/ITALY - “CIVIL SERVICE, PEACE SERVICE”: GROWING NUMBERS OF CARITAS “WHITE BERETS” OPERATING IN CRISIS OR CONFLICT AREAS THROUGH PREVENTION, DIALOGUE AND RECONCILIATION AFRICA/KENYA - ELEVEN AFRICAN HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT TO MEET IN NAIROBI TO DISCUSS HOW TO GUARANTEE LASTING DEVELOPMENT ASIA/SRI LANKA - PEACE TALKS, FROZEN SINCE APRIL, TO RESUME IN 2004: GOVERNMENT WILL EXAMINE TAMIL TIGERS’ PROPOSAL ASIA/INDIA - DENGUE INFECTS INDIA’S CAPITAL AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY: MORE THAN 1.700 TAKEN ILL AND 83 HAVE DIED ASIA/PHILIPPINES - PRESIDENT ARROYO SAYS WAR ON MUSLIM TERRORISM IS A GOVERNMENT PRIORITY: “IT IS THE MAIN DANGER FOR THE PHILIPPINES” AMERICA/CHILE - HUNDRED THOUSAND YOUNG PILGRIMS: SACRIFICES AND PRAYERS FOR POPE JOHN PAUL II’s HEALTH AND MINISTRY ON THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS ELECTION TO THE SEE OF PETER 23/10/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE GRANTS SPECIAL AUDIENCE TO NEW CARDINALS, THEIR FAMILIES AND ACCOMPANYING CATHOLICS: “AS I RENEW MY WARM GREETINGS AND GOOD WISHES FOR THE MISSION ENTRUSTED TO YOU AT THE SERVICE OF THE CHURCH I WISH TO ENTRUST YOU AND YOUR MINISTRY TO THE HEAVENLY PROTECTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY ” EUROPE/SPAIN - INTENSIVE MISSIONARY FORMATION COURSE: BOOST SPANISH CHURCH’S MISSIONARY COMMITMENT WITH BETTER PREPARATION OF PASTORAL WORKERS EUROPE/ALBANIA - FIRST CARMELITE CONVENT OPENED AND BLESSED: ONE YOUNG ALBANIAN CARMELITE TAKES THE HABIT EUROPE/SPAIN - HOLY SEE DELEGATION AT INTERNATIONAL DONOR CONFERENCE FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF IRAQ AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - AFTER PROLONGED DROUGHT, TORRENTIAL RAINS: 15 MILLION, ONE QUARTER OF THE POPULATION, COULD DIE OF MALARIA BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR ASIA/PHILIPPINES - FIRST ASIAN MEETING OF RECTORS OF SHRINES: THE SHRINE, A PLACE OF WELCOME AND OF ENCOUNTER FOR DIFFERENT RELIGIONS AND A PLACE FOR EVANGELISATION AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “CHRIST MY FRIEND, YOU CAN RELY ON ME”: HUNDREDS OF MEMBERS OF MISSIONARY YOUTH IN GUATEMALA SENT TO PROCLAIM JESUS CHRIST AT HOME, AT SCHOOL, AT WORK AMERICA/BRAZIL - BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE CELEBRATES 25TH YEAR OF POPE JOHN PAUL II’s PONTIFICATE: JUBILEE MASSES AT BRASILIA CATHEDRAL; BISHOPS’ WEB SITE SPECIAL JUBILEE SECTION FIDES SIGNALS - EUROPE/ITALY - CORSO USMI, CUM, MIGRANTES: “PLURALITY OF CHARISMA AND SERVICE AMONG MIGRANTS; CONSECRATED LIFE AT THE SERVICE OF HUMAN MOBILITY NELLA MOBILITÀ UMANA” FIDES SIGNALS - PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK “IL VANGELO DEL GIUBILEO, LA CHIESA SUI SENTIERI DEL TERZO MILLENNIO” BY CARDINAL CRESCENZIO SEPE 22/10/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE GIVES THE NEW CARDINALS THEIR RING: “UNITY AND OPENNESS, COMMUNION AND MISSION: THIS IS THE BREATH OF THE CHURCH. THIS IN PARTICULAR IS THE TWOFOLD DIMENSION OF THE PETRINE MINISTRY WHICH THE BISHOP OF ROME SHARES WITH THE OTHER SUCCESSORS OF THE APOSTLES” VATICAN - PONTIFICAL URBAN UNIVERSITY DEDICATES INAUGURATION OF ACADEMIC YEAR 2003-2004 TO “MISSION IN THE MAGISTERIUM OF POPE JOHN PAUL II” EUROPE/ITALY - THE PERSON ENGAGES IN SCIENCE, THE PERSON HAS FAITH, THERE IS NO CONTRADICTION SAYS MGR GUTIERREZ INTERVIEWED BY FIDES AFTER “MIRACLES AND CAUSES OF SAINTS: MEETING OF SCIENCE AND FAITH” SYMPOSIUM EUROPE/UNITED KINGDOM - 46664: GIVE ONE MINUTE OF YOUR LIFE TO AIDS: NELSON MANDELA SPONSORS MUSIC PROGRAMME TO KEEP ATTENTION ON THE PLAGUE OF AIDS EUROPE/SPAIN - YOUNG BOYS FROM MURCIA GIVE UP THEIR JOBS TO GO ON MISSION FOR A YEAR TO BOLIVIA AS SALESIAN LAY MISSIONARIES EUROPE/FRANCE - ALARMING INCREASE