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18 May 2007
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "The people of Zambia have spoken: they want a new constitution before presidential and parliamentary elections in 2011” say the Catholic Bishops
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides)- “The people of Zambia have spoken: they want a new constitution before presidential and parliamentary elections in 2011” says a statement signed on behalf of the Catholic Bishops of Zambia by ...
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18 May 2007
AFRICA/MALAWI - Heated discussion about new uranium mine: development welcome but it must respect environment
Lilongwe (Fides Service) - The Justice and Peace Commission of the Catholic Bishops of Malawi has joined legal action promoted by various NGOs to stop the opening of a uranium mine.
The NGOs and civil society represent ...
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18 May 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Unidentified gunmen shoot and wound priest headmaster at Delhi school
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) -The headmaster of St Vincent Pallotti Catholic School in south Delhi was seriously wounded by unidentified gunmen who broke into the school and into the headmaster's office on May 15. The men f ...
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18 May 2007
ASIA/HOLY LAND - The Basilica of the Annunciation offers Personal Light and Prayer service via the Internet
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - To give Christians all over the world the joy of lighting a candle and receiving a special blessing from one of most loved Holy Places in the world, the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth ...
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18 May 2007
AMERICA/ECUADOR - New Constitution must recognise and protect dignity of every human person, value of the family and human life, and the right to education the Bishops say
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - With an April 15 majority vote Ecuadorians expressed support for the proposal of president Rafael Correa to form a Constituent Assembly to draft a new Constitution. In a recent statement the Catho ...
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18 May 2007
AMERICA/BRAZIL - CELAM 5 - “The Church in Latin America and the Caribbean must be resolutely missionary and go out in search of lost Catholics and all those who know little or nothing about Jesus Christ”: leading members of the Roma Curia address the Conference
Aparecida (Agenzia Fides) - The first week of 5th General Conference of the Bishops' Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean was marked by fraternal communion with reflects not only the special ecclesial atmospher ...
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18 May 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - “Bio-ethics at the service of the Missions”: interview with Fr. Giuseppe Buono, PIME, co-author of a book which analyses points in common between the work of a bio-ethicist and that of a missionary
Rome (Fides Service) - What do a missionary and a bio-ethicist have in common? Apparently nothing. One dedicates his whole life to spreading the Gospel in brotherly charity and the other - especially if he is the person ...
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18 May 2007
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Evangelising text messages: 21st century Salesians sight new spirituality
Melbourne (Agenzia Fides) - From 18 to 20 May the Salesian Education Directors of the Australia-Pacific region will meet in Melbourne for their annual conference to reflect on the motivations and gifts of Salesian spirit ...
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18 May 2007
AFRICA/ CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Rector appointed for St Mark Major inter-diocesan Seminary in Bangui
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 26 January 2007, appointed Rev. Gabin Eric Mbika of the diocesan clergy of Berberati, Rector of St Mark's ...
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18 May 2007
ASIA/INDIA - Rector appointed for St Francis Xavier Pontifical inter-diocesan Seminary in Poona
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 31 March 2007 appointed Rev. Pradeep A. Sequeira, SJ. Rector of the Pontifical St Francis Xavier inter-di ...
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16 May 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA- “The lights of Fatima on the world” - Rev. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Today is the 90th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady in Fatima. With her heartfelt call for conversion and penance she is undoubtedly the most prophetic of modern apparitions” ...
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16 May 2007
VATICAN - The Month of Mary - «Qué Soy Era Immaculada Councepciou»: the 18 Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 (13)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Tuesday 2nd March 1858: 13th Apparition. Go and tell the priest to build a chapel here and to have people come in procession." At the end of her ecstasy on this fifteenth apparition, Ber ...
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16 May 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - Camillian Fathers elect new Superior General: Fr. Renato Salvatore, former Vicar general, for the next six years
Ariccia (Fides Service) - The 56th General Chapter of the Ministers of the Infirm (Camillian Fathers) gathered in plenary assembly at the Casa Divin Maestro di Ariccia (see Fides 7/5/2007 and 10/5/2007), elected a new Su ...
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16 May 2007
EUROPE/ITALY - “A Home away from Home”: Sunday 20 May 16th edition of the “Festival of Peoples” organised by the Scalabrini Missionaries and the diocese of Rome with the ethnic communities
Rome (Fides Service) - “A Home away from Home”: is the theme of the 16th edition of the “Festival of Peoples ”, an initiative which has been held for the last three years in Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano in Rom ...
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16 May 2007
AFRICA/MALI - “Our intention is not to impose the Gospel but to proclaim it with our lives” President of Bishops Conference in Rome for ad limina visit tells Fides
Rome ( Fides Service)- “We wish to be leaven to make the dough rise, a little light to illuminate civil society and institutions, living and spreading the Good News with good example and concrete works” said Bishop J ...
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