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Local Catholic priest tells another story ASIA/PAKISTAN - Info: victims of blasphemy law ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Church in Pakistan calls on president Musharraf, today received in audience by the Pope, to abolish the blasphemy law, which is unjust and discriminates against minorities. Bishops’ Justice and Peace Commission denounces situation in ample document sent to Fides AMERICA/CHILE - Week of the Family, 3 - 10 October: help every family make the home a “little church” and take the crucifix as the main sign of its faith AMERICA/MEXICO - Prayers, festivities, sharing, testimony: 16 October Eucharist Day for Youth in Americas Square in Guadalajara ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Coadjutor Bishop of Palmerston North resigns ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - ASIA/VIETNAM - Bishop of Xuân Lôc resigns, successor appointed SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Manga diocese to benefit from a water project to save rain water SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - ASIA - Dengue warning: in Malaysia more 8.000 infections and 38 deaths this year; in Singapore 5,248 cases, 48% more than same period last year 29/09/2004 VATICAN - “The Communications Media at the service of Understanding between Peoples”: Pope John Paul II has chosen the theme of the Church’s 2005 World Communications Day VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the general audience: “Beauty must be combined with goodness and holiness of life so that the face of God wonderful and just, will shine resplendently in the world.” EUROPE/FRANCE - “Round the world prayer” touches all latitudes on World Mission Day EUROPE/ENGLAND - Presidents of Europe’s Bishops’ Conferences discuss role of Christianity and the Church in present-day Europe, urgent ethical questions and World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne EUROPE/ITALY - Freshly committed to being “witnesses of hope” Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate conclude 34th General Chapter AFRICA/NIGERIA - Niger Delta twixt oil and Ijaw claims ASIA/IRAQ - These barbarians will not stop the birth of a new Iraq. Testimony from northern Iraq: “All the hostages must be released and the humanitarian organisations must come back to help Iraq and its people rise again” ASIA/NEPAL - A small Catholic community in the Tibetan mountains celebrates and witnesses to the Gospel, offers services of social assistance and education in a situation of Maoist guerrilla warfare: interview with Pro-Prefect Apostolic Rev. Pius Perumana ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - INDIA - Bishop Vincent Barwa appointed Auxiliary of Ranchi SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Country devastated by AIDS: one thousand new infections each day, already three million out of 65 million Ethiopians are HIV+ SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AFRICA/UGANDA - AIDS kills more than civil war in northern Uganda which has twice the number of HIV/AIDS sufferers than the whole country out together 28/09/2004 EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “I have heard my people cry!”: Portugal’s theme for World Mission Day is a call to respond to the cries of the peoples with mission without frontiers AFRICA/SUDAN - “Darfur is not the only tragedy, all over Sudan the situation is precarious and dangerous, Bishop Gassis Catholic Bishop of El Obeid tells Fides AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic Bishops of Nigeria: “We thank God that more lay Christians are becoming involved in politics” ASIA/INDIA- “Children’s Village” in New Delhi in memory of Archbishop Alan De Lastic, champion of religious freedom in India ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Salesians mark fifty years of service to Korean youth: education, professional training and evangelisation ASIA /PAKISTAN - The fact that President Musharraf will meet the Holy Father will boost Muslim Christian relations and help the battle to stop terrorism, chairman of the Catholic Bishops told Fides AMERICA/BOLIVIA - 2nd Assembly of the International Association of Catholic Missiologists 29 in Cochabamba SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - ASIA/THAILAND - Growing concern for probable case of transmission person to person FIDES SIGNALS - EUROPE/ITALY - Uto Ughi: “The language of Music is universal”. Little patients at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital treated to a concert 27/09/2004 VATICAN - At his midday Angelus reflection the Pope says “personal resources must be used not selfishly but with solidarity”: to guarantee justice and development with solidarity is the “way to guarantee the world a future peace” VATICAN - The Pope grant audience to Papal Nuncios in Africa: “continue to be witnesses of communion, helping to overcome tensions and misunderstandings and the temptation of particularism, and to