OF ALCOHOL AND ILLICIT DRUG USE AMONG YOUNG EUROPEANS AFRICA/LIBERIA - REBEL LEADERS AND TAYLOR’S MEN GRAB POSTS OF COMMAND; WAR CRIMES STILL GO UNPUNISHED AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “MURDER OF INTERNATIONAL RADIO FRANCE SYMPTOM OF CLIMATE OF VIOLENCE AND SUSPICION INTO WHICH IVORY COAST HAS BEEN PLUNGED” EUROPE/SPAIN - TO MARK 25 YEARS OF JOHN PAUL II’S PONTIFICATE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS MORAL THEOLOGY ON 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF “VERITATIS SPLENDOR” ENCYCLICAL AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2 – HUNDREDS OF LOCAL FAMILIES PREPARE TO WELCOME CAM2 PARTICIPANTS IN THEIR HOMES FIDES SIGNALS - CONVENTION “DANIELE COMBONI: A PLAN FOR THE REGENERATION OF AFRICA ” HISTORY OF PEOPLES AND HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC MISSIONS SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - NUMBERS OF INFANT DEATHS FOR MALARIA CAN BE REDUCED WITH BROAD SPECTRUM ANTIBIOTICS AND VACCINATION CAMPAIGNS 21/10/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS TO NEW CARDINALS: ONLY IF YOU BECOME SERVANTS CAN YOU FULFIL YOUR MISSION AND HELP THE SUCCESSOR OF PETER TO BE, IN TURN, THE VATICAN - THE POPE ADDRESSES VISITORS WHO CAME FOR BEATIFICATION OF MOTHER TERESA “THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT MOTHER TERESA WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST MISSIONARIES OF THE 20TH CENTURY. MISSIONARY WITH THE MOST UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE: THE LANGUAGE OF CHARITY WITHOUT LIMITS OR EXCLUSION, WITHOUT PREFERENCE EXCEPT FOR THE MOST ABANDONED”. AFRICA/BURUNDI - INFO: 10 YEARS OF WAR AFRICA/BURUNDI - PEACE PROSPECTS AFTER TEN YEARS OF WAR AFRICA/SOMALIA - HUMANITARIAN WORKERS IN SOMALIA TARGETED AGAIN: TWO BRITISH VOLUNTEERS FOUND DEAD AFRICA/SUDAN - AT LEAST 100 DEAD AND 15,000 HOMELESS AFTER ATTACKS ON FIFTEEN VILLAGES IN WESTERN SUDAN AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - KINSHASA NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE NOT THREATENED BY FLOODS SAY EXPERTS, BUT RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL COULD BE STOLEN AMERICA/PERU - PÉREZ DE CUELLAR TELLS FIDES: “THE HOLY FATHER’S GREATEST CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS PEACE AT THE POLITICAL DIPLOMATIC LEVEL IS THAT AS A PERSON HE IS A PERMANENT SOURCE OF INSPIRATION TO PEACE” AMERICA/UN - PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN. ARCHBISHOP MIGLIORE HOLY SEE PERMANENT OBSERVER TO THE UNITED NATIONS ADDRESSES GENERAL ASSEMBLY AMERICA/GUATEMALA - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS – PREPARATION FOR CAM2 AND MISSION YEAR AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK TOGETHER AT THE SERVICE OF THE COMMON MISSION AMONG THE PEOPLES OF CENTRAL AMERICA SAY PMS NATIONAL DIRECTORS FIDES SIGNALS - SPECIAL CONSISTORY: EXCLUSIVE FOR FIDES SUBSCRIBERS E-MAIL SPECIAL INFO ON COLLEGE OF CARDINALS 20/10/2003 VATICAN - TOMORROW POPE JOHN PAUL II HOLDS 9TH CONSISTORY TO CREATE 31 NEW CARDINALS VATICAN - THE POPE BEATIFIES MOTHER TERESA: “WITH THE WITNESS OF HER LIFE MOTHER TERESA REMINDS EVERYONE THAT THE CHURCH’S EVANGELISING MISSION PASSES BY WAY OF CHARITY NOURISHED N PRAYER AND LISTENING TO THE WORD OF GOD”. VATICAN - THE POPE CLOSES 25TH ANNIVERSARY SYMPOSIUM ORGANISED BY COLLEGE OF CARDINALS: THE ONE AND ONLY GOSPEL PROCLAIMED WITH ONE HEART AND ONE MIND: THIS IS CHRIST’S COMMANDMENT; THIS IS WHAT IS ASKED OF US, AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS A COLLEGE, BY THE CHURCH OF TODAY AND OF ALL TIMES; THIS IS WHAT IS EXPECTED OF US BY MEN AND WOMEN TODAY ”. AFRICA/MALAWI - FOOD EMERGENCY ACUTE SITUATION OVER. BUT POOREST PEOPLE STILL AT RISK. CATHOLICS OFFER FULL AID COMMITMENT