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China: Catholics Attend Mass Despite Warnings, Priests Taken To Guesthouses |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
 Despite tight surveillance during the Beijing Olympics, more than 1,000 Catholics joined "underground" Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo of Zhengding, Hebei province, to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption of Mary.
In a separate development, several priests in the diocese were "invited" by public security officers to stay for a few days at government-run guesthouses before the Olympics officially opened on Aug. 8.
Church sources have told UCA News that prior to the feast on Aug. 15, public security officers warned Catholics in the diocese not to celebrate the feast in the cathedral in Wuqiu village, Jin county, but to attend Mass in their own village churches. The Marian feast is a major Catholic celebration in China. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 20 August 2008 )
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Tanzania: Second African Congress on Catholic Mission Planned |
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
 Tanzania will host a 4-day pan-African conference on Catholic evangelization on the continent, the second such event in as many months.The conference, from August 27 to 30, is an initiative of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace at the Vatican and the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), based in Accra, Ghana.The theme of the conference is, ‘Towards a New Evangelisation of African Society.’ In the last week of July, a 4-day conference was held by the Pontifical Council for Culture, with the theme, ‘Pastoral Prospects for the New Evangelisation in the Context of Globalisation and its Effects on African Cultures’. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 19 August 2008 )
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Uganda: Food crisis looms in the north |
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
 Food insecurity in northern Uganda, a region recovering from two decades of conflict, is approaching crisis levels due to a combination of factors, including bad weather and lack of adequate farm inputs, agricultural officials have cautioned. "The first season's harvest has been so poor because of a long dry spell, while heavy rains, pests and diseases are destroying crops for the second season," Jackson Lakor, a senior agricultural officer in Gulu district told IRIN. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 19 August 2008 )
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Kenya: Scientology Comes to Country |
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Monday, 18 August 2008 |
 There is a new religion in town. It recognises no sin, pays homage to no one, has neither angels in heaven nor fire and brimstone in hell and whose members say they can create miracles at will.
Its head office in Hollywood, California is set in a white, seven-storey modern building that resembles a castle set among palm trees.
To most Kenyans, it is a religion practised in the distant USA by Hollywood celebrities. It is called Scientology. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 17 August 2008 )
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