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8 September 2010
AMERICA/BRAZIL - “The Cry of the Excluded” - inspiring hope for a transformation in society
Curitiba (Agenzia Fides) – Yesterday, September 7, Curitiba hosted the 16th "Cry of the Excluded," sponsored by the Archdiocese of Curitiba, pastoral groups, movements, and social organizations. The theme was: “Where ...
8 September 2010
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - “Many families have lost all they had to live on”
Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – Caritas Guatemala has sent Fides a new report detailing the situation after the terrible tragedy of the torrential rains that caused extensive damage throughout the country (see Fides 0 ...
8 September 2010
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Sisters of Mercy working to offer relief to residents of Carteret Islands escaping rising waters
Brisbane (Agenzia Fides) – About 1700 of the Carteret Islands' more than 3000 occupants are being forced to relocate to Bougainville in Papua New Guinea to live on 48ha of land donated by the Catholic Church as their i ...
8 September 2010
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - New challenge for the Catholic Church: lack of religious ed teachers
Newcastle (Agenzia Fides) – Maitland Newcastle Diocese children’s ministries director John Donnelly has expressed his regret for the lack of religion teachers in schools. According to a report, there were more than 1 ...
7 September 2010
ASIA/PAKISTAN - The odyssey of the forgotten refugees, prey for the Taliban
Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) – The “luckiest” refugees today in Pakistan have no problem finding access to water, food, and tents. However, the effort of the government and humanitarian agencies cannot reach all the di ...
7 September 2010
EUROPE/ITALY - Conversion as the source for the “new mission”: 35th General Chapter of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday, September 8, the XXXV General Chapter of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) will open in Rome, to focus on conversion. As the outgoing Superior General, Fr. William Ste ...
7 September 2010
ASIA/CHINA - Consecration of the Parish of Jesus the Good Shepherd: a moment of communion in the heart of ecumenical and interreligious dialogue
Bao Tou (Agenzia Fides) - The consecration of the parish of Jesus the Good Shepherd, in the Diocese of Bao Tou, in the Province of Inner Mongolia in mainland China, was not only a moment of communion for the local faith ...
7 September 2010
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Public workers strike ends after keeping the nation on hold 3 weeks
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – After 21 days of strike, hundreds of thousands of South African public sector workers have returned to work. However, this is only a suspension of the strike, civil servants' unions said, ...
7 September 2010
AFRICA/KENYA - Catholic Continental News Agency for Africa to form within coming year
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Africa will provide a single, large, news agency for the entire continent. This is what was decided at the meeting in Nairobi, which opened August 31 (see Fides 01/09/20 ...
7 September 2010
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Caritas says two days of rain worse than Tropical Storm Agatha
Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – In just two days, Guatemala has suffered losses comparable to those resulting from the week-long passage of Tropical Storm Agatha last May. The government led by Alvaro Colom Caballero ...
7 September 2010
AMERICA/HONDURAS - “On the issue of migration, everybody has their part to play,” says Auxiliary of Tegucigalpa
Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) – “Being a migrant is a right of people; it was even a right for Jesus himself. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were migrants in their own time, when they had to flee into Egypt. They did so for a ...
7 September 2010
ASIA/NEPAL - Filters distributed to 37,000 families suffering from arsenic-contaminated water
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Aid organizations are distributing water filters to some 37,000 households in the Terai plains of southern Nepal who are being slowly poisoned by drinking arsenic-contaminated water. According ...
7 September 2010
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Capuchins working over 30 years along Amazon River
Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - The Rio Solimões snakes its way through northwest Brazil, from the Peruvian frontier until it merges with the Rio Negro, close to Manaus. On the banks of the Solimões thousands live, some in pe ...
6 September 2010
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Floods and terrorism: a nation on its knees
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – "We are doing our best in this extremely difficult time for the nation. The fury of floods is intensified with the nightmare of terrorism: two disasters that strike us to the heart. There is gr ...
6 September 2010
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Maputo: calm, although protests threaten to return
Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - “It is a situation that is evolving day by day and, therefore, it is impossible to offer any assessments at the moment," Fides has been told by a Church source from Maputo, the capital of Mozam ...
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