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ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - ASIA/BANGLADESH – MYMENSINGH DIOCESE, REV. PAUL PONEN KUBI APPOINTED AUXILIARY 23/12/2003 AFRICA/LIBERIA - MISSIONARIES SPEND CHRISTMAS WITH REFUGEES, “THIS IS MORE LIKE THE LORD’S FIRST COMING IN HUMILITY AND POVERTY AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - MAY CHRISTMAS OPEN HEARTS AND EXTEND SCIENTIFIC HORIZONS TO EMBRACE AND CARE FOR ALL WHO SUFFER: CHAPLAIN OF YALGADO OUEDRAOGO HOSPITAL ASIA/INDIA - 10,000 VOLUMES ON SHOW AT “BOOK FESTIVAL” ORGANISED BY PAULINE SISTERS IN MUMBAI: KEEN INTEREST AMONG VISITORS ASIA/INDIA - CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM SYRO-MALANKAR ARCHBISHOP CYRIL BASELIOS: MAY CHRISTMAS PEACE AND JOY DISSOLVE SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS TENSION AMERICA/BRAZIL - “MAY THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM CONTINUE TO SHINE AMIDST DIFFICULTIES AND FEAR, VIOLENCE AND PROBLEMS TO HELP US BUILD A NEW HUMANITY ”: BRAZILIAN BISHOPS’ CHRISTMAS MESSAGE AMERICA/CHILE - DIOCESAN MISSION: YOUTH ON MISSION FROM 3 TO 11 JANUARY OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - PRISON INMATES WILL HAVE CHRISTMAS MASS AND PARTY WITH ARCHBISHOP BARNES: PNG CULTURE GIVES PRIDE OF PLACE TO CHILDREN 22/12/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE’S REFLECTION AT THE ANGELUS: “MAY MARY, MOTHER OF MOTHERS, HELP US TO GRASP THE KEY WORDS OF THE MYSTERY OF HER DIVINE SON'S BIRTH: HUMILITY, SILENCE, WONDER, JOY” VATICAN - THE POPE EXCHANGES CHRISTMAS GREETINGS WITH THE ROMAN CURIA - “ONE IS THE GOAL FOR WHICH WE TOIL TOGETHER: TO PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST FOR THE SALVATION OF THE WORLD. THIS MISSION WE UNDERTAKE WITH A SPIRIT OF FAITH AND HEART WILLING TO MAKE SACRIFICES” ASIA/IRAQ - QUIET CHRISTMAS IN BAGHDAD IN PRAYER AND HOPE FOR A BETTER FUTURE AMERICA/PERU - “CHRISTMAS IS JESUS. GIVE HOPE TO 50.000 CHILDREN”: MOVEMENT OF CHRISTIAN LIFE 2003 SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN CEP APPOINTMENTS - AMERICA/UNITED STATES/HAITI – REVEREND JEAN BAPTISTE GUERLAIN CHANCY APPOINTED NATIONAL DIRECTOR PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - ASIA/ ARABIAN PENINSULA – REV. PAUL HINDER APPOINTED AUXILIARY BISHOP FOR THE APOSTOLIC VICARIATE OF ARABIA 19/12/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE RECEIVES JURISTS IN AUDIENCE: “TO PROTECT THE HUMAN PERSON AND HUMAN DIGNITY, TO ACHIEVE THE COMMON GOOD AND HARMONY AMONG PEOPLES, THE PATH TO BE TAKEN AND PROMOTED IS THE “POWER” OF THE LAW EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - WHO ISSUES REPORT ON WORLD HEALTH, 194 PAGES ON LIFE ON THE PLANET: IN JAPAN PEOPLE LIVE TO BE 85, IN SIERRA LEONE MOST DIE BEFORE THEY ARE 36 AFRICA/ANGOLA - SALESIANS ASSIST THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES: HUMANITARIAN AID DOES NOT CLASH WITH PASTORAL MINISTRY AND MANY LAPSE CATHOLICS RETURN TO THE FAITH AFTER YEARS OF AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - PRISON SENTENCE FOR FORMER PRESIDENT IS A BOOST FOR THOSE WHO DEMAND JUSTICE FOR PAST CRIMES, BUT THE PROBLEM OF NATIONAL RECONCILIATION