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3 November 2005
AFRICA/BENIN - Alarm for organised crime, banditry, trafficking of children
Cotonou (Fides Service)- Increasing crime is causing alarm in Benin. According to United Nations representatives, Benin’s fragile economy has led to an increase in acts of street banditry, robberies and armed theft .
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3 November 2005
AFRICA/ERITREA - Fresh military tension between Ethiopia and Eritrea. And in the background Islamic fundamentalism
Rome (Fides Service)- “A possible key to understanding recent military manoeuvres on the Ethiopia / Eritrea border is a regime faced with domestic problems trying to divert tension to an outside enemy” said Federico ...
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3 November 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Caritas Australia sends earthquake victims in Kashmir one million dollars aid
Islamabad (Fides Service) - In the race against time to help earthquake victims in Kashmir, material aid and funds are still arriving. Caritas Australia has sent 1 million dollars for people in the affected areas.
The ...
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3 November 2005
ASIA/HONG KONG - A Day of Adoration concludes Year of the Eucharist: new begining for Catholic community in Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - To mark the closing of the special Year of the Eucharist Hong Kong diocese organised 24 hours Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. The initiative, 5 and 6 November at the Christ the King Parish ...
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3 November 2005
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - ‘Misola’ flour of mixed available cereals serves to overcome malnutrition
Ouagadougou (Fides Service) - Regular and abundant rain this year is a guarantee for a better harvest to relieve the situation of food crisis in Burkina Faso with a population of 12 million and third last on the list of ...
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31 October 2005
VATICAN - At the Angelus prayer Pope Benedict XVI says the spirit of the Second Vatican Council must be kept alive “to contribute towards installing in the world the universal brotherhood which is God’s will for humanity” and makes another appeal to help earthquake victims in Kashmir
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In his address on Sunday 30th October before the midday Angelus Pope Benedict XVI warmly invited the crowds in St Peter’s Square to reread the documents issued by the Second Vatican Counc ...
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31 October 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Catholic church in the steppe lands of Inner Mongolia rebuilt and re-consecrated for a community of 600 Catholics with almost a century of history
Bao Tou (Fides Service) - On 25 October there was great rejoicing in Catholic community in the village of Niu Yao Zi in Tumoteyouqi, diocese of Bao Tou in Inner Mongolia, mainland China, for the inauguration of a new ch ...
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31 October 2005
AMERICA/CANADA - “Love is given to us that our Gift may be Love”: “breath of mission” blows from coast to coast across Canada thanks to Pontifical Mission Societies
Quebec (Fides Service ) - World Mission Sunday 2005, October 23 was widely celebrated in Canada, the national Canada/Quebec office of the Pontifical Mission Societies reported. Parishes in French speaking Canada prepare ...
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31 October 2005
AMERICA/BRAZIL - At the request of the Bishops of Brazil Pope Benedict XVI prolongs Year of the Eucharist in Brazil until the 15th National Eucharistic Congress in May 2006
Brasilia (Fides Service) - The President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Brazil Cardinal Agnelo Geraldo Majella archbishop of Sao Salvador da Bahia announced that Pope Benedict XVI has granted a request made by ...
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31 October 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - 3,500 leaders of 1,800 Italian Renewal in the Spirit groups meet in Rimini: “Prevailing de-Christianisation is a challenge to the evangelising mission of the Church” says national co-ordinator Salvatore Martinez, recalling the call launched by Benedict XVI
Rimini (Fides Service) - Over 3,500 Renewal in the Spirit group leaders are meeting in Rimini 29 October to 1 November for the 29th Conference for Animators on the theme “We are each given a particular manifestation o ...
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31 October 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Catholic Bishops’ Conference condemns bomb attacks in Delhi and calls for maintaining peace
New Delhi (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India CBCI condemns the serial blast that took place in Delhi on October 20 killing over 60 people and injuring several others.
Cardinal Telesphore Topp ...
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31 October 2005
AMERICA/BRAZIL - “The time has come for a united effort of solidarity on the part of the whole Church in Brazil for evangelisation in the region of the Amazon” says Bishop Odilo Pedro Scherer, Secretary of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference commenting the Fraternity Campaign 2007
Brasilia (Fides Service) - The Amazon region of Brazil presents various challenges to the Church’s mission to evangelise: situation of indigenous peoples, devastation of forests, chaotic growth of urban centres, land d ...
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31 October 2005
VATICAN - “For us, these new Blessed are living examples of priestly identity and religious consecration," he concluded. "Let us give thanks to God for the great gift of these heroic witnesses of the faith”, Pope Benedict XVI said in St Peter’s Basilica after the solemn Beatification of Spanish martyrs Rev. Josep Tàpies and Companions and Sr María de los Ángeles Ginard Martí
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the early evening of Saturday 29 October Pope Benedict XVI went down to St Peter’s Basilica to address to those gathered there for the beatification of a group of Spanish martyrs. In h ...
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31 October 2005
AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - “Seen from here in Côte d'Ivoire the situation is much calmer than the media report” says a missionary in Abidjan
Abidjan (Fides Service)- “Seen from here the situation in Côte d'Ivoire is much calmer than the local and international media report” said a missionary in Abidjan, economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire, where yesterday ...
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31 October 2005
AFRICA/MOROCCO - Sr Georgette shares her experience at a Nurses Training College in Rabat
Rabat (Fides Service)- Sr. Georgette Makosso a Franciscan Missionary of Mary FMM from Central Africa described for Fides her experience of three years at a Nurses Training College in Rabat, Morocco. “The experienced sh ...
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