ASIA/SOUTH KOREA – NO TO N. KOREA’s NUCLEAR PROGRAMME: “PEACE IN THIS LAND”. KOREAN BISHOPS CALL FOR RECONCILIATION ON THE PENINSULA ASIA/CHINA – PASTORAL LETTER OPENS DIOCESAN YEAR OF EVANGELISATION: BISHOP ZEN CALLS CATHOLICS TO BE MORE MISSIONARY AMERICA/CHILE - A MONTH OF CULTURAL EVENTS AND CELEBRATIONS TO MARK POPE JOHN PAUL II’s 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/ITALY - SAVE THE CHILDREN WELCOMES DEVELOPED COUNTRIES’ DECISION FOR GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TB AND MALARIA CEP APPOINTMENTS - ASIA/PHILIPPINES – REV. GILBERT A. GARCERA NKURIKIYE APPOINTED NATIONAL DIRECTOR CEP APPOINTMENTS - AFRICA/GHANA – REV. RAPHAEL OSEI SOADWAH APPOINTED RECTOR OF SAINT PAUL MAJOR SEMINARY IN ACCRA 18/10/2003 EUROPE/SPAIN - WORLD MISSION SUNDAY: INTENSE PREPARATION IN PARISHES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY: “MISSION AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE LIFE OF EVERY BAPTISED CHRISTIAN” EUROPE/SPAIN - “POPE JOHN PAUL II: THE BEAUTY OF A SOUL IN LOVE WITH GOD AND THE HUMAN PERSON” – REFLECTION BY BISHOP FRANCISCO PEREZ FOR THE 25TH YEAR OF POPE JOHN PAUL II’s PONTIFICATE EUROPE/IRELAND - MISSION SUNDAY: GO RECONCILE, PROCLAIM THE LORD OF PEACE! AFRICA/TANZANIA - MISSION SUNDAY: REMEMBERING POPE JOHN PAUL II’S VISIT AND CELEBRATING HIS 25TH YEAR OF PONTIFICATE ASIA/SRI LANKA - MISSION SUNDAY: GO RECONCILE, PROCLAIM THE LORD OF PEACE! ASIA - MISSION SUNDAY: LAY CATHOLICS, ROSARY IN HAND, IN FRONT LINE FOR MISSION ASIA/INDIA - PHOTOS AND VIDEO OF MOTHER TERESA’S BEATIFICATION DISTRIBUTED IN REAL TIME AMONG THE POOR THANKS TO HIGH-TECH DON BOSCO YOUTH AMERICA/URUGUAY - “IN THESE TIMES OF RELATIVISM HIS FIDELITY ON ALL FRONTS IS A LESSON OF COURAGE FOR ALL BELIEVERS” BISHOPS OF URUGUAY SAY OF JOHN PAUL II NOW IN HIS 26TH YEAR OF PONTIFICATE AMERICA/PERU - MISSION SUNDAY: “WITH MARY, OPEN YOUR HEART TO CHRIST’S MISSION”, 42.000 STUDENTS ANIMATE PRO MISSION COLLECTIONS ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/CAMEROON – NEW METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOP OF YAOUNDE, MGR VICTOR TONYE BACKOT ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AMERICA/COLOMBIA – MOCOA-SIBUNDOY, BISHOP FABIO DE JESUS MORALES GRISALES RESIGNS, REV. LUIS PARRA MORA APPOINTED BISHOP 17/10/2003 VATICAN - “THE BISHOP IS CALLED TO BE FATHER, TEACHER, FRIEND AND BROTHER TO EVERYONE FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE OF CHRIST THE GOOD SHEPHERD”: ON THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS ELECTION TO THE SEE OF PETER, POPE JOHN PAUL II SIGNS PASTORES GREGIS POST SYNODAL EXHORTATION ON THE BISHOP VATICAN - “TO YOU, LORD JESUS CHRIST THE ONLY SHEPHERD OF THE CHURCH, I OFFER THE FRUITS OF THESE TWENTY FIVE YEARS OF MINISTRY AT THE SERVICE OF THE FLOCK ENTRUSTED TO ME… I RENEW TO YOU, THROUGH THE HANDS OF MARY, BELOVED MOTHER, THE GIFT OF MYSELF, PRESENT AND FUTURE: MAY EVERYTHING BE DONE ACCORDING TO YOUR WILL” VATICAN - SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER IN THE VATICAN PRAYER VIGIL AND ROSARY IN PREPARATION FOR MISSION SUNDAY AND BEATIFICATION OF MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA EUROPE/AUSTRIA - MISSION SUNDAY – OUR FAITH GROWS AS WE SHARE THE EXPERIENCE OF THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH: MISSIONARY CAMPAIGN IN AUSTRIA FOCUSES ON RWANDA ASIA/SRI LANKA - THE POPE REASSURED ME: “TAKE COURAGE! I AM PRAYING FOR SRI LANKA” PMS NATIONAL DIRECTOR TELLS FIDES OF MEMORABLE MEETING WITH POPE JOHN PAUL II AMERICA/BRAZIL - MISSION SUNDAY – CATHOLICS MUST REALISE THAT LIFE IS MISSION, IN ORDER TO TRANSFORM LIFE IN MISSION AND TO GIVE LIFE TO MISSION FIDES SIGNALS - “SERVING THE POOR AS WE WOULD SERVE JESUS” A MEMBER OF FIDES STAFF SPENDS A DAY WITH MOTHER TERESA’S