REMAINS TO BE SOLVED AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - AFTER SO MANY CHRISTMASSES OF WAR AT LAST CONGO PREPARES FOR A CHRISTMAS AT PEACE: ON 1 JANUARY A NEW ‘MOTHER OF GOD’ PARISH WILL OPEN IN MUHUNGU ENTRUSTED TO XAVERIAN MISSIONARIES ASIA/NEPAL - REVIEWING 2003: AMIDST SITUATION OF VIOLENCE, GRIEVING, POVERTY, LOCAL CHURCH CONTINUES SERVE PEOPLE OF THIS LAND SHARING THEIR JOYS AND SORROWS: NEW YOUTH CENTRE OPENS ON 2 JANUARY IN KATHMANDU ASIA/SRI LANKA - BOOST COMMUNICATION IN AND AMONG ASIAN FAMILIES FOR MUTUAL ENRICHMENT AND EVANGELISATION SAYS COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION OF ASIAN BISHOPS’ CONFERENCES ASIA/TURKEY –CLOSER THAN EVER IN SOLIDARITY AND DIALOGUE WITH COMMUNITIES OF OTHER RELIGIONS, TURKEY’S CHRISTIANS PREPARE FOR CHRISTMAS FIDES SIGNALS - MONDAY 22 DECEMBER S. EGIDIO COMMUNITY PRESENTS NEW CITY GUIDE FOR TRAMPS IN ROME:WHERE TO EAT, SLEEP,WASH 18/12/2003 VATICAN - OFFICE FOR PAPAL LITURGICAL CELEBRATIONS ISSUES NOTICE OF CHRISTMAS SERVICES PRESIDED BY POPE JOHN PAUL II AFRICA/UGANDA - ARCHBISHOP OF GULU ILLUSTRATES FOR FIDES JOINT CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM RELIGIOUS LEADERS TO WAR STRICKEN PEOPLE IN NORTHERN UGANDA: “TRUST IN GOD, PRAY CONSTANTLY FOR PEACE WHICH COMES ONLY FROM GOD”. AFRICA/IVORY COAST – SIGNS OF HOPE FOR PEACE, BUT CARE MUST BE TAKEN TO PREVENT PREVAILING OF LOGIC OF VIOLENCE ASIA/MONGOLIA - ON CHRISTMAS DAY, NOT A HOLIDAY IN MONGOLIA, TINY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY WILL CELEBRATE THE SAVIOUR'S BIRTH: PARTIES AND PRESENTS FOR STREET CHILDREN RESCUED FROM CITY SEWERS BY MISSIONARY PRIEST ASIA/INDIA - CHRISTMAS 2003 MESSAGE OF “UNITY IN DIVERSITY”: GOA CHRISTMAS CONCERT OF SONGS IN SIX LANGUAGES FOR AN INTERRELIGIOUS AUDIENCE ASIA/PAKISTAN - CHRISTMAS IN PAKISTAN: HOPE OR FEAR? DESPITE GROWING FEAR OF TERRORISM AFTER PRESIDENT NARROWLY ESCAPES BOMB BLAST PAKISTANI CHRISTIANS READY TO CELEBRATE WITH HOPE AMERICA/BRAZIL - “TO BE MISSIONARY MEANS IGNORING BORDERS, GOING BEYOND FRONTIERS. THIS IS OUR CHARISMA”: GUIDELINES PROMOTE MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD ACTIVITY IN BRAZIL 17/12/2003 VATICAN – POPE JOHN PAUL II PRESIDES FUNERAL FOR CARDINAL PAULOS TZADUA EMERITUS ARCHBISHOP OF ADDIS ABABA VATICAN - THE POPE’S TEACHING AT GENERAL AUDIENCE: “THE MEANING OF CHRISTIAN HOPE, RE-PROPOSED IN ADVENT, IS CONFIDENT WAITING, INDUSTRIOUS READINESS AND JOYOUS OPENING TO THE ENCOUNTER WITH THE LORD. WITH HIS COMING IN BETHLEHEM HE CAME TO US TO STAY FOREVER.” EUROPE/SCOTLAND - SCOTTISH BISHOPS MAKE 2004 YEAR OF "LIFE AND FAMILY" AFRICA/ETHIOPIA – ALL IS QUIET IN GAMBELLA AFTER RECENT ETHNIC CLASHES. AT LEAST 200 HOMELESS PEOPLE FIND SHELTER AT SALESIAN MISSION AND HUNDREDS MORE ARE IN DANGER OF STARVATION ASIA/IRAQ - IRAQI CHRISTIANS APPEAL TO PEOPLE OF MOSUL: “A MINORITY OF EXTREMISTS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO DESTROY MOSUL’S TRADITIONAL IMAGE OF RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE AND PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE ” ASIA/JAPAN - CHURCH IN JAPAN FOR MISSION AD GENTES: FIVE LAY MISSIONARIES SET OUT FOR RUSSIA, CAMBODIA, EAST