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20 September 2005
The Pope's missionary prayer intention October 2005: “For all Christians: besides praying for the missions may they also support missionary activity with material offerings.”
Comment by Archbishop Robert Sarah secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples
Vatican City (Fides Service) - United with Christ in Baptism Christians become children of God and members of the Body of Christ, that is the Church. They are directly involved in the mandate for mission which the Church ...
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20 September 2005
ASIA/TAIWAN - Intense preparations for the inauguration of the new Shrine of Our Lady of China’s Martyr Saints October 1
Taipei (Fides Service) - The committee for the building of the new of Our Lady of China’s Martyr Saints on Shrine is intensifying preparations for the openeing ceremony on October 1, the 5th anniversary of the canonisa ...
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20 September 2005
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Strengthen communion, nourish missionary spirit in ordinary pastoral , witness to faith in Jesus Christ and respond to his missionary mandate and the challenges of today: the Church in Jujuy prepares for 2nd Mission Congress
Jujuy (Fides Service) - From 30 September to 2 October at the Santa Teresita Education Centre the diocese of Jujuy will hold its 2nd diocsean Mision Congress with the slogan “Church of Jujuy, give of your poverty!”. ...
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20 September 2005
EUROPE/SPAIN - Family movements welcome appeal against unconstitutional law to allow same sex ‘marriage’. “we have never seen such a strong and coordinated family movement with this social and political impact” says Eduardo Hertfelder president of Spain’s Family Policy Institute
Madrid (Fides Service) - Numerous family institutions and movements have welcomed the announcement that the Spanish Popular Party PP intends to appeal against the law which gives same sex unions the status of marriage an ...
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20 September 2005
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Parish missions, proposal for evangelisation: 40th Regional Pastoral Meeting of Bishops in north east region 2 of Brazil
Igarassu (Fides Service) - Bishops of 20 dioceses in the states of Alagoas, Pernambuco, Paraíba and Rio Grande which form the north east region 2 of Brazil of the Brazilian Bishops Conference are meeting for their 40th ...
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20 September 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Following more unjust maltreatment and arrests, Christians in Pakistan say ‘blasphemy law’ must be abrogated
Islamabad (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Pakistan through their Justice and Peace Commission have denounced more arrests of citizens on false charges of blasphemy. Recently four men, Yousaf Masih a Christian l ...
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20 September 2005
AFRICA/UGANDA - Caritas activity for development in Africa Meeting: 45 African Caritas offices in Kampala 2 to 7 October
Rome (Fides Service)- From 2 to 7 October in Kampala, capital Uganda, there will be a 2nd Forum for African Caritas organisations. “This second forum will bring together 45 delegates of national Caritas offices of Car ...
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20 September 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - While waiting for electoral process to resume local Catholic Church continues efforts to provide civic education for voters: one example in Kabinda diocese
Kinshasa (Fides Service) - Promote awareness of citizens’ rights and prevent a repeat of serious violation of rights in the recent past. This is the goal of an electoral awareness campaign launched in Democratic Congo ...
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20 September 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - “Evangelisation of suffering” focus of 1st meeting of the International Federation of the Apostolate of the Suffering
Rome (Fides Service) - CVS Centro Volontari della Sofferenza (Apostolate of the Suffering) is holding the 1st Meeting of International CVS Confederation 15-25 September in Rome and elsewhere in Italy. CVS was founded by ...
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19 September 2005
VATICAN - The Pope’s Angelus reflection: “The priest must be first of all a man who adores and contemplates the Eucharist, starting from the very moment in which he celebrates it. The validity of the Sacrament does not depend on the holiness of the celebrant but its effect for himself and for others will be all the greater the more he lives it with profound and ardent love and a spirit of fervid prayer”
Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) - “As the Year of the Eucharist draws to a close I would like to return to a particularly important subject, which was very dear to the heart of my venerated predecessor John Paul II: th ...
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19 September 2005
ASIA/IRAN - Serious outbreak of cholera: eleven people die and 1,098 infected
Rome (Fides Service) - Eleven people have died and 1,098 are infected in a serious outbreak of cholera affecting 12 different cities in Iran.
There is growing concern for the frightening speed at which the disease has ...
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19 September 2005
AMERICA/PERU - Bishops’ Conference say incomplete information on ‘day after pill’ does not reveal the truth
Lima (Fides Service) - In view of a national debate in Peru on the distribution of the “Day after Pill” the standing council of the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference issued a statement “Day after Pill, citizens dema ...
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19 September 2005
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Thousands of young people make 26th annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Itati: “With you Mary, we say to Jeus, stay with us Lord”
Corrientes (Fides Service) - In this year of the Eucharist, thousands of young people mainly from nine dioceses in north east Agentina but also from other parts of the country made the 26th annual youth pilgrimage to the ...
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19 September 2005
AFRICA/COTE D’ IVOIRE - After three years of crisis the people of Cote d’Ivoire still suffer deeply: testimony of missionaries sharing plight of displaced families
Abidjan (Fides Service)- Working to promote reconciliation among hearts which three years of crisis have filled with hatred is the daily task of Catholic missionaries in Cote d’Ivoire plunged three years ago into the m ...
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19 September 2005
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The role of the local Catholic community in Madagascar’s education system: capillary service of high quality instruction
Antananarivo (Fides Service)- “If Catholic missionaries, sisters, priests and lay people were to suddenly pull out Madagascar’s healthcare and schoo systems would collapse immediately” said Italian Salelisan Fr Cos ...
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