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12 October 2005
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops of Brazil appeal for solidarity in aid of victims of natural disasters in Guatemala, El Salvador, Pakistan and India.
Brasilia (Fides Service) - “We are faced with a series of major catastrophes in Guatemala, El Salvador, Pakistan and India, with thousands of dead, over four million injured or displaced, and widespread devastation and ...
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12 October 2005
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Natural disasters are a time to live faith, hope and charity: “This is the time when the light of our faith should illuminate the darkness of calamity” says Bishop of Escuintla
Escuintla (Fides Service) - In the tragic situation following hurricane Stan and the distress of people, especially poor rural communities, Bishop Victor Hugo Palma Paul of Escuintla diocese in Guatemala issued a pastora ...
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12 October 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Giuseppine Sisters make youth pastoral a priority in view of World Youth Day 2008 to be hosted by Sydney
Sydney (Fides Service) - Draw young people to Christ, offering them ways to deepen their faith and personal vocation, spread the values of the Gospel in this generation of play stations and text messages: this is the goa ...
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12 October 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Caritas network offers international solidarity: Islamabad headquarters for distribution of aid to earthquake victims in Kashmir
Islamabad (Fides Service) - “Our volunteers are on the spot to assess needs and make sure help goes where it is most needed. There is a lot to do the disaster has affected the lives of millions of people. Rescue work a ...
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12 October 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Catholic Bishops say “government has a responsibility to pay teachers a fair salary, but for the good of the pupils, teachers on strike must go back to work”
Kinshasa (Fides Service) - In Democratic Congo where the school year is threatened by a teachers strike, the Catholic Bishops have issued an appeal reminding the government of its duty to guarantee teachers a fair wage a ...
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12 October 2005
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Thousands gather for ordination and installation of new Bishop of Dedougou
Ouagadougou (Fides Service)- On 1 October thousands of Catholics filled St Anne’s Cathedral in Dedougou, Burkina Faso, for the ordination and installation of the new Bishop Judes Bicaba.. The main celebrant was Bishop ...
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12 October 2005
AFRICA/KENYA - High ranking UN official commends Catholic Church for major contribution to education in Africa: many of Africa's leaders in politics and in the private sector were educated at Catholic schools
Nairobi (Fides Service)- Recently the Catholic Church was commended by a high ranking UN official for its major contribution to promoting education in Africa. The Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlement ...
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12 October 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Catholic parishes and schools shelter earthquake victims: solidarity without frontiers of language, caste or religion
New Delhi (Fides Service) - “After the earthquake tragedy Bishop Celestine Elampassery, of Jammu and Srinagar diocese began immediately to visit the affected areas and organise assistance. St Joseph’s Catholic schoo ...
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11 October 2005
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Catholics commemorate 150th anniversary of the martyrdom of Italian missionary Blessed John Mazzucconi
Port Moresby (Fides Service) - Almost one thousand Catholics from the Diocese of Alotau commemorated the 150th anniversary of the death of Blessed martyr John Mazzucconi at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on ...
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11 October 2005
EUROPE/GERMANY - Initiatives and publications for Adoration and Celebration of the Eucharist and to encourage liturgy of ‘beauty’ also after the Year of the Eucharist
Bonn (Fides Service) - One of many initiatives in Catholic dioceses all over Germany in response to a call by the German Bishops’ Conference to mark the Year of the Eucharist, (pastoral letters, homilies, Hours of Ador ...
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11 October 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Anthropological aspects, Satanism and esotericism in the world of youth, biblical, historical theological, pastoral, spiritual, liturgical and scientific aspects: 2nd course on “exorcism and Satanism” Pontifical College Regina Apostolorum
Rome (Fides Service) - Thursday 13 October 2005, 8.30 to 12.15 am at the Regina Apostolorum College there will be the first lesson of ‘Exorcism and prayer of liberation Course 2’ .
Satanism aims to create confusion ...
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11 October 2005
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Missionaries, Bread broken for the life of the world” is the slogan chosen by the Church in Colombia for the missionary month of October in this Year of the Eucharist
Bogota (Fides Service) - The Missionary Month of October which culminates with World Mission Sunday 23 October is being celebrated in Colombia with the slogan “Missionaries, Bread broken for the life of the world” . ...
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11 October 2005
AFRICA/LIBERIA - “Choose men and women with the wholesome qualities of leadership needed to ensure the country a future” say Catholic Bishops to Liberians voting today in first elections since the end of the civil war
Monrovia (Agenzia Fides)- “To vote is a fundamental political right which must be exercised freely and in conscience for it to be truly effective” the Catholic Bishops of Liberia said in a statement “The Challenge ...
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11 October 2005
AFRICA/MALAWI - “For believers in Malawi where the serious food shortage continues October will be above all a month of prayer” says a local Monfort Missionary
Lilongwe (Fides Service)- “In this month of October Christians and Muslims are turning to prayer to help straighten the situation which threatens to get out of hand. The new moon marked the beginning of the Muslim mont ...
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11 October 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Caritas and international agencies launch campaign to assist earthquake victims
Islamabad (Fides Service) - Caritas Pakistan has sent emergency teams to help assist earthquake victims in Kashmir. Caritas Internationalis has experts at the site and the international network of Caritas offices plans t ...
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