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26 April 2006
ASIA/CHINA - After studying Sacred Scripture Catholics in Bao Ji promise with zeal to diffuse it with simple language accessible to all
Bao Ji (Fides Service) - Transform a course in Sacred Scripture into an engine to diffuse the Word of God, incarnating it as light for life, power of faith and guidance on the earthly pilgrimage: this is the goal of a ca ...
26 April 2006
ASIA/INDIA - Fr Augustine Thevarparampil ‘little priest, apostle of the dalits’ to be beatified on 30 April in Kerala”: special event for Syro-Malabar Catholics
Cochin (Fides Service) - Cardinal Varkei Vithayathil Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church will preside the Mass for the beatification of Fr Augustine Thevarparampil on 30 April in Ramapuram, Kerala. Pres ...
26 April 2006
AFRICA - By 2015 sub-Saharan Africa will need 1.6 million teachers says UNESCO
Rome (Fides Service)- In sub-Saharan Africa teachers are ever scarcer and the number will drop further in the coming decade. This was said by the United Nations office for education, science and culture UNESCO in a repor ...
26 April 2006
ASIA/SRI LANKA - New fears of more violence and attacks. The nuncio: “the international community must help us build bridges of dialogue”
Colombo (Fides Service) - “Like the solidarity without frontiers which helped us rebuild schools and homes after the tsunami, today the international community must help us build bridges of dialogue to brings the sides ...
25 April 2006
ASIA/LEBANON - National director of Pontifical Mission Societies appointed
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on 24 March 2006 appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Lebanon for a fiv ...
25 April 2006
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Children: 50% undernourished, 20% underweight and smaller than average, 70% lives below poverty line
Quito (Fides Service) - In the world 150 million children suffer from under-nourishment, 6000 contract HIV/AIDS, more than 120 million cannot go to school and thousands are subject to abuse and violence.
In Ecuador, sin ...
25 April 2006
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Statement from Bishops’ Conference on the death of Conferenc under-secretary Fr. Jorge Piñango Mascareño,
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Venezuela issued a statement with regard to the death of the Conference under-secretary Fr. Jorge Piñango Mascareño, last seen on Friday 21 April and foun ...
25 April 2006
ASIA/NEPAL - “The King called back parliament and the people rejoice in the streets while the Church prays for peace” report from Fr Pius Perumana, pro-Prefect Apostolic of Nepal
Kathmandu (Fides Service) - “We are all safe and sound, the Catholic community suffered neither losses nor damages but like everyone else has had enough of violence and destruction. Now the King has announced he is rea ...
25 April 2006
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Alarm for increasing domestic violence
Dar Es Salaam (Fides Service)- Sofia Simba Tanzanian minister for Conditions of Women and Children has sounded the alarm over increasing domestic violence on women in the country.
Quoting a World Health Organisation re ...
25 April 2006
VATICAN - Presentation of ‘Compendium of Catholic Social Doctrine’ at Zaghreb, Budapest and Vienna
Rome (Fides Service) - The capitals of Croatia, Hungary and Austria are the next stops for the five day tour undertaken by Cardinal Renato Martino President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace from 23 to 27 ...
25 April 2006
VATICAN - Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant Peoples sends condolences through Papal Nuncio in Egypt after terrorist attacks at Dahab
Vatican (Fides Service) - The Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant Peoples Archbishop Agostino Marchetto, addressed the following telegramme of sympathy to the papal nuncio in Cairo Archbishop M ...
25 April 2006
VATICAN - May missionary zeal continue to fill you and your beloved people, strengthening you in your efforts to spread the Gospel: Pope Benedict XVI tells Catholic Bishops of Ghana on ad limina visit
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 24 April in the apostolic palace Pope Benedict XVI received a group of Catholic Bishops from Ghana on their five year ad limina visit: “My dear Brothers, the Pope told the Bishops, I a ...
25 April 2006
ASIA/TAIWAN - Love of God and China’s martyr saints in the light of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, theme of pilgrimage to Wu Feng Qi Marian Shrine organised by Catholic Hua Kuang Social Welfare Foundation
Tai Pei (Fides Service) - To thank God for the fruits granted to the Catholic Hua Kuang Social Welfare Foundation; pray for the future of the Foundation and its members; renew commitment of service; commemorate God’s L ...
25 April 2006
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Building a frontier of communion and peace as a place of encounter rather than division: Bishops of Colombia and Ecuador
Villagarzón (Fides Service) - “We confirm our commitment to finding solutions to complex situations in border areas between Colombia and Ecuador” say the Bishops of frontier zone dioceses of Colombia and Ecuador in ...
25 April 2006
AFRICA/GUINEA - Jesuit Refugee Service concerned for women forced into prostitution because of cuts in international funds for refugee camps
Conakry (Fides Service)- The Jesuit Refugee Service in Guinea reports that cuts in funding to Liberian refugees has led many young women to turn to prostitution to pay for school fees.
At the end of the school year 200 ...
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