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25 June 2009
AFRICA - Falling demand for traditional drugs, but rising consumption of synthetic drugs in developing countries, according to a UN Report on drugs in the world
Vienna (Agenzia Fides)- “ As long as demand for drugs persists, weak countries will always be targeted by traffickers. If Europe really wants to help Africa, it should curb its appetite for cocaine”, said Antonio Mar ...
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25 June 2009
EUROPE/ITALY - Sisters of the Sacred Heart and the Community of S. Egidio, help former child-soldiers in Uganda and Sudan rediscover their dignity and to reinsert themselves into society
Roma (Agenzia Fides) – “For 21 years the rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have been spreading violence, sacking, terror among the people, using children a preys of war ”: with these words Sr Rosemary Ny ...
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25 June 2009
EUROPE/MOLDAVIA - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “The suitcase tied with string”: “They made me dream, they lied to me. Clients kept on coming and going. I want to tell girls: don't go abroad. Fairy tales! Realty is terrible”
Chisinau (Agenzia Fides) - Testimony from a Moldavian girl, victim of human trafficking. Deceived by many promises and forced to prostitute herself in various countries of Europe, she represents many, many young girls, s ...
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25 June 2009
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE: Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - Year of the Priesthood: identity and mission
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 19 June, solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Holy Father Benedict XVI inaugurated, with Vespers in St Peter's Basilica, the Year of the Priesthood. A whole year dedicated to pri ...
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25 June 2009
VATICAN - Catechesis of Benedict XVI: Saint Paul and the saintly Cure of Ars “differ considerable in the path of life which characterised them, however they have something fundamental in common: total identification with the ministry, their communion with Christ ”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – “Why a Year of the Priesthood? Why commemorate the saintly Cure of Ars who apparently did nothing extraordinary?” These two questions were posed by the Holy Father Benedict XVI at the ...
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24 June 2009
AFRICA/SUDAN - Concerned for the situation in Southern Sudan, the international community meets in Washington to save the 2005 peace agreement
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- Representatives of 32 different countries and international organisations met yesterday, 23 June in Washington to save the Southern Sudan peace agreement. The signing of the Comprehensive Peace ...
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24 June 2009
AFRICA/MALAWI - Backed by an unprecedented majority in parliament, Head of State prepares settles down to govern for another five years; Fides asks the opinion of a missionary
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides)- One month has passed since political and presidential elections in Malawi gave a second mandate to outgoing President Bingu wa Mutharika (see Fides 22/5/2009). Italian Monfort missionary, Fr Pie ...
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24 June 2009
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - In the Year of the Priesthood “Adopt a priest ” Prayer Campaign, to obtain for priests the spiritual strength necessary for the mission
Medellin (Agenzia Fides) - The “Bonds of Marian Love” Movement based in Medellin
(Colombia), has launched a prayer campaign “Adopt a Priest” as part of the Year of the Priesthood opened on 19 June. The aim of the campaign is to pray for one priest “as a commitment for this Year of the Priestho ...
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24 June 2009
ASIA/VIETNAM - Chronicle of the history of the Catholic Church in Vietnam
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the Ad Limina Apostolorum Visit of the Bishops of Vietnam, 22 June, Fides publishes information on the life of the local Catholic Church, other religions present, the economy and society.
Chronicle of the history of the Catholic Church in Vietnam:
Catholicism was introduced in Vietnam in the 16th century by Portuguese, Spanish and French missionaries:
1533: A European called Inekhu (Ignatius?) arrives ...
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24 June 2009
ASIA/CHINA - Prayers for the sanctification of priests and ordination of 5 deacons open the Year of the Priesthood in the diocese Shang Hai; initiatives in many other mainland dioceses
Shang Hai (Agenzia Fides) – “Pray for the sanctification of the 408,000 Catholic priests in the world, pray for these 5 deacons, future priests, that they may have the holiness which the name of apostle of Jesus dese ...
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24 June 2009
ASIA/CAMBODIA - The Year of the Priesthood opens at Saint Jean Marie Vianney major seminary in Phnom Penh in the presence of the Saint relics; intense programme of activities
Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – Friday 19 June, the Year of the Priesthood was solemnly opened at Saint Jean Marie Vianney major seminary in Phnom Penh, in the presence of the Vicar apostolic of Phnom Penh, Bishop Emile D ...
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24 June 2009
EUROPE/ITALY - Darfur and southern Sudan: Caritas Internationalis forum on the dramatic crisis
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Figures in Darfur and southern Sudan are dramatic: decades of civil war, nine out of ten people living on less than a dollar a day, 300,000 people killed, 2.7 uprooted from their homes, 290.000 m ...
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24 June 2009
EUROPE - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “A Suitcase with String”: if you want to join the army of emigrants you will probably have to pay money! A lot of money! Your debt will be infinite, like the hope in every human heart...
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - If you want to join the army of emigrants you will probably have to pay money! A of lot money! Your debt will be infinite, like the sweetest hopes in every human heart. Give lots of money! And you ...
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24 June 2009
ASIA/TURKEY - “The Year of St Paul has helped the faithful in Turkey to rediscover their Christian identity and given new impulse to ecumenism” Bishop Luigi Padovese, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference, tells Fides
Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) – “The celebration of the Year of St Paul was certainly a most significant ecclesial event for the different Churches in Turkey. The celebrations brought the different Christian communities a ...
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24 June 2009
EUROPE/GERMANY - Catholic Bible Federation Cattolica celebrates 40 years of foundation and moves from Stuttgart to the Benedictine Monastery of St. Ottilien
Sankt Ottilien (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of 40 years of the foundation of the Catholic Bible Federation (CBF/KBF) and the transfer of its offices to the monastery of the Missionary Benedictines of St. Ottilien ...
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