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Fides say reported figure of 300,000 displaced persons is exaggerated AFRICA/TOGO - Passport returned to Togo Opposition leader thanks to mediation by S. Egidio Community ASIA/INDIA - Seminar on “Eucharist, Sacrament of Salvation”, in preparation for the Year of the Eucharist announced by Pope John Paul II ASIA/SRI LANKA - Sri Lanka's Peace in danger: mutual trust teeters between government and rebels -Catholic Bishops urge parties “persevere on the path to peace” OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic Schools register increasing number of non-Catholic pupils SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - Dengue: World Health Organisation fears that the annual infection rate may reach the 50 million mark. In Panama first mortal case since 1995, developments around the world. 28/07/2004 VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at weekly audience: “God is the only good and so the Psalmist sets himself in the community of those who are faithful to the Lord.” VATICAN/AMERICA - ‘Too many words and too few facts in the struggle against HIV/AIDS’, warns Cardinal Javier L. Barragan as he announces imminent establishment of a Good Samaritan Foundation AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - At Soddo in southern Ethiopia, Capuchin Fathers run Crafts School backed by Italian Confederation of Craftsmen ASIA/INDIA - Remember O’Connor, Indian Christian detained in a Saudi Arabia prison on false charges of drug abuse: appeal from Middle East Concern ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Return to the negotiation table, revive dialogue to reach just and lasting peace: Bishops and Ulama launch joint appeal to Philippines government and Muslim separatists ASIA/CHINA/MACAO - Bishop appoints new episcopal delegate for pastoral care of Portuguese speaking Catholics AMERICA/CHILE - Thousands attend funeral of Italian missionary murdered in Santiago cathedral. Cardinal Errazuriz: “Father Faustino was killed because he was a man of God. He loved to serve in silence. We have his spiritual testimony to build peace: peace of heart which is peace with God and peace with people”. AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Safe and sound Catholic Bishop of Yopal Bishop Misael Vacca Ramirez, released after four days captivity by ELN AMERICA/UNITED STATES - US asks for Collaboration of Catholic organisations in the Global fight against AIDS: video-conference organised at American embassy to the Holy See OCEANIA/NUOVA ZEALAND - Solidarity crosses the ocean: New Zealand Caritas workers assist Sudanese refugees in Darfur 27/07/2004 VATICAN - Final document from Sixth World Congress on the Pastoral Care of Tourism: pastoral care of persons exploited by sex tourism a high priority for the Church EUROPE/ITALY - The ten commandments today: Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolari Movement exclusive comment for Fides. AFRICA/UGANDA - “Thank you Holy Father for remembering the war in northern Uganda” says Archbishop Odama of Gulu through Fides AFRICA/CONGO RD - “Mercenaries ready to intervene in east Congo” say Fides sources in Bukavu AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Sacred Heart Missionaries mark 80 years of mission in Democratic Congo: an anniversary under the banner of hope ASIA/BANGLADESH - Thousands of families need urgent help: Caritas Internationalis collects funds in aid of flood victims in Bangladesh ASIA/INDIA - Indian Jesuit appointed director of Interdisciplinary Communications Centre at Gregorian University in Rome SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Bird flu alarm: European Union extends ban on Asia poultry and domestic birds ASIA/PHILIPPINES - President speaks on the state of the nation promising to fight corruption and poverty, boost the economy and show concern for every citizen AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Pope calls for speedy release of Catholic Bishop taken hostage in Colombia by the ELN - Bishops’ Conference condemns “detestable crime which violates the fundamental rights of life and freedom”. MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION - Pope John Paul II's mission prayer intention August 2004: “For ever greater unity and cooperation among Institutes working in the missions ” Comment by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - AIDS, national emergency: almost 100.000 lives at risk 26/07/2004 VATICAN - “How can we remain indifferent?” : during his Sunday Angelus with regard to Darfur in Sudan the Pope makes urgent appeal to political leaders and international organisations AFRICA/CHAD - Darfur: situation ever more critical for refugees in Chad. “two refugees killed in camp in Chad ” says