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25 July 2006
ASIA/CHINA - Media conference today in Beijing: hepatitis B vaccine for 11 million children. It is hoped this will prevent 200.000 deaths caused by possible chronic consequences
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Eleven million children in China are being vaccinated against Hepatitis B thanks to a campaign launched by GAVI Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation in collaboration with the Chinese gover ...
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25 July 2006
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Open at last St. George's Clinic in Ngugo, six beds and even a small operating theatre
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Recently a new Catholic medical clinic with six emergency beds and a small operating theatre was opened in Ngugo in Nigeria. St. George's Clinic is the fruit of an Italian initiative of collaborati ...
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25 July 2006
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - After 13 years Unione Medico Missionaria Italiana concludes longest service of the poor in a third world country
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - After 13 years of mission among the poor people of Mishikishi, in Zambia, the Unione Medico Missionaria Italiana UMMI has concluded its activity and withdrawn.
Since 1993 UMMI has worked in Zambi ...
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25 July 2006
AMERICA/PERU - “Corruption and partisan interests must give way to the one and only target for a good government, the common good” Catholic Bishops tell new government
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - In a message on the occasion of the 185th anniversary of the country’s independence, the president of the Peruvian Catholic Bishops’ Conference Archbishop Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte of Trujillo to ...
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25 July 2006
AMERICA/MEXICO - Catholic Bishops call for immediate cease fire in the Middle East and restoration of law and order, appeal for humanitarian aid
Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - In a press statement the Catholic Bishops of Mexico have voiced deep concern for the loss of life and material goods in the Middle East and implore from the God of life the gift of peace. In ...
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25 July 2006
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Life, family and education, 3 non negotiable principles: Catholic Bishops start plenary assembly
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In his opening address to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Colombia is meeting for its 81 plenary assembly in Bogota from 24 to 28 July Conference president Archbishop Luis Augusto Castro Qu ...
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24 July 2006
ASIA/LEBANON - “The situation is extremely difficult. There is destruction everywhere. People are frightened and demoralised”, says local Superior of the Paulist Fathers
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Superior of the Society of Saint Paul in Lebanon, Paulist Father Elias Aghaei told Fides about the situation in Beirut: “Things are very difficult. There is destruction everywhere. The peop ...
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24 July 2006
VATICAN - “I forcibly renew my appeal to the conflicting parties to begin an immediate cease-fire, to allow the passage of humanitarian aid and, with the support of the international community, to seek ways to begin negotiations.”: the Pope’s Angelus reflection on the Day of Prayer and Penance for Peace in the Middle East
Les Combes (Agenzia Fides) - At midday today, before praying the Angelus with thousands of pilgrims and local residents at Les Combes in the Italian region of Valle d'Aosta where he is spending a brief vacation, the Pope ...
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24 July 2006
ASIA/LEBANON - “We have refugees sheltering in our schools”: Catholic Brothers in Lebanon care for homeless civilians
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in Lebanon are helping to assist some of the hundreds of thousands of families forced to flee their homes to escape the bombing Brother Georges Absi, Superior in Lebanon community of th ...
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24 July 2006
VATICAN - Middle East conflict: on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI the Pontifical Council Cor Unum sends aid to suffering people
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Council "Cor Unum" today published the following communique: "Given the persistence of the conflict in the Middle East and of the terrible plight of the peoples involved, th ...
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24 July 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - On line Dictionary of Religious Words: Christian words and terms once so familiar now unknown to many
Canary Islands (Agenzia Fides) - The web site of the Spanish diocese of Islas Canarias Canary Islands has an interesting new feature, Vocabulario de las Palabras Religosas, a Religious Dictionary compiled by Salesian Fat ...
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24 July 2006
ASIA/CHINA - In Tai Yuan archdiocese young men and women take formation course to consolidate their faith and discern their calling
Tai Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - Recently in the archdiocese of Tai Yuan over 100 young men and women aged 18 to 25 attended a Course of Christian Formation held at Ge Liao Gou parish. The course was the third in a series orga ...
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24 July 2006
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - International Stem Cell Symposium: “a significant occasion for the strategic and systematic development of adult cell therapy researches”, says Cardinal Nicholas Cheong, archbishop of Seoul
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The 4th Catholic International Stem Cell Symposium was held earlier this month at the Catholic research Institute of Medical Science of the Catholic University of Korea in Seoul. The purpose of th ...
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24 July 2006
AMERICA/PERU - During Mass on the Day of Prayer and Penance for Peace for the Middle East Cardinal Cipriani calls for cease fire and urges charitable organisations to show solidarity to the suffering people
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 23 July in Lima Cathedral Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Archbishop of Lima, presided a special Mass for Peace in the Middle East in communion with Pope Benedict XVI and Christians a ...
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24 July 2006
AMERICA/CHILE - First nation wide "trabajopais" programme: “working to build a better Chile” hundreds of Catholic university students put knowledge and experience at the service of the needy
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - At least one thousand students at Catholic Universities all over Chile took part in the first edition of a week long national project "trabajopais" programme: “working to build a better Chile ...
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