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30 July 2004
EUROPE/SPAIN - Summer holidays under the banner of solidarity and mission: numerous initiatives involving adolescents, university students and Holy Childhood children
Madrid (Fides Service) - Every year more young people in Spain decide to spend their holidays in activities of solidarity and mission. Various initiatives are organised all over the country; here we mention a few involvi ...
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30 July 2004
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus on a mission of peace for Colombia: excited last minute preparations for the arrival of the relics of the patron saint of the missions, to make a pilgrimage to 100 different places all over Colombia from 1 August to 19 September
Bogota (Fides Service) - The relics of Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus, patron saint of the Missions will be in Colombia from I August to 19 September. The Carmelite Fathers in Colombia with the support of the Bishops’ ...
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30 July 2004
ASIA/NEPAL - Christian community in Nepal lives fear and tension amidst growing alarm for child soldiers forcefully enlisted by Maoist rebels
Kathmandu (Fides Service) - Daily life is a struggle with tension and fear in Nepal, also for the small Christian community. There is growing concern for the destiny of children abducted and enlisted among the ranks of t ...
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30 July 2004
ASIA/TAIWAN - Hsin Chu dioceses celebrates Our Lady of Mount Carmel with deep devotion and joy
Hsin Chu (Fides Service) - With deep devotion and joy Catholics in the Taiwan diocese of Hsin Chu, gathered for a solemn mass on the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 16 July, presided by the local Bishop Luke Liu Hsien ...
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30 July 2004
AFRICA/SUDAN - The situation in Darfur shows no sign of improvment: no food supplies since the end of May
Rome (Fides Service) - A nutrition survey in May and June in 4 refugee camps in Darfur revealed serious situation of under-nourishment varying between 4.1 and 5.5 %.
Although world politics and media are showing more i ...
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30 July 2004
OCEANIA/FRENCH POLYNESIA - After building up a local clergy and Church the Oblates Missionaries of Mary Immaculate take leave of the Pacific Islands which they served for 27 years
Papeete (Fides Service) - After 27 years of mission, undertaken with enthusiasm, apostolic zeal, dedication and docility to the will of God and at the service of the people in French Polynesia, the Oblate Missionaries of ...
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30 July 2004
EUROPE/PORTUGAL - “Mission and Europe of the Future” theme of three National Mission Days organised by the Church in Portugal 17 to 19 September
Lisbon (Fides Service) - “Mission and Europe of the Future” is the theme of three National Mission Days which the Church in Portugal will celebrate 17-19 September at the Paul VI Pastoral Centre in Fatima. The Missio ...
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30 July 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - The Ten Commandments Today: reflection by Giovanni Cantoni, Italian national regent of Catholic Action: association of lay Catholics to encourage the study and diffusion of the Church’s Social Teaching
Rome (Fides Service) - “1. «If you love me, keep my commandments» (Jn. 14, 15). The rule given by the Lord Jesus is susceptible to a descriptive historical transcription on the part of a «non protagonist»: observer ...
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30 July 2004
AMERICA/PERU - Mission Cross Pilgrimage and Study Meetings involve young people in Lima and Callao in preparation for the Third National Youth Mission Congress
Lima (Fides Service) - In view of the imminent opening of Peru’s 3rd National Youth Mission Congress 4 to 8 August in Arequipa, with the theme “Young man your life is mission”, delegations all over the country enga ...
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30 July 2004
AFRICA/UGANDA - Ugandan Religious report to Parliament on war in northern Uganda
Kampala (Fides Service)- As a “sign of concern for the people in the north victims of civil war” Catholic Religious in Uganda recently presented the national parliament with a report on the war in northern Uganda. Th ...
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30 July 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Caritas- Mbujimayi brings relief to humanitarian crisis in Kasai, southeast Congo
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- The second Congolese war (1998-2003) affected mainly the eastern regions of Democratic Congo RDC, including east Kasai in the south east of the country where in recent years thousands of people ...
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30 July 2004
ASIA/CHINA - Heze diocese mourns its Bishop Joseph Wang Dian Duo: ten months of the year he would visit parishes on his bicycle encouraging the people in the faith and administering the Sacraments
Heze (Fides Service) -Bishop Joseph Wang Dian Duo, O.A.R Bishop of Heze, Tsachow, mainland China died of a heart attack at the age of 83 on Tuesday 27 July.
Born on 3 February 1921, on leaving school in 1938, Joseph en ...
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30 July 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - The Ten Commandments today: “They should be applied, lived and interpreted in their old and ever new vitality and wisdom says Paola Bignardi, national president of Catholic Action Italy in exclusive article for Fides
Rome (Fides Service) - “The times we are living appear ever less capable of “adapting the walls of the earthly city to those of the heavenly Jerusalem ”, to use an expression dear to the heart of Giorgio La Pira. I ...
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29 July 2004
VATICAN - On-the-spot investigation at Yaounde by President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of the Sick and Healthcare Workers Cardinal Lozano Barragan, in view of next Catholic World Day of the Sick dedicated to AIDS patients
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Christ Hope for Africa” will be the theme of the 13th Catholic World Day of the Sick on 11 February in Yaounde in Cameroon. Recently Cardinal Lozano Barragan President of the Pontifica ...
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29 July 2004
AFRICA/TOGO - Passport returned to Togo Opposition leader thanks to mediation by S. Egidio Community
Rome (Fides Service) - The Rome based S. Egidio Community which has often mediated in difficult situations in Africa and elsewhere in the world has achieved another success. Yesterday Wednesday 28 July at the Sant’Egid ...
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