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Securing better access to early testing & treatment for children living with HIV or HIV/TB
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logo_usg-uisgSecuring Better Access to Early Testing andTtreatment for ChildrenLliving with HIV or HIV/TB Co-infection and to Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV.-

Preliminary Draft Programme for Advocacy Training Days

15-16 October 2009

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Conference on the Need for Increased Access to Testing and Treatment for Children with HIV and/or TB
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logo usg-uisgConference on the Need for Increased Access to Testing and Treatment for Children with HIV and/or TB and for Greater Uptake of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV.

Organized by: Caritas Internationalis; Co-sponsored by: Health Commission of the Unions of Superiors General and Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù;  in partnership with the United States of America Embassy to the Holy See.

 

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The Integrated Constitutions of apostolic and contemplative Good Shepherd Sisters have been approved
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bonpast_chap ( www.bonpasteur.com ) The Integrated Constitutions of apostolic and contemplative Good Shepherd Sisters have been approved June 27 by the capitulants of the 2009 Congregational Chapter.
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27 june 2009, United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on
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Sister Germaine Price, representing the Company of the Daughters of Charity at the United Nations, shares the news below from the UN:

 

As Daughters of Charity, we are very aware of the effects of the global economic crisis wherever we live; we know that the impact on people living in poverty in developing countries has been especially devastating.

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Faith in Water Workshop: 5-7 July 2009
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nairobi_classroom-web ( www.arcworld.org ) PRESS RELEASE, June 23rd

Water, sanitation, children and faith are the focus when religious leaders, theologians, educators, environment specialists, water sanitation experts and innovators meet for the first ever workshop on Faith and Water in Salisbury’s Sarum College from July 5th – 7th July.

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ASIA/MYANMAR - New Rector appointed for St Joseph's major theological seminary in Yangon

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) –Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 17 April 2009, appointed Rector of St Joseph's Major Theological Seminary in the archdiocese of Yangon, Rev. Hyginus Myint Soe, who is a member of the diocesan clergy of Yangon (Myanmar). The new Rector was born on 11 January 1968 at Shwe Hin Thar Kyune, Nyaungdon. After primary and secondary school, with studies in chemistry, he studied philosophy at Pyin Oo Lwin Major Seminary (1989-1991), he completed his studies in chemistry (1991-1992), then studied theology at the Major Seminary of Yangon (1992-1996). He was ordained a priest on 19 March 1996 in the Cathedral of Yangon. After his ordination he served for a year at the Minor Seminary of Bago, then went to Paris to continue his studies (1997-2002), at the Institute Catholique de Paris, for a Doctorate in Canon Law. Since 2003 he has taught Canon Law and served as Dean of Studies at St Joseph's Major Theological Seminary in the archdiocese of Yangon. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 2/7/2009; righe 15; parole 197)

AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The work of Conventual Friars Minor to assist poor people and street ...

Palmira (Agenzia Fides) – The presence of Conventual Franciscans in Venezuela dates to 1978, when the first three missionaries left Italy and arrived in Guanare. From the early years the missionaries helped with pastoral activity in the parish of San José Obrero and with initiatives of assistance mainly for homeless people and slum dwellers on the outskirts of the great cities. The Bishop of Caracas suggested they should start this work at the Lidice-Manicomio slum where a parish school was opened and then in 1991 the parish of San José responded to the vertiginous increase of poor people opening a Home and Centre for basic medical care. Work started with few resources on building land and a first group of slum dwellers, borrachitos, were welcomed thanks to the work of the missionaries, today assisted by volunteers of the Secular Order of St Francis (OFS). Project Alejandro, also run by OFS volunteers, helps street children from La Importancia slum who abandon school to live on the streets possible victims of all kinds of crime (steeling, drugs, prostitution). The implantatio Ordinis produced a rapid vocational response. Today the heart of the mission is Palmira, a town about 10 km from S. Cristobal, the site of the diocesan seminary and the seminary of St Joseph Cupertine, opened to meet the desire of many young Venezuelans to share the Franciscan ideal. Founded in 1989, St Joseph's Seminary has today 11 postulants and 9 professed brothers already inserted in three parish communities. Equally fecund is the presence of the Franciscan family. In 1983 Poor Clare Sisters founded Santa Clara Convent at Guanare (today with about 20 local women religious) and the Militia of Immaculate Mary, first started in the seminary at Palmira has been active since the 1990s. Active in the apostolate of the press, the community publishes the Caballero de la Inmaculada, a bulletin with a circulation of 15,000 copies distributed regularly to Franciscan centres all over Venezuela. (A.M.) (Agenzia Fides 2/7/2009; righe 24, parole 315)

ASIA/TAIWAN - Preparations for a course of ongoing formation for priests during the Year of the ...

Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – “Revision and assimilation of the theology and pastoral of the Sacrament of Holy Orders in the light of the Revelation of Christ (Sacred Scripture and Tradition interpreting the faith and foundations of the Church on the Sacrament of Holy Orders”. This is the motivation which led the Commission for the Clergy of the Regional Bishops' Conference of Taiwan to entrust to Taiwan Major Seminary the organisation of a short Summer Course of ongoing formation for priests as part of initiatives for the Year of the Priesthood, it was reported to Fides. The purpose of the Course is to “help priests, especially young priests, recently ordained, to distinguish more clearly between the vocation of the priest and the vocation of the laity, and the respective specific pastoral duties. Besides reflection, meditation, discussion, the participants will have the opportunity for experience of pastoral service of charity to meet the necessities of the local Church in the present day”. Fr. Paul Preauxe and Fr. Francois-Regis have been entrusted with specific themes. In preparation the Commission has asked the participants to again read carefully the following Church documents: Decretum De Presbyterorum Ministerio et Vita Presbyterorum Orfinis, Pastores dabo vobis, The Priest and the Third Christian Millennium. According to the Commission, the course will take place from 17 - 28 August at the Seminary. All local priests ordained in the last ten years are obliged to attend, however the session is open to other priests and religious, local and foreign. (NZ) (Agenzia Fides 02/07/2009 - righe 20, parole 234)

ASIA/VIETNAM - Franciscan Missionaries of Mary involved in intense pastoral activity at a ...

Song Doc (Agenzia Fides) – Opened just over a year ago, the House of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary at Song Doc, in the southern part of Vietnam, is already an important point of reference for the people of Ca Mau, mainly, (70%) migrants from the north transferred to new economic districts as part of government policy in the 1970s. To provide normal pastoral life for the Catholic majority - often lacking adequate structures- the Sisters worked for more than ten years in the district, until, in 2007, a decision was made to build new Pastoral Centre, consisting of the community house and a two floor school building. The work was soon completed thanks to local men and women who offered to help with transporting material and construction work. Already by the end of 2007 the first 40 pupils, mainly from poor families, started lessons at the new school and kindergarten, temporarily housed in the basement. On 28 June 2008 Assunta II Centre was official opened with a Eucharistic Celebration which brought together all the people of the district of Tran Van Thoi. Today the Centre is run by the parish priest of the province of Ca Mau and the apostolate of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary includes catechism classes, preparation for matrimony, preparation of Sunday Liturgy, visiting families of the parish, school for adults and reinsertion of migrants in pastoral life. (A.M.) (Agenzia Fides 2/7/2009)

AFRICA/GUINEA - Alarm for consumption of heavy drugs; growing numbers of young people, many of ...

Conakry (Agenzia Fides)- The Republic of Guinea (also known as Guinea Conakry) is no longer only a transit point for drugs (principally cocaine) on its way to Europe, it is a now a new market for drug traffickers. A warning about increased drug addition in the country was issued by Captain Moussa Tiégboro, secretary of state in charged of combating drug abuse, who recently visited to only two centres for the rehabilitation of drug addicts in Guinea. “Visiting these centres I felt deep regret for the future and the transformation of Guinean society. The scourge of drugs is now a concerning issue. I believe this visit will help us to assess the extension of drug abuse in our country and to unite with other neighbouring counties in efforts to eradicate the phenomenon” said captain Tiégboro. The directress of one of the centres visited by the secretary of state for combating drug abuse, Mariame Baldé, told the local daily Guinéenews that most of her patients, suffering from serious psychic pathologies, contracted the illness because of consumption of heavy drugs. Not long ago the most diffused drug was marijuana, cultivated locally. However in recent years there has been an increase in consumption of heroine and cocaine, imported into the country by international drug trafficking organisations which use West African countries as transit points for Europe. Most of the patients at the centre run by Mrs Baldé are between 20 and 35 years old. She revealed another disquieting factor: a growing number of girls now consume heavy drugs. “Our centres are overcrowded. We have more than a hundred young drug addicts in rehabilitation. Until a few years ago not many were girls. Sad to say things have changed. Three years ago women consumed mainly marijuana, now more and more of them are turning to heavy drugs like heroine and cocaine”. This is a concerning tendency, Mrs Baldé underlines, especially because of the role of women in Guinean society, in education particularly. Combating drug trafficking and abuse is one of the priorities adopted by the military junta which took power with a coup in December 2008 (see Fides 15/6/2009). The Guinean authorities have announced the arrest of Nigerian citizen, Obrain Sonadia, defined “a major negotiator in international drug trafficking”. Reportedly Sonadia attempted to come to an agreement with Tiégboro: in exchange for permission to use Guinea as a transit point for cocaine destined for Europe, the drug trafficking network promised to finance the national budget and prevent the sale of and consumption of drugs in Guinean territory. After prolonging the negotiations in the hope of catching other members of the drug trafficking network, captain Tiégboro ordered the arrest of the Nigerian. According to the 2009 World Drug Report. WDR, issued by the UN office for combating drug abuse and crime, the quantity of cocaine in transit in West Africa on its way to Europe (see Fides 25/6/2009) is decreasing. For this change in tendency to become permanent it must be accompanied by support measures on the part of African countries. (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides 2/7/2009 righe 41 parole 561)

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