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27 September 2004
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Mine fields prevent return of Angolan refugees difficult: air lifts to repatriate 4,000 from Namibia
Rome (Fides Service) - The first in a series of air lifts to repatriate Angolan refugees to Huambo in central Angola organised by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in collaboration with the International Or ...
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27 September 2004
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Super tuberculosis: new forms of antibiotic resistant. Every year 8.7 million contract TB and 2 million die
Rome (Fides Service) - New forms of antibiotic resistant TB could cause a global epidemic: a few modifications would enable them to spread rapidly.
Researchers in the United States engaged in two separate studies revea ...
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27 September 2004
EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - BSE warning: blood transfusions could spread human form of mad cow disease, British Health Ministry warns
Rome (Fides Service ) - The Brutish Health Ministry has warned that some 6,000 patients who received blood transfusions in the UK since 1999 could be exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob NV, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy ...
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27 September 2004
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - How to make “Christian hope” credible in the context of conflict in Colombia: theme for discussion at 9th National Theology Congress 7 to 9 October
Bogota (Fides Service) - “Reflect on Christian hope from the theological and pastoral point of view in the present context of conflict in Colombia and to offer guidelines for activity to promote the Christian experienc ...
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27 September 2004
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Help uproot culture violence among youth: the Church’s contribution
Port Moresby (Fides Service) - Recently Archbishop Brian Barnes Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, PNG called for more attention to youth policies and a specific national service to study and fight the widespr ...
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27 September 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - National Mission opens today: first conference - “a changing world” - by Senegal’s minister of scientific research
Rome (Fides Service) - Some 1600 people have gathered for Italy’s 3rd National Mission Congress at Montesilvano, Pescara, 28-30 September on the theme “Communion and Co-responsibility for Mission”. The congress is ...
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24 September 2004
AMERICA/PERU - Initiatives for the Month of the Bible include “Exhibition of the Christian Book”: the smallest Bible in the world among the books on show
Lima (Fides Service) - As part of the “Month of the Bible 2004” 31 August to 3 October, the Office for Catechesis, Biblical Pastoral and Pastoral Care of Indigenous Peoples of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference has ...
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24 September 2004
AFRICA/SUDAN - “Jihad is exploited to subdue rebel ethnic groups” says a missionary with years of experience in Sudan
Khartoum (Fides Service)- “The government of Sudan is used to playing with names in this case it is pulling the wool over the eyes of the international community” a missionary with years of experience in Sudan told ...
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24 September 2004
VATICAN - The Pope grants an audience to the General Chapter of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate: “Your presence, animated by religious and missionary fervour, must be a sign and a seed of hope for all you meet”
Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) - This morning at his Summer residence in Castel Gandolfo Pope John Paul II granted a private audience to the members of the General Chapter of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate, ...
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24 September 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - General Charter of the Comboni missionary Sisters confirms Mother Adele Brambilla come Superior general for another term
Rome (Fides Service) - On 23 September the 18th Chapter of the Comboni Missionary Sisters being held in Rome, elected Mother Adele Brambilla Superior General for another six year term. After the election the chapter memb ...
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24 September 2004
ASIA/CHINA - Death of Bishop Alfonso Yang Guangyan, Bishop of Zhouzhi: meek and humble, ever faithful to the Holy See: under his guidance the diocese developed considerably
Zhouzhi (Fides Service) - On September 4 Bishop Alfonso Yang Guangyan of Zhouzhi in Shaanxi Province, (mainland China), died at the age of 76 comforted by the Sacraments. The Bishop was born on 9 September 1928 and ordai ...
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24 September 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Italian St John of God Brother, the first surgeon to help African children with polio, among winners of 2004 Cuore Amico annual missionary award to be presented on 23 October
Brescia (Fides Service) - Until now “Cuore Amico” Fraternity Onlus started in 1991, has assigned its annual missionary award to a priest, a nun and a layperson. This year a Brother has been added to the list. The awa ...
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24 September 2004
EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “Inculturating the faith in Europe means opening spaces for transmitting the faith, launching programmes to revitalise Christianity in the cultural spaces of our societies”: National Mission Days conclusions
Lisbon (Fides Service) - Europe is fragmented, oblivious of God, dominated by the idolatry of power and possession, according to a statement at the conclusion of the National Mission Days event in Lisbon which this year ...
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24 September 2004
Pontifical Urban University Press publishes annual -BIBLIOGRAPHIA MISSIONARIA LXVII 2003.
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Pontifical Urban University has published its annual Bibliographia Missionaria LXVII 2003. The unique volume offers comprehensive documentation on books and articles on the missionary ...
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24 September 2004
AMERICA/BRAZIL - In harmony with the Church's annual Brotherhood Campaign, Mission Campaign 2004 focuses on brotherhood and water: “the right to water and respect for creation calls for brotherhood and human solidarity”
Brasilia (Fides Service) - For the Pontifical Mission Societies and the whole of the Church in Brazil and the world over, the annual Mission Campaign for the month of October, which has its climax on World Mission Day th ...
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