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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 ...
31 October 2005
ASIA/INDIA -Educate and communicate, two lines of evangelisation: Salesian Sisters work with youth in India
New Delhi (Fides Service) - Instruction and communication are two strategic sectors of the modern world and therefore very important fields for evangelisation: said 30 women religious, Daughters of Mary Auxiliatrix co-o ...
31 October 2005
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Peace and harmony, not inter community conflict: Catholic Bishops issue open letter in view of presidential elections
Colombo (Fides Service) - No to a climate of conflict and intolerance; yes to a process of peace which includes all political and social subjects and guarantees the good of the whole nation: this appeal was launched by t ...
31 October 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Cheaper anti-retroviral therapy in India. Availability of generic drugs increased number of treatments
Rome (Fides Service) - Until recently most of the over 5 million people in India affected by HIV virus could not afford anti-retroviral therapy ART. But when generic ART was introduced in 2000 the cost of anti-HIV drugs ...
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 ...
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