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4 September 2007
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Humanitarian emergency in Chaco: 13 indigenous people die of malnutrition and consequently TB and other related diseases
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Indigenous communities in the north eastern Argentinean province of Chaco are being denied access to traditional food and natural medicines and are in danger of becoming extinct.
The bodie ...
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3 September 2007
The Pope's Mission prayer intention for September: “That by clinging with joy to Christ, missionaries may overcome the daily difficulties encountered”.
Comment by Fr. Vito Del Prete, PIME, Secretary general of the Pontifical Mission Union
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Missionaries who for Christ's sake leave everything and set out to serve other peoples, churches and cultures, truly experience the fatigue of announcing the Gospel of salvation to the poor ...
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3 September 2007
VATICAN - The Pope presides Prayer Vigil with young Italians at Montorso esplanade: “Each of you, if you are united with Christ, can to great things. Do not be afraid to dream and to make great plans for doing good. Do not be discouraged by the difficulties” - He thanks “all who spend their lives for Christ on the frontiers of evangelisation ”
Loreto (Agenzia Fides) - In the afternoon of Saturday 1 September, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI flew by helicopter to Loreto for a national Meeting of the first year of an Agorà for Italian Catholic Youth (see Do ...
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3 September 2007
VATICAN - Pope Benedict says to young Italians at Loreto Agorà: “Let yourselves be involved in the new life which springs from the encounter with Christ and you will be apostles of His peace in your families, among your friends, in your ecclesial communities and in the different environments in which you live and work”
Loreto (Agenzia Fides) - “ Even today God continues to seek young hearts, He seeks young people with great hearts who are capable of making space for Him in their lives in order to become protagonists of the New Covena ...
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3 September 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - Sister Maria Teresa Crescini elected Superior general of the Maestre Pie Venerini
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The order of religious Sisters Maestre Pie Venerini, during its recent 12th general Chapter elected as new Superior General Sisterr Maria Teresa Crescini, who had previously worked for the Pontific ...
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3 September 2007
AFRICA/KENYA - The Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, the White Sisters, celebrate 100 years of fruitful in Kenya
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “This is a tribute to all the Sisters who worked in Kenya, who taught, nursed and were present in many vital and creative ways” writes Sr Maggi Kennedy of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady o ...
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3 September 2007
AFRICA/SUDAN - Clashes between Arab tribes in western Sudan region of Darfur, where UN Secretary General is to visit today
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The crisis in Darfur becomes more complicated just as international diplomacy intensifies efforts to find a solution. The Secretary General of the United Nations Organisation, Ban Ki-moon will ...
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3 September 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Death of Bishop Filippo Pietro Zhao Zhendong of Xuanhua, tenacious builder of Church unity: just before he died he was studying the recent Papal Letter addressed by Pope Benedict XVI to the Church in China
Xuanhua (Agenzia Fides) - On 13 July after suffering for many years from a serious heart condition and diabetes, Bishop Filippo Pietro Zhao Zhendong of Xuanhua diocese in Hebei Province, mainland China, died the day be ...
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3 September 2007
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - "That all may be one" (Jn 17,21) theme of 1st Korean Youth Day
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Enthusiasm among young Catholics in Korea. White young Italians celebrate the Youth Agorà in Loreto, young Catholics in Korea took part in the first ever Korean Youth Day in Jeju, diocese of Chej ...
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3 September 2007
ASIA/ SRI LANKA - NGOs warn: new security measures slow down distribution of humanitarian aid to civilians with serious consequences for children
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Stricter security measures undertaken by Colombo and fresh outbursts of fighting between the Tamil rebels and the government troops are causing delays in the distribution of humanitarian aid. Th ...
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3 September 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - World Youth Day 2008 preparations full steam ahead: meeting with representatives of the Australian Muslim community, recruitment of volunteers, catechesis session programme
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - The invitation made by Pope Benedict XVI at Loretto to young Italians at the recent Youth Agorà to take part in WYD 2008, gave new impulse to the organisers of World Youth Day Sydney, 15 to 20 J ...
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3 September 2007
Tomorrow Fides Dossier on the Marian Shrine of Mariazell, Austria, destination of the Holy Father's next apostolic journey
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - From 7 to 9 September the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI will make an apostolic visit to Austria on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of the foundation of the Marian Shrine of Mariazell. ...
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3 September 2007
VATICAN - Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital in Rome new clinic-surgery department in Cambodia has already treated 2,400 children
Vatican (Agenzia Fides) - Already 2,400 children have been treated at a new clinic-surgery department opened in Takeo Cambogia, by the Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital sponsored by the Holy See.
Since it was opened in ...
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3 September 2007
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Thanks to basic instruction, social programmes and prevention, and growing awareness there is optimism for the reduced diffusion of AIDS in the Asia-Pacific zone
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Experts taking part in the 8th International Meeting on AIDS in the Asia-Pacific area, which just ended in capital of Sri Lanka, launched a message of hope in which they say prospects to gain co ...
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3 September 2007
AMERICA/HONDURAS - People without doctors or medicines: hundreds from Lempira seek healthcare over the border in El Salvador
Tomalá, Lempira (Agenzia Fides) - A strange disease which deforms the legs and can even lead to paralysis is regarded as “normal” in the town of Lempira, in Honduras. The disease has not yet been identified because ...
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