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17 May 2005
ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - “Social malcontent and poverty are at the root of local protests”, says Franciscan Fr. Krzysztof Kukulka missionary in Uzbekistan
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “We are grieving for the death of so many people. Uzbeks are a friendly peace loving people. These protests arise from malcontent and poverty. Unless economic and social reforms are start ...
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17 May 2005
AFRICA/CHAD - Violence in refugee camps in Chad: UN High Commission for Refugees seriously concerned
N’Djamena (Fides Service) - UN High Commission for Refugees UNHCR is seriously concerned about violence in recent weeks in refugee camps in eastern Chad in which four people were killed. The situation in the camps at ...
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17 May 2005
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Uncertainty and concern in Guinea Bissau after declarations by former President Kumba Yala
Bissau (Fides Service)- “The situation is complicated from the juridical point of view but the main concern is on the political level” said Fr Davide Sciocco, PIME missionary with long experience in Guinea Bissau wh ...
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17 May 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Next year presidential elections. Democratic Congo adopts new constitution
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “I have promised to lead the people to elections and my promise will be kept” said President Joseph Kabila during a solemn ceremony yesterday 16 May in Kinshasa for the adoption of a new Con ...
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17 May 2005
EUROPE/SPAIN - Spanish Family Forum: There is nothing to prove that adoption by a same sex couple is innocuous for the development of the minor
Madrid (Fides Service) - The Spanish Family Forum, an association representing more than 4 million families in Spain, has stated that reports presented to the Spanish parliament on the consequences for minors adopted by ...
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17 May 2005
VATICAN - Catholic Church’s Message to the Buddhists of the world on occasion of the Feast of Vesakh 2005: “where Buddhists and Catholics live together may they use the moment to consolidate the good relations which already exist between them”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Archbishop Michael Louis Fitzgerald, President of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, on the occasion of the Feast of Vesakh 2005, has sent on behalf of the Catholic Church ...
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17 May 2005
VATICAN - The Pope tells pilgrims in Rome for the beatification of Mothers Ascension de Corazon de Jesus Nicol Goni, and Marianne Cope “Exemplary witnesses of Christ's charity these two new Blessed help us to better understand the meaning and the value of our Christian vocation”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Monday 16 May Pope Benedict XVI received pilgrims who participated in Saturday's ceremony for the beatification of Mothers Ascension de Corazon de Jesus Nicol Goni, and Marianne Cope. "E ...
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16 May 2005
EUROPE/ITALY - Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome and Dominican Republic sign agreement to guarantee full support for the health of little Dominicans
Rome (Fides Service) - The Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome has signed an agreement with the Dominican Republic with the direct involvement of the Italo Latino American Institute to guarantee full support for ...
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16 May 2005
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Vaccines and fighting cancer, TB and malaria: World Health Organisation starts annual meeting
Rome (Fides Service) - The 58th Meeting of the World Health Organisation opens today in Geneva. From May 16-25 representatives of the 192 WHO member countries will discuss how to improve and guarantee health on the plane ...
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16 May 2005
VATICAN - At the Regina Cæli prayer the Pope underlines the bond that exists in the Church between the Spirit and institution: “Without the Holy Spirit the Church would be a merely human organisation, weighed down by her very structures”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - At the end of the Holy Mass with the ordination of 21 new priests for the diocese of Rome, addressing from his study window the crowds gathered in St Peter’s Square for the midday prayer ...
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16 May 2005
EUROPE/SPAIN - "Children have rights": Professionals of ethics launch a campaign to prevent children being adopted by same-sex couples
Madrid (Fides Service) - “Children have Rights” is the title of a campaign lunched by the Federation of Associations of Professionals of Ethics FAPE to prevent the proposed amendment to Spain’s civil code to allow ...
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16 May 2005
VATICAN - Beatification of Marianne Cope and Ascensión Nicol Goñi: “Our two Blessed opened their lives to the Spirit of God letting themselves be led by him to serve the Church, the poor, the sick and youth ”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the afternoon of Saturday 14 May Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, presided Mass at the Altar of the Chair in the apse of St Peter’s ...
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16 May 2005
VATICAN - On the solemnity of Pentecost Benedict XVI ordains 21 priests: “The wind and the fire of the Holy Spirit must ceaselessly open the frontiers that we human beings continue to build between ourselves; we must always pass anew from Babel, from closing in on ourselves, to Pentecost”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the Vatican Basilica on Sunday May 15, Solemnity of Pentecost, Benedict XVI presided at Mass during which he ordained 21 deacons of the diocese of Rome. We give excerpts from the Pope’ ...
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16 May 2005
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Skin diseases lower immunity system opening the way for malaria and HIV. Only one ‘white coat’ for every 58,000 people, 12 skin experts and 100% of children with skin diseases
Rome (Fides Service) - Children everywhere in Ethiopia are prey to impetigo (superficial infection of the cute, highly contagious caused by bacteria), viral skin infections, mycosis, ringworm, skin TB, diseases which l ...
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16 May 2005
AMERICA/PERU - With the participation of 2 Cardinals and more than 120 Bishops of the continent of America the 30th Ordinary Assembly of the Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences, CELAM and celebrations for its 50th anniversary opens tomorrow in Lima
Lima (Fides Service) - The Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences (CELAM), created in 1955 by Pope Pius XII at the request of the Catholic Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean, is marking its 50th anniver ...
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