strengthen a sense of belonging to the one and undivided People of God” EUROPE/GERMANY - “His salvation for all nations. The Church’s universal mission”: German Bishops issue a ‘Bischofswort’ to promote a stronger sense of universal mission EUROPE/ITALY - National Mission opens today: first conference - “a changing world” - by Senegal’s minister of scientific research AFRICA/UGANDA - Uganda will host 15th plenary assembly of the Catholic Bishops of East Africa AFRICA/ANGOLA - Mine fields prevent return of Angolan refugees difficult: air lifts to repatriate 4,000 from Namibia ASIA/INDIA - Hindu extremists attack and injure a group Mother Teresa’s Sisters. One is seriously wounded. Bishops’ Conference spokesman comments for Fides AMERICA/PERU - More than 50 Congregations of men and women religious in Peru take part in 1st National Mission Exhibition : “In Peru today…Mission is alive!” AMERICA/COLOMBIA - How to make “Christian hope” credible in the context of conflict in Colombia: theme for discussion at 9th National Theology Congress 7 to 9 October OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Help uproot culture violence among youth: the Church’s contribution MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION - October 2004: “That the due presence of Catholics in national life and in the media of the Latin American continent may increase” Pope John Paul II’s missionary prayer intention. Comment by Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, Archbishop of Mexico City SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Super tuberculosis: new forms of antibiotic resistant. Every year 8.7 million contract TB and 2 million die SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - BSE warning: blood transfusions could spread human form of mad cow disease, British Health Ministry warns 24/09/2004 VATICAN - The Pope grants an audience to the General Chapter of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate: “Your presence, animated by religious and missionary fervour, must be a sign and a seed of hope for all you meet” EUROPE/ITALY - General Charter of the Comboni missionary Sisters confirms Mother Adele Brambilla come Superior general for another term EUROPE/ITALY - Italian St John of God Brother, the first surgeon to help African children with polio, among winners of 2004 Cuore Amico annual missionary award to be presented on 23 October EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “Inculturating the faith in Europe means opening spaces for transmitting the faith, launching programmes to revitalise Christianity in the cultural spaces of our societies”: National Mission Days conclusions AFRICA/SUDAN - “Jihad is exploited to subdue rebel ethnic groups” says a missionary with years of experience in Sudan AFRICA - Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Congo sign agreement to hasten peace in the Great Lakes region of Africa where 6 million people have been killed in the past 10 years ASIA/CHINA - Death of Bishop Alfonso Yang Guangyan, Bishop of Zhouzhi: meek and humble, ever faithful to the Holy See: under his guidance the diocese developed considerably AMERICA/PERU - Initiatives for the Month of the Bible include “Exhibition of the Christian Book”: the smallest Bible in the world among the books on show AMERICA/BRAZIL - In harmony with the Church's annual Brotherhood Campaign, Mission Campaign 2004 focuses on brotherhood and water: “the right to water and respect for creation calls for brotherhood and human solidarity” AMERICA/HAITI - Death toll continues to rise after tropical storm in Haiti: Caritas present with aid and assistance for stricken people all over the island. BOOK REVIEW - Pontifical Urban University Press publishes annual -BIBLIOGRAPHIA MISSIONARIA LXVII 2003. 23/09/2004 EUROPE/ITALY - “Despite 14.000 missionaries and countless initiatives much remains to be done to ensure that in Italy mission is less preached and more practised”: Interview with Mgr. Giuseppe Andreozzi national Pontifical Mission Societies Director on the eve of the National Mission Congress AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Fresh outbreak of fighting in north east of Congo causes another exodus of villagers. “The fighting is getting nearer to Goma, the rebel stronghold” local sources told Fides AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - “Despite difficulties the Church’s message is always one of life, encouragement and hope” Bishop Gustavo Bombin Espino, Bishop of Tsiroanomandidy tells Fides AFRICA/NIGERIA - “Taliban” attacks in northern Nigeria confirms fears that fundamentalism could be spreading in west Africa ASIA/PAKISTAN - Together Christians and Muslims demonstrate for peace and tolerance, against terrorism, war and violence ASIA/INDIA - Central government takes up defence of Christians attacked by Hindu extremists in Orissa state ASIA/CHINA - A priest from Hong Kong evangelises in mainland China explaining the catechism to people in Inner Mongolia AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Mass leads to Mission”: October mission month celebrations in Colombia in harmony with the now imminent International Eucharistic Congress in Mexico OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Peace with Indigenous Australians, peace in families, peace among religions: all Australians must cultivate a culture of peace. Australian Bishops issue statement for national Social Justice Sunday 26 September SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - ASIA/INDIA - X-ray machine installed in Banughapar village dispensary 22/09/2004 VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the Wednesday Audience: “Christ is the Saviour, united with us in his human «body», so he can be with us, share our pain, carry our evil. But he is always the Son of God and his union with us is radically transforming, liberating, expiating, saving” EUROPE/BELGIUM - “The consequences of the enlargement of the European Union for the Church’s pastoral care for migrants in Europe”: theme of annual meeting of Europe’s National Directors for Migration held in Mechelen Belgium EUROPE/ITALY - First open air church dedicated to Rom gypsy Blessed Ceferino Giménez Malla: inauguration on Sunday 26 September AFRICA/UGANDA - 21 September Day for Peace in Uganda an ordinary day of war. Peace for Ugandans as in every country at war is not an abstract idea it is something real, something deeply desired and sought after AFRICA/SUDAN - “Security of internally displaced persons in Darfur must be guaranteed” Laura Boldrini in charge of UN High Commission for Refugees Italian branch told Fides ASIA/VIETNAM - To be a person ready to dialogue with all, a person who promotes the values of freedom justice and solidarity: the work of a Bishop in Vietnam ASIA/INDIA - Commitment for the poor, the voiceless, the marginalised and promoting respect for human rights including religious freedom: programme of India’s Catholic laity ASIA/SAUDI ARABIA - Indian born Brian O’Connor, arrested for possessing a Bible defends himself with the truth AMERICA/BRAZIL - 4th annual campaign “Springtime for Life”, promoted by the Ecumenical Co-ordination Service CESE: to care for youth today means to invest in their present and in their future and the future of the nation SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - Test for bird flu: the disease is not passed from human to human 21/09/2004 VATICAN - Cardinal Sodano in New York recalls “vast humanitarian activity of Catholic institutions all over the world especially in the missions and in the poorest countries” to fight hunger and poverty EUROPE/GERMANY - Mission central focus of German Bishops’ Autumn Plenary EUROPE/SPAIN - Disappointment and concern in the local Church and Pro-Family Associations after the approval of a proposed Bill to change the country’s Civil Code with regard of divorce EUROPE/ITALY - Young people of www.comunicanto.it: new portal at the service of Christian music on-line world wide AFRICA/SUDAN - The tragedy in Darfur: a list of the many militia groups responsible for oppressing innocent civilians AMERICA - Franciscans the world over mobilised for the United Nation’s International Day for Peace AMERICA/HAITI - Another emergency in Haiti: Caritas appeals for help after tropical tempest SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AMERICA/USA - More than 2 million HIV+ persons in Latin America and the Caribbean: the management council of American health ministers meets to examine the health situation in the region ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/NAMIBIA - Bishop Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda appointed Archbishop of Windhoek 20/09/2004 Vatican - The Pope’s reflection at the Angelus prayer: “The death of Jesus is the encounter between the apparent triumph of evil and the definitive victory of good; the darkest moment of history and the revelation of God’s glory… For believers the Cross of Christ is an icon of hope ” VATICAN - “Holiness helps the Church to grow, it instils hope in human hearts and adheres effectively to the missionary command of the Lord”: Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe closes Study Seminar for newly appointed Bishops VATICAN - A unique experience which has enriched us enormously and strengthened our communion with the Pope and with all Bishops”: student Bishops share their impressions at the end of the study seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples. AFRICA/SUDAN - “We cannot leave them in the hands of their executors!”