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31 October 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - In the south of the world forgotten diseases have devastating impact on social, economic and political life
Rome (Fides Service) - Every day about 35,000 people die of infective diseases such as AIDS, malaria, TB and forgotten diseases like leishmaniosis, morbo of Chagas, sleeping sickness.
These diseases affect millions peo ...
31 October 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Rediscovering the founding values of the Franciscan family: Friars Minor open celebrations for 8th centenary of foundation
Assisi (Fides Service) - On Friday 28 October during a Prayer Vigil in Saint Clare’s Basilica in Assisi for the start of official celebrations to mark the 8th centenary of the foundation of the Order of Friars Minor, F ...
29 October 2005
AFRICA/BURUNDI - United Nations High Commission for Refugees needs more money to repatriate Burundian refugees
Bujumbura (Fides Service) - UNHCR the United Nations High Commission for Refugees is running out of funds destined for the greatest operation of voluntary repatriation in the world and the largest in Africa. Unless it re ...
29 October 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - The local Church continues its programme to promote civic education in view of elections next year
Bandundu (Fides Service)- A group of about 50 representatives of Congolese political parties took part in a formation session of election process monitoring held at the multifunction Centre at the Catholic parish of St. ...
29 October 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Churches shelter earthquake victims in Abbottabad, race against time to reach isolated survivors before the Winter sets in
Islamabad (Fides Service) - Twenty homeless families have found shelter at a Catholic parish in the town of Abbottabad in Kashmir where the local Catholic community has opened churches, institutes and schools to people w ...
29 October 2005
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “Family domestic church”: Symposium in Suwon diocese
Suwon (Fides Service) - Reaffirm the centrality of the family in the Church’s pastoral care was the aim of a symposium held recently in the diocese of Suwon on “Family domestic Church”. At least a thousand people a ...
29 October 2005
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - More Funds for healthcare to avoid another wave of deaths following the earthquake in Pakistan
Rome (Fides Service) - Hundreds of thousands of earthquake victims in Pakistan risk death, disease and other hazards as the Winter season draws close. There is urgent need of homes, clean water and medical assistance. Al ...
29 October 2005
“Communicating and participating”. From the mass media to shared communication: what challenges face the Church? Symposium to celebrate 25th anniversary of Interdisciplinary Centre on Social Communications
Rome (Fides Service) - The year is the 25th anniversary of the Interdisciplinary Centre on Social Communications at the Pontifical Gregorian University opened by the then Rector, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini. In a quarte ...
28 October 2005
VATICAN - Benedict XVI sends message for 40th anniversary of Vatican II Declaration Nostra aetate: “May Christians and Jews offer an ever more compelling shared witness to the One God and his commandments”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Conciliar Declaration Nostra aetate, promulgated by Pope Paul VI forty years ago, “opened a new era of relations with the Jewish People and offered the foundations for sincere theolog ...
28 October 2005
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Prayers for peace to dispel pre-election tension in Zanzibar
Dar Es Salaam (Fides Service)- “The decision to postpone national elections has not given rise yet tensions” said local Church sources in Dar Es Salaam, capital of Tanzania, where presidential and parliamentary elect ...
28 October 2005
AMERICA/PERU - “Eucharist, light and life of the new millennium”: in November Eucharistic Congress for northern dioceses and 4th Eucharistic-Marian Congress in Ica diocese
Lima (Fides Service) - At the end of the Year of the Eucharist 13 ecclesiastical jurisdictions Piura, Trujillo, Chiclayo, Chulucanas, Chimbote, Cajamarca, Chota, Huamachuco, Jaén, Chachapoyas, Moyobamba, Huaraz and Hua ...
28 October 2005
VATICAN - "Migrations, sign of the times” is the title of a Message issued by Pope Benedict XVI for the 92nd World Day For Migrants and Refugees to be marked on 15 January 2006
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Migrations, sign of the time” is the theme of Holy Father's Message for the 92nd World Day of Migrants and Refugees which will be celebrated on January 15, 2006, made public today. The ...
28 October 2005
EUROPE/SPAIN - Fervid preparations for 5th World Meeting for Families: parish catechesis, awareness programmes in schools, 1st National Symposium for Grandparents
Valencia (Fides Service) - Catholics are preparing to host the 5th World Meeting for Families to be V EMF held in Valencia 1 to 9 July 2006, on the theme "The Family and the Handing on of the Faith". The Bishop of Valenc ...
28 October 2005
AMERICA/MEXICO - Space for reflection on the concept ‘secular state’ in the context of human rights and the best way to guarantee authentic religious freedom: objective of International Congress on “Churches, Secular State and Society” 14 to 18 November
Mexico City (Fides Service) - The Mexican Bishops’ Commission for Church-State relations, together with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the National Human Rights Commission and the Mexican Institute of Christian Social ...
28 October 2005
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - 99.5% success for a combination of medicines to prevent malaria tested on 160 children in Mali
Rome (Fides Service) - A combination of medicines used to prevent pneumonia and opportunistic bacterial infections in patients with HIV/AIDS unexpectedly shown itself to be highly effective for the prevention of malaria. ...
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