UN High Commission for Refugees AMERICA/CHILE - Tomorrow funeral of Italian missionary stabbed to death in Santiago cathedral at the end of Mass 24/07/2004 DOSSIER - The Question of Arms in Africa 23/07/2004 VATICAN - Meeting in Brasilia, Populorum Progressio Foundation examines situations in South American countries and 260 development projects elaborated by various countries EUROPE/ITALY - Mission as pastoral exchange between local Churches: Italian National Director of PMS reports on meetings with local Churches where there are Italian missionaries AFRICA/ANGOLA - Fides has received more details on the expulsion by the Angolan Authorities of illegal diamond seekers; a trade said to serve Muslim fundamentalist terrorists and greedy religious sects AFRICA/BURUNDI - Disappointment and concern in Burundi after talks in South Africa between Burundian parties fail AFRICA/SUDAN - Feverish diplomatic activity to solve the crisis in Darfur. Possible resolution from the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on militia responsible for violence on civilians ASIA/SRI LANKA - Business man becomes a priest: the vocation of Philip Motha manager now a promoter of the Kingdom of God ASIA/HONG KONG - Hong Kong Book Fair 2004 proving great success ASIA/PAKISTAN - Talks between India and Pakistan to increase economic cooperation and strengthen peace in Kashmir: the role of Christians for reconciliation OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholics called to take active part in politics using discernment: in view of federal elections this Autumn, Justice and Peace Commission of Brisbane archdiocese issues call, following Statement by Catholic Bishops of Australia SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Basic education and healthcare, feeding and vaccination programmes: service for 500 poor people in shanty towns in south eastern Bogota CEP APPOINTMENTS - AFRICA/MALI - Rev. Clement Lonah, appointed rector of Saint Augustine Seminary Bamako SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AMERICA/ECUADOR - Feeding programme for children with a disability cared for by Camillians supported by the Fecupal Foundation 22/07/2004 ASIA/INDIA - In Gujarat a Church under construction was destroyed by Hindu fundamentalist extremists ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - ASIA/INDIA - Bangalore, Archbishop Ignatius Pinto resigns, Mgr Bernard Moras appointed Metropolitan Archbishop 21/07/2004 VATICAN - At the general audience in the Vatican the Pope continues his catechesis on the Psalms: "Man often walks through the dark path of life, but suddenly the darkness is breached by the splendour of the Word of God". EUROPE/ITALY - Consolata Missionaries propose Street missionary animation at Ostia, to give back their voice to the Roraima indigenous people, to the people of Sub-Saharan Africa with HIV/AIDS and to the Colombian campesinos forced to cultivate cocaine. AFRICA/ANGOLA - The Angolan authorities oppose diamond trafficking with a new turn of screw. Is it an attack against one of the channels financing fundamentalist Muslim terrorism? An exclusive report from Fides AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - New clashes in the Kivu region, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo AFRICA/LIBERIA - “Arms’ recovery in Liberia is connected to the one in Cote d’Ivoire” says commander of the UN troops in Liberia. The Fides dossier of Saturday July 24th shall look into the problem of light weapons’ proliferation in Africa 16/07/2004 VATICAN - “...will we soon be dominated by a new race built in a laboratory? Who will be father and mother, I? You? And tomorrow who will be our parents?” These questions posed by professor Edmund Pellegrino, former President of Catholic Universities in America recently on Italian television, are answered for Fides by Bishop Elio Sgreccia, vice President della Pontifical Academy for Life: “The being is the border for man to remain human and the principle of humanity to remain integral, indeed to be promoted by all ” EUROPE/ITALY - First volume of “ Dictionary of the History of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate” AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudan and its wars: less conventional arms (hunger) less conventional soldiers (children). Fides spoke to Mill Hill missionary who has just published a book on Sudan and its conflicts “Travelling With Soldiers and Bishops” AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Pastoral and social-charity work in Popokabaka diocese south west Congo AFRICA/SUDAN - Peace talks for Darfur start in Ethiopia S. Egidio community observers among those present ASIA/INDIA - Bishops meet Christian members of parliament: religious discrimination must stop; India’s Catholics have a role in society ASIA/MYANMAR - More than 1,300 seminarians in the tiny community of 600,000 MyanmarCatholics, which prepares missionaries for central Asia ASIA/CHINA - Pilgrimage and charity: Tian Jin pilgrims to Cang Zhou offer spiritual and material help to local orphans AMERICA/PERU - The rosary and a statue of Our Lady are the banners of a successful Great City Mission, ‘put out to sea’ in Lima, capital of Peru SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/ITALY - “We cannot win the battle with AIDS unless we win the war on TB”. Tomorrow Fides Dossier on main killer for HIV+ patients and the complex situation of TB which strikes mainly the Continents of poverty. 