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• 12 April 2005
  VATICAN - Reduce infant mortality rate connected with pregnancy and birth. Bambino Gesù operates in more than 40 hot areas of the Planet Vatican City (Fides Service) - According to the World Health Organisation 11 million children die every year, 40% in the first month of life. Complications during pregnancy and birth are among the main causes of death am ...
• 11 April 2005
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Programme for preventive health care for women and children in Ethiopia: in the world every day 40,000 children die of curable diseases Addis Ababa (Fides Service) - According to the World Health Organisation every minute a woman dies of complications in pregnancy or while giving birth, and the mortality rate of infants in the early years of life is stil ...
• 11 April 2005
  ASIA/NORTH KOREA - North Korean Catholics in Pyongyang attend Mass for repose of the soul of Pope John Paul II Pyongyang (Fides Service) - Catholics in Pyongyang in north Korea attended a requiem Mass for Pope John Paul II according to http://www.zaobao.com/ “Lian He Zao Bao (Union Morning Post)” in Singapore. What is more t ...
• 11 April 2005
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch of the ancient Assyrian Church of the East in Iraq sends condolences to the Holy See - Iraqi Catholics also say John Paul II “A Saint Now! ” Baghdad (Fides Service)- Patriarch Mar Addi II of the ancient Assyrian Church of the East in Iraq expressed his sympathy to the Catholic Church for the death of Pope John Paul II in a message of condolence to the Holy S ...
• 11 April 2005
  EUROPE/GERMANY - On WYD 2005 web site young people of the world write messages about Pope John Paul II. German Bishops call Catholics to give generously to support World Youth Day and help renew missionary spirit. Cologne (Fides Service) - Young people of all ages and from all over the world are signing the book of condolence opened by the official World Youth Day web site (www.wjt2005.de) and leaving messages about Pope John Paul ...
• 11 April 2005
  EUROPE/ITALY - “The role of persons with a disability in rehabilitation and integration”: Associazione Italiana Amici di Raoul Follereau collaborates with Disability and Rehabilitation department of the World Health Organisation Rome (Fides Service) - In collaboration with the department for Disability and Rehabilitation of the World Health Organisation WHO the Italian association Amici di Raoul Follereau AIFO organised an international meeting ...
• 11 April 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - More than 200 reported cases of Marburg and 193 deaths. Epidemic still not under control Rome (Fides Service) - The epidemic of haemorrhaging fever caused by the Marburg virus is not yet under control: in fact there have been more than 200 reported cases, and of these 193 were mortal. This is the most seriou ...
• 11 April 2005
  Medicine and human rights: Meeting of Italian National Catholic Doctors Association Rome (Fides Service) - The Vercelli section of the Italian National Catholic Doctors Association has organised a National Meeting on Medicine and Human Rights 16 April 2005 at the S. Eusebio Salone , Vercelli Seminary. ...
• 11 April 2005
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “A Pope who will never be forgotten”, according to Cairo daily Al Arabi Ahram Cairo (Fides Service) - The Cairo daily Al Arabi Ahram has given ample space to the death and the life of Pope John Paul II. In today’s edition it refers to the late Pope as a “hero”, a man who helped end the cold ...
• 11 April 2005
  VATICAN - LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF AFRICA EMERGING FROM SPECIAL SYNOD FOR AFRICA CALLED BY POPE JOHN PAUL II - Apostolic Exhortation “Ecclesia in Africa” Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, signed the post synodal apostolic exhortation Ecclesia in Africa in Yaounde, Cameroon, on 14 September 1995. The document was drafted, the Pope said, at ...
• 11 April 2005
  The Path of the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Africa Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the solemnity of the Epiphany 1989, the Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, announced his intention to convoke a Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Africa. The publication of the L ...
• 11 April 2005
  First official document promulgated outside the Vatican: John Paul II signed the post synodal exhortation during his 11th pastoral visit to Africa Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the 14th of September 1995 Pope John Paul II left Rome for his 67th international apostolic journey which took him for the 11th time to Africa, and more precisely to Cameroon, South Afr ...
• 11 April 2005
  CAMEROON - “Beloved Africa, despite poverty and suffering walk your path with confidence!” Yaounde (Fides Service) - In the afternoon of Thursday 14 September 1995 Pope John Paul II arrived in Yaounde, capital of Cameroon, which he had already visited in 1985. During the morning of 15 September the Pope presi ...
• 11 April 2005
  SOUTH AFRICA - “Church of Africa: a Mission Church which becomes a Missionary Church Johannesburg (Fides Service) - On Saturday 16 September 1995, John Paul II left Yaounde, capital of Cameroon, to fly to South Africa for his first official visit to thatcountry at last on the path to democracy after long ...
• 8 April 2005
  VATICAN - Who is the priest for John Paul II Vatican City (Fides Service) - From the Apostolic Exhortation Pastores Dabo vobis 11: A correct and in - depth awareness of the nature and mission of the ministerial priesthood is the path which must be taken -- and in f ...