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22 September 2004
EUROPE/GREAT BRITAIN - Test for bird flu: the disease is not passed from human to human
Rome (Fides Service) - The British Health Protection Agency HPA recently revealed that it has carried out tests to diagnose bird flu. In the past 12 months at least 25 people in Asia died of bird flu and some 200 million ...
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22 September 2004
ASIA/VIETNAM - To be a person ready to dialogue with all, a person who promotes the values of freedom justice and solidarity: the work of a Bishop in Vietnam
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “To be a Bishop in Vietnam means being a person ready to dialogue with everyone, a bearer of the values of freedom, justice and solidarity, build relations of charity also with non Christ ...
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22 September 2004
AMERICA/BRAZIL - 4th annual campaign “Springtime for Life”, promoted by the Ecumenical Co-ordination
Service CESE: to care for youth today means to invest in their present and in their future and the future of the nation
San Salvador (Fides Service) - “Youth and Peace” is the theme of the 4th edition of the Springtime for Life campaign, promoted every year throughout Brazil by the Ecumenical Service of Coordination CESE. The objectiv ...
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22 September 2004
ASIA/INDIA - Commitment for the poor, the voiceless, the marginalised and promoting respect for human rights including religious freedom: programme of India’s Catholic laity
New Delhi (Fides Service) - Commitment for the poor, the voiceless, the marginalised and promoting respect for human rights including religious freedom are the main concerns of John Dayal new president of the All India C ...
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22 September 2004
ASIA/SAUDI ARABIA - Indian born Brian O’Connor, arrested for possessing a Bible defends himself with the truth
Ryadh (Fides Service) - Indian born Brian Savio O’Connor, a Catholic, used the truth, the only resource at hand, to counter false police reports and accusations during a hearing at Ryadh law courts on September 15, Fid ...
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22 September 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - First open air church dedicated to Rom gypsy Blessed Ceferino Giménez Malla: inauguration on Sunday 26 September
Rome (Fides Service) - In the afternoon of Sunday 26 September the vice regent of Rome diocese Bishop Luigi Moretti, will bless the first open air church in Italy built for Rom and Sinti gypsies. The place of worship, si ...
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22 September 2004
AFRICA/SUDAN - “Security of internally displaced persons in Darfur must be guaranteed” Laura Boldrini in charge of UN High Commission for Refugees Italian branch told Fides
Rome (Fides Service)- “The first priority is to guarantee security for internally displaced persons who have fled for safety to other villages in Darfur” Laura Boldrini in charge of UN High Commission for Refugees UN ...
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21 September 2004
AMERICA - Franciscans the world over mobilised for the United Nation’s International Day for Peace
New York (Fides Service) - Franciscan the world over are trying to increase awareness with regard to peace and to build a world of more justice and solidarity in view of the International Day for Peace instituted by the ...
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21 September 2004
AMERICA/HAITI - Another emergency in Haiti: Caritas appeals for help after tropical tempest
Port de Paix (Fides Service) - “The tropical storm ‘Jeanne’ struck mainly the north eastern part of the country. The highest number of persons killed and the greatest damages are reported in the areas of Gonaives, ...
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21 September 2004
AMERICA/USA - More than 2 million HIV+ persons in Latin America and the Caribbean: the management council of American health ministers meets to examine the health situation in the region
Rome (Fides Service) - From 27 September to 1 October health ministers of countries from all over the Americas will meet at the head offices of the Pan-American Health Organisation which is holding its annual Management ...
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21 September 2004
AFRICA/NAMIBIA - Bishop Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda appointed Archbishop of Windhoek
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, 21 September 2004, appointed Archbishop of Windhoek (Namibia), Mgr Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda, OMI, until now titular Bishop of Pertusa and Auxilia ...
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21 September 2004
VATICAN - Cardinal Sodano in New York recalls “vast humanitarian activity of Catholic institutions all over the world especially in the missions and in the poorest countries” to fight hunger and poverty
New York (Fides Service) - “The Holy See has always supported the many individual and community initiatives to solve the dramatic problem of hunger and poverty: it suffices to recall the vast humanitarian activity of ...
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21 September 2004
EUROPE/GERMANY - Mission central focus of German Bishops’ Autumn Plenary
Fulda (Fides Service) - From 20 to 23 September the Catholic Bishops of
Germany are meeting in Fulda for the Autumn Plenary Assembly of the
Bishops’ Conference DBK. One of items on the agenda is an ample
refle ...
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21 September 2004
EUROPE/SPAIN - Disappointment and concern in the local Church and Pro-Family Associations after the approval of a proposed Bill to change the country’s Civil Code with regard of divorce
Madrid (Fides Service) - The Church in Spain is deeply distressed after the Spanish cabinet approved a bill to propose changes in Civil Law with regard to divorce. The Bill suppresses the former period of one year of sep ...
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21 September 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Young people of www.comunicanto.it: new portal at the service of Christian music on-line world wide
Rome (Fides Service) - Music and evangelisation through this universal language is the objective of a new portal www.comunicanto.it. opened by a group professional musicians working on the international market for the pr ...
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