9 million cases each year 15/07/2004 EUROPE/SPAIN - Already 20,000 enrolments for European Youth Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela with the theme: "Witnesses of Christ for a new Europe of Hope" EUROPE/ITALY - Focolari Movement recalls Vincenzo-Eletto Folonari, who lived thirty three years under the banner of love for Christ. AFRICA/KENYA - Amidst drought and corruption Kenya’s political crisis deepens AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Former East German factory workers occupy German Embassy in Maputo for a few hours AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Spreading drug abuse is a concern but the major problem in Sierra Leone is unemployment” a missionary tells Fides ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Catholic Church in France engages in mission via web site run by lay Catholics EUROPE/ITALY - Scalabrini International Migration Institute offers theological and sociological formation on themes of Migration and a new Masters ASIA/PAKISTAN - “The law is unjust and it should be abolished”: Archbishop President of Pakistan’s Conference of Bishops speaks to Fides about law on blasphemy AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Catholic Church engages in integral evangelisation and pastoral dialogue to defeat violence and build peace in Colombia: Bishop of Magangue speaks with Fides 14/07/2004 AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Italian television programme speaks of food discrimination against women in Ethiopia AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Tertio Millennio International Missiology Congress: the future of missionary activity ad gentes prospects for the 21st century AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “An attempt destined to failure” Congo MP Enoch Sebineza tells Fides, commententing self-dismissal of 8 Banyamulenge hard wing National Assembly members AFRICA - From South Africa and Nigeria examples to re-launch collaboration among all the countries of Africa AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Girls of different ages tell their story of forced marriage and escape ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - Tajikistan, with its troubles and hopes, communicates with the world through new Caritas web site www.caritas.tj ASIA/INDIA - Floods and drought in various parts of India - Summary of complex situation where desperate impoverished farmers see suicide as only way out: Caritas commitment ASIA/INDIA - Catholic education commitment increases in highly scientific field: new Catholic College run by Pallotine Fathers will train engineers in west India AMERICA/BRAZIL - Religious sects and sexual exploitation of girls in Brazil: Edinalva, a girl at “Casa Santa Bernardette” in Sau Paulo tells her story. AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "The path to reconciliation and peace. The country needs a leadership which is authentic and responsible ": Bishops' statement in view of Revocatory Referendum on 15 August AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexicans prepare with enthusiasm for the International Eucharistic Congress in Guadalajara: 400 Seminarians visit families in the archdiocese to foster and renew faith in the Eucharist; local or category Congresses draw large crowds. SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - ASIA/THAILAND - The race against AIDS forgets children: an estimated 50% of babies born HIV+ die before they reach the age of two says Medecines sans Frontieres 13/07/2004 EUROPE/ITALY - “Women of the Gospel for Mission ad gentes today” -22 August 30 September 18th general chapter of the Comboni Missionary Sisters on Evangelisation AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Persisting concern for humanitarian situation in east Congo and bordering countries. More than 3 million people in need of assistance AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “Decisive meeting on 29 July to settle Ivorian crisis”. International study voices concern for a possible war between Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Mali ASIA/HOLY LAND - Music is climbing over the West Bank Barrier in the Holy Land: Israeli and Palestinians play side by side in the World Youth Orchestra with its music for hope ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Promote a culture of honesty, take part in the process of national transformation, build conditions for peace and intensify struggle to uproot corruption: jobs for Catholics in post election Philippines AMERICA/PERU - International Meeting for Missionaries opens today in Chiclayo, “to renew missionary spirit and underline the need to open Mission Centres in diocese and parishes ” AMERICA/COLOMBIA - To heal the rift between faith and life, Catholic Bishops of Colombia decide to give new impulse to evangelisation and Christian Initiation AMERICA/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - “The main challenge is to continue to help flood victims. The flow of aid must not slacken now that there are difficult months ahead" the Catholic Archbishop of Santiago de los Caballeros told Fides SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/ITALY - Italian Higher Institute for Healthcare heads international Consorzio of researchers to develop AIDS vaccine 12/07/2004 VATICAN - The Pope prays the Angelus from the mountains: “In silence man can hear deep within his conscience the voice of God who renders him truly free. Vacation time can help cultivate this indispensable interior dimension of human life.” VATICAN - Papal Message to the Rogationist community: “Missionary impulse is intrinsic to the identity of the apostles of ‘Rogate!’. Contemplation of the ‘harvest is plenty’ and the ‘workers who are few, cannot fail to open the heart to universal longing for the evangelisation of peoples”. AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - The local Church among the first to welcome thousands of people fleeing fighting in north east Congo. “Situation ever more tense” say Fides sources AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - War between Ethiopia and Eritrea still a possibility. Ethiopian Prime Minister says to Eritrea: “Let’s talk”. So far Asmara refuses invitation to dialogue ASIA/HONG KONG - Bishop Zen and the entire Catholic community criticise the new education law passed by parliament ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Beatification cause of 124 Korean martyrs officially opened in Seoul ASIA/INDIA - Building peace and reconciliation, showing solidarity to the suffering: symposium on the role and challenges of priests in an area of tension among different communities AMERICA/PERU - “Jesus you are my strength and my salvation. I am your Missionary!” This is the slogan of the National Day for the Union of Sick Missionaries celebrated yesterday by more than 600 sick and elderly people OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Priority to family and youth for the Church in Papua New Guinea, after its general meeting ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Pemba Rev. Ernesto Maguengue appointed Bishop ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Bishop Julio Duarte Langa of Xai-Xai resigns, Rev. Lucio Andrice Muandula appointed SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - ASIA/THAILAND - HIV/AIDS therapy in developing countries: Doctors without Frontiers looks at progress made and challenges still unanswered 10/07/2004 ASIA/SRI LANKA - A STUDY - Harmony and religious freedom (contents) ASIA/SRI LANKA - A STUDY - Harmony and religious freedom: the paths of peace for civil development and the progress of peoples SRI LANKA (society and religion) ASIA/SRI LANKA - Political, social and religious forces must unite to guarantee peace and reconciliation necessary for progress and prosperity ASIA/SRI LANKA - The roots of the ethnic conflict which has shed the country’s blood and strangled the economy ASIA/SRI LANKA - Guarantee freedom of conscience and religion: indispensable condition for democracy - Local Church works to maintain dialogue with Buddhists while opposing the “anti-conversion” law and proposing mixed Commission state/religious communities ASIA/SRI LANKA - INFO ASIA/SRI LANKA Links to background stories from Fides Archives ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Vicariate Apostolic of Baguio raised to the rank of Diocese Bishop Carlito J. Cenzon appointed first Bishop 09/07/2004 EUROPE/SPAIN - Multi Festival David 2004: a Christian encounter of modern music and art “to translate the Gospel into the language of music” EUROPE/ITALY - Monasticism builds bridges between religions - Conference on Islam and Christianity organised in Assisi by European Monastic Interreligious Dialogue Commission EUROPE/SPAIN - Mission and Missionaries in the Church