. Moving testimony from the region of Darfur ASIA/INDONESIA - Peaceful presidential elections second ballot - opinion polls put challenger Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in the lead OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - In Port Moresby, where violence and crime among youth is rampant, Salesian missionaries intend to build a new Marian shrine dedicated to “Our Lady Help of Christians” to be a haven of peace and a place for education to solidarity and non-violence SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AFRICA/SUDAN - Almost 5.000 cases of hepatitis E in Darfur where 73 people died after drinking dirty water SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/ITALY - Proper health care could save lives in Tanzania where almost two out of every ten new born babies die for lack of basic assistance: an Italian hospital in the region of Venice plans to work with hospital in Iringa 17/09/2004 VATICAN - Study Seminar for Bishops - The Bishop must be a moderator, promoter and guarantor of liturgical life in his diocese: address by Card. Francis Arinze prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments EUROPE/ITALY - “Today we realise that our liberty is a little poorer unless it is shared by all” Luigi Bobba, President of the Association of Christian Workers in Italy told Fides at the end of a Post-Global Meeting in Orvieto. AFRICA - Africa prepares to celebrate the UN Day for Peace in the World on 21 September AFRICA/CONGO RD - More than 100,000 civilians flee their homes because of fighting between army and rebels in the eastern Kivu region of Democratic Congo AFRICA/UGANDA - 21 September Day for Peace in Uganda an ordinary day of war. Peace for Ugandans as in every country at war, is not an abstract idea it is something real, something deeply desired and hoped for ASIA/SAUDI ARABIA - Anxiety and concern for Indian born Brian Savio O’Connor in prison in Saudi Arabia for possessing copies of the Bible: Christians in India and elsewhere continue to pray while human rights activists launch awareness campaigns ASIA/SRI LANKA - Salesians open a new community in northern Sri Lanka for years the centre of cruel civil war AMERICA/ECUADOR - "People in Zamora hunger for God but missionaries, churches and structures are scarce,” Bishop Fausto G. Trávez, Vicar Apostolic of Zamora told Fides AMERICA/BRAZIL - Reflecting with young people on the missionary nature of the Church: Bishops of Brazil call Catholic youth to National Meeting on Youth Mission and Parish Missions AMERICA/ARGENTINA - World Mission Sunday 2004: theme chosen “Eucharist and Mission” in harmony with a national Eucharistic Congress in Corrientes and the International Eucharistic Congress in Guadalajara and the Pope’s message 16/09/2004 VATICAN - The Pope receives Bishops attending Seminar organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples: “Your first duty is to be zealous promoters of the integrity of the faith and the unity of the Church” EUROPE/ITALY - Padre Steckling re-elected Superior general of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate for another six years - “He sent me to evangelise the poor” the motto Saint Eugenio de Mazenod chose for his missionaries EUROPE/ITALY - “Communion co-responsibility for Mission”: National Mission Congress 27 to 30 September aims to help the Church in Italy renew its missionary spirit EUROPE/ITALY - Benedictine monks in Congress will also discuss globalisation EUROPE/SPAIN - “Peace demands a positive attitude which respects the identity of immigrants while safeguarding the cultural heritage of the hosting people”. Spanish Bishops issue letter for National Migration Day: “Similar or different but in peace” AFRICA/CHAD - Local Church celebrates the appointment and ordination of third Chad born Bishop ASIA - Asian countries top of the list for violation of religious freedom: report from US State department ASIA/INDONESIA - Eve of presidential elections, after the recent bomb blast in Jakarta - Indonesia’s political leaders include army generals and radical Muslims ASIA/INDIA - Salesian school wins state award for excellent education in Information Technology AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “The experience of being taken hostage helped me discover the value of solidarity, prayer and communion... the Church will continue to work for peace and reconciliation in the country: Bishop Vacca Ramirez of Yopal tells Fides about his adventure as a hostage in the hands of guerrillas. 15/09/2004 VATICAN - The Pope’s weekly teaching at the general audience: “The Church on earth harmonises her song of praise with that of the just who already contemplate the glory of God. This builds a channel of communication between history and eternity” VATICAN - Study Seminar for Bishops - Cardinal Scola speaks on formation in Seminaries and institutes of theology: “The formation of candidates to the priesthood is not among the many tasks assigned to the Bishop” EUROPE/POLAND - Aid to the Church in Need on Pilgrimage 16 to 20 September to important shrines in Poland including Jasna Góra and Nowa Huta AFRICA/KENYA - Ten thousand celebrate opening of Catholic Bookshop and Media Centre in Nanyuki which will serve six dioceses in this northern area of Kenya ASIA/INDIA - Clear signal to people bent on spreading hatred among religious communities in India: formal request from Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India