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25 October 2005
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Proclamation, witness and sharing, young Salesians in Daejeong
Daejeong (Fides Service) - Two thousands people contacted, met, evangelised: this was the fruit of activities of festivity and proclamation connected with the Feast of Saint John Bosco, recently by pupils at Salesian sch ...
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25 October 2005
EUROPE/POLAND - new impulse to missionary animation through the PMS and new National Missions Council. Poland has 2,060 missionaries all over the world
Warsaw (Fides Service) - “We draw great encouragement in our missionary activity from the missionary legacy of John Paul II and the words of Pope Benedict XVI on 25 April at St Paul’s Basilica on the importance of mi ...
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25 October 2005
AFRICA/MAURITIUS - Franciscan Missionaries of Mary celebrate 30 years of evangelisation and service to the poor
Port Louis (Fides Service)- This year the community of Franciscan Missionaries of Mary at St Anne’s parish in Stanley, Mauritius in the Indian Ocean is marking thirty years of service.
Spiritual daughters of St Fra ...
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25 October 2005
AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - Students “silent” victims of three years of lacerating conflict
Abidjan (Fides Service)- In the past three years the silent victims of conflict in north of Côte d'Ivoire controlled by rebel groups, have been school pupils. And it would seem that once again they will be denied the op ...
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25 October 2005
EUROPE/SPAIN - Fontilles anti-leprosy association “Act for Africa” collection in aid of healthcare programmes for Angola, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana and Rwanda
Madrid (Fides Service) - With the motto “Act for Africa, a future of health and development”, Fontilles anti-leprosy association has launched a campaign to improve the health of people so they can play an active par ...
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25 October 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Protests and rising tension in Kerala after attack on Catholic Bishop’s residence
Cochin (Fides Service) - While the police have arrested 8 suspects with regard to the recent attack on the residence of the Catholic Bishop of Neyyatinkara actions of protest are being organised by the civil community . ...
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25 October 2005
AFRICA - Growing concern for avian flu in Africa: the Republic of Congo bans poultry imports from countries at risk but the real threat is migrant birds from Eurasia which spend Winter in Africa
Rome (Fides Service)- Fear of bird flu is spreading in central Africa. In the Republic of Congo the authorities have banned imports of poultry from affected countries. The country imports poultry from Asia, Europe and So ...
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25 October 2005
ASIA/INDONESIA - “Do not forget last year’s tsunami victims!”: Jesuits call to international community
Jakarta (Fides Service) - The earthquake disaster in Pakistan must not make people forget the victims of the December 2004 tsunami, say Indonesian volunteers working to assist seaquake victims.
One of the most active or ...
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24 October 2005
VATICAN - During his Angelus reflection the Pope recalls the bond between the Church’s mission and the Eucharist: “missionary activity and evangelisation is the apostolic spreading of the love which is, as it were, concentrated in the Blessed Sacrament”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Sunday 23 October during his midday Angelus reflection Pope Benedict XVI expressed sentiments of “warm gratitude” to the Synod Fathers after “three weeks of hard work in a spirit o ...
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24 October 2005
AMERICA/PERU - “Knowing the present to build the future” slogan for 1st Social Week at the University of Callao. Helping future national leaders reflect and contribute towards the common good
Callao (Fides Service) - Organised by the office for universal pastoral of the diocese of Callao with the collaboration of the University of Callao, Bartolome de las Casas Institute and the Association of Social Services ...
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24 October 2005
AMERICA/CHILE - Pope Benedict XVI canonises Chile’s first male Saint: Alberto Hurtado, “a contemplative in action” who devoted his life to helping the poor, promoting vocations and forming the laity
Santiago (Fides) - Saint Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga was a priest for only 15 years, but those were years of intense spiritual and apostolic activity, the expression of his love for Christ. He dedicated himself to helping t ...
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24 October 2005
VATICAN - The Synod Fathers at the 11th Ordinary Synod address a letter to the four Chinese prelates absent from the synodal assembly
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Synod Fathers at the 11th Ordinary Synod addressed a letter to the four Chinese prelates absent from the synodal assembly Bishops Anthony Li Duan, Xi'an; Luke Li Jingfeng, Fengxiang; Al ...
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24 October 2005
VATICAN - On World Mission Sunday Pope Benedict XVI closes the Year of the Eucharist and the Synod of Bishops with the canonisation of five new saints: “the Eucharist is the source of holiness and spiritual nourishment for our mission in the world”. Brotherly greetings to the Bishops of the Church in China
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “On this 30th Sunday in ordinary time... the Year of the Eucharist and the Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, dedicated precisely to the mystery of the Eucharist in the Church’s ...
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24 October 2005
AFRICA/EGYPT - Muslims and Christians work together to help children from Cairo's refuse collectors village
Cairo (Fides Service) - ‘Refuse collectors village’ children in Cairo look forward to a healthier, cleaner and brighter future thanks to an Italian Comboni missionary. “When I began gathering the children my idea w ...
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24 October 2005
AFRICA/MALAWI - Politicians offer words instead of food …in famine stricken Malawi Mission Sunday Mass collection offers four plates of mango
Lilongwe (Fides Service)- “Yesterday 23 October we celebrated World Mission Sunday and collections in every parish will be sent directly to the Pope to help the universal Church ” said a Catholic missionary in famine ...
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