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3 March 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Poor and abandoned youth “weigh on the conscience of society which wants and has globalised its economy but not its commitment for the development of peoples and the promotion of the dignity of every human person” says Salesian Rector Major Rev. Chavez
Rome (Fides Service) - The precarious conditions of so many children and young people in many parts of the world and Don Bosco’s work in favour of poor, abandoned children, referred to today as ‘young people at risk ...
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3 March 2004
AFRICA/LIBERIA - Sierra Leone refugees return from Liberia where they fled for safety. Liberian refugees head homewards from neighbouring countries
Monrovia (Fides Service)- Now that the road from the Liberian capital Monrovia to the border with Sierra Leone has been re-opened the UN High Commission for Refugees UNHCR has resumed operations to repatriate Sierra Leon ...
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2 March 2004
EUROPE/SPAIN - Preparations for the canonisation of Blessed Giuseppe Manyanet y Vives, the “prophet of the family”: “every home must become the home of Nazareth”.
Barcelona (Fides Service) - Next Sunday, the first Sunday in March in every parish where there are Sons of the Holy Family of Jesus Mary and Joseph and Missionary Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, preparations will ...
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2 March 2004
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - “The evangelising mission of the Church has been consolidated on the Continent, mission ad gentes is becoming a determinant and incisive force which is renewing the Church”: CAM 2 Conclusions approved and consigned.
San Jose de Costa Rica (Fides Service) - “The evangelising mission of the Church has been consolidated on the Continent, mission ad gentes is becoming a determinant and incisive force which is renewing the Church as i ...
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2 March 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Government and former rebel leaders welcome UN decision to send 6.000 peace keepers
Abidjan (Fides Service)- The decision taken by the United Nations’ Security Council to send 6,000 UN peace keepers to Ivory Coast has been welcomed by the country, local church sources in Abidjan told Fides. “Both th ...
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2 March 2004
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - “Moral integrity, honesty and competence”: Bishops outline the profile of the ideal candidate for legislative elections
Bissau (Fides Service) - “The legislative elections at the door. Guidelines from the Bishops of Guinea Bissau in the light of the Word of God and the Social Teaching of the Church” is a letter issued by the Church in ...
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2 March 2004
ASIA/NEPAL - Death of founder of first and only Catholic college in Nepal Jesuit Missionary Father Watrin
Kathmandu (Fides Service) - Yesterday March 1 the funeral of American Jesuit Father Eugene L. Watrin was held in the Church of the Assumption in Kathmandu. The priest, who died at the age of 83 after a long illness, was ...
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2 March 2004
ASIA/KOREA - Commission for the Abolition of the Death Penalty will increase its efforts
Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Commission for the Abolition of Capital Punishment set up by the Catholic Bishops of Korea will strengthen and extend its activity co-operating with other organisations as well as increasing p ...
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2 March 2004
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Family of lay Franciscans on mission to help alcoholics and to evangelise among Venezuelan youth
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - A family on mission: this is the experience of Marco and Ilaria Petri, a married couple both lay Franciscans from Prato, Italy, who set out two months ago for mission in Venezuela, sent by the S ...
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2 March 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Loreto 1-5 September 2004, Catholic Action National Meeting. The Pope will beatify Alberto Marvelli, lay member of AC
Rome (Fides Service) - Recently Pop e John Paul II granted a special audience to Paola Bignardi, national president of Catholic Action in Italy and Mons. Francesco Lambiasi, ecclesiastical Assistant General to ACI. The P ...
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2 March 2004
VATICAN - In 2003 the Portal of the Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital registered more than one million visitors. Recently a European Union survey put the Portal www.ospedalebambinogesu.it among the ten best sites for user friendliness and innovative services quality
Vatican City (Fides Services) - The Portal of Rome’s Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital www.ospedalebambinogesu.it has been included among the 10 first web sites for quality of public services in a recent report “Top ...
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1 March 2004
VATICAN - At the Angelus prayer the Pope says “Lent calls us to make a special effort on our spiritual journey” urging those present to make Lent “a generous competition in showing solidarity” with children especially those in most danger and difficulty
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the first Sunday of Lent, 29 February, from his study window overlooking St Peter’s Square, Pope John Paul II prayed the customary Angelus prayer with visitors gathered for the occasi ...
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1 March 2004
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - “We must take care of the brothers and sisters in the faith living in the land of Jesus Christ where Christianity was born” say Bishops of Switzerland calling Swiss Catholic to be generous in giving to the Holy Week collection which this year will go to help Christians in the Holy Land
Friburg (Fides Service) - In a Pastoral Letter for Lent the Bishops of Switzerland called on the Swiss Catholic to be generous in giving to the Holy Week collection which this year will go to help Christians in the Holy ...
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1 March 2004
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - “Conversion of heart and caring for little ones with love” is the Lenten message from the Bishops Nicaragua. Sunday 14 March collection for abandoned children
Managua (Fides Service) - “We are deeply concerned to see children faint with hunger and severely undernourished; children wandering in the streets, victims of drugs and abuse by evil adults”, this is part of a Lente ...
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1 March 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - “Train doctors and nurses in health-care as well as sociological and cultural subjects” this is the aim of a Masters in Medical Care for Migrants and Refugees, Homeless people and Poor people
Rome (Fides Service) - More than one billion people in the world do not receive proper medical treatment. To try to improve the situation and call public opinion’s attention to the fact, the School of Solidarity of the ...
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