TIMOR AND PALAU ASIA/INDIA - “THE CHURCH MUST COMMUNICATE THE GOOD NEWS, AT ALL TIMES AND WITH ALL MEANS ”, ARCHBISHOP BASELIOS, PRESIDENT OF THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE OF INDIA TOLD MEETING OF CATHOLIC COUNCIL ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/NIGERIA – ARCHDIOCESE OF CALABAR: ARCHBISHOP BRIAN DAVID USANGA RESIGNS, BISHOP JOSEPH EDRA UKPO APPOINTED FIDES SIGNALS - WYD 2005 IN COLOGNE, GERMANY: OMI PREPARATORY MEETING 11 TO 15 AUGUST 2005 16/12/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE SPEAKS TO BISHOPS OF SUDAN: “THE EXAMPLE OF STEADFAST COMMITMENT AND OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY GIVEN BY THESE TWO DEVOTED SERVANTS OF THE LORD CAN SHED MUCH LIGHT ON THE PRESENT REALITIES FACING THE CHURCH IN YOUR COUNTRY.” VATICAN - POPE JOHN PAUL II ISSUES MESSAGE FOR THE CHURCH’S 37TH WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR PEACE 1ST JANUARY 2004: “AN EVER TIMELY COMMITMENT: TEACHING PEACE” AFRICA/IVORY COAST - PEACE AMONG POLITICAL LEADERS MUST BE FOLLOWED BY PEACE AMONG HEARTS AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - AFRICA STILL IN THE GRIP OF TRIBALISM: RIVAL ETHNIC GROUPS CLASH IN WESTERN ETHIOPIA. MISSIONARIES ASSIST REFUGEES ASIA/PHILIPPINES – FOR CHRISTMAS GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNIST GUERRILLA IN SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES CALL A TRUCE ASIA/INDIA - RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS MEET TO DISCUSS WAYS AND MEANS OF PROMOTING ETHNIC PEACE IN NORTH EAST INDIA AMERICA/PERU - “THE CHRISTMAS OFFER OF FORGIVENESS AND NEW LIFE MUST NOT BE LEFT TO PASS IN VAIN: MESSAGE OF PERUVIAN BISHOPS FOR INTEGRAL RECONCILIATION BASED ON TRUTH AND JUSTICE” 15/12/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE’S REFLECTIONS AT SUNDAY ANGELUS: “TO KNOW THAT GOD IS NOT DISTANT, BUT CLOSE, NOT INDIFFERENT, BUT COMPASSIONATE, NOT A STRANGER, BUT A MERCIFUL FATHER WHO FOLLOWS US LOVINGLY WITH RESPECT FOR OUR FREEDOM, IS A MOTIVE OF PROFOUND JOY WHICH THE ALTERNATING EVENTS OF EVERY DAY CANNOT AFFECT” VATICAN - INDIAN PRIESTS, SISTERS AND BROTHERS UNION HOLDS CHRISTMAS-CULTURAL-HOMECOMING-FEST-2003 AFRICA/LIBERIA - PAUSE IN UN DISARMAMENT PROGRAMME. BAD PLANNING CAUSES MALCONTENT AND SHOOTING: TOO MANY TROOPS WANTING TO TURN IN RIFLES IN EXCHANGE FOR MONEY AND EDUCATION ASIA/HOLY LAND - CHRISTMAS 2003: YOUNG MUSICIANS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD CARRY MESSAGE OF PEACE WITH CONCERTS IN JERUSALEM AND SCHOLARSHIPS FOR ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN MUSIC STUDENTS ASIA/SRI LANKA - HEALING WAR TRAUMA: MISSIONARIES WORK TO RESTORE HARMONY IN SOCIETY: CHURCH CONTINUES TO WORK TO PROTECT PEACE PROCESS ASIA/IRAQ - WITH REGARD TO WHO SHOULD JUDGE SADDAM HUSSEIN, “MOST OF US WERE VICTIMS OF HIS DICTATORSHIP, WE ALL APPLAUDED HIM WHEN HE WAS IN POWER” IRAQI PRIEST TOLD FIDES AMERICA/ARGENTINA - FIRST CONGRESS FOR ITALIAN MISSIONARIES: IN RURAL AREAS, IN GREAT CITIES, AMONG NATIVE PEOPLES, ITALIAN PRIESTS, RELIGIOUS AND LAY MISSIONARIES INSERTED IN ARGENTINEAN CULTURE ADOPT AUTHENTIC SPIRIT OF SERVICE ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/CAPE