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14 June 2010
AFRICA/RWANDA - Water supplies for 69,300 people: health, hygiene, agricultural development, better livestock
Kibungo (Agenzia Fides) - Work on a Ndamira-Ngoma water pipeline in Kibungo has been completed. In just one year the Movement to Fight Hunger in the World together with the local community, built 6.6km long water pipelin ...
14 June 2010
ASIA/TURKEY - The blood of Bishop Padovese “will not be sterile”: the Catholic Church in Turkey “ finds new hope”
Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) – “We are filled with Christian hope that the blood of Mgr Padovese will not be sterile, instead it will bear fruit for a new flourishing of Turkey's Christian community”: said Dominican Fa ...
14 June 2010
ASIA/HONG KONG - Pastoral Commission for Workers appeals for minimum wage to guarantee basic necessities of families
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Hong Kong diocesan Pastoral Commission for Workers has launched an appeal and a collection of signatures to obtain a minimum wage to meet the basic necessities of all families and ensure a d ...
14 June 2010
ASIA/HONG KONG - Pastoral Commission for Workers appeals for minimum wage to guarantee basic necessities of families
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Hong Kong diocesan Pastoral Commission for Workers has launched an appeal and a collection of signatures to obtain a minimum wage to meet the basic necessities of all families and ensure a d ...
14 June 2010
AMERICA/MEXICO - Mexico's prisons are full of innocent victims of the 'crime' of 'crimes' : poverty
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) – The Mexican city of Acapulco is hosting a National Meeting on Pastoral Care in Prisons which opens today at the city's new Cathedral dedicated to Christ the King. A report sent to Fides fr ...
14 June 2010
AMERICA/CUBA - 10th Catholic Social Week “on line”
Havana (Agenzia Fides) – Catholics in Cuba will celebrate the 10th Catholic Social Week in Havana 16 - 20 June with the main slogan: “Witnesses of Hope and Builders of Peace”. The news was sent to Fides by the Coun ...
12 June 2010
EUROPE/AUSTRIA - PMS aim to end child labour: safeguard freedoms of children and adolescents and provide new opportunities
Vienna (Agenzia Fides) – “We want to provide more opportunities to children and families! This is why we support projects aimed to end child labour”. But the struggle to end child labour must go hand in hand with a ...
12 June 2010
EUROPE/ITALY - Child abuse denigrates minors and marks them for life
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Today, 12 June, is the annual Day Against Child Labour. An estimated 215 million of the world's children are forced to work in order to survive, more than 115 million in conditions of total exploit ...
12 June 2010
EUROPE/ITALY - Capuchin Friars in the world: 10,519 in 106 different nations on all five continents
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - According to the most recent figures available, on 31 December 2009 the number of Capuchin Friars in the world was 10,519, a figure which showed a slight decrease compared with the previous year (1 ...
12 June 2010
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Catholic Church in South Africa hopes to harness media impact of World Football Cup to draw attention to African issues and difficulties
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – South Africa is hosting the 19th World Football Cup, the first to be held on the continent of Africa. In view of this the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Southern Africa, SABC, has plann ...
12 June 2010
ASIA/INDONESIA - The challenge for priests in a Muslim country is to bear witness to God
who is love
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) – “The principal challenge for priests in a Muslim country such as Indonesia is to bear witness to God who is Love and to be channels of His mercy. In an increasingly globalised ...
12 June 2010
ASIA/INDIA - Rehabilitation programme for street children in Madhya Pradesh state
Bhopal (Agenzia Fides) - According to a latest count, India has 11.28 million child workers under the age of 14. This country boasts a sad world record number of child workers. Most of the children, 80%, are exploited i ...
12 June 2010
ASIA/HONG KONG - Inaugurated in Hong Kong, a new Society will diffuse the thought of Fr. Matteo Ricci
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – Recently the Hong Kong Ricci Heritage Society was inaugurated by the Jesuits in Hong Kong with priests and faithful of the diocese, to mark the 4th hundredth anniversary of the death of the ...
12 June 2010
AMERICA - World Day Against Child Labour: nothing to 'celebrate'
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – Today 12 June, we mark World Day Against Child Labour. According to the International Labour Organisation, ILO, the world has almost 215 million child workers aged between 5 and 17 years. Of ...
12 June 2010
AMERICA/CUBA - Archbishop Mamberti to open a series of conferences on emigration and economy
Havana (Agenzia Fides) – Cuban intellectuals, believers and non believers, resident in Cuba and abroad, will take part in a series of Conferences entitled "Diálogo entre cubanos". The conferences, now in the 10th edi ...
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