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Testimone dell'invisibile" ‘John Paul II Witness to the Invisible’ SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - SPECIAL REPORT FOR 1 DECEMBER, WORLD AIDS DAY - In one year in the world 39.4 million new cases and 3.1 deaths 29/11/2004 VATICAN - On the first Sunday of Advent the Pope encourages devotion to the Eucharist: “Today marks the beginning of a new liturgical year, during which we will contemplate with special devotion the face of Christ present in the Eucharist ” VATICAN - In Bangkok, Cardinal Sepe presides ordination of the new Bishop of Surat Thani: “a great day for the Catholic Community of the Diocese of Surat Thani. It is a significant day, a day to give thanks to Almighty God for all the blessings He has bestowed on them” VATICAN - The Pope grants a special audience to Rev. Oreste Benzi and the Pope John XXIII Community on the 30th anniversary of the opening of the first Family-Home: “To give genuine love to others, love must be first drawn from God.” AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Election campaign lively but not violent. Expectation outcome for presidential elections on 1 December AFRICA - Nairobi UN Conference ONU on the tragedy of land mines. It costs a little more than 3 dollars to kill. Angola may still have as many as 6 million mines ASIA/IRAQ - “People are getting their breath back after the assaults a few days ago” source in Mosul told Fides ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholic Bishops focus Advent Messages on Eucharist, Life and the Family ASIA/PAKISTAN - Radio Veritas programmes in Urdu are a point of reference and encounter for peaceful co-existence in Pakistan OCEANIA/PAPUA NUOVA GUINEA - Catholics committed to fighting AIDS: Caritas Australia funds three new centres ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - ASIA/JAPAN - The Pope appoints new auxiliary Bishop of Tokyo 27/11/2004 VATICAN - The Pope and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople preside ecumenical celebration in St Peter’s: “I will never tire of striving resolutely and determinedly to restore communion among Christ’s disciples”, the Pope said. EUROPE/ITALY - International Congress on Religious Life ends today: “we must aim for quality witness and commitment to evangelisation and human promotion” says José Maria Arnaiz EUROPE/ITALY - Fifty nine Legionaries of Christ are ordained priests. The Pope signs decree approving statutes of Regnum Christi Movement AFRICA/UGANDA - Cease fire in northern Uganda extended AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Tomorrow mobilisation for peace in Churches throughout Ivory Coast VATICAN - Cardinal Sepe addresses Thai Bishop: “As we are at the beginning of the Third Millennium, I can only remind that the Church in Thailand is called to a new missionary momentum” ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Interreligious Forum gives impulse to Anti-Death Penalty activity ASIA/INDIA - More than 10,000 pilgrims visit Bom Jesus basilica every day to venerate relics of St Francis Xavier SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/ITALY - Four thousand new HIV+ cases ever year in Italy, a new case every two hours and one out of every two persons infected is unaware: 18th National AIDS Meeting SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - 45,000 AIDS patients: Health Ministry intervenes to purchase anti-retroviral drugs 26/11/2004 VATICAN - Tomorrow November 27 Ecumenical Celebration in St Peter’s. Relics of Ecumenical celebration: Pope John Paul II will make a gift of the Relics of St Gregory Nazianzen and St John Chrysostom to the Patriarch of Constantinople ASIA/LAOS - Info VATICAN - Cardinal Sepe’s pastoral visit in Laos: I have come above all to thank you for your loyalty to the Apostolic See and to encourage you to bear ever bolder witness to Jesus and his Gospel in daily life AFRICA/KENYA - “The tragic murder of missionary Father Hannon, yet another sign of great insecurity in the area” says report from Ngong diocese AFRICA/ETIOPIA - Ethiopia decides to bury the hatchet and accept the border line marked by the international commission. Now it is up to Eritrea to give a positive answer ASIA/KOREA - “The Family, a place of love and life” is the title of a pastoral letter issued by the Catholic Bishops for Advent 2004 ASIA/INDIA - Salesians open new Don Bosco Institute in Assam; government closes Catholic school in Kashmir ASIA/INDONESIA - Poverty new plague in Moluccas: after years of civil war reconstruction and development is slow AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “We must go beyond our borders because we are not only the future of humanity, we want to be the missionaries of the present in America and the world” say young participants at 3rd American Meeting of Missionary Youth (III ENAJOMIS) SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AFRICA/KENYA - St. Camillus Mission Hospital in Karungu resolves to fight AIDS with