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25 July 2005
EUROPE/AUSTRIA - “Mobility can save and aid”: “Christopher 2005” donations of one cent for every kilometre travelled safely will purchase a means of transport for the missions
Vienna (Fides Service-) - Every year on 24 July the feast day of St Christopher, patron saint of travellers, Austrian Catholics are asked to donate one cent for every kilometre travelled safely in order to purchase a mea ...
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25 July 2005
AFRICA/CHAD - Operations continue to move 10,000 Central African Repulic refugees to Amboko camp
Rome (Fides Service) - As part of its plan to transfer 10,000 Central African refugees sheltering in southern Chad to a camp where they can be better assisted, United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR has moved ...
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25 July 2005
AFRICA/KENYA - Campaign to give anti-polio vaccination to one million children
Rome (Fides Service) - Kenya is launching two urgent anti-polio vaccination campaigns in August and September to prevent one million children from catching the polio virus which continues to spread in neighbouring countr ...
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25 July 2005
VATICAN - At the Angelus the Pope said he prays that 'the new generations drawing vital life blood from Christ may be leaven of a renewed humanism in European societies' and with regard to terrorist attacks he invoked Almighty God 'to stop the murderous hand of those who moved by fanaticism and hatred committed these acts and to convert their hearts'
Les Combes (Fides Service) - Christianity’s role in building Europe and the recent terrorist attacks in various parts of the world were the subject of Pope Benedict XVI’s brief reflection before the midday Angelus pr ...
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25 July 2005
AFRICA/ANGOLA - The Pope accepts the resignation of the Bishop of Ndalatando and appoints a successor
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 23 July 2005 accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Ndalatando (Angola) presented by Bishop Pedro Luís Guido Scarpa OFM ...
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25 July 2005
ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - “For the first time we are sending a ‘large’ delegation of 8 young people to World Youth Day” said Fr Carlos Avila, Superior of the Catholic Mission in Tajikistan
Dushanbe (Fides Service) - “For the first time young Tajiks will attend World Youth Day events with the Pope and hundreds of thousands of young Christians from all over the world. The Catholic mission in Tajikistan is ...
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25 July 2005
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - In view of a new educational project Salesian Sisters visit the Pacific Islands
Rome (Fides Service) - Sr Edna Mary Macdonald and Sr Margaret Bentley, two Salesian Sisters , visited Honiara the capital of the Solomon Islands from 17 to 21 July and then went to Fiji.
The purpose was to consider est ...
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25 July 2005
ASIA/HONG KONG - After 2 years of study 105 catechists from 25 parishes receive their diploma at a special Mass presided by the Bishop of Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - At the end of a two years course of study 105 new catechists for Hong Kong diocese received their diploma from the Bishop Jospeh Zen and Mgr J. Baptist Tsang Hing Mun of the Diocesan Centre fo ...
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25 July 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Catholic community joins believers of other faiths to assist flood victims
Guang Xi (Fides Service) - Over the past two months various regions of south east China have been affected by serious floods. Local Catholic communities have joined people of other faiths and local authorities to assist ...
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25 July 2005
ASIA/IRAQ - In addition to war: crime. Alarm for increasing spread of heroine in Iraq.
Baghdad (Fides Service)- A drug alarm has been sounded in Iraq. The Iraqi police forces are increasingly concerned for the flow of drugs into the country. “security forces say drug traffickers organise heroine couriers ...
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25 July 2005
AFRICA/KENYA - Chapter of Mill Hill Missionaries reflects on diminution of missionaries, vocations and formation and elects new leadership
Nairobi (Fides Service) - The Chapter of St Joseph’s Missionary Society (also known as Mill Hill Missionaries) held for the first time in Nairobi, Kenya, took place from 22 June to the 22 July. The main themes/issues w ...
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25 July 2005
AFRICA/MAURITIUS - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 25 June 2005 appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the Indian Ocean r ...
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23 July 2005
ASIA/IRAQ - “No to the culture of relativism: terrorism is to be condemned it cannot be justified”
Baghdad (Fides Service)- “Once again we mourn the death of innocent men and women killed by terrorists: these acts are criminal and nothing can justify them” Fr p. Nizar Semaan, Iraqi Catholic priest in Mosul norther ...
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23 July 2005
ASIA/TAIWAN - Presiding Mass for the ordination of four new priests Cardinal Shan encourages them respond generously to the Lord’s command
Kaohsiung (Fides Service) - Cardinal Paul Shan Bishop of Kaohsiung recently presided Mass for the ordination of four priests three of whom were born in Taiwan: one diocesan priest of Kaohsiung diocese, one Jesuit and two ...
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23 July 2005
ASIA/HONG KONG - On a visit to her Sisters in several Asian countries superior general of the Missionaries of Charity visits Hong Kong for the first time
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - After visiting her Sisters in South Korea and Mongolia on her journey to see Missionaries of Charity communities in various countries of Asia, on 11 July Sr Nirmala Joshi superior general of M ...
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