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19 December 2005
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Voters flock to vote Bukavu in the grip of “referendum fever”
Bukavu (Fides Service) - In Congo where a two day constitutional referendum is underway parish priests remind people that voting is a right and a duty. “This Sunday is a memorable day for our country. Each one of us is ...
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19 December 2005
ASIA/MYANMAR - Taunggyi archdiocese celebrates ordination of new deacons and priests and archbishop’s 25th anniversary: Papal nuncio Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio visits Marian shrine in Pekhon
Pekhon (Fides Service) - In a setting of natural beauty on a hill overlooking Lake Pekhon the Church in Myanmar celebrated important events: the ordination of new deacons and priests and the 25th anniversary of the ordi ...
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19 December 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - At Sangla Hill Christians still mobilised: 20 December protest prayer organised by the Bishops’ Justice and Peace Commission
Lahore (Fides Service) - Christians of different denominations continue to protest against anti-Christian violence at Sangla Hill, near Lahore, where an angry mob of over a thousand Muslim fanatics set fire to three chur ...
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17 December 2005
AFRICA/DR CONGO - On the eve of the referendum President Kabila says he is moving his office to Bukavu in eastern Congo to promote stability in that part of the country where war is still a threat
Bukavu (Fides Service)- “This is a positive signal and it will give the people in the east of the country new hope although prudence is necessary” say local sources in Bukavu the main town in the south Kivu region of ...
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17 December 2005
ASIA/TAIWAN - Good Shepherd Friends Foundation holds Charity Evening in aid of women and girls in difficulty
Tai Chung (Fides Service) - For over a hundred years the Good Shepherd Friends Foundation has assisted women and girls in difficulty, particularly those trapped in the circle of prostitution of minors, victims of domest ...
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17 December 2005
VATICAN - 18 December: World Migrants Day. The migratory experience “is also an opportunity for evangelisation and mission”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of World Migrants Day on Sunday December 18, we recall two recent documents on the theme.
First of all a Joint Letter on the Pastoral Care of Human Mobility addressed to D ...
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17 December 2005
VATICAN - With her hidden and humble life Madre Casini had the intuition of sustaining the mission of priests: “even little gestures, signs and stories help to build the history of the Church and the world”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Can an apparently ordinary life such as that of Madre Maria Teresa Casini (Frascati 1864-Grottaferrata 1937), unknown and humble, in a period of great political and social upheaval, be of i ...
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17 December 2005
VATICAN - “Light a Christmas star with 5 Euro”: Pontifical Council for Pastoral care of healthcare workers organises collection in aid of poor sick people
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of Christmas Cardinal Javier Lozano Barrágan, President of the Pontifical Council for the pastoral care of healthcare workers launched a proposal for sensitisation of eccle ...
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17 December 2005
AFRICA/SUDAN - Voluntary repatriation of refugees from Kenya to South Sudan starts today
Khartoum (Fides Service) - The United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR announced that the voluntary repatriation to South Sudan of refugees from Kakuma camp in north west Kenya starts today Saturday 17 Decembe ...
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16 December 2005
VATICAN - “Every Christian, according to his specific task and specific responsibility, is called to make his contribution so that the dignity of these brothers and sisters of ours is recognised, respected and promoted.”: Pope Benedict XVI’s Message for World Day of the Sick 2006
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In a message for the annual World Day of the Sick organised by the Catholic Church on February 11, feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, Pope Benedict XVI encourages sick people to offer their cond ...
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16 December 2005
VATICAN - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI meets Rome’s University students: “We must rediscover the beauty of having Christ as our Master of life and so in freedom and awareness renew our profession of faith in Him.”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Continue, dear friends, your reflection with regard to a new humanism taking into consideration the great challenges of the present day and striving to conjugate in harmony faith and cul ...
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16 December 2005
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Catholic Bishops of Arizona, deeply saddened by the death and suffering of Mexican immigrants stress the need to find new ways for communities to welcome and integrate migrants
Arizona (Fides Service) - “You Welcomed Me”: was the title of a Pastoral Letter on Migration released on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe and developed and approved by the Arizona Catholic Conference and the Byzant ...
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16 December 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - 2 million of the world’s children suffer sexual exploitation ‘perhaps the most invisible of all’
Rome (Fides Service) - In its annual State of the World’s Children Report 2006 ,Excluded and Invisible,, UNICEF the United Nations Fund for Children analyses the situation of children and adolescents living in the most ...
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16 December 2005
ASIA/TAIWAN - Mass with the sick in the Catholic Prayer Room at a Tai Pei state hospital
Tai Pei (Fides Service) - According to Christian Life Weekly bulletin issued by Tai Pei archdiocese recently a Mass was held in the Catholic Prayer Room at Tai Pei State Hospital attended by Catholic members of hospital ...
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16 December 2005
ASIA/CHINA - Over 500 Catholics celebrate 100th anniversary of Immaculate Conception parish in the village of Don Xiao Yang Zhuan, reflecting on the growth of the Catholic community
Ji Nan (Fides Service) - Over 500 Catholics attended a solemn Mass to mark the 100th anniversary of the Immaculate Conception Parish in the village of Don Xiao Yang Zhuan, archdiocese of Ji Nan. The Mass was concelebrate ...
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