intelligence, love and respect 25/11/2004 VATICAN - The Pope addresses Pontifical Council for the Laity: “The parish is the place par excellence for the proclamation of Christ and education in the faith. This is why it must renew itself to become "community of communities", capable of effective missionary activity” VATICAN - Assumption University Bangkok confers Honorary Degree of Doctor of Law on Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe. “Catholic schools are at the service of the whole of society to form young people to be responsible and honest citizens”. AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Long wave of a cyclone in March now has Madagascar in grip of hunger. Exasperation triggers bomb explosion as protest. AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Voices of hope mixed with fear of war in Bukavu AFRICA/SUDAN - All that was feared has happened: when domestic tension override international interests. Another of Africa’s cease fire agreements violated AFRICA/KENYA - Nyahururu diocese mourns Vicar General ASIA/TURKEY - Celebrations for the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s visit: former President gives main address ASIA/INDONESIA - Federation of Asian Bishops Conference discusses< Communicating through inter-religious dialogue ASIA/TAIWAN - Love, Hope and Faith in Family Health Care: International Federation of Catholic Doctors holds 13th Congress AMERICA/COSTA RICA - National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Central America present Bishops with “Memories of CAM 2” and examine Central American Mission ad Gentes Plan: developments and goals reached MISSIONARY PRAYER INTENTION - VATICAN - Pope John Paul II’s missionary intention for December 2004: "That the incarnation of Jesus Christ may be the authentic model for every attempt at inculturating the Gospel" Comment by Paul Cardinal Poupard President of the Pontifical Council for Culture FIDES SIGNALS - Charity Concert in aid of Senegal on the Tiber Island organised by the St John of God Hospitaller Brothers 24/11/2004 VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the general audience: “With his divine "fullness", but also through shedding his blood on the Cross, Christ "reconciles" and "restores" all things in heaven and on earth…recreating the original harmony, willed by God in accordance with his loving plan of life.” VATICAN - “Rediscovering the authentic image of the parish" theme of Pontifical Council for the Laity plenary assembly VATICAN - “Reduction of the price of the anti-viral drugs needed to treat HIV/AIDS patients; intensification of information campaigns in order to avoid mother/child transmission of the virus; greater attention for most vulnerable social groups.” Message for World AIDS Day from the President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Health workers and the Sick EUROPE/ITALY - Saturday 27 November 2004, 8th National Food Collection Day: sharing basic necessities in order to share the meaning of life. AFRICA/UGANDA - People are still dying in northern Uganda despite recent negotiations AFRICA/SUDAN - Darfur recent developments ASIA/IRAQ - “Here in Iraq things are improving for religious minorities. Everyone looks forward with optimism to the elections and a future of peace” a Chaldean monk told Fides ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Seminars, prayers, marches to increase awareness during “Peace Week” in Mindanao 25 November to 1 December ASIA/SRI LANKA - Stop the political feud which is bloodying the country: essential condition for re-launching peace process SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - ASIA/INDONESIA - Outbreak of Dengue: 14 dead and 60 admitted to hospital in Sumatra 23/11/2004 VATICAN - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe addresses Seminarians in Yangon, Myanmar: “The vocation to the priesthood is the most wonderful ‘adventure’ God offers a man” ASIA/THAILAND - info: EUROPE/ITALY - Convention of European University Students and pilgrimage of Icon Maria Sedes Sapientiae just returned for Gt. Britain: preparations for 20th World Youth Day in Germany AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “I am grateful to the Pope for this act of confidence in me” the newly appointed Bishop of Bokungu-Ikela in Congo told Fides AFRICA/SUDAN - Cease fire in Darfur violated. Government declares state of emergency AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The figure of the priest, the Year of the Eucharist and Africa’s Year of the Bible, the fight against AIDS were some of the topics discussed by the Catholic Bishops of Madagascar during their recent plenary assembly ASIA/CHINA - HanDan diocese welcomes 23 new Sisters of the Holy Spirit and the Mother of God: 1,500 attend celebration ASIA/INDIA - Fight against AIDS, pastoral care for families, free schooling for poor children: Syro-Malabar Synod pinpoints commitments AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Some 5,000 participants expected for Missionary