today - “to evangelise with authenticity demands radical following of the crucified Christ ” National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain tells Culture Forum in Barcelona AFRICA/KENYA - New Constitution demonstrations stem from fight between president and former political associate AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - A decision to send 300 African troops to Darfur, first step towards a continental security system? AFRICA/GUINEA - Silent odyssey of forced repatriation to south east Guinea of Guinean emigrants and foreign refugees. Jesuit Refugee Service only NGO present in the area ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Living the family and love with a faith dimension: local Church focuses on education of youth ASIA/INDIA - Commission for dialogue between Catholic Church and Assyrian Church of the East approves common statement on Sacraments: steps towards unity ASIA/MONGOLIA - Results of legislative elections announced AMERICA/CHILE - Italian priest Fr Oreste Benzi in Chile to protect the rights of the Mapuche indigenous people. AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The local Church calls for a transparent and credible referendum: “We must overcome division and polarisation which have provoked radical reciprocal mistrust” says President of Bishops’ Conference OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - New impulse to missione in Asia and Oceania: Christian Brothers take up the challenge 08/07/2004 EUROPE - European Vocations Service meeting concludes: “offer young people courageous and bold ideas that will help them hear Jesus' call to "come and follow me” EUROPE/ITALY - Italian Movement to Fight World Hunger points finger at difficult access to IT resources. Pilot programme in Rwanda AFRICA/SUDAN - What lies behind the name Darfur, behind the people in flight? Why are these endless kilometres of sand provoking massacres, raping and famine? AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “The peoples of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi want peace” say Catholic Bishops of the Great Lakes region AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - New food shortage alarm in Zimbabwe. Warning from UN Food and Agriculture Organisation ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bitter fight between secular and fundamentalist Muslims in North-West Frontier Province over Sharia plans which threaten country’s democracy ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Philippines Clergy Congress reflects on problems and challenges of pastoral ministry ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Struggle to eliminate corruption: state, Church and business world club together ASIA/HONG KONG - Interreligious Seminar on “Spirituality, Religion and Health” confirms that religion and spirituality are good for mind and body AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “The armed groups realise they can never dissuade us in our commitment to oppose violence, indeed we are even more determined and united with the people who are with us and know we are with them and for them”. Bishop Oscar José Vélez Isaza of Valledupar interviewed by Fides. AMERICA/MEXICO - Priest found stabbed to death at his home near his parish at Ciudad Juarez 07/07/2004 VATICAN - In Bangkok 6th International Congress on Pastoral of Tourism: "Tourism at the service of the meeting of Peoples". AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Ordination of six new priests: four diocesan, one Camillian and one Missionary of Africa who at the end of the Mass was sent on mission to Uganda. AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - “With its lies the government is pushing half of the population towards poverty!” says Archbishop Pius Ncube Bulawayo, second largest town in Zimbabwe AFRICA/SUDAN - “Desperation, violence against exhausted people fleeing from a war without end. Latest report by UN High Commission for Refugees AFRICA/LIBERIA - “We risk epidemics because the streets are lined with tons of refuse. What are the NGOs and UN in the city doing?” an Italian missionary in Monrovia asks ASIA/INDONESIA - Indonesia’s presidency: postponed to second round of votes in September ASIA /SOUTH KOREA - “To be a church community which is respected”: Cheongju diocese announces diocesan Synod to mark 50th anniversary of its institution ASIA/INDIA - India’s Bishops welcome government’s promise to draft a law to protect religious minorities- Link Fides: to origins of Christianity in India AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Church deeply committed to education: instil a mentality of peace, justice and truth in the new generations. Colombia’s first virtual University has 2,000 students AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “Justice and charity. Facing Future Challenges: Jewish-Catholic relations in the 21st century”: International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee meeting in Buenos Aires: CEP APPOINTMENTS - EUROPE/MALTA - Rev. Joseph Bugeja confirmed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Country has 5 million people HIV + and 600,000 have no access to anti-retroviral treatment 06/07/2004 EUROPE/ITALY - Opera Don Orione: Rev. Flavio Peloso new Director General. Miguel Esser from Chile new Co-ordinator general of Orione lay movement EUROPE/SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO - International Symposium opens celebrations to mark Carmelite centenary at Sombor AFRICA/CONGO RD - “We will do everything in our power and within the limits of the Church’s mission to save the process of transition”: message from Catholic Bishops of Congo AFRICA/SUDAN - When pictures speak more than words. On Fides web site see photographs of war torn Nuba Mountain area of Sudan AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “African Union summit last hope for peace in Ivory Coast” say Fides sources voicing concern for tension with Burkina Faso ASIA/INDONESIA - On the horizon a second round of voting for Indonesia’s president ASIA/NORTH KOREA - New Vicar Episcopal appointed for Catholic diocese of Pyongyang: hopes for new springtime of the Church in North Korea AMERICA/PERU - “Reawaken and strengthen faith and missionary witness of young Peruvians to help them respond with greater generosity and courage to the challenges of new evangelisation”: about 2,000 young people expected to take part in 3rd National Youth Mission Congress in Arequipa. AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops, shepherd of God’s people have “the duty to look at the signs of the times in the reality of the country and to take care to illuminate, on the basis of faith, the situations in which the people of God live”. Bishops’ Conference plenary discusses Problems and challenges of Colombian society OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Day against sexual abuse and violence on the feast day of Saint Maria Goretti ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AMERICA/JAMAICA - Bishop Paul Michael Boyle of Mandeville resigns , Bishop Gordon Dunlap Bennet appointed SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - UNITED NATIONS/UNAIDS - UNAIDS issues two yearly report on AIDS in 2004 SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - UNITED NATIONS - The world has 1.3 billion smokers. Tobacco kills 5 million each year. International law imminent SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - ASIA/THAILAND - AIDS: Asia like Africa 15 years ago: 7.4 million HIV positive 05/07/2004 VATICAN - At the Angelus prayer the Pope tells people about the recent visit of Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I: “Christians can and should always collaborate even when there are divisions and conflict. This is an eloquent manner of announcing the Gospel of peace to a world marked sad to say by unbalance and violence.” EUROPE/SPAIN - 57th Missiology Week at Burgos: “This is the hour of Mission! Organisms of missionary animation, spaces for communion ” VATICAN - Swahili version of Pope John Paul II’s Message for World Mission Day 2004 “Ekaristi na Misioni” now available AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Addis Ababa at the centre of continental diplomacy. Tomorrow African Union Summit. From capital of Ethiopia UN Secretary-General suggests a ‘Green Revolution’ for Africa AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “With the re-opening of the border with Rwanda, Bukavu can breath again at last” local sources tell Fides ASIA/INDONESIA - Polling stations closed: good turnout 150 million Indonesians place first ever vote for President ASIA/CHINA - Twenty days of intensive formation for 102 catechists from parishes in Liao Ning AMERICA/BRAZIL - Every day eight children become orphans because their parents (31% aged 18-24) are killed in violence ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - ASIA/TAIWAN - Bishop Peter Liu Cheng-Chung appointed Coadjutor of Kaohsiung ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - ASIA/KOREA - New diocese Uijongbu Bishop Joseph Lee Han-Taek appointed first Bishop SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/ITALY - In 25 years 35 new infections, experts study remedies, from Sars to pandemics of influenza 03/07/2004 ASIA/INDONESIA - Monday 5 July Indonesia will elect a new president: fears and hopes for a nation balancing between Muslim fundamentalism and democracy ASIA/INDONESIA - Candidates and strategies in first direct presidential elections ASIA/INDONESIA - Old policies and a new course: path bristling with obstacles for Indonesia’s fragile democracy ASIA/INDONESIA - Religion, ethnicity, fundamentalism and attempts at dialogue in the archipelago of Indonesia ASIA/INDONESIA - Links to Fides Archive 02/07/2004 VATICAN - “May Christians and Churches live in peace and harmony to bear witness together to the message of the Gospel in a credible and convincing manner”: John Paul II and Bartholomew I issue Joint Declaration VATICAN “May the international community be ever bolder, more generous, more creative, more energetic in its struggle to finally end the division of the world into areas of poverty and plenty”. Prof. Mary Ann Glendon, president of the Pontifical Academy for Social Science addresses UN Economic and Social Council EUROPE/ITALY - First meeting of Italian missionaries in Guinea Bissau: “Our two Churches can grow together in faith and promote spiritual renewal in their communities, supporting one another to face common challenges ” AFRICA/CHAD - Darfur Crisis: UN High Commission for Refugees continues to assist 100,000 Sudanese refugees in Chad. Massive air lift to supply aid. But unless the violence is stopped it is like pouring water into a bottomless bucket! AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “The new law on firearms will be a u turn for South Africa’s Far West mentality” spokesman of Southern African Bishops’ Conference told Fides. It is also a victory for NGOs backed by the local Church ASIA/IRAQ - Christians threatened by extremists “but we are still here” Iraqi priest tells Fides. Concern that new Iraqi television speaks only of Islam ignoring other faiths in Iraq ASIA/INDIA - The Voice of Christianity, presented by Reverend Dominic Emmanuel on Jain Tv Private channel proclaims the Gospel and helps remove prejudice and promote interreligious dialogue ASIA/HONG KONG - Prayers and freedom of expression at peaceful rally on July 1 anniversary of Hong Kong hand- over to China: Basic Law fundamental for Hong Kong ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Dramatic testimony of Filipino workers in regions where freedom of religion is non-existent AMERICA/CUBA - Cuban Bishops’ statement with regard to economic measures decided by governments of Cuba and the United States CEP APPOINTMENTS - EUROPE/BELGIUM - Reverend Jan Dumon confirmed National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies for Belgium CEP APPOINTMENTS - EUROPE/HOLLAND Reverend Bernard Pex appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - VATICAN - “A Euro for a Child”: Bambino Gesù fund raising campaign for new department collects 1,100,000 Euro SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/ITALY - Sport and rehabilitation: “Let me win but if I don’t let me try hard”. Showers of medals for Fatebenefratelli athletes 01/07/2004 VATICAN - On the continent of Internet criminal motorways connect paedophiles around the world. Numbers, data, profits, soon in a Fides Dossier EUROPE - European Congress on Vocations opens in Strasbourg: “Good Master what must I do? - Accompany young people on their vocational path” EUROPE/ITALY - Diocesan and regional delegates and lay leaders of the Pontifical Mission Societies Italy start annual meeting 1-4 July in Rome: on the agenda the drafting of an operative Vademecum. AFRICA/KENYA - Tragedy in Kenya food poisoning from Aflotoxin on maize Machakos diocese calls for help AFRICA/RWANDA - Italian movement to fight world hunger plans 20 km power line to supply electricity for 40,000 people in Muhura district ASIA/INDIA - Catholic Sisters from Tamil Nadu open new mission in West Bengal ASIA/HONG KONG - Peaceful rally and prayers to support democracy in Hong Kong: - Intervention by Bishop Joseph Zen, Bishop of Hong Kong ASIA/INDIA - Catholic Bishops meet Prime Minister: Church/State cooperation to build tolerance and social harmony in India ASIA/CHINA - Remembering Bishop Michael He Jinmin of Ningbo diocese; enthusiastic evangeliser to the very end AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Disciples of Jesus Christ in the Catholic Church, missionaries of hope for new evangelisation of Latin America and the Caribbean at the dawn of the Third Millennium”: Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences will hold 5th General Assembly in Rome in 2007 AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Carmelite missionaries mark 50 years of presence in Tumaco AMERICA/UNITED STATES - “Sexual exploitation main form of slavery in the 21st century”: subject of a videoconference at American Embassy to the Holy See SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/ITALY - Assisted fecundation: medical ethic and juridical profile. 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