SISTERS 4AM TO 9PM. FIDES EXCLUSIVE WEB-BOOK ON MOTHER TERESA GIVES THE STORY FIDES SIGNALS - 25TH YEAR OF PONTIFICATE “SAINT OF THE DAY” ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - ASIA/JAPAN – NEW ARCHBISHOP OF NAGASAKI BISHOP JOSEPH MITSUAKI TAKAMI, PSS SPECIAL ISSUE - POPE JOHN PAUL II AND MISSION… Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - UNITED NATIONS/WHO - 623 MILLION DOLLARS MORE TO FIGHT AIDS, TB AND MALARIA MAKING A TOTAL OF 2.1 BILLION DOLLARS DISTRIBUTED IN 125 COUNTRIES SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “I WANT TO LIVE... SAVE ME FROM MEASLES”: EVERY YEAR MORE THAN 750.000 CHILDREN, HALF OF THEM IN AFRICA DIE OF MEASELES. WORLD FORUM IN CAPE TOWN 15/10/2003 VATICAN - PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE SENDS MESSAGE TO HINDUS FOR DIWALI FEAST 2003: “ WHAT CAN WE, CHRISTIANS AND HINDUS, DO TOGETHER TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE DIGNITY OF EVERY HUMAN PERSON?” AFRICA/BURUNDI - NO END TO VIOLENCE IN BURUNDI. IS PEACE PROCESS REAL OR PRETEND? AFRICA/CONGO - LOCAL CHURCH STEPS OUT TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY: 47,000 ANIMATORS TO DISTRIBUTE PEACE EDUCATION KITS TO BASIC CHURCH COMMUNITIES AND PARISHES AFRICA/SOMALIA - ALTHOUGH A TRAGEDY, ANNALENA TONELLI’S MURDER BRINGS TO LIGHT SELFLESS SERVICE OF VOLUNTEERS IN SOMALILAND, ALL AFRICA AND ALL OVER THE WORLD, SAY PREVIOUS WINNERS OF THE NANSEN AWARD ASSIGNED THIS YEAR TO THE ITALIAN VOLUNTEER ASIA/IRAQ - TO ASK FOR AN ISLAMIC STATE MEANS LACK OF RESPECT FOR MINORITY RIGHTS SAYS IRAQI CATHOLIC PRIEST IN Baghdad SPECIAL ISSUE - JOHN PAUL II and OTHER RELIGIONS - Father Ernesto Lettieri 14/10/2003 VATICAN - PAPAL MESSAGE TO FIRST CONGRESS OF CATHOLIC LAITY IN EASTERN EUROPE: “THE LORD ASKS YOU WHO HAVE BEEN STALWART WITNESSES OF FAITH IN TIMES OF TRIAL AND PERSECUTION…TO PREPARE THE SOIL FOR A VIGOROUS REBIRTH OF THE CHURCH IN YOUR COUNTRIES.” VATICAN - SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER IN THE VATICAN PRAYER VIGIL AND ROSARY IN PREPARATION FOR MISSION SUNDAY AND BEATIFICATION OF MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA EUROPE/ITALY - MISSION SUNDAY – “A HOME FOR EVERYONE” A SLOGAN NOT FOR A DAY BUT FOR THE WHOLE YEAR ANIMATED BY THE MISSIONARY BREATH OF THE CHURCH ASIA/PAKISTAN - WORLD MISSION SUNDAY – MISSION OF PROCLAMATION AND WITNESS WITH THE SIMPLICITY AND JOYFULNESS OF ST FRANCIS ASIA/INDIA - THE ROLE OF CHRISTIANS TO PROMOTE RECONCILIATION IN ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IS BEING DISCUSSED IN NORTH EAST INDIA – UNITY IN DIVERSITY, CHRISTIANS OF DIFFERENT COMMUNIONS TOGETHER FOR PEACE ASIA/CHINA - OPENING TO MARKET ECONOMY, DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS ALSO VIA THE INTERNET, A MARVELLOUS ENGINE AMERICA/BRAZIL - WORLD MISSION SUNDAY: “CHURCH IN BRAZIL YOUR VOCATION IS MISSION ”: LIVING MISSION SUNDAY WITH AWARENESS SPECIAL ISSUE - JOHN PAUL II AND OCEANIA Bishop Cesare Bonivento of Vanimo Papua New Guinea SPECIAL ISSUE - JOHN PAUL II AND AFRICA Cardinal Polycarp Pengo Archbishop of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania SPECIAL ISSUE - JOHN PAUL II AND NORTH AMERICA Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington SPECIAL ISSUE - JOHN PAUL II AND THE FAMILY Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo President of the Pontifical Council for the Family SPECIAL ISSUE - JOHN PAUL II AND THE “FEMALE GENIUS” Rev. Sr. Marcella Farina FMA Theologian , teacher at the Pontifical Faculty of Education Science CEP APPOINTMENTS - AFRICA/TOGO – REV. DANKA LOGA APPOINTED RECTOR OF JOHN PAUL II SEMINARY IN LOME SPECIAL ISSUE - JOHN PAUL II AND ASIA Archbishop Oswald Gracias Archbishop of Agra 13/10/2003 VATICAN - POPE SAYS AT ANGELUS: “LOOKING WITH