Feast in Guatemala City to mark first anniversary of CAM 2 and open local initiatives for the Year of the Eucharist OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Season of Advent and Christmas a good time to rediscover mission in the family: call from National Director Pontifical Mission Societies Australia ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - The Pope appoints new auxiliary Bishop of Bukavu ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Bokungu-Ikela SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/ITALY - World AIDS Day: awareness campaign focuses on women. Initiatives, photograph exhibition organised by Spallanzani Institute in Rome 22/11/2004 VATICAN - The Pope recalls the Lumen Gentium Constitution promulgated 40 years ago by Vatican II: “a milestone on the Church’s pilgrimage along the roads of the modern world”. Appeal to support communities of contemplative life VATICAN - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe pastoral visit in Myanmar: “The Feast of Christ, King of the Universe, reminds each one of us that, as disciples, we form part of his Kingdom which we want to extend to the whole world and, in particular, to this Nation Myanmar.” VATICAN - “Those who destroy the family, the fundamental tissue of human co-existence, fail to respect its identity and distort its duties and cause in society a profound wound and irreparable damage”: the Pope said in an address to the Plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family AFRICA/LIBERIA - Africa: pouring of refugees from one state to another continues to threaten stability in countries such as Liberia, trying to recover from a dramatic civil. At least 13,000 Ivorians have fled to north eastern Liberia AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - “The fight was with poachers not Sudanese guerrillas” local sources told Fides commenting an army intervention in which 16 people were killed after an attack on a village a hundred kilometres from the Sudanese border ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Christians and Muslims together run New Centre for children in need in southern Philippines ASIA/IRAQ - “Courageous Catholics in Iraq continue to rebuild destroyed churches” Catholic priest in northern Iraq told Fides ASIA/BANGLADESH - Catholic media operators and journalists discuss freedom of expression and mass media at the service of peace SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/ITALY - In Europe tropical diseases, TB, skin infections are ever more frequent 20/11/2004 VATICAN - Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, Cardinal Sepe on pastoral visit in Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia ASIA/MYANMAR - Info: EUROPE/ BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA - Banja Luka Cathedral will host funeral of Catholic priest brutally murdered in his parish at Bosanska Gradiska AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Invasion of locusts combined with lack of rain destroys 90% of harvests in northern Burkina Faso AFRICA/TANZANIA - Great Lakes Summit participants sign declaration of commitment to work for “A region of lasting peace and security”. Catholic Bishops of Tanzania urge them to take the “path of dialogue” AMERICA/BRAZIL - Many initiatives for the Year of the Eucharist include National Seminar to form pastoral animators and reflect on the impact of the Eucharist on the life of the Church in Brazil ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The Pope creates new diocese of Dori and appoints first Bishop ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/MALAWI - Bishop of Mangochi resigns, the Pope appoints successor 17/11/2004 VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the general audience: “we must pull down walls of division, hostility and hatred so that the family of God’s children may find itself in harmony at the same table, to praise and bless the Creator for the gifts he gives to all” VATICAN - Cardinal Paul Poupard in Moscow to promote recognition of Europe’s shared Christian roots EUROPE/GT. BRITAIN - Global Report on Child Soldiers 2004 says governments are incapable of stopping children’s involvement: “children are fighting in almost every major conflict, in both government and opposition forces. They are being injured, subjected to horrific abuse and killed” 16/11/2004 VATICAN - Situation, reflection, Action: International Conference organised by Pontifical Council for Health Care pastoral on “palliative care” comes to conclusion EUROPE/ITALY - Fides asks Renato Farina about a new book “Humanity, its present and its destiny: conversations over a cup of coffee” a collection of interviews with Mgr. Luigi Giussani. AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Anger and resignation after United Nations decision to impose sanctions on Ivory Coast AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Hope mixed with fear in East Congo awaiting outcome of Great Lakes Region summit while rumours of imminent assaults