VERDE - MINDELO NEW DIOCESE, FIRST BISHOP REV. GOMES FURTADO SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AMERICA/WHO - BY 2020 UNLESS TB GLOBAL EMERGENCY DISEASE IS CHECKED 36 MILLION WILL BE INFECTED: NEWLY PRODUCED CHANGING FORM OF BACTERIA EVEN MORE LETHAL 12/12/2003 THE POPE TELLS UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: “IT IS INDISPENSABLE FOR TODAY’S EUROPE TO SAFEGUARD ITS HERITAGE OF VALUES AND TO RECOGNISE THAT MAINLY CHRISTIANITY WAS THE FORCE WHICH PROMOTED, COMPOUNDED AND CONSOLIDATED THEM ” AFRICA/IVORY COAST - GUN BATTLE IN FRONT OF ABIDJAN TELEVISION STUDIOS MAY THREATEN DISARMAMENT PLAN STARTING TOMORROW AFRICA/SUDAN - CARDINAL WAKO: “THE WILL TO PUT AN END TO THE WAR IS EVER STRONGER BUT SO IS THE FEAR THAT ONCE AGAIN HOPES FOR PEACE WILL BE DISAPPOINTED ” AFRICA/BURUNDI - CATHOLICS PLAN CHRISTMAS SOLIDARITY FOR RETURNING REFUGEES NOW THAT GOVERNMENT AND REBELS HAVE MADE PEACE ASIA/PHILIPPINES - THE ATROCITY OF THE DEATH PENALTY IS NO RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES LIKE KIDNAPPING: BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT IN THE CHURCH AFTER MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY IS LIFTED ASIA/INDIA - CATHOLIC NGO WINS AWARD FOR EDUCATION OF TRIBALS ASIA/TAIWAN – VIRTUES OF FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY MAIN THEMES FOR EVANGELISATION CHOSEN BY TAIWAN CHURCH FOR PASTORAL YEAR 2004 FIDES SIGNALS - MEETING-DEBATE: “FROM IRAQ TO TURKEY” – THE DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGE IN WAR TIME BOOK REVIEW - PONTIFICAL COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA – “NUEVA EVANGELIZACIÓN EN AMÉRICA LATINA” DOSSIER - TOMORROW FIDES DOSSIER ON TELEVISION IN AFRICA PART TWO 11/12/2003 EUROPE/SPAIN – SPANISH MISSIONARIES RECEIVE CHRISTMAS LETTER FROM CARDINAL ROUCO: “CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE AROMA OF CHRIST WITH your WORDS AND WITH your SILENT WITNESS OF UNCONDITIONED SELF GIVING EUROPE/ITALY - 121 MILLION CHILDREN, LITTLE GIRLS IN PARTICULAR, DENIED RIGHT TO EDUCATION: UNICEF ‘STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN REPORT 2004’ FOCUSES ON EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT EUROPE/ITALY - FOCOLARE MOVEMENT CONCLUDES 60TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS AND DECIDES TO OPEN SPIRITUALITY AND STUDY CENTRE IN JERUSALEM WHERE JESUS PRAYED FOR THE UNITY OF CHRISTIANS AFRICA/CAMEROON - “THE PLACE OF THE LAITY IN THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH” PASTORAL LETTER TO CATHOLICS IN NKONGSAMBA DIOCESE ASIA/INDIA – NOW THERE IS A CEASE FIRE CATHOLICS HOPE TO RETURN TO KASHMIR AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “ARGENTINA DURING THE CRISIS AND POST CRISIS: CHALLENGES FOR THE CHURCH”: ONE OF THE THEMES OF A MEETING FOR ITALIAN MISSIONARIES IN ARGENTINA PROMOTED BY THE RESPECTIVE BISHOPS’ CONFERENCES AMERICA/CHILE - “CHRISTMAS ON THE STREETS 2003”: UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND FAMILIES PREPARE FOR TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS EVE SOLIDARITY NIGHT TO SHARE CHRISTMAS MESSAGE OF JOY AND HOPE WITH BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN NEED SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/SWITZERLAND – WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION STUDY ON CLIMATE CHANGE, ITS EFFECTS ON HEALTH AND MEASURES TO TAKE FIDES SIGNALS - FRIDAY 12 DECEMBER CONVENTION ON “PROBLEMS OF IMMIGRATION, MULTICULTURALISM, INTEGRATION” PROMOTED BY S. EGIDIO COMMUNITY AND PIETRO NENNI FOUNDATION 10/12/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE’S TEACHING AT GENERAL AUDIENCE: “THE LORD IS NEVER INDIFFERENT TO HUMAN VICISSITUDES INDEED HE INTERVENES TO DEMOLISH ARROGANT AND OPPRESSIVE EMPIRES, HE LOWERS THE PROUD WHO CHALLENGE HIM, HE JUDGES THOSE WHO PERPETRATE EVIL” VATICAN - PASTORAL CARE OF MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM IS A SPECIAL FORM OF EVANGELISATION: FINAL DOCUMENT AFTER 5TH WORLD CONGRESS ON- PASTORAL CARE FOR MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES AFRICA/KENYA - FIRST AFRICAN GATHERING OF DON BOSCO FORMER PUPILS: AN IMPORTANT STEP AFRICA/RD CONGO - WOMEN FIRST VICTIMS OF WAR AND FIRST AGENTS OF PEACE: THE ACTIVITY OF A CATHOLIC CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT FOR PEACE INITIATIVES IN LUBUMBASHI SOUTHERN CONGO ASIA/IRAQ - I HOPE IRAQI COURTS WILL NOT TURN INTO TOOLS FOR REVENGE. RELIGIOUS LEADERS SHOULD PROMOTE THE LOGIC OF FORGIVENESS ASIA/HOLY LAND - IN NAZARETH JEWISH, CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM STAFF WORK IN HARMONY AT HOLY FAMILY HOSPITAL RUN BY ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITALLER BROTHERS ASIA/NEPAL - PROGRAMME FOR HEALTH-CARE AND DEVELOPMENT IN VIEW OF PROMOTING ROLE OF WOMEN AMERICA/PARAGUAY - NIVACLE PEOPLE PROUD OF SISTER CLARA: FIRST RELIGIOUS AMONG THE LOCAL INDIAN PEOPLE OCEANIA/ FIJI ISLANDS - INSTITUTES EXPERIMENT WITH SHARED FORMATION: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A RELIGIOUS IN THE PACIFIC TODAY? 09/12/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT DECEMBER 8 ANGELUS PRAYER: “FAITH SHOWS US THAT THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF MARY IS A PROMISE OF SALVATION FOR EVERY HUMAN CREATURE PILGRIM ON EARTH. FAITH REMINDS IS THAT MARY IS OUR UNWAVERING SUPPORT IN THE DIFFICULT BATTLE AGAINST SIN AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ” VATICAN - THE POPE PRAYS AT THE FOOT OF THE STATUE OF IMMACULATE MARY IN PIAZZA DI SPAGNA: “MARY, QUEEN OF PEACE, GIVE US CHRIST, TRUE PEACE OF THE WORLD!” VATICAN - 4th COLLOQUIUM MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN: DIALOGUE “OPEN RESPECTFUL AND FRUITFUL” A PRELUDE TO NEW FORMS OF COLLABORATION VATICAN - CARDINAL MARTINO, PRESIDENT OF PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE, WILL ADDRESS PERUVIAN PARLIAMENT ON RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND GIVE MAIN TALK AT 7TH NATIONAL CATHOLIC SOCIAL PASTORAL WEEK EUROPE/AZERBAIJAN – SPECIAL CHRISTMAS PRESENT FROM CONGREGATION FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES’ CHARITY AUCTION WILL HELP REBUILD CHURCH DESTROYED BY STALIN AND PROVIDE FOR ORPHANS AND HOMELESS PEOPLE AFRICA/LIBERIA - YOUNG GUERRILLAS DEMAND BETTER CONDITIONS TO DISARM: SHOOTING CONTINUES IN SOME PARTS OF MONROVIA