GRATITUDE AT THE PAST I TURN PARTICULARLY TO YOUNG PEOPLE…I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THEM FOR BEING CLOSE TO ME IN THESE 25 YEARS AND I WANT THEM TO KNOW THAT I CONTINUE TO RELY ON THEM” VATICAN - 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE: “KAROL WOJTYLA CHAIR” INSTITUTED AT THE JOHN PAUL II PONTIFICAL INSTITUTE FOR MARRIAGE AND FAMILY, PONTIFICAL LATERAN UNIVERSITY VATICAN - “A WOMAN IN LOVE WITH JESUS” : POSTULATOR OF MOTHER TERESA’S BEATIFICATION CAUSE FR KOLODIEJCHUK, SPEAKS TO FIDES EUROPE/ENGLAND AND WALES - MISSION SUNDAY: TODAY NOT ONLY ANGLO SAXONS; MULTI-CULTURAL CATHOLICS IN UNION WITH THE POPE SUPPORT UNIVERSAL MISSION WITH PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES EUROPE/ITALY - ROME CITY COUNCIL HOLDS SPECIAL SESSION TO MARK POPE JOHN PAUL II’s 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE EUROPE/GERMANY - MISSION SUNDAY – “TRUSTING IN THE WORD”: IN THE YEAR OF THE BIBLE THE PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES IN GERMANY LOOK TO CATHOLICS IN THE PHILIPPINES TO HELP GERMAN COMMUNITIES TO GROW AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - OPPOSITION TO PRESIDENT MUGABE ANNOUNCES WAVE OF STRIKES TO PROTEST GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC POLICY WHICH HAD LED THE COUNTRY TO COLLAPSE AFRICA/SENEGAL - CARDINAL SEPE CLOSES SECAM/SCEAM PLENARY: CHURCH IN AFRICA EVANGELISE YOURSELF AND HELP WITH THE CHURCH’S UNIVERSAL MISSION ASIA/KOREA - SCANDALS SHAKE SOUTH KOREA PRESIDENCY: ROH ANNOUNCES REFERENDUM ON HIS GOVERNMENT ASIA/INDIA - KARNATAKA, DISQUIETING SIGNAL ON THE EVE OF MOTHER TERESA’S BEATIFICATION: MURDER OF CATHOLIC PRIEST LIVING IN ASHRAM COMMUNITY CENTRE, ASSASSINS PROBABLY HINDU FUNDAMENTALISTS AMERICA/BOLIVIA - POLICE CLASH WITH PROTESTERS: 22 KILLED IN EL ALTO CITY, AT LEAST 60 INJURED IN THE ANTI-GAS WAR AGAINST THE GOVERNEMNT PLAN TO EXPORT NATURAL GAS AMERICA/COSTA RICA - 12,885 CASES OF DENGUE: INFECTION SPREADING, CONCERN FOR WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THE RAINS START? SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/ITALY - ROME’S BIO-MEDICO CAMPUS UNIVERSITY MARKS TENTH ANNIVERSARY SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AMERICA/COSTA RICA - 12,885 CASES OF DENGUE: INFECTION SPREADING, WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH THE START OF THE RAINY SEASON? FIDES SIGNALS - EUROPE/ITALY - CARDINAL RUINI GIVES INTRODUCTORY SPEECH AT FIDES ET RATIO SYMPOSIUM AT LATERAN UNIVERSITY 11/10/2003 FIDES SIGNALS - CATHOLIC CHURCH STATISTICS - (valid to 31 December 2001) 10/10/2003 EUROPE/POLAND - WORLD MISSION SUNDAY –YEAR OF THE ROSARY: THOUSANDS OF ROSARIES FOR THE MISSIONS AND THE POPE “THE GREATEST MISSIONARY OF OUR TIME” EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - SINCE THE BEGINNING OF 2003, THE DEATH PENALTY HAS BEEN EXECUTED 57 TIMES IN THE USA, 83 TIMES IN IRAN AND 40 IN SAUDI ARABIA, BUT “DEATH IS NOT JUSTICE”: WORLD DAY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY EUROPE/NORWAY - NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO IRANIAN LAWYER SHIRIN EBADI FOR HER COMMITMENT TO PROMOTING RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN EUROPE/NORWAY - NOBEL PEACE PRIZE COMMENTS: PROF. JUSTO LACUNZA EXPERT IN ISLAMIC STUDIES; MS FARIAN SABAHI PROFESSOR IN IRANIAN HISTORY; MOAZZEMI GOUDARZI IRANIAN JOURNALIST AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - COUP FOILED. REBEL MILITARY CHIEF COMMITS SUICIDE IN PRISON AFRICA/SENEGAL - CASAMANCE SECESSIONISTS SAY “ THE WAR HAS ENDED”. PEACE IS NEARER BUT BEFORE WE CAN SPEAK OF PEACE WE MUST WAIT FOR THE RECONCILIATION COMMISSION TO FINISH ITS WORK ASIA/PHILIPPINES - WORLD MISSION SUNDAY - ROSARY PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR PEACE AND EVANGELISATION AT THE END OF THE YEAR OF THE ROSARY: BISHOPS DEDICATE THE ROSARY IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER TO PRAYING FOR THE CONTINENTS OF THE WORLD ASIA/INDIA - KARNATAKA AND VATICAN: CELEBRATIONS FOR MOTHER TERESA, 25 YEARS OF POPE JOHN PAUL II, CLOSING OF ROSARY YEAR ASIA/INDONESIA - NEW ROAD IN THE FOREST MEANS NEW PARISH FOR PASTORAL CARE AND EVANGELISATION AMONG DAYAKS ASIA/CHINA - A YEAR DEDICATED TO CHINESE HISTORY AND CULTURE: PONTIFICAL INSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS PIME FIDES SIGNALS - FIDES WEB SITE SPECIAL PAGE FOR WORLD MISSION SUNDAY FIDES SIGNALS - TOMORROW FIDES DOSSIER OF CHURCH STATISTICS SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - ASIA/INDIA - IN INDIA DENGUE KILLS 83 PERSONS AND EFFECTS MORE THAN FIVE THOUSAND 09/10/2003 VATICAN - HOLY FATHER TELLS PHILIPPINE BISHOPS ON AD LIMINA VISIT: MAJOR PASTORAL COMMITMENT DEVELOPING INTO A COMMUNITY OF DISCIPLES OF THE LORD EUROPE/SPAIN - TOUCH SCREEN COMPUTERS IN SCHOOLS AND PARISHES FOR INFORMATION ON MISSION IN THE WORLD EUROPE/ITALY - MEETING “THE DESIRE FOR THE TRUTH” : CARDINAL RUINI WARNS “THEOLOGY MUST NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM PHILOSOPHY” AFRICA/SOMALIA - TWO ARRESTED SUSPECTS MAY BE ANNALENA’S MURDERERS. BUT THIS EXTRAORDINARY CHARITY WORKER WAS IN FRONT LINE TO FIGHT THE BRUTAL CUSTOM OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATIONS, SO? THE SHADOW OF FUNDAMENTALISM? AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - NORTH EAST CONGO: MAP OF MASSACRES FOLLOWS MAP OF OIL DEPOSITS. PEOPLE CHASED AWAY TO EXPLOIT REGION’S WEALTH AT CHEAP PRICE AFRICA/CHAD - OIL REVENUE REVOLUTION: BY LAW 80 PERCENT OF OIL INCOME WILL SERVE TO IMPROVE HEALTH, EDUCATION, AGRICULTURE AND INFRASTRUCTURES ASIA/CHINA - WINDS OF PEACE IN ASIA: SECURITY PACT SIGNED BY CHINA INDIAN AND JAPAN AND 10 ASEAN COUNTRIES AMERICA/PERU - ROSARY AND MISSION: COURSE ON MISSIONARY SPIRITUALITY AND FORMATION WITH MARY AS MODEL SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - UNITED NATIONS - WORLD HAS MORE YOUNG PEOPLE BUT THEIR FUTURE IS UNCERTAIN THREATENED BY DISEASE: EVERY 14 SECONDS ANOTHER YOUNG PERSON BECOMES HIV POSITIVE 08/10/2003 VATICAN - “THE WHITE CLAD PILGRIM RETURNS TO POMPEI”: A REFLECTION ON THE POPE’S MARIAN PILGRIMAGE VATICAN - THE POPE COMMENCES WEEKLY TEACHING FOCUSED ON VESPERS: “MORNING AND EVENING ARE OPPORTUNE TIMES FOR PRAYER…TO ORIENT OUR DAILY JOURNEY AND DIRECT IT TOWARDS CHRIST” EUROPE/SPAIN - “THE POPE’S CONCERN FOR ALL THE CHURCHES IN THESE 25 YEARS OF HIS PONTIFICATE HAS BEEN A SPECIAL GIFT OF GOD FOR WHICH WE WISH AND WE MUST GIVE THANKS” STATEMENT TO MARK 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE ISSUED BY STANDING COMMITTEE OF SPANISH BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE AFRICA/BURUNDI - AGREEMENT REACHED BY GOVERNMENT AND MAIN REBEL MOVEMENT: REBELS TAKE 4 MINISTRIES AND 40% ARMY OFFICER POSTS AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - NO END TO MASSACRES IN ITURI: 40 CHILDREN MURDERED, GROWING ANXIETY AMONG THE PEOPLE AFRICA/SENEGAL - CHILD PROSTITUTES, CHILD SOLDIERS, SEX TOURISM ARE NEW FORMS OF SLAVERY AND EXPLOITATION IN AFRICA SAYS ARCHBISHOP MONSENGWO PASINYA PRESIDENT OF SCEAM/SECAM AFRICA/LIBERIA - THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION HAS PROMISED TO REMOVE ALL WEAPONS FROM MONROVIA IN 72 HOURS, BUT THE ARMS WILL ONLY BE HIDDEN SOME FEAR ASIA/NEPAL - LORETO SISTERS THREATENED, MISSION TORCHED BY REBELS AMERICA/UNITED STATES - SYMPOSIUM AT UNITED NATIONS IN NEW YORK TO MARK 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF PACEM IN TERRIS BY JOHN XXII AND THE 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE OF JOHN PAUL II. SERVITOR PACIS PRIZE