on Bukavu continue ASIA/INDIA - Security measures intensified for traditional exposition of relics of Saint Francis Xavier starting 21 November ASIA/INDONESIA - Humanitarian situation in Aceh (Northern Sumatra) ever more critical NGOs warn AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Second “Missione Gran Rio” International Meeting on lay missionary activity will discuss: “The missionary situation in America”: problems, challenges, future prospects 15/11/2004 VATICAN - At the Angelus prayer the Pope mentions Harvest Thanksgiving Sunday in Italy encouraging those present to “share resources with those in need” VATICAN - Commitment to re-establish full and visible communion among all the baptised…concerns every Christian of every diocese and parish, of every community in the Church: the Pope said on the 40th anniversary of the promulgation of the Vatican II decree "Unitatis Redintegratio":” EUROPE/ITALY - “Communion and solidarity between Africa and Europe Christ calls upon us - Christ sends us”. Catholic Bishops of Africa and Europe issue Message following Symposium in Rome EUROPE/SPAIN - “Although the faith is often subject to social and cultural marginalisation, men and women today still long to hear the Good News of Christ”: Message from Lay Congress AFRICA/UGANDA - Cease fire announced in northern Uganda: Bishop of Odama issues statement to Fides AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Missionaries in Ivory Coast send more testimony: “Bullets whistled over our heads, but despite the danger we will not leave, we will stay with the people” ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Three new priests Mozambique: Korean Foreign Mission Society starts evangelising mission in Africa 13/11/2004 VATICAN - Addressing Catholic Bishops of Africa and Europe taking part in a special Symposium in Rome the Pope said: “a style of fraternal love is the significant witness which the Bishops of the Churches in Europe and Africa are called to offer to face the great challenges which demand a response from the Christian faith”. The Pope announces 2nd Special Synod of Bishops for Africa EUROPE/ITALY - Catholic Bishops of Africa and Europe say “we want to see what can be done to make the Gospel have greater impact on the present day” AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Escuintla diocese opens first Diocesan Mission Congress “With Mary to proclaim the Gospel of life and peace” SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AFRICA/IVORY COAST - UNICEF: two million women and children without water and electricity risk disease 12/11/2004 VATICAN - The Holy Father receives in audience participants at International Conference promoted by the Pontifical Council for Pastoral care of the healthcare workers and the sick on the topic: “Palliative treatment” AFRICA/IVORY COAST - An ethnic mosaic which threatens to explode AFRICA/BURUNDI - National Assembly appoints Vice president, a man of dialogue AFRICA/ANGOLA - The hidden tragedy of mines in Angola: news which is “non news” for major world media AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “I witnessed the air strike on the French base” a missionary in Bouake told Fides: Water, electricity and telephone supplies resume ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Laity Day Sunday 14 November to foster more involvement of laity as pastoral helpers and focus on the family ASIA/PHILIPPINES - In southern Philippines Christians join Muslims at the end of Ramadan AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “Family Solidarity, a duty today”: for 14 years the Catholic Church in Venezuela has worked to defend the family and family values with a special Week of reflection and activities BOOK REVIEW - Battista Mondin - "THE POPES OF THE MODERN AGES" From Pius IX to John Paul II - Urbaniana University Press ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AMERICA/SURINAME - New Bishop of Paramaribo SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Two important events will focus on “neglected diseases” affecting millions of people. Developing countries have urgent need of resources 11/11/2004 VATICAN - Pontifical Urban University organises solemn academic act in honour of Cardinal Stefano Borgia, a former Prefect Propaganda Fide, on the 200th anniversary of his death. European Stefano Borgia Award assigned to Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe EUROPE/SPAIN - Lay Apostolate Congress: more than 2.000 lay people intend to give new impulse to their presence in society, reflect on their Christian identity and foster a spirit of communion among groups and movements AFRICA/BURUNDI - Burundians await appointment of new vice president AFRICA/SUDAN - “More efforts from international community needed to end Darfur crisis” say Fides sources after agreement signed by Sudanese government and rebels AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Growing atmosphere of insecurity: Europeans being evacuated, relative calmin Korhogo where rebels