Agenzia Fides

Dossier

• 2004-03-20
  HOW MISSIONARY MARTYRS ARE COMMEMORATED IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD
• 2004-03-20
  CHART OF MISSIONARY MARTYRS 2003
• 2004-03-20
  MARTYROLOGY 2003
• 2004-03-20
  VATICAN - “The blood of missionary martyrs hope for the world” Interview with Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples.
• 2004-03-20
  “Persecuted but not Abandoned” (2Cor 4,9): 24 March 12th Day of Prayer, fasting and charitable works in memory of Missionary martyrs
• 2004-03-13
  AFRICA/BENIN - Little girls in Cotonou: education changed the lives of many little girls
• 2004-03-13
  ILO: CHRONOLOGY OF THE FIGHT AGAINST CHILD LABOUR.
• 2004-03-13
  SLAVES OF MANY OWNERS.
• 2004-03-13
  LENT 2004 - “Humanity cannot close its eyes to such a tragedy! What have these children done to deserve such maltreatment?” (John Paul II - Message for Lent) 2 - CHILD LABOUR
• 2004-03-13
  AMERICA/PERU Archdiocese of Huancayo denounces: to support their families more than 3000 children work on building sites, mines, plantations
• 2004-03-13
  AMERICA/BRAZIL In Brazil the child’s “working week” grows with the child: 12 hours for a 5 year old to 37 hours for a 16 year old. Particularly serious problem of domestic work: little girls kept in semi-slavery and often abused.
• 2004-03-13
  ASIA/INDIA - The Church keeps close watch on child labour: religious institutes and lay associations provide valid assistance
• 2004-03-13
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - “To uproot child labour a greater effort must be made to eliminate poverty”: Archbishop Lawrence Saldhana, President of Bishops’ Conference tells Fides - The local Church provide child workers with free afternoon schooling
• 2004-03-13
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - “To eliminate the scourge of child labour parents must be made to realise that that children are not the property of adults ” says Father Benedito who runs a Home for Children in southern Angola
• 2004-03-13
  AFRICA/BENIN - “Child labour is a modern form of slavery ” says Father Claude, in front line to fight the plague of street children in Benin