AWARDED TO LATE DR. CARLO URBANI AND TO MOTHER TERESA’S MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY 07/10/2003 VATICAN/ITALY - POPE JOHN PAUL II AT POMPEI: THE ROSARY, RENEWED COMMITMENT FOR NEW EVANGELISATION AND BUILDING PEACE IN THE WORLD VATICAN - CHURCH’S SOCIAL TEACHING AND GLOBALISATION CLOSELY CONNECTED: SECRETARY OF JUSTICE AND PEACE COUNCIL GIVE PROLUSION TO OPEN ACADEMIC YEAR OF THE PONTIFICAL SALESIAN UNIVERSITY VATICAN - PONTIFICAL LATERAN UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL MEETING FOR 25TH YEAR OF PONTIFICATE: FIDE ET RATIO ENCYCLICAL, FIVE YEARS ON EUROPE/ITALY - EXHIBITION ON MOTHER TERESA: A FEW POOR BELONGINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, LETTERS, WRITINGS REVEAL HER SOUL – AND AFTERWARDS VISITORS ARE INVITED TO STOP A WHILE FOR EUCHARISTIC ADORATION AFRICA - BREAKING THE CHAIN OF COMMUNICATIONS COLONIALISM: AFRICAN SATELLITE NETWORK FOR AFRICA WILL HELP TO RE-DIRECT RESOURCES TOWARDS DEVELOPMENT AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - ANY MOMENT NEW OUTBREAK OF WAR IN SOUTH EAST CONGO, AN ANALYSIS FOR FIDES: WHY ARE RWANDAN SOLDIERS DEPLOYING, WHY HAS RECRUITMENT OF TROOPS RESUMED HERE AT THE HEART OF THE POOREST AND RICHEST PART OF CENTRAL AFRICA? ASIA/HONGKONG - PUBLIC ROSARY PRAYER AT THE HEART OF MISSION SUNDAY CELEBRATIONS IN HONG KONG: 20,000 EXPECTED ASIA/INDIA - YOUNG PEOPLE FOR YOUNG MISSION: 30,000 MEMBERS OF JESUS YOUTH INTERNATIONAL FOCUS ON PRAYER AND EVANGELISATION – LOOKING TOWARDS 20TH WORLD YOUTH DAY IN COLOGNE GERMANY 2005 FIDES SIGNALS - “VERONIQUE. DIALOGUE OF THE HISTORY AND THE CARNAL SOUL” BY CHARLES PEGUY SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - REPUBLIC OF CAPE VERDE/ FOGO ISLAND - CAPUCHIN FRIARS OPEN SOCIAL-HEALTH CARE CENTRE FOR POOREST OF THE POOR 06/10/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE CANONISES COMBONI, JANSSEN AND FREINADEMETZ: “THE NEW SAINTS TEACH US THAT EVANGELISATION, AS WELL AS INTERVENTIONS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT…ALWAYS ENTAILS EXPLICIT PROCLAMATION OF CHRIST VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS TO NEW ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ANGLICAN PRIMATE OF ENGLAND: “THE WORLD NEEDS THE WITNESS OF OUR UNITY”. VATICAN - “THREE LUMINOUS WITNESS OF MISSIONARY COMMITMENT, THREE CHAMPIONS OF EVANGELISATION”: THE POPE GIVES SPECIAL AUDIENCE TO THOUSANDS OF PILGRIMS IN ROME FOR CANONISATION OF COMBONI, JANSSEN AND FREINADEMETZ EUROPE/ITALY - “WITH THE POPE WE WILL PRAY FOR PEACE IN THE WORLD” SAYS ARCHBISHOP SORRENTINO DELEGATE FOR THE MARIAN SHINE OF POMPEI EUROPE/AZERBAIJAN - DESPITE FALSE INSINUATIONS OF LOCAL PRESS: SAYS NUNCIO IN BAKU – WORK ON NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH TO BEGIN SOON AFRICA/SOMALIA - "DOCTOR TONELLI MURDERED FOR HER WITNESS OF GOD’S LOVE” SAYS MGR DE PRETIS, VICAR GENERAL OF DJIBOUTI AFRICA/SOMALIA - TOUCHING MESSAGE SENT TO FIDES LAST YEAR BY ITALIAN “MOTHER OF SOMALIA”, DR TONNELLI MURDERED YESTERDAY OUT OF HATRED AND IGNORANCE ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - BUILDING A CHURCH FOR EVERYONE, MEET CHALLENGES OF MODERN WORLD AND EVANGELISE SOCIETY: SEOUL DIOCESAN SYNOD CONCLUSION AND CHALLENGES AMERICA/PERU - “THE HOLY FATHER IS THE WELCOMING GESTURE OF THE WELCOMING FATHER WHO RECEIVES THE PRODIGAL SON HE IS THE FORTRESS OF THE MARTYR, HE IS THE PERSEVERANCE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD”: CARD. CIPRIANI AT THE END OF THE “ROSARY FOR THE POPE PAPA” FOR WHICH THOUSANDS GATHERED IN THE PERUVIAN CAPITAL FIDES SIGNALS - EUROPE/ITALY - MONDO MIGLIORE MOVEMENT TO HOLD INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ANIMATION MEETING 03/10/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS TO REDEMPTORISTS: YOUR