prepare to resist a government army assault EUROPE/AFRICA - First ever Symposium of African and European Bishops opens in Rome “an epochal event...a symposium with extended pastoral horizons” ASIA/INDIA - Christian leaders in Orissa state protest against forced re-conversion campaign by Hindu extremists ASIA/HONG KONG - Hong Kong Catholics share experience of International Eucharistic Congress in Mexico AMERICA/PARAGUAY - “The country is walking a dramatic and painful Via Crucis” say deeply concerned Bishops of Paraguay as they encourage the people not to lose hope, “necessary and possible”, calling Christians to work to change the situation OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The local Church cries against abortion which kills 100,000 unborn babies in Australia every year: intervention by Archbishop of Melbourne SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE - In Cambodia almost 10% of new born babies die before they are weaned and more than 12% die before they are five years old: European Commission donates 3.5 million Euro to lower infant mortality rate 10/11/2004 VATICAN - The Pope’s weekly teaching focuses on Psalm 61: if we were more aware of our frailty and limits we would not turn to idols, we would place all our trust in the Lord, source of eternity and peace VATICAN - The Church has never opposed the use of opiates for terminally ill persons: “palliative treatment”, is the theme of the 19th International Conference organised by the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Healthcare Workers and the Sick EUROPE/SPAIN - Consecrated Life a “prophetic frontier presence”: 11th general assembly of the Spanish Conference of Religious - 6 inter-congregational projects to help socially excluded people EUROPE/ITALY - Father Justo Lacunza Rector of PISAI, the Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies in Rome, told Fides about burial rites in the Islamic world AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Tension still high in Abidjan where thousands of pro-President supporters form protective barrier around the Presidential Palace. “Admirable missionaries stay put, despite danger determined not the leave the people at this difficult time” local Church sources told Fides. Catholic Bishops of Ivory Coast make an appeal for peace ASIA/IRAQ - Bishops in Ninive send best wishes message to Muslims for Ramadan and affirm: “this violence is totally foreign to the Iraqi people” ASIA/JAPAN - Association supports 351 Japanese missionaries involved in pastoral work abroad AMERICA/PERU - “Migrants: weavers of equal integration at frontiers Bolivia, Chile and Peru”. Message from 2nd Meeting for Pastoral Care of Migrants at Frontiers 09/11/2004 VATICAN - Catholic Bishops of the Indian Ocean make ad limina visit to Rome EUROPE/ITALY - Relics of Saint Augustine of Hippo brought to Rome to mark the 1650th anniversary of his birth in 354 EUROPE/ ITALY - Starting tomorrow African and European Bishops discuss Communion and Solidarity between Africa and Europe AFRICA - Leaders of 11 African countries come together to discuss peace and security in Great Lakes region AFRICA/IVORY COAST - From Abidjan confirmation that any attempt to solve problems with the mentality of Europe is bound to fail and thousands of innocent people die. How can democracy be saved? AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Will Ethiopia face famine in 2005? ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians, moderate Muslims and human rights activists applaud government decision not to mark religious identity on passports ASIA/INDIA - Christians call on United States President to promote religious freedom, the foundation of democracy, in southern Asia AMERICA/MEXICO - “The Bishop must never let himself be so concerned by local problems as lose sight of openness and universality”, the president of the Mexican Bishops’ Conference said in his address to open 78th Plenary Assembly 08/11/2004 VATICAN - At the Angelus prayer the Pope speaks of the month of commemoration of the dead and calls for solidarity with the people of Ivory Coast after violent clashes at the weekend AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “There seems to be no end to the terrible hours of Saturday and Sunday”. Dramatic report from a missionary Abidjan where angry protesters continue to fight French troops. AFRICA/UGANDA - Protocol to treat “invisible scars” caused by war, terrorism and torture ASIA/IRAQ - “Our martyred nation has urgent need of a new school system” - Lay Christian in Baghdad makes appeal through Fides: “Terrorists funded from abroad: for a new Iraq we need to start with the children who are the future” ASIA/THAILAND - Social tension grows in the south, Catholics concerned ASIA/INDIA - Catholic Archbishop of Delhi encourages new leader of the BJP nationalist party to “Protect minorities and promote social harmony” SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - AMERICA/GUATEMALA - More than 7,000 Guatemalans infected by