for a Central Investigation Office enquiry into the murder of Father Job Chittilappilly ASIA/TIMOR EAST - In the young democracy of East Timor which faces many problems the Church can help overcome difficulties, Bishop Alberto Ricardo da Silva of Dili told Fides ASIA/SRI LANKA - New hopes for peace Sri Lanka with Norway’s mediation: it is fundamental to restore trust between the parties AMERICA/MEXICO - 48th International Eucharistic Congress “will be a great opportunity to contemplate and meditate on the Mystery of the Eucharist, in order to spread peace reconciliation and justice in the world…”: statement Mexican Bishops’ Conference AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Despite much effort there is no end to armed violence in Colombia and the number of displaced persons continues to rise: Catholic Bishops of Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela voice concern CEP APPOINTMENTS - AMERICA/COLOMBIA - New National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed 14/09/2004 VATICAN - The Pope receives a group of Bishops from New Zealand: “pressing need for Christ’s liberating message in a society experiencing the tragic consequences of the eclipse of the sense of God” EUROPE/GERMANY - “Living mission - daring to meet others”: German PMS launches mission campaign for October 2004 to encourage Catholics to go out and meet people who are different, Muslims especially. ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “Female genius can play a prominent part in the Church”: survey by CBCK Committee for Women ASIA/JAPAN - Japanese missionary Sister in Algeria shares the experience of a Franciscan Sister witnessing to Jesus by serving others ASIA/VIETNAM - “A Year of Evangelisation a new start for the Church in Vietnam”: Salesian Bishop Van Tiem of Bui Chu diocese speaks to Fides AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “The Truth will make you free”: International Congress organised by the national Catholic University ten years after the publication of Pope John Paul II’s Veritatis Splendor encyclical AMERICA/URUGUAY - “We have reached the point of having two generations who survive by begging. Silent suicides among adults, caused by the economic crash, are affecting children and adolescents”: dramatic statement by the Uruguay Council of Christian Churches (CICU) SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AFRICA/SUDAN - Every month as many as 10,000 people among the 1.2 million displaced persons in Darfur die, compared to about 1,500 average monthly deaths in poor regions of Africa SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - HIV/AIDS: antiretroviral therapy, caesarean birth and artificial milk for babies reduce mother/child transmission of HIV/AIDS. Contagion risk drops from 20-25% without therapy to as low as 2-3% with treatment 13/09/2004 VATICAN - The Pope’s reflection at the midday Sunday Angelus prayer: “May Mary watch over humanity suffering today from distressing explosions of violence. May she watch over the young generations especially who desire to build a future of hope for all”. VATICAN - Study Seminar for newly appointed Bishops - Cardinal Nicora illustrates duties and risks of service in administration “to guarantee material means so that the mission Jesus entrusted to his Church may continue” AFRICA/CAMEROON - “Communion, the power behind mission in the Church in Africa” is the theme of a meeting for French speaking National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Africa which opens tomorrow in Yaounde AFRICA/BURUNDI - Political crisis in Burundi over Constitutional changes AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - The role of the international community is fundamental to prevent conflict in Kivu from spreading” local sources in eastern Congo tell Fides AFRICA/RWANDA - “National reconciliation is a challenge for all Rwandans and the Church has its own contribution to offer” President of the Rwandan Bishops’ Conference tells Fides ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Family formation and evangelisation is urgent to help families opt for a culture of life: scarce knowledge of Catholic Teaching on the family and life ASIA/HONG KONG - Legislative Council elections - Democrats make small step forward, parties in favour of tighter bonds with Mainland China win people’s preference AMERICA/BRAZIL - 1st National Seminar on profile of Popular Missions, preferred means of achieving National Evangelisation Programme launched by the Catholic Church in Brazil OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Building a culture of dialogue, peace and reconciliation in south East Asia: appeal launched by Caritas Australia after the bomb blast in front of the Australian embassy in Jakarta 11/09/2004 VATICAN - Chinese priests and lay persons arrested: the Holy See denounces “serious violation of freedom of religion, fundamental human right” ASIA/INDIA - Marian devotion flourishes in India and Pakistan; thousands