MISSIONARY TASK DEMANDS PERSONAL AND COMMUNITY INTENSE PRAYER EUROPE/ITALY - 55 MISSIONARIES SALESIAN – RELIGIOUS AND LAY – SET OUT FOR 22 COUNTRIES ALL OVER THE WORLD EUROPE/ITALY -CACAO PLANTATIONS IN IVORY COAST EXPLOIT CHILDREN WHO IN THIS PART OF AFRICA ARE USED ALSO FOR WAR. FIRST DOSSIER BY NATIONAL INDEPENDENT OBSERVATORY EUROPE/ITALY - COMBONI FIRST TO HARNESS “FEMALE GENIUS” FOR MISSION: FIDES INTERVIEWS SR ADELE BRAMBILLA, SUPERIOR GENERAL OF THE COMBONI MISSIONARY SISTERS AFRICA/SENEGAL - PLENARY ASSEMBLY OF SECAM/SCEAM.: RENEWAL FOR GREATER IMPULSE TO MISSIONARY ANIMATION AFRICA/SENEGAL - PLENARY ASSEMBLY OF SECAM/SCEAM OPENS IN DAKAR: SECRETARY OF CONGREGATION FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES SAYS: “THE CHURCH MUST REFUSE FOR AFRICA THE LOGIC OF MARGINALISATION ” AFRICA/RWANDA – PRESIDENT KAGAME WINS ELECTIONS ASIA/PHILIPPINES- BISHOP LEDESMA SAYS BOMB BLAST IN MINDANAO MOSQUE WAS POLITICAL NOT RELIGIOUS ACT ASIA/INDIA - GOVERNMENT INSTITUTES NATIONAL AWARD IN MEMORY OF MOTHER TERESA TO PROMOTE HER MESSAGE OF LOVE AND SERVICE ASIA/CHINA – SPECIAL EDITION OF “CHINA HEUTE” FOR THE CANONISATION OF JOSEF FREINADEMETZ AMERICA/UNITED STATES - A LIFE DEDICATED STUDY AND RESEARCH TO HELP THE HELPLESS, FIDES MET DR KEVIN CAHILL 02/10/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE’S TEACHING AT WEDNESDAY GENERAL AUDIENCE: “OUR UNCERTAIN STEPS ARE SUSTAINED BY THE SPLENDOUR OF TRUTH WHICH CHRIST DIFFUSES IN THE WORLD AND IN HISTORY” – “PLACE YOURSELVES WITH TRUST INTO THE HANDS OF MARY, INVOKING HER HELP INCESSANTLY WITH THE ROSARY PRAYER” VATICAN - AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS MANDATE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ARRIVES ON OFFICIAL VISIT TO POPE JOHN PAUL II EUROPE/ITALY - MIGRATION NOT ONLY A TECHNICAL MATTER IT IS A HUMAN, MORAL AND RELIGIOUS PROBLEM EUROPE/ITALY - JOSEF FREINADEMETZ FIRST NON MARTYR SAINT IN CHINA THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE IS THE ONE EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS INTERVIEW WITH SUPERIOR GENERAL OF THE DIVINE WORD MISSIONARIES EUROPE/ITALY - PREPARATIONS FOR HIS FUNERAL BEGAN BUT YOUNG JUN YAMADA WAS SUDDENLY HEALED THROUGH THE INTERCESSION OF FR. FREINADEMETZ ASIA/IRAQ - OUR HOMELAND, THE FUTURE IRAQ, WILL BE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN EVER! ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - OUR MISSION IS EVANGELISATION A TASK NOT ONLY FOR PRIESTS AD RELIGIOUS BUT ALSO FOR YOUTH SAYS PRESIDENT OF KOREAN BISHOPS SACRED SCRIPTURE COMMISSION AT THE START OF OCTOBER MONTH OF MISSION ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - ASIA/VIETNAM - BISHOP JEAN BAPTISTE BUI TUAN OF LONG XUYEN DIOCESE RESIGNS, SUCCEEDED BY COADJUTOR BISHOP JOSEPH TRAN XUAN TIEU 01/10/2003 VATICAN - OCTOBER THE MONTH OF MISSION OPENS WITH THE CANONISATION NEXT SUNDAY OF THREE IMPORTANT EUROPEAN MISSIONARIES DANIELE COMBONI, ARNOLD JANSSEN AND JOSEF FREINADEMETZ VATICAN - FEAST OF ST THERESE OF LISIEUX PATRONESS OF MISSIONS, MARKS OPENING OF MISSIONARY MONTH OF OCTOBER AFRICA/IVORY COAST - COUNTRY IS NO MAN’S LAND RULED BY BANDITS ASIA/INDIA - RELICS OF MOTHER TERESA WILL BE CARRIED TO ROME FOR BEATIFICATION: SWELLING FLOW OF VISITORS TO VENERATE THE HOLY NUN AT HER BURIAL PLACE IN CALCUTTA ASIA/HOLY LAND - BETHLEHEM CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY A LIGHT OF HOPE AND DIALOGUE IN A WILDERNESS OF VIOLENCE: 30 YEARS AT THE SERVICE OF EDUCATION AND CULTURAL GROWTH IN THE HOLY LAND AMERICA/MEXICO - COMBONI MISSIONARIES AND THE MEDIA: “WE HAVE EARNED READERS WHO KNOW THEY FIND IN OUR PUBLICATIONS INFORMATION THAT THEY CANNOT FIND ELSEWHERE” 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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