HIV/AIDS: Bishops’ Conference Health Pastoral Commission launches programme to fight HIV/AIDS 06/11/2004 AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Information blackout with regard to military operations in northern Ivory Coast. Rebel held areas without water or electricity AFRICA/UGANDA - Besides providing medical treatment St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor is also “home” for 5,000 displaced persons and “commuter refugees” AFRICA/LIBERIA - Religious leaders committed to overcoming national divisions: “we must lay the basis for a new understanding of citizenship” a missionary told Fides ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Ten years of church activity, mission, news, figures in Korea in a volume published by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference ASIA/CAMBODIA - Flow of Vietnamese Montagnard refugees to Cambodia: UNHCR offers assistance ASIA/TAIWAN - Taiwan Catholics celebrate with gratitude the arrival of first Carmelite nuns and opening of first Carmelite convent on the Island AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Evangelisation and prophetical mission of the Church in the face of present day challenges …” theme of 43rd General Assembly of Brazilian Bishops in April ACTA OF THE HOLY SEE - AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Bishop of Bambari resigns, successor appointed CEP APPOINTMENTS - ASIA/INDIA - Rector of Vianney Bhavan regional philosophy seminary Gopalpur appointed CEP APPOINTMENTS - OCEANIA/NEW ZEALAND - Rector of Holy Cross inter-diocesan Seminary in Auckland appointed 05/11/2004 VATICAN - The annual Message to Muslim for the 'Id al-Fitr feast at the end of the month of Ramadan Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue focuses on the need to love and protect every child because “Children, [are a] Gift of God for the Future of Humanity” EUROPE/ITALY - On the feast day of Blessed Conforti his spiritual sons and daughters all over the world renew their commitment to mission ad gentes EUROPE/ITALY - “Theology East and West in the 20th Century” meeting at the International Centre of the movement Communion and Liberation to present a basic Christian theology in a series of “100 Theological Works of the 20th Century” in Russian AFRICA/UGANDA - Police release Rev. Matthew Ojiam, arrested on charges of contact with rebels in northern Uganda AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Fear of large scale offensive to follow up yesterday’s bombing on towns in rebel hands; homes and mission sacked ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Spread of new religions and sects: Catholic Church takes steps to counter threat to the faith ASIA/INDIA - Christians happy and relieved for the release of Indian born Catholic O’Connor arrested and detained in Saudi Arabia ASIA/TAIWAN - Archbishop Joseph Cheng gives mission command to 33 volunteers at the end of a special Course in Evangelisation AMERICA/HONDURAS - More than 650 young people take part in 3rd National Missionary Youth Meeting which concludes missionary month of October in Honduras SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - EUROPE/ITALY - Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital in Rome is an example of Christian witness through health care FIDES SIGNALS - “A new Uganda is possible”: Meeting organised by the Piero e Lucille Corti Onlus Foundation 03/11/2004 VATICAN - The Pope’s reflection on All Saints Day: “The pilgrim Church on earth lifts her eyes to heaven and exults as she joins the choir of those whom God has associated with his glory”. Special prayer for victims of terrorism and for peace in the world VATICAN - “The Holy See has always been in favour of promoting a Europe united on the basis of the common values which are part of its history” the Pope said at the Angelus. “To take into account the Christian roots of the Continent means to make use of a spiritual heritage which is fundamental for the future development of the Union” VATICAN - The Pope’s weekly teaching at the general audience: the hymn of the redeemed: “The centre of praise is Christ and his historic work of redemption. He is able to decipher the meaning of history ” EUROPE/ITALY - Paideia Co-operative (Opus Dei), organises 4th consecutive annual “Caring for Others” course for high school girls in Milan in collaboration with the RUI Foundation. AFRICA/KENYA - Kenyans celebrates victory of black US Senator of Kenyan origin AFRICA/UGANDA - Catholic cleric arrested in northern Uganda: “I had a brief meeting with Reverend Ojiam and found him calm and confident” the Archbishop of Gulu told Fides AMERICA/COLOMBIA - National Meeting for Indigenous Pastoral to identify guidelines for pastoral care of Indigenous Peoples in Colombia victims of violation of rights and seriously threatened by armed conflict AMERICA/BRAZIL - National Youth Day focuses on “Public polices for youth” 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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