flock to take part in novenas and pilgrimages, attended with respect and devotion by Hindus and Muslims AMERICA/CHILE - Creeping drug trafficking threatens Chile’s development: 'Salmon Connection' threatens Europe. Vicar Apostolic in Patagonia informs Fides OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Mission via the web: Catholics in Brisbane archdiocese promote prayer chain to support evangelisation SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/ITALY - “AIDS is a problem not only in Africa and in the third world, Italy is top of the list for the number of HIV+ persons in western European countries”. European Union Report: comment by general co-ordinator of the “Progetto Rainbow” started by the John XXIII Community opened by Rev. Oreste Benzi. 10/09/2004 VATICAN - Study Seminar for newly appointed Bishops - Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, Secretary of State Substitute for General Affairs, illustrates the bishop’s relations with the Curia and the Bishops’ Conferences VATICAN - “A unique opportunity for getting to know one another as brothers”: Study Seminar for newly appointed Bishops of mission territories rounds the mark EUROPE/ITALY - Andrea Riccardi, founder of the S. Egidio community reports on the 18th International Meeting Religions and Culture, the courage of a new humanism, held in Milan 5-7 September. EUROPE/ITALY - 2nd Day of Inter-dependence: individuals, peoples, and nations for a more united world. “Dialogue in diversity is possible” says Lucia Fronza a member of the Focolari Movement SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/ITALY - Stem cells: Day of Reflection for Bishops at Regina Apostolorum Pontifical College in di Rome SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/ITALY - Investigation: Infective Diseases and Globalisation. Article by members of the Infective Disease Department at the Sant’Andrea hospital, the faculty of medicine at the Sapienza University 09/09/2004 VATICAN - Study Seminar for newly appointed Bishops - “Faced with dramatic and persistent divisions and lacerations in the world the Church is called, through her Bishops, to explain the reasons for the hope she bears”: address by Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos EUROPE/ITALY - Luigino Bruni, Docent Economy at the Bicocca and Bocconi Universities in Milan, presents International Meeting “New Horizons of the Economy of Communion”, organised by the Focolari movement 10-12 September in Castelgandolfo AFRICA/ANGOLA - Drama of diamond hunters in northern Angola continues. Road accident kills 16 policemen and “garimpeiros” who had been expelled AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Respect for Congolese territorial sovereignty and a regional pact of non-aggression included in Bishops’ memorandum to South Africa’s president Mbeki, mediator in the Congo crisis AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “The Church is an important element for peace and unity in Congo”: Fides speaks with Bishops of Democratic Congo also in view of elections in 2005 ASIA/INDONESIA - Fides given preview of Catholic Bishops’ statement after Jakarta bomb blast: if politicians, civil society, religious communities unite we will overcome terrorism; religion must no be exploited! ASIA/INDONESIA - “The bomb blast was connected with international terrorism, not the local political situation, but could harm Indonesia at the economic and political level”, local sources in Jakarta tells Fides 08/09/2004 VATICAN - The Pope leads prayers for the children killed in Beslan and all innocent children abused by adults: This is the “anguished cry of childhood offended in its dignity”. Prayers for justice and peace in the world include the safe return of Italian women social workers taken hostage yesterday EUROPE/ITALY - Comboni Missionary Sisters fully immersed in general chapter: the vitality of a charism which continues to unleash the power of the Gospel as it becomes part of different cultures. AFRICA/BENIN - “In Benin there has always been a spirit of tolerance and dialogue between religions; however in recent years we have seen infiltration of extremists,” said Bishop Victor Agbanou of Lokossa, who underlined the fervour of Catholics in Benin AFRICA/BURUNDI - Refugees who fled violence in Kivu in June leave Burundi to make their way back to Democratic Congo: news confirmed by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees ASIA/INDIA - Carrying the Bible to remote areas of India: Centre for research and translation of Sacred Scripture has a special mission EUROPE/GEORGIA - Warning and appeal from Papal Nuncio in Georgia: “We need ideas and means to ensure that the whole of the Caucus region does not turn into a powder keg”. Caritas Georgia (southern Ossezia) helps children in Beslan, northern Ossezia as well as exhausted displaced persons in its own region OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Helping disabled persons take an active part in the Church: pastoral