News
13 March 2004
AMERICA/PERU
Archdiocese of Huancayo denounces: to support their families more than 3000 children work on building sites, mines, plantations
Huancayo (Fides Service) - “More than 3000 children work to support their families on building sites, in mines, plantations, brick-making, civil building hands, selling sweets and crafts items on the streets. Many are ...
13 March 2004
LENT 2004 - “Humanity cannot close its eyes to such a tragedy!
What have these children done to deserve such maltreatment?”
(John Paul II - Message for Lent)
2 - CHILD LABOUR
SLAVES OF MANY OWNERS
In Asia - In Africa - In Latin America - workers without rights - will the future be any different?
ILO: CHRONOLOGY OF THE FIGHT AGAINST CHILD LABOUR
AFRICA/BENIN - Little girls in Cotonou: e ...
13 March 2004
SLAVES OF MANY OWNERS.
Vatican City (Fides Service) - They should be sitting at a school desk, playing with their friends, have the opportunity to live their childhood to the full. Instead they grow up too early, taking on the heavy burden of ...
13 March 2004
ILO: CHRONOLOGY OF THE FIGHT AGAINST CHILD LABOUR.
1919: first International labour Conference adopts Convention (n. 5) on minimum age (industry).
1930: adoption of 1st Convention (n. 29) on forced labour.
1973: adoption of Convention (n. 138) minimum age
1992: ILO st ...
13 March 2004
AFRICA/BENIN - Little girls in Cotonou: education changed the lives of many little girls
Cotonou (Fides Service) - The number of little girls at the Baraque Rouge, at the centre of the market in Cotonou in Benin, continues to grow. They are learning to be hairdressers and cooks and the programme is funded by ...
12 March 2004
VATICAN - “Christ hope of Europe” - Tomorrow University students all over Europe join Rosary prayer with Pope John Paul II in live links with capitals of new EU member nations
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Christ hope for Europe” is the theme of the 2nd Day for European University Students which will take place in Rome, Saturday 13 March. Patronised by the Council of European Bishops’ ...
12 March 2004
EUROPE/SPAIN - “There can never be any moral justification for terrorism”: Spanish Bishops’ Conference voices firm condemnation of bomb blasts in Madrid yesterday
Madrid (Fides Service) - “There can never be any moral justification for terrorism” the Conference of Catholic Bishops in Spain affirmed in statement issued immediately after the tragic bomb blasts in Madrid’s unde ...
12 March 2004
EUROPE/SCOTLAND/SPAIN - On behalf of the Bishops and Catholics of Scotland Cardinal Keith O'Brien expresses deepest sympathy to the people of Spain after the terrifying terrorist attacks yesterday in Madrid
Rome (Fides Service) - Speaking from Rome this morning Cardinal Keith O'Brien, President of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland sent the following message to the Spanish Ambassador to the United Kingdom and the Bishops' ...
12 March 2004
EUROPE/SPAIN - “Faced with the tragedy which struck Spain yesterday, new evangelisation should constantly underline the urgent need for conversion of heart, because only a heart which is converted, can open to forgiveness, love and respect for human rights and is therefore able to respect the lives of others”: Archbishop Francisco Pérez González, National Pontifical Mission Societies Director and Archbishop Military Ordinate speaks to Fides
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Francisco Pérez González, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain voiced to Fides his deep grief after the tragic terrorist attacks yesterday in Spain (with a ...
12 March 2004
Lent 2004 - “Humanity cannot close its eyes in the face of such an appalling tragedy! What evil have these children done to deserve such suffering?” - Tomorrow 2nd Fides Dossier on the plight of children
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Inspired by Pope John Paul II’s message for Lent 2004, this year " Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me" (Mt 18,5) in which the Pope voices concern for the plight of so ...
12 March 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - People of Kivu fear fresh outbreak of fighting: forty illegal arms depots found by police: appeal to international community
Bukavu (Fides Service)-“People in Kivu fear a fresh outbreak of fighting; security and stability are still a long way off ”, a local source in Bukavu, southern Kivu (eastern region of Democratic Congo who asked not t ...
12 March 2004
AMERICA - “We condemn these acts of violence which are unfortunately becoming daily recurrences in our cities”. The Council of Bishops Conferences of Latin America voices solidarity with the people of Spain with whom they have profound connections of history, language and traditions
Roma (Fides Service) - On learning of the terrorist attacks perpetrated on Thursday 11 March in Madrid the capital of Spain, the people of Latin America, bound to Spain with bonds of friendship, culture, tradition, langu ...
12 March 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Closure of supplementary process on the fame of holiness of Cardinal Guglielmo Massaja, “Abuna Messias”, great evangeliser in Ethiopia who defeated smallpox which was decimating the Galla
Rome (Fides Service) - In the evening of Wednesday 10 March at the church of San Francesco annexed to the Capuchin Monastery in Frascati (Rome) where he was living at the time of his death and where his earthly remains a ...
12 March 2004
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - More than 170 people missing and 32 dead in the wake of fierce cyclone “Gafilo” in Madagascar.
Antananarivo (Fides Service) - In its wake last week’s cyclone Gafilo left more than 170 people missing and 32 dead. Among the missing persons the crew and 120 passengers of a Comores Islands ferry which sunk in the Mo ...
12 March 2004
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops-Ulema Conference channels Government grants to poor people for development projects in southern Philippines
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Philippines government has granted 50 million pesos (about 730mila Euro) to the Bishops Ulema Conference BUC, formed of Christian and Muslim religious leaders, to fund development projects i ...
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