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16 July 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - “We cannot win the battle with AIDS unless we win the war on TB”. Tomorrow Fides Dossier on main killer for HIV+ patients and the complex situation of TB which strikes mainly the Continents of poverty. 9 million cases each year
Rome (Fides Service) - In his first address to the World Conference on AIDS in Bangkok former South African president Nelson Mandela said that to fight AIDS it is necessary to fight TB which kills more than 5,000 people ...
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16 July 2004
ASIA/CHINA - Pilgrimage and charity: Tian Jin pilgrims to Cang Zhou offer spiritual and material help to local orphans
Tian Jin (Fides Service) - Recently a group of 220 people from Xi Kai parish in Tian Jin, not far from Beijing, went on a pilgrimage to Cang Zhou in Hebei province led by assistant parish priest Father Li Dong. According ...
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15 July 2004
EUROPE/SPAIN - Already 20,000 enrolments for European Youth Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela with the theme: "Witnesses of Christ for a new Europe of Hope"
Santiago de Compostela (Fides Service) - " Witnesses of Christ for a new Europe of Hope " is the theme of the 2004 European Youth Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela which draws young people from all over the continent. ...
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15 July 2004
ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Catholic Church in France engages in mission via web site run by lay Catholics
Paris (Fides Service) - The Mission of the Chaldean Catholic Church born of the preaching of St Thomas the Apostle and which has its cradle in Iraq, has begun a mission via the Internet with a new web site www.mission-ch ...
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15 July 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Scalabrini International Migration Institute offers theological and sociological formation on themes of Migration and a new Masters
Rome (Fides Service) - “We are very happy that our Institute has been recognised by the Congregation for Catholic Education. We intend to continue our work of studying the different migratory realities, from two approa ...
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15 July 2004
AFRICA/KENYA - Amidst drought and corruption Kenya’s political crisis deepens
Nairobi (Fides Service) - The President of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki has warned of the threat of drought but his call was all but ignored by the local media more interested in the debate in course since the British representati ...
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15 July 2004
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Former East German factory workers occupy German Embassy in Maputo for a few hours
Maputo (Fides Service)- The occupation of the German embassy in Maputo by a group of forty people was “a demonstration out of exasperation over a situation of impasse which has dragged on for years ” according to loc ...
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15 July 2004
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Spreading drug abuse is a concern but the major problem in Sierra Leone is unemployment” a missionary tells Fides
Freetown (Fides Service)- “The main problem in Sierra Leone is that there is no work. Drug abuse is an issue but not the main one” Father Giuseppe Berton, Italian Xaverian mission in Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone ...
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15 July 2004
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Catholic Church engages in integral evangelisation and pastoral dialogue to defeat violence and build peace in Colombia: Bishop of Magangue speaks with Fides
Bogota (Fides Service) - To be faithful to its commitment for peace the Church in Colombia is convinced that there two main paths to contribute to reaching its goal, integral evangelisation and dialogue and consultation. ...
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15 July 2004
ASIA/PAKISTAN - “The law is unjust and it should be abolished”: Archbishop President of Pakistan’s Conference of Bishops speaks to Fides about law on blasphemy
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - “I am not very optimistic about promises to revise the blasphemy law.. There us strong opposition from extremists groups. What is more any amendment must be examined and passed by the Council o ...
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15 July 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Focolari Movement recalls Vincenzo-Eletto Folonari, who lived thirty three years under the banner of love for Christ.
Rome (Fides Service) - “To Eletto we owe above all the birth of the Youth Movement. This can be confirmed by the boys of those days to whom with his sister Camilla he devoted special attention with a very special love ...
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14 July 2004
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Italian television programme speaks of food discrimination against women in Ethiopia
Addis Abeba (Fides Service)- “Women suffer from discrimination even in tragic stiatuions of food shortage which periodically strike Ehtiopia”, Sr Elisa, an Italian Salesian missionary told Italian television. The nun ...
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14 July 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Tertio Millennio International Missiology Congress: the future of missionary activity ad gentes prospects for the 21st century
Kinshasa (Fides Service) - On the 40th anniversary of the Ad Gentes Decree issued by Vatican II and the 10th anniversary of the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Africa, the Bishops’ Conference of Congo has ...
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14 July 2004
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Religious sects and sexual exploitation of girls in Brazil: Edinalva, a girl at “Casa Santa Bernardette” in Sau Paulo tells her story.
Sau Paulo (Fides Service) - In Latin America the diffusion of religous sects and increasing explotation of girls is ever more concerning. This is seen from a touching testimony offered by Edinalva, who now lives at the ...
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14 July 2004
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “An attempt destined to failure” Congo MP Enoch Sebineza tells Fides, commententing self-dismissal of 8 Banyamulenge hard wing National Assembly members
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “They are isolated persons risking an all out attempt. Unless they are backed by some foreign power they will not achieve much or go very far. The majority of the Banyamulenge disapproves of t ...
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