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21 June 2006
EUROPE/SPAIN - “The Pope’s visit will encourage the families of the world to be what they are meant to be, the seed of a new society ” says president of the Spanish Family Policy Institute
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The encounter with the Pope will be a great encouragement for families all over the world, subject to repeated and ever more aggressive threats and attacks, according to president of the Spanish ...
21 June 2006
AFRICA/BURUNDI - From child soldiers to child prisoners: the plight of former child soldiers enlisted by National Liberation Forces now in prison
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - A recent Human Rights Watch report said that instead of rehabilitating child soldiers the Burundian government lets them languish in prison. These children were forcefully enlisted by the Nati ...
21 June 2006
AFRICA/KENYA - AIDS pandemic focus of two important meetings in Kenya
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- A workshop on AIDS 21 - 24 June organised by the Symposium of the Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) opened today in Nairobi, capital of Kenya at Catholic Universit ...
21 June 2006
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Full participation in definition of national education policy": Bishops’ Commission for Education meets Bolivian Forum for Education
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - To examine the present situation of education in Bolivia and draft a new education proposal the Bishops’ Commission for Education and the Bolivian Forum for Education are in La Paz taking part ...
20 June 2006
ASIA/SINGAPORE - Cardinal Martino Papal Envoy to celebrations for 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations with Holy See
Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - First papal representative to the Republic of Singapore in 1981, Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, today President of the Pontifical Councils for Peace and Justice and for the Pastoral care of ...
20 June 2006
EUROPE/ITALY - Orionini: first steps for a new English speaking Missionary Delegation
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Orionini confreres of the General Council and the Representatives of the English speaking countries, met from 16th to 18th June in view of a new English speaking missionary delegation. Rev. Flavio ...
20 June 2006
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Buga National Pilgrimage 2006, young people start preparation for 23rd World Youth Day in Australia
Buga (Agenzia Fides) - The National Buga Pilgrimage 2006 in Colombia 30 June to 3 July, will be an opportunity for young people to come together from all over the country to experience a time of communion and share propo ...
20 June 2006
ASIA/CHINA - Pastoral care for students is an ongoing commitment for the Catholic community: Mass for students at the end of the school year and before exams
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Pastoral care for students has become a constant for the Catholic community in China, characterised by a variety of forms and contents. As the priest in charge in Han Dan diocese confirms, “th ...
20 June 2006
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Islamic Courts are a constitutive element of Somali society. Their power has still to be deciphered
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- “It is difficult to say whether interests connected with international fundamentalism are behind the Islamic Courts which have taken power in a greater part of Somalia” say local Church so ...
20 June 2006
AFRICA/CONGO BRAZZAVILLE - The diocesan Union of the Mother Superiors of Pointe-Noire intervenes to denounce critical water shortage
Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - Women Religious have raised their voices to denounce a critical water shortage in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville according to a Brazzaville Catholic newspaper La Semaine ...
20 June 2006
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The Church calls on the government to respect transcendent and spiritual values in education and to guarantee parents right to give their children a religious education RE
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, and Bishop Angel Divassón of Puerto Ayacucho president of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Commission for Education recently presented a memorandum ...
20 June 2006
AFRICA/MAURITANIA - In some parts of the country malnutrition rate close to emergency line: another difficult season would only worsen the situation
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The United Nations World Food Programme WFP has warned that Mauritania is experiencing a serious food shortage, food prices are rocketing and the situation could turn to famine by next winter. To m ...
20 June 2006
ASIA/IRAQ - 70 children flown from Kurdistan Iraq to Italy for hospital treatment
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A group of Iraqi children are being flown to Italy for hospital treatment From Erbil, Kurdish region of Iraq 70 children seriously ill will be taken to hospitals in Rome and Milan.
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19 June 2006
VATICAN - The Pope at the Angelus: The Eucharist is the Lord Jesus who gives himself ‘for the life of the world’ ., He wishes to meet every man and woman in every time and place and give them the very life of God
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The mystery of the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist and its immense value was the subject of Pope Benedict XVI’s reflection at the midday Angelus prayer on Sunday 18 June on which some ...
19 June 2006
AFRICA/D. R. CONGO- Congo votes: commitment of Catholic Church in Butembo, east Democratic Republic of Congo
Butembo (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the first free elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo one of the principal actions of diocesan co-ordination in Butembo (east Democratic Congo) on the part of CARTEC (Catholic ...
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