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14 March 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Cooperation Agreement between Sant’Andrea Hospital in Rome and the State of Tigray in Ethiopia
Rome (Fides Service) - After providing courses of formation and renewal for medical personnel in Africa, commitment on the part of Sant’Andrea Hospital and the 2nd Faculty of Medicine and Surgery continues. A new child ...
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14 March 2005
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Christian and Muslim leaders work together for peace in Mindanao
Zamboanga (Fides Service) - While tension remains in Jolo, southern Philippines, where rebels and army troops have been fighting for more than a month, Christians and Muslims in Mindanao (the large island in the south o ...
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14 March 2005
AMERICA/CHILE - “A journey of communion and hope”: 4 to 7 April International Congress on Family Eucharistic Catechesis, Eucharistic path travelled in 40 years by millions of children and parents extends to other continents
Santiago de Chile (Fides Service) - From 4 to 7 April an International Congress on Family Eucharistic Catechesis will be held in Santiago de Chile with the slogan "A journey of communion and hope". The Congress is organi ...
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14 March 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Christian delegation meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh voices concern for repeated Hindu fundamentalist attacks on religious minorities: 19 in the first two months of 2005, and 6 against Catholic communities
New Delhi (Fides Service) - Serious concern for repeated episodes of violence against religious minorities on the part of Hindu fundamentalists was voiced by a delegation of Christian representatives, led by the Cathol ...
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14 March 2005
AFRICA/ANGOLA - “Light a lamp in Africa!”. The lamp of education, a school for everyone. Daughters of Mary Auxiliatrix open a new school in Luena
Luena (Fides Service) - Just back from Angola, where she visited with the General Bursar Sr Candida Aspesi, Sr Rosangela Giorgi in charge of programmes for development and economy with solidarity, sent Fides a report on ...
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11 March 2005
EUROPE/RUMANIA - Personal and direct proclamation of the Word of God to people at home and at work: Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate undertake new evangelisation in Romania
Bucharest (Fides Service) - It will be the Catholic Archbishop of Bucharest Ioan Robu, who will present the missionary cross and mandate to Giuseppe Rubino, Elio Filardo, scholastic Benoni Varga and pre-novice Lucian Bos ...
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11 March 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Three months since the tsunami, great progress has been made to resettle refugees and rebuild infrastructures in south east India: great effort on the part of the local Catholic Church
Hyderabad (Fides Service) - A continual coming and going of people, vehicles, volunteers and religious. Three months since the tsunami, at the Social Services Centre of the diocese of Vijayawada, in the south eastern sta ...
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11 March 2005
ASIA/HONG KONG - Over 60 Orthodox icons from various part of the world on show in Hong Kong provide opportunity for Christians to meditate on the mysteries of faith
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - An icon is catechesis in painting, a work of art which leads the beholder on a mystic journey towards the transcendent. It opens the mind to the mystery of God. This was the message which emer ...
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11 March 2005
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Commission for Lay Apostolate programmes and initiatives to strengthen lay Catholics’ Christian identity and render them more effective agents of new evangelisation
Seoul (Fides Services) - The Commission for Lay Apostolate of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea CBCK comprising 13 active members appointed for a three year term, including priests, religious and lay men and wo ...
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11 March 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian women ready for courageous proclamation of the Gospel of Salvation. Seminar in Lahore focuses on struggle for women’s rights in Pakistan: Women ‘objects’ never again
Lahore (Fides Service) - The mission to announce the Gospel and spread the Good News is not reserved only for priests and religious. Lay women are also called to be ready and courageous announcers of the Gospel of salvat ...
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11 March 2005
VATICAN - In Mexico Cardinal Sepe addresses missionaries: “Revive the grace of your vocation and intensify, faithful to your original charisma, your path towards mission ad gentes. Prefer the most places most humble and arduous, to the far ends of the earth!”
Mexico City (Fides Service) - The Institute of Santa Maria de Guadalupe for Foreign Missions in Mexico City hosted the last event on Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe’s brief pastoral visit to Mexico. Here, on Thursday 10 Marc ...
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11 March 2005
EUROPE/SPAIN - “We will continue”: after 57 of commitment and the present scarcity of mission resources, Basque dioceses opt to continue to support missions in Ecuador and Angola, because “for a diocese being missionary is not an option”
Vitoria (Fides Service) - On Sunday March 13, the Basque dioceses of Spain will celebrate the traditional Day of Basque Diocesan Missions, an organisation present in the dioceses of Bilbao, San Sebastián and Vitoria, t ...
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11 March 2005
ASIA/KOREA - 30.000 members of the Korean Catholic Health Association recently instituted with the support of the local Bishops’ Conference
Rome (Fides Service) - It was approved in September 2004 during the general assembly of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea under the aegis of the national Caritas and charged with the task of dealing with proble ...
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11 March 2005
AMERICA/BRAZIL - “Human life is of sacred and inviolable value: any exception tends to consider it a good at our disposal, which can be negotiated, wounded, destroyed”: President of Brazilian Bishops’ Conference comments on Bio-Ethics Bill being discussed by parliament
Brasilia (Fides Service) - Cardinal Geraldo Majella Agnelo, Archbishop San Salvador de Bahia and President of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference, in an interview with the local press with regard to a proposed Bill on B ...
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11 March 2005
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - “Everywhere on the Continent profound cultural and religious changes are taking place, the Church is called to speak out in fidelity to her mission”: conclusions of meeting of general secretaries of Bishops’ Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean
Bogota (Fides Service) - The annual meeting of general secretaries of Bishops’ Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean closed yesterday after reflecting on two important questions: the religious situation in th ...
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