document issued by the Australian Bishops’ Commission for the Family and for Life OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Helping disabled persons take an active part in the Church: pastoral document issued by the Australian Bishops’ Commission for the Family and for Life SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - ASIA/INDIA - Each day HIV/AIDS makes more victims: the Church in Orissa state works on a plan to stop the spread of the virus 07/09/2004 VATICAN - Study Seminar for new Bishops - Archbishop Mons. Nikola Eterovic Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops illustrates the institution: “The Synod of Bishops is a valuable fruit of the Council” VATICAN - Study Seminar for new Bishops - “The Good News of Jesus Christ can and must be proclaimed through the press, radio, television and the Internet” says Archbishop John P. Foley VATICAN - Study Seminar for newly appointed Bishops - The Pontifical Mission Societies, “a central pillar of the bridge which the Church is building towards peoples and religions through evangelisation and dialogue”: Father Fernando Galbiati, PIME AFRICA/SUDAN - Darfur: parties continue talks in Abuja. Crux of the problem disarmament of all the armed groups present in this western Sudan region AFRICA/GHANA - Catholic Bishops of Wet Africa urge respect for democracy and good government, conditions for development and peace ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic Archbishop of Manila would like Congress to pass a “religion tax” to help support the Church and other religious communities, as in some European countries ASIA/INDIA Christians and other believers come together to pray and rejoice at the memory of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, on 7th anniversary of her death, first since her beatification ASIA/PAKISTAN - Seminars of formation and awareness campaigns to promote respect for human rights and the human dignity of every person: tireless efforts of Justice and Peace Commission of the Catholic Church in Pakistan SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - ASIA/TAIWAN - Free antiretroviral therapy: Taiwan government policy appears successful. Annual average rate of new cases of HIV drops from 0.391 to 0.184 06/09/2004 VATICAN - Contemplation, communion, and mission: John Paul II assigns tasks to Catholic Action in a Loreto. “Today, through the event of the beatification of these three Servants of God, the Lord says to you: the greatest gift you can give to the Church and the world is holiness.” VATICAN - 118 Newly appointed Bishops from mission territories start seminary organised by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples. Cardinal Sepe says “You Bishops are the builders of this Church which has begun a new millennium of her history ”. EUROPE/ITALY - “I wish to say thank you to the Vatican and also to the people of Italy for important moral support in these days. All together in fact we must say “no” to terrorism”: statement by Orthodox Bishop Feofan of Ossezia opens 18th Meeting of “Religions and cultures: the courage of a new humanism” organised by S. Egidio Community AFRICA/SUDAN - Negotiations between Sudan government and rebels in Darfur continue. International community discusses new UN resolution to end violence. A few thousand refugees, out of more than 100,000, return to the region AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Christian churches in Zimbabwe unite to respond to criticism: “it is our pastoral and Christian obligation to call for the immediate repeal of draconian unjust and repressive legislation” ASIA/INDIA - “Evangelisation in India in the Third Millennium” theme of National Meeting for Diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies from 14 to 17 September ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Youth gives signals of hope in the tormented region of Mindanao: Christians and Muslims unite making concrete requests ASIA/NEPAL - Curfew lifted: demonstrations for tolerance and solidarity in Nepal’s capital: Hindus, Muslims, Buddhist monks, Catholic priests and religious and many lay faithful join street march AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “With social justice peace is possible”- initiatives for National Peace Week started yesterday: promoting peace, human rights and reconciliation 04/09/2004 FIDES BACKGROUND INFO- Map of religions in areas where fundamentalism is most violent 03/09/2004 VATICAN - On Sunday the Pope will beatify a Spanish priest, assistant to Catholic Action in Spain and two lay members of the Association: Alberto Marvelli and Pina Suriano EUROPE/ITALY - As part of the Festivities and Papal pilgrimage/visit to Loreto: a Hundred Metres for Peace: 4.500 km relay race to offer the world a message of peace and hope EUROPE/ITALY - Theological update on challenges facing mission today: 9th Course of ongoing Formation for men and women Missionaries promoted by the Pontifical Salesian University UPS starts on 20 September