ASIA/INDIA - HOW TO PROTECT THE ASIAN FAMILY: VARIOUS RELIGIONS AND ORGANISATIONS ATTEND STUDY WEEK FIDES SIGNALS - NATIONAL DELEGATES FOR UNIVERSITY PASTORAL MEET IN ROME (9/11 DECEMBER): EXPERIENCE SHARING AND REFLECTION ON HOW TO IMPROVE CHURCH COMMITMENT ON CAMPUS ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/MALI – REVEREND AUGUSTIN TRAORE APPOINTED BISHOP OF SEGOU ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/NIGERIA – ISSELE-UKU DIOCESE: BISHOP EMMANUEL OTTEH RESIGNS, REV. MICHAEL ODOGWU ELUE APPOINTED 06/12/2003 VATICAN - PAPAL MESSAGE FOR 41ST WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS: “OUR FIRST DUTY IS TO PRAY TO THE "MASTER OF THE HARVEST" FOR THOSE WHO ALREADY FOLLOW CHRIST MORE CLOSELY IN THE PRIESTLY AND RELIGIOUS LIFE AND FOR THOSE WHOM, IN HIS MERCY, HE CONTINUES TO CALL FOR THESE IMPORTANT CHURCH DUTIES VATICAN - THE POPE ADDRESSES 32ND CONFERENCE OF THE FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANISATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS: HUNGER AND MALNUTRITION, AGGRAVATED BY SPREADING POVERTY REPRESENT A THREAT TO PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE 05/12/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE RECEIVES NEW PATRIARCH OF BABYLON OF THE CHALDEANS: “HARMONY IS ALL THE MORE NECESSARY IF WE LOOK AT YOUR LAND TODAY MORE THAN EVER IN NEED OF AUTHENTIC PEACE, TRANQUILLITY AND ORDER. WORK TO "UNITE THE EFFORTS" OF ALL BELIEVERS FOR RESPECTFUL DIALOGUE WHICH FAVOURS AT ALL LEVELS THE BUILDING OF A STABLE AND FREE SOCIETY.” VATICAN - PAPAL MESSAGE TO MARK 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF "HOLODOMOR", FAMINE PROVOKED TO BEND UKRAINE: “THE COMMEMORATION INTENDS TO REVIVE IN ALL HEARTS THE SENSE OF THE DIGNITY OF EVERY PERSON WHATEVER HIS OR HER NATIONAL ORIGIN.” VATICAN - THE CHURCH CAN DO MUCH TO MAKE GLOBALISATION MORE HUMAN: SAID PRESIDENT OF PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE CARDINAL RENATO MARTINO, ADDRESSING INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON LEO XIII EUROPE/ITALY - SALESIAN SISTERS: 1ST SEMINAR ON THEMES EMERGING FROM GENERAL CHAPTER AFRICA/IVORY COAST - REBELS REJECT 15 DECEMBER DISARMAMENT DATE PROPOSED BY PRESIDENT GBAGBO. MISSIONARIES ASK FOR PRAYERS THAT CHRISTMAS MAY BRING PEACE AT LAST AFRICA/CONGO RD - ALARMING SITUATION OF MINORS “VICTIMS AND AGGRESSORS IN CONFLICT”: CHILD SOLDIERS, TORTURED AND IMPRISONED, ORPHANS WITHOUT PROTECTION ASIA/INDONESIA - NEW CATHOLIC “CRISIS AND RECONCILIATION SERVICE” CONCERNED BY TENSION IN FLORES ASIA/INDIA - FROM NORTH EAST INDIA TO BRAZIL: FOUR SISTERS FROM ASSAM DEPART FOR MISSION ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - BEATIFICATION PROCESS STARTS FOR 124 KOREAN MARTYRS AMERICA/CHILE - BIO-ETHICS COMMISSION OF THE CHILEAN BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE SAYS EDUCATION IN HUMAN SEXUALITY MUST BE BASED ON THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON AMERICA/PERU - THE CHALLENGES OF PACEM IN TERRIS FOR A GLOBALISED WORLD : 7TH SOCIAL WEEK ORGANISED BY BISHOPS CONFERENCE AMERICA/ARGENTINA - ARCHBISHOP OF BUENOS AIRES GIVES MISSIONARY MANDATE TO 1000 MISSIONARIES TO ANNOUNCE THE GOSPEL IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CAPITAL AND BEYOND IN RURAL AREAS CEP APPOINTMENTS - ASIA/PAKISTAN – REVEREND RANJIT ABEYSINGHE APPOINTED RECTOR OF ST FRANCIS XAVIER MAJOR SEMINARY IN LAHORE FIDES SIGNALS - EUROPE/SPAIN – INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON NEW - “ADULT LITERACY CLASSES: A CHALLENGE FOR EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY” 04/12/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE’S MESSAGE FOR WORLD DAY OF THE SICK 2004: “IF JESUS IS THE SOURCE OF LIFE WHO CONQUERS DEATH, MARY IS THE LOVING MOTHER WHO ATTENDS TO THE NEEDS OF HER CHILDREN OBTAINING FOR THEM HEALTH IN SPIRIT AND BODY ” VATICAN - ANNUAL CHARITY AUCTION ORGANISED BY CONGREGATION FOR THE EVANGELISATION OF PEOPLES IN AID OF NEEDY MISSIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA AFRICA/ANGOLA - ITALIAN VOLUNTEERS FOR DEVELOPMENT VIS LAUNCH NEW PROJECTS IN RURAL AREAS OF ANGOLA ASIA/HOLY LAND - HOLY LAND CHRISTIANS SAY NO TO VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM, YES TO DIALOGUE WITH DIALOGUE JEWS AND MUSLIM ARABS TO PROMOTE PEACE ASIA/TAIWAN - CELEBRATIONS IN LOCAL CHURCH FOR 80TH BIRTHDAY OF “GOOD SHEPHERD” CARDINAL PAUL SHAN 03/12/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE’S TEACHING AT GENERAL AUDIENCE: JOYFUL AND TRIUMPHANT SONG FOR ISRAEL’S EXODUS FROM EGYPT BECOMES, WITH CHRISTIANITY, THE FIGURE OF ANOTHER, MORE RADICAL AND UNIVERSAL LIBERATION EUROPE/ITALY - 3 DECEMBER 2003: ST FRANCIS, ITALIAN XAVERIAN MISSIONARIES MARK CENTENARY OF “MISSIONE OGGI” REVIEW EUROPE/ITALY - USE VALUES TRANSMITTED BY SPORT: COOPERATION, SOLIDARITY AND TOLERANCE. EU CHOOSES ANNUAL THEME FOR “2004” ASIA/INDIA - FEAST OF ST FRANCIS XAVIER, PATRON OF MISSIONS, AN OPPORTUNITY TO RECALL AND GIVE THANKS FOR VALID WORK OF WESTERN MISSIONARIES IN INDIA, BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE SPOKESMAN TOLD FIDES ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/MADAGASCAR – TOLIARA NEW ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE, FIRST ARCHBISHOP MGR FULGENCE RABEONY 02/12/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE TELLS PARTICIPANTS AT COLLOQUIUM "TRUTH, JUSTICE, LOVE, FREEDOM: PILLARS OF PEACE" - “JOIN YOUR VOICES WITH MINE AS I REPEAT THAT THE HOLY NAME OF GOD MUST NEVER BE USED TO INCITE VIOLENCE OR TERRORISM” VATICAN - THE FUTURE OF CATHOLIC/ANGLICAN DIALOGUE: THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH REMAIN COMMITTED TO CONTINUING THEIR DIALOGUE VATICAN - SYNOD OF CHALDEAN BISHOPS MEETING IN THE VATICAN WILL ELECT NEW PATRIARCH OF BABYLON EUROPE/SPAIN - EXHIBITION ON 20 CENTURIES OF CHRISTIANITY IN SPAIN, “TO KNOW THE PAST AND UNDERSTAND THE PRESENT” AND CELEBRATIONS FOR COMPOSTELA HOLY YEAR 2004 DISCUSSED BY SPANISH BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE EUROPE/ITALY - 3 DECEMBER 2003, 21ST EUROPEAN DISABLED DAY: “GLI AMICI” PROGRAMME S. EGIDIO MOVEMENT IN AID OF PERSONS WITH A DISABILITY AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - A REFLECTION BY GENETIST REVEREND SIMPORE FOR WORLD DAY AGAINST AIDS: HOPE AND FEAR: DO WE LET PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES ACCUMULATE DRUGS IN THEIR STORE HOUSES WHILE THE POOR DIE FOR LACK OF TREATMENT? ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - CATHOLIC AND ANGLICAN SEMINARIANS’ GET TOGETHER CONSOLIDATES AND BOOSTS ECUMENICAL DIALOGUE ASIA/INDIA - FIRST INTERACTIVE MALAYALAM BIBLE ON CD-ROM TO SPREAD THE WORD AMONG INDIA’S YOUTH ASIA/INDIA - HUMAN RESOURCES MINISTRY ASSIGNS NATIONAL CHILD CARE AWARD TO CHRISTIANS FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE: CATHOLICS EVER MORE INVOLVED IN HELPING LOCAL PEOPLE AMERICA/CHILE - “HUMAN DIGNITY THE MOST DESIRED AND VALUABLE GOOD OF OUR SOCIETY”: CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF CHILE CALL FOR WATCHFULNESS AND SOLIDARITY CEP APPOINTMENTS - AFRICA/LESOTHO – NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES REV MICHAEL MATIMA MOOROSI CONFIRMED ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/UGANDA – LIRA DIOCESE BISHOP JOSEPH OYANGA RESIGNS FIDES SIGNALS - 4 DECEMBER IN THE VATICAN: COMMEMORATION ON 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF VATICAN II LITURGY CONSTITUTION “SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM” FIDES SIGNALS - EUROPE/ITALY - “FINDING INFORMATION SOURCES”: 3RD SYMPOSIUM ON JOURNALISM AND MASS MEDIA MASS MEDIA AT PONTIFICAL GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY 01/12/2003 VATICAN - THE POPE SAYS AT ANGELUS PRAYER: “TO PREPARE FOR CHRISTMAS MEANS REAWAKENING HOPE FOR PEACE AMONGST OURSELVES AND IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. HOW GREAT IS THE WORLD'S NEED OF THIS PEACE! I REPEAT MY CALL TO THE LEADERS OF THE GREAT RELIGIONS: LET US UNITE EFFORTS TO PREACH NON-VIOLENCE, FORGIVENESS AND RECONCILIATION!” EUROPE/ITALY - WORLD DAY AGAINST AIDS: A CALL AND HOPE FOR AFRICA DOVE WITH 30 MILLION SUFFERING FROM HIV/AIDS, BUT NO THERAPY AFRICA - “OUR PRAYER IS ALWAYS FULL OF HOPE ”: A MESSAGE FROM MORE THAN 600 AFRICAN BISHOPS FOR WORLD DAY AGAINST AIDS 1 DECEMBER ASIA/INDIA - WORLD DAY AGAINST AIDS: CHURCH IN GOA DETERMINED TO PROTECT YOUTH FROM HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC ASIA/HOLY LAND - FRIARS TELL PILGRIMS: “COME, INVADE THE HOLY LAND!” COME TO BETHLEHEM FOR CHRISTMAS AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “CHURCH IN AMERICA DO NOT HESITATE TO GO OUT FROM YOUR LAND WITH CHRIST TOWARDS ALL PEOPLES AND ALL CULTURES!”: WITH A NEW CALL FOR MISSION AD GENTES CARDINAL SEPE CONCLUDES CAM 2 AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “WE CANNOT BE SILENT ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE SEEN AND HEARD”: CAM2 MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF GOD AMERICA/GUATEMALA - CENTRAL AMERICA’S MISSIONARY PLAN “A DREAM TO MAKE TRUE IN THE 21ST CENTURY”: OBJECTIVES INCLUDE A CENTRAL AMERICAN MISSION FORMATION CENTRE AND STRONGER LOCAL ANIMATION STRUCTURES: NEXT CAM 3 IN ECUADOR 2007 AMERICA/GUATEMALA - CARDINAL SEPE MEETS MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD CHILDREN AND YOUTH: “YOU ARE THE YOUNG MISSIONARIES OF THE YOUNG CHURCH, YOU CAN HELP SPREAD THE GOSPEL IN THIS LAND OF AMERICA AND ALL OVER THE WORLD” 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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