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23 February 2005
OCEANIA/SOLOMON ISLANDS - Announcing Christ through art and music and computer science: Catholic school in Tenaru adds new subjects to its programme
Tenaru (Fides Service) - Music and art and the Internet can touch the human heart and so they can serve for evangelisation. With this conviction St Joseph’s Catholic School in Tenaru, Solomon Islands, added to its curr ...
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23 February 2005
AFRICA/KENYA - The Church in Nyeri central Kenya welcomes back the earthly remains of its founder and first Bishop an Italian Consolata missionary
Nyeri (Fides Service) - On February 21 February the Church in Nyeri, central Kenya, welcomed back the earthly remains of its founder, Italian Consolata missionary Fr Filippo Perlo. Father Perlo was 29 years old when he ...
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23 February 2005
AFRICA - Missionaries of Africa founded for evangelisation and dialogue with Islam, also serve in dialogue with other religions, ecumenical dialogue and in the field of healthcare
Rome (Fides Service) - Healthcare was not always a priority for the Missionaries of Africa, also known as the White Fathers. Their specific charisma from the beginning (1868) was first evangelisation and dialogue with Is ...
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23 February 2005
ASIA/INDIA - Two months after the tsunami disaster Papal Nuncio visits affected areas
New Delhi (Fides Service) - Recently Archbishop Pedro Lopez Quintana Papal Nuncio to India visited Catholic communities in areas affected by the December 26 tsunami to comfort bereaved families, encourage the work of reb ...
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23 February 2005
ASIA/MALAYSIA - United Nations High Commission for Refugees protects Burmese refugees in Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur (Fides Service) - To cope with the continuous flow of immigrants coming from Myanmar the government of Malaysia plans to clamp down on illegal immigrants. The operation will start when the present amnesty en ...
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23 February 2005
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Diocesan Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies hold annual meeting: busy agenda of initiatives to make missionary dimension part of all pastoral activity
Bogota (Fides Service) - Diocesan directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies PMS from all over Colombia met for their annual meeting 1-4 February at Santandercito, Bogota to discuss the important theme: “the necessi ...
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23 February 2005
AMERICA/GUYANA - Three weeks of worst floods in a century in much of Guyana thousands abandon homes, thousands are missing: disaster completely ignored by international media
Georgetown (Fides Service) - For three weeks much of Guyana suffered worst floods in a century which caused thousands to abandon homes and villages, and thousands more were reported missing. The floods started on 17 Janu ...
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23 February 2005
VATICAN - Issues examined by assembly of Pontifical Academy for Life day two, range from health policies to religion of health, from the figure of the doctor to the right to life
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the second day of the assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life on 22 February, there were various interventions on different aspects of the central theme “Quality of Life and the Et ...
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22 February 2005
AFRICA/SUDAN - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies confirmed
Vatican City (Fides) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 10 December 2004, confirmed as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Sudan for another ...
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22 February 2005
AFRICA/MALI - National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 17 December 2004, appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Mali for a ...
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22 February 2005
VATICAN - “Do not be afraid of new technologies!! Do not be afraid of being opposed by the world!...Do not be afraid even of your own weakness and inadequacy!” Pope John Paul II addresses Apostolic Letter “The Rapid Development” to media operators
Vatican City (Fides Service) - More than forty years after the publication of the Conciliar Decree “Inter mirifica”, seeing the rapid development of technology in the field of the mass media, it is opportune to refle ...
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22 February 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - More than 10,000 escape fighting in north east Congo taking refuge in Uganda
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- More than 10,000 people have fled from Congo to Uganda since the a new outbreak of fighting between tribal guerrillas and former rebels in the north eastern part of Democratic Congo. The refugee ...
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22 February 2005
VATICAN - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples addresses letter to Rev. Don Julian Carron and to all Friends of Communion and Liberation on the occasion of the death of Mons. Giussani
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The following Letter was addressed by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples this morning to Rev. Don Julian Carron and all Friends of Commu ...
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22 February 2005
AFRICA/BURUNDI - 3 die of hunger in camp for former rebel soldiers in Burundi
Bujumbura (Fides Service)- Three former rebel soldiers died of hunger in a camp for former rebel militia in north east Burundi. The news was reported by the Burundian army chief of staff.
“The members of the FDD (For ...
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22 February 2005
AFRICA/LIBERIA - “More financial transparency or aid will stop”: World Bank issues stern warning to Liberia’s interim government
Monrovia (Fides Service)- The World Bank issued a serious warning to Liberia to take steps to prevent corruption and show more financial transparency. This emerged after a visit to Monrovia by Shengman Zhang World Bank m ...
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