EUROPE/ITALY - In Milan 18th World Interreligious Meeting organised by St. Egidio Community: “Religions and culture: the courage of a new humanism”. AFRICA - Could the massacre of Congolese refugees in Burundi in mid August be one of the causes for the increasingly precarious situation in Burundi and Congo? An authoritative opinion AFRICA - Info: main armed groups in the Great Lakes Region ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Philippines President Gloria Arroyo on official visit to China clinches cooperation deals for tourism, energy, fishing, trade and investments ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - United Nations repatriation programme brings one million Afghans home from Iran: returning professionals and experts promise for the future AMERICA/COLOMBIA As part of the “Week for Peace”, Regional Humanitarian Conference to examine situation in Andes area and problems provoked by armed conflict in Colombia OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA “We Are Sent”, Archbishop of Melbourne issues Pastoral letter and opens new Office for Evangelisation 02/09/2004 VATICAN - Study Seminar starts on Sunday 5 September in Rome for 118 newly appointed Bishops in missionary territories entrusted to the care of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples EUROPE/SPAIN - “Making Mission ad gentes a priority in local Churches” - Valencia hosts 6th inter-diocesan day of missionary reflection EUROPE/ITALY - “Our Meeting shows that Christianity, that is Christ, has an infinite ability to reach the heart of every human person and give value to human questions and aspirations” Mgr Massimo Camisasca told Fides a few days after the 25th edition of the Communion and Liberation Meeting in Rimini. AFRICA/CHAD - Agreement signed by UN High Commission for Refugees and the government of Chad to guarantee safety of Darfur refugees AFRICA/SUDAN - Glimpse of peace for the crisis in Darfur. Government and guerrillas agree to protect 1.2 million refugees. But danger for humanitarian operators persist: Caritas worker injured ASIA/NEPAL - National day of mourning for 12 Nepalese workers murdered in Iraq - Pro-Prefect Apostolic “Tension is high, but the situation is under control. Christians targeted? Definitely not” ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops launch an appeal to citizens to help nation overcome economic crisis. “Overcoming the crisis is a matter not only for the government it is in the interest of each and all” ASIA/IRAQ - “Changing school curricula in the Middle East could help uproot extremism” says local priest in Iraq. “Schools should educate to peace! If from the age of six a child hears of nothing but war and enemies to kill then it is not surprising that at 18 he dreams of being a suicide bomber” ASIA/TAIWAN - Pastoral Letter from Cardinal Paul Shan, Bishop of Kaohsiung: “Prepare with devotion for the Eucharistic Congress” ASIA/LEBANON - The Maronite Church is important for Lebanon, although from some areas Christians are being pressed to leave their homeland” Father Maroun told Fides CEP APPOINTMENTS - AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Rev. Jean Marie Nsimba appointed rector of the Abbé Charles Mahonde Inter-diocesan Propaedeutic Seminary in Ouesso 01/09/2004 VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the general audience: “a person who adores the idols of wealth, power or success loses his dignity as a human person...On the contrary, those who believe in the Lord know that the living God is their «help» and their «shield»”. An appeal for a cessation of violence everywhere, “never a worthy of a good cause” VATICAN - “The Church needs Catholic Action” the Pope writes in a message to participants at International Congress of the Catholic Action Association EUROPE/GERMANY - “Living a year with a difference” with Jesuit European Volunteers JEV: 32 young people start commitment as Jesuit Volunteers which will take them to various parts of the world EUROPE/ITALY - “Go out with enthusiasm to embrace your mission!” Cardinal Sepe said during the Mass to open the Catholic Action International Congress. “You are missionaries of daily life and bearers of hopes which are strong and founded” EUROPE/ITALY - “Duc in altum, Catholic Action. Take hold of the future with courage”. Catholic Action International Congress opens in Rome ASIA/INDIA - Exemplary Catholic father dies at 102 after bringing up a family of 13 and giving the Church two bishops, two priests and two women religious ASIA/SAUDI ARABIA - New hopes for release of Indian born Brian Savio O’Connor in prison in Saudi Arabia for his Christian faith says Middle East Concern OCEANIA/FRENCH POLYNESIA - Mission continues: vocations flourish in the Pacific Islands CEP APPOINTMENTS - AFRICA/EGYPT - Rev. Antonios Fayez appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies CEP APPOINTMENTS - AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Rev. 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