Dossier

• 20 March 2004
  Brother Anton Probst, Claretian brother, known to all as Mbuta, the elder brother German born Brother Anton CMF (Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary), was a very active missionary. He lived and worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo for 23 years, from 1968 to 1991. He was an able mecha ...
• 20 March 2004
  Comboni Father Mario Mantovani murdered by a young man whom he had baptised. Italian missionary Father Mario Mantovani was shot dead with Ugandan Father Godfrey Kiruowa in Uganda on the eve of the Feast of the Assumption as they were passing through Lobel about 40 km from Kanawat mission. The two ...
• 20 March 2004
  Sister Czeslawa Lorek: “What can I do for the Pope? How can I help him? I know, I’ll go on mission!”. Sister Czeslawa Lorek was born in 1938 at Binczyce Gorne, in Poland, to a deeply Christian family. The parish priest, Father Stanislaw Pieprznikm were her first spiritual director who helped her discern her vocation and ...
• 20 March 2004
  Marko Makuec Shir, martyr catechist in Kutum, Sudan One of the participants in a Trauma Counselling Course organised by Nyala parish in February 2003, was a young catechist Marko Makuec Shir, a Dinka from Gogrial, married and with three children The course explained the ...
• 20 March 2004
  José Castillo, killed after 5 years of missionary work for social Pastoral and defence of human rights When Joe Castillo and his wife Yelitza completed their studies at the University of Venezuela, as enthusiastic members of the Pontifical Mission Societies they wanted to go on mission to the apostolic Vicariate of Machiq ...
• 20 March 2004
  Annalena Tonelli, 35 anni in Africa: “to everyone she communicated enthusiasm” “When she first came to Africa, in 1969, she looked like a girl, much younger than 23. Annalena went to Kenya to teach English to children at Thomsfall, where the Consolata Fathers had several schools. She came with tw ...
• 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
  AFRICA/BENIN - “Child labour is a modern form of slavery ” says Father Claude, in front line to fight the plague of street children in Benin Cotonou (Fides Service )- More than 4,000 children in Benin, one of the poorest countries in Africa, are sent to work in other countries. This tragic news was reported to Fides by Father Claude, who has been missionary i ...
• 13 March 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - “To eliminate the scourge of child labour parents must be made to realise that that children are not the property of adults ” says Father Benedito who runs a Home for Children in southern Angola Lubango (Fides Service)-“Child labour is a social scourge in Angola involving thousands and thousands of children” Father Benedito Kapingara who opened and runs The Gospel of Life Children’s Home in Lubango dioc ...
• 13 March 2004
  ASIA/INDIA - The Church keeps close watch on child labour: religious institutes and lay associations provide valid assistance New Delhi (Fides Service) - “The Catholic Church in India is actively involved in initiatives to prevent child labour. Many dioceses and religious institutes work to address this problem by assisting families, providin ...
• 13 March 2004
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “To uproot child labour a greater effort must be made to eliminate poverty”: Archbishop Lawrence Saldhana, President of Bishops’ Conference tells Fides - The local Church provide child workers with free afternoon schooling Lahore (Fides Service) - “To eliminate the tragedy of child labour, poverty must be eliminated and families must be enabled to live a life of dignity” said Archbishop Lawrence Saldhana of Lahore and President of the ...
• 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
  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
  AMERICA/BRAZIL In Brazil the child’s “working week” grows with the child: 12 hours for a 5 year old to 37 hours for a 16 year old. Particularly serious problem of domestic work: little girls kept in semi-slavery and often abused. Sao Paulo (Fides Service) - The average working week for children between the ages of 5 and 9 years 12 hours per week, but children between 10 and 13 work 22 hours a week. Adolescents workers aged 16 to 17 do as many as ...