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4 June 2010
AFRICA/NAMIBIA - Women present petition to Health Minister to end forced sterilization of HIV-positive women
Windhoek (Agenzia Fides) – Bus loads of women and men with their mouths gagged with packaging tape, marched from Katutura to the head office of the Ministry of Health and Social Services to hand over a petition to end ...
2 June 2010
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Migrants, refugees, and victims of human trafficking: people like ourselves, human beings with a name, hopes and dreams, fears and disappointments
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - “The starting point for ministering to migrants, refugees, trafficked persons is to understand their situation and all its components, personal, social, economic, political in the light of ...
2 June 2010
ASIA/TAIWAN - Parish of Shu Zai Jiao of the Diocese of Cha Yi celebrates 120th anniversary of evangelization baptizing 4 catechumens
Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) - "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring (the) good news!" (Rom. 10:15): 120 years ago this phrase of St. Paul marked the establishment of the parish of Shu Zai Jiao, dedicated to St. Jose ...
2 June 2010
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Pontifical Mission Societies honors Catholic journalists writing on Church's worldwide mission
New Orleans (Agenzia Fides) – According to a note recently sent to Fides from the National Office of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the USA, the PMS will be paying tribute to Catholic journalists who have de ...
2 June 2010
AMERICA/PERU - Cuzco prepares for HCA Missionary Congress on August 21
Cuzco (Agenzia Fides) - "We missionary children sow hope for making a better place" is the theme of the Missionary Congress of the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood Association (also known as “Missionary Childho ...
2 June 2010
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Indigenous population has lost rights to territory, natural resources
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) – Papua New Guinea’s indigenous people have lost their right to challenge developers and the state over deals involving their land and resources. Numbering some six million people, Papua ...
2 June 2010
AFRICA/COMOROS - First Apostolic Vicar of Comoros tells Fides: “Ours is a silent but active presence”
Agenzia Fides (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church is much appreciated by the local population, almost entirely Muslim, for her charitable activities and human development," says Monsignor Charles Mahuza Yava, the firs ...
2 June 2010
ASIA/INDIA - Asia on a mission in Europe, for a rebirth of the faith
Budapest (Agenzia Fides) - A Indian face and heart walk through the streets of Budapest. Tireless hands, eyes that scatter joy, lips ready to speak - at any time - of the name of Jesus: this is Fr. Benvin Sebastian Madas ...
2 June 2010
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Encounter for vocations ministry in Oceania
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – Identify and adopt new ways and means to promote vocations in Oceania is the objective of the meeting to be held next week in Sydney with over 40 experts and Vocations Directors from Australia, ...
1 June 2010
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Courts decide embryos “are not human”; Church protests
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - There is sadness and outrage in the Korean Church after a court in Seoul ruled that frozen human embryos are "not human," thus endorsing such practices as experimentation and destruction of embryo ...
1 June 2010
EUROPE/ITALY - African elected Superior General of Society of Missionaries of Africa for first time
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Father Richard Baawobr, born in Nandom-Lawra, Ghana, was elected Superior General of the Society of Missionaries of Africa at the institute's 27th General Chapter in Rome (see Fides 4/5/2010). Ac ...
1 June 2010
ASIA/HOLY LAND - “We Want Peace in the Holy Land”: Second Youth Pilgrimage in the footsteps of Jesus
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On January 31, more than 1,000 cities around the world joined in prayer for "The International Day of Intercession for Peace in the Holy Land,” accompanied by the encouragement of the Holy Fath ...
1 June 2010
ASIA/CHINA - Marian Month concludes in mainland communities with Confirmations, perpetual vows, priestly ordinations, and pilgrimages
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – Catholic communities on the Chinese mainland have concluded the Marian Month of May in moments of intense spirituality, with the Solemnity of Pentecost and the Feast of the Holy Trinity, with ...
1 June 2010
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Catholic bishops discuss modifications proposed by government coalition for migration policies
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The Australian Catholic Bishops are questioning the coalition’s proposed policy changes on immigration and say that a return to the Pacific Solution would show a lack of appreciation of the eth ...
1 June 2010
VATICAN - The true meaning and purpose of any genuine missionary journey: to give people the living and personal Gospel, the Lord Jesus Himself
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – "In the Virgin Mary who goes to visit her relative Elizabeth, we recognize the clearest example and the truest meaning of our way as believers and the way of the Church herself. The Churc ...
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