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23 November 2005
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Katanga in southern Congo victim of Mai-Mai militia: Catholic Bishops’ memorandum to President of Congo and United Nations Representative
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- In a memorandum addressed to the President of DR Congo and the local representative of the United Nations Organisation the Catholic Bishops of Katanga in south east DR Congo expressed concern fo ...
23 November 2005
AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The country which bears the same of Christ the Saviour navigates in a sea of violence: Catholic Bishops of El Salvador rally the people “do not be overcome by evil”
San Salvador (Fides Service) - On the feast of Our Lady of Peace patroness of El Salvador the country’s Catholics Bishops issued a Pastoral Letter “Do not be overcome by evil” in which they reflect on the responsib ...
23 November 2005
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Rebuilding normality a year after the tsunami: results of efforts by Catholic communities and international bodies in affected areas
Colombo (Fides Service) - “We have rebuilt homes and villages, given the people new fishing boats and nets so they can resume normal life and our main concern now is to guarantee education for children who lost their p ...
22 November 2005
ASIA/HONG KONG - Divine Word Missionaries mark 130 years of presence in Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Fides Service) - Over 500 people wearing ‘I am a SVD Friend’ T shirts took part in celebrations to mark 130 years of presence of the Divine Word Missionaries in Holy Family Catholic parish in Hong Kong. Th ...
22 November 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - “Temptation to believe”: 9th Festival of Spiritual Cinema opens today
Rome (Fides Service) - “Temptation to believe” is the theme of the 9th Tertio Millennio Festival of Spiritual Cinema which opens this evening in Rome. According to the organisers cinema has often attention given to t ...
22 November 2005
VATICAN - “The Church’s teaching is based on the fact that God created man and woman in his own image and likeness and granted them a superior dignity and a shared mission towards the whole of creation” : Pope Benedict XVI visits Pontifical Academy of Sciences and of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday 21 November Pope Benedict XVI visited the offices of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, located in the Casina Pio IV in the Vatic ...
22 November 2005
ASIA/VIET NAM - The Pope establishes the diocese of Ba Ria and appoints first bishop
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 22 November 2005 created the diocese of Ba Ria (Viet Nam) with territory taken from the diocese of Xuân Lôc making it suffragan of the metropolitan ...
22 November 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Campus Bio-Medic: opens academic year 2005-2006 with celebrations for new hospital under construction and start of building on research centre
Rome (Fides Service) - Wednesday 23 November at 11.30, to mark the opening of the academic year 2005-2006, Campus Bio-Medico University will celebrate only 11 months after the laying of the foundation stone, the closing ...
22 November 2005
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Bishops backed by various lay groups call for a public debate on law to make sexual education compulsory in schools
Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - In the framework of a national debate on a government campaign to render sexual education compulsory in public and private schools and in the face of a possible rapid approval of a law with ...
22 November 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Young people teach young people how to avoid HIV/AIDS which continues to take millions of lives every year
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Prevention is the best way to stop the spread of the HIV virus which causes AIDS and the best people to teach young people how to keep clear of it are young people themselves. This is the convic ...
22 November 2005
AFRICA/MALAWI - Death of emeritus Bishop of Lilongwe
Lilongwe (Fides Service)- Bishop Matthias A. Chimole, emeritus Bishop of Lilongwe, capital of Malawi, died of a heart attack on 18 October at Likuni Hospital Lilongwe.
Matthias Chimole was born in 1916 at Nakhwala, di ...
22 November 2005
AFRICA/EGYPT - In one of the poorest districts of Cairo 270 children learn to read and write thanks to a Catholic missionary
Cairo (Fides Service) - A Centre opened by Italian Comboni missionary Fr. Luciano Verdoscia, who has worked for years among abandoned children in the garbage collectors village in Cairo’s Mansheyit Nasser district cont ...
22 November 2005
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - From Mindanao to all Asia: Archbishop Orlando Quevedo new General of the Federation of Asia Bishops’ Conferences
Cotabato (Fides Service) - Archbishop Orlando Quevedo of Cotabato in Mindanao, southern Philippines, has been appointed secretary general (head) of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences. Archbishop Quevedo who ...
22 November 2005
ASIA/INDONESIA - Tighter security measures in view of Christmas: Christians in Moluccas and Sulawesi fear terrorist attacks
Ambon (Fides Service) - In the eastern Indonesian provinces of Moluccas and Sulawesi there is rising tension and people fear civil conflict between Muslim communities and Protestant Christian communities may break out ag ...
22 November 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Pakistan is promised more than enough money to rebuild earthquake hit area: donors offer 6 billion more than requested
Lahore (Fides Service) - Thanks to international donors Pakistan can start the work of rebuilding after the October 8 earthquake in Kashmir which killed 73,000 and left 3 million people homeless. Donor governments and in ...
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