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13 May 2005
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Consolata Missionaries elect new Superior general: Fr. Aquileo Fiorentini, first non Italian to head the Institute founded more than 100 years ago
Sao Paolo (Fides Service) - The general chapter of the Consolata Missionaries (IMC) taking place in Sao Paolo, Brazil, has elected as new superior general to lead the institute for the next six years, Brazilian born Fr A ...
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13 May 2005
AMERICA/PERU - Experts from all over the world will meet in Lima for the 2nd International Pro-Life Conference
Rome (Fides Service) - From 10 to 13 November the capital of Peru will host the 2nd International Pro-Life Conference on the theme, Globalising the Culture of Life, which will bring together experts and protectors of hum ...
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13 May 2005
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Australian Bishops call for generosity in Timor Sea talks with regard to development of undersea oil and gas
Sydney (Fides Service) - Following the resumption in Brisbane of talks between East Timor and Australia on the development of oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea, the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference has appea ...
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13 May 2005
VATICAN - Beatification - Sr Marianne Cope, for 35 years mother to lepers on the Pacific island of Molokai. Interview with beatification postulator Sr Mary Laurence Hanley
Vatican City (Fides) - An American nun who worked with Blessed Damien the apostle of the lepers in Molokai, Hawaii, will be beatified in Rome tomorrow. Mother Marianne Cope (1838-1918) of the Sisters of the Third Francis ...
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13 May 2005
AFRICA/TUNISIA - Migration and human trafficking: 16 national Caritas from countries in the Middle East, Horn of Africa and North Africa meet in Tunis
Tunis (Fides Service)- Migration and human trafficking was the topic discussed at a Caritas MONA meeting in Tunis which opened Monday 11 May. Caritas MONA which comprises 16 countries of the Middle East, Horn of Africa a ...
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13 May 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Christians form Anti-Violence Forum in memory of Catholic priest mortally stabbed in Bihar
Patna (Fides Service) -In memory of a Catholic priest Fr Mathew Uzhuthal, Vicar general of Patna archdiocese who died on May 1 after being stabbed on April 11 in his parish office by a young bandit, Christians in Patna c ...
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13 May 2005
AFRICA/UGANDA - In 2003 alone: 6,900 patients admitted, 27,000 out-patients treated, 1,100 babies delivered: Naggalama Hospital is re-born. Monday 16 May inauguration of the Ugandan hospital rehabilitated with the help of Doctors with Africa CUAMM
Rome (Fides Service) -The new 100 bed Naggalama Hospital in central Uganda which serves a community of about 250,000 people will be inaugurated on Monday 16 May there.
Started in June 2002 the intervention to rehabili ...
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13 May 2005
ASIA/INDONESIA - In Aceh imminent revocation of state of emergency and martial law: hopes for freedom and respect for citizens’ rights
Jakarta (Fides Service) - The announcement that the Indonesian government intends to revoke the state of emergency in Aceh has been warmly welcomed by the local people sorely affected by the 26 December tsunami disaster ...
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13 May 2005
AFRICA/SUDAN - Representatives of two armed opposition movements in Darfur promise to resume talks with the Sudanese government
Rome (Fides Service)- A solemn promise “to resume as soon as possible talks in Abuja under the aegis of the African Union without pre-conditions” was made by the representatives of the two armed Opposition movements ...
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13 May 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - UN peacekeeper killed and 6 wounded in Ituri: local militia group suspected. “But the regular army troops also attack civilians”
Bunia (Fides Service)- “We are waiting to see how the UN Mission in Congo MONUC reacts to the attack on UN peacekeepers from Bangladesh in which one was killed and 6 others were wounded” said local forces in Bunia, ...
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12 May 2005
EUROPE/FRANCE - PMS Assembly: the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith distributes offerings collected on Mission Sunday for the needs of the Church in mission territories
Lyon (Fides Service) - The offerings collected on the last World Mission Sunday 2004, the fruit of the generosity of Catholics all over the world, increased compared to the previous year and they were distributed during ...
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12 May 2005
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Arms: south-south agreement. Angola will purchase weapons for 100 million dollars from Brazil
Luanda (Fides Service) - A south-south agreement, sale and purchase of 100 million dollars worth of arms is being arranged between Brazil and Angola after a visit to Brasilia in early May by Angolan President José Eduar ...
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12 May 2005
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Ibadan Serra Club visits seminaries in the Archdiocese to supportand encourage vocations
Ibadan (Fides)- A delegation of Ibadan Serra Club in Nigeria recently paid its annual visit to St. Theresa’s Minor Seminary and to the Saints Peter and Paul Major Seminary in the archdiocese of Ibadan.
The delegatio ...
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12 May 2005
ASIA - Asia’s sad world record: over 12 million people reduced to slavery or forced labour says International Labour Organisation
Geneva (Fides Service) - Asia has sad world record of over 12 million people reduced to slavery or forced labour. More than 75% of Asian workers live and work under subhuman conditions. This was denounced by the Internat ...
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12 May 2005
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Long list of persons booked under blasphemy law since 1988: 647 victims of a law which discriminates and is often a tool of exploitation
Lahore (Fides Service) - The list has 647 names: these are the names of people arrested and detained on charges of blasphemy in Pakistan since the blasphemy law was introduced in 1988. Besides these people at least 20 ot ...
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