http://www.ladysilvia.biz http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/16672/missioni/0/ http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/16672/missioni/0/ Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:04:36 +0100 The Batwa first lived in the central African forests, but unlike the majority of the Burundi population who own farms, they are now a people without land. Many of the women make out a living for their families as traditional potters, others have to rent land or still live under a feudal system which requires them to return some of their profits to their landlord.“Even though we were one of the first communities in Burundi, the Batwa are still not recognized as indigenous,” says Evariste.“They are in an inferior position compared to the two other indigenous communities in Burundi, the Hutu and the Tutsi,” he says, “and cannot participate in some government institutions.”Batwa children often quit school after a few years or even months ]]> http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/15181/missioni/0/ http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/15181/missioni/0/ Sat, 30 May 2009 03:51:01 +0200 USA Yatra 2009 Seattle Thu May 28 - Sun May 31 May 28 (10 am & 7.30 pm) Public program venue: Seattle Center, Fisher Pavilion, 305 Harrison Street, Seattle, WA - 98109 Retreat: May 29 - May 31 (for pre registrants) Retreat venue: Puyallup Fairgrounds, The Pavilion, Near Gold Gate entrance, 110 9th Ave. SW, Puyallup, WA 98371 May 31, 7.00 pm - Devi Bhava (at retreat venue) San Ramon Public Program: Wed June 3 - Wed June 10 Retreat: Thu June 11 - Sat June 13 (for pre registrants) Devi Bhava: Sat June 6 & Sat June 13 - Evening Venue: M.A. Center, 10200 Crow Canyon Rd, Castro Valley, CA - 94552 Los Angeles Mon June 15 - Fri June 19 Venue: Radisson Hotel, Los Angeles Airport, 6225 West Century Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045 Devi Bhava (public program) 7.00 pm, Jun 19 Albuquerque ]]> http://www.ladysilvia.biz/rockitalia/14543/missioni/0/ http://www.ladysilvia.biz/rockitalia/14543/missioni/0/ Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:36:15 +0100 Sunnybrook Foundation today announced that international recording artists Sting, Sheryl Crow and The Canadian Tenors will perform at One Night Live™, presented by Sun Life Financial, on Thursday, May 21. Now in its second year, the concert will be held at the Air Canada Centre, and hosted by Sex and the City's "Mr. Big", Chris Noth. "We are thrilled that such mega star talent have thrown their support behind Sunnybrook's Women & Babies Program," said Kevin Goldthorp, Chief Executive Officer of Sunnybrook Foundation. "All of the proceeds raised by the concert will assist in building a new state-of-the-art home for our Women & Babies Program and help Sunnybrook continue to provide the very best care for our smallest patients and their mothers, when it matters most." Tickets for One ]]> http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/12038/missioni/0/ http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/12038/missioni/0/ Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:51:37 +0100 Free Tibet Campaign's contact in Machu County has spoken online with a very reliable source in Machu County. The source told our contact that he had witnessed at 5pm local time the arrival in Machu County of 25 trucks carrying troops armed with guns. The eyewitness said he had also seen several tanks arriving in the county. Theyewitness has gone to try and take photos of the recently arrived troops carrying trucks and tanks. The eyewitness is now attempting to secure photos of the troops and tanks. Our contact in Dharamsala has also spoken by phone with a source in Bazang county in Yunnan province. The source said that he had witnessed many posters posted on a wall calling for a free Tibet. Our contact has also heard today from monks at Kirti monastery in Dharamsala that they spoke ]]> http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/12037/missioni/0/ http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/12037/missioni/0/ Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:47:29 +0100 Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP 10 Downing Street London SW1A 2AA Dear Prime Minister I would like to be amongst the first to congratulate you for announcing in the House of Commons today that you will meet with the Dalai Lama when he visits London in May. We eagerly await further details about this meeting which we can only assume, following recent events in Tibet, will be an official meeting at Downing Street. It is crucial at this time that the UK government plays a leading role in compelling the Chinese government to conduct good faith discussions with the Tibetan government-in-exile which will lead to full autonomy on domestic matters for the people of Tibet. We are pleased to hear your comment that Chairman Wen Jiabao has informed you of his willingness to begin ]]> http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/12036/missioni/0/ http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/12036/missioni/0/ Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:33:22 +0100 The attached photos of dead Tibetans provide the most damning evidence seen so far that lethal force was used by Chinese security forces at protests staged by Tibetans in Aba town (Ngawa) in Sichuan province. The photos, which clearly show gunshot wounds, were taken on Sunday night and Monday morning at Kirtii monastery. As Free Tibet Campaign reported on 16 March 2008 (release below) an eyewitness told Free Tibet Campaign's contact in Dharamsala that he had seen Chinese security forces fire into the crowd of Tibetan protesters and that he had seen 13 Tibetans killed as a result of the firing. Other eyewitnesses reported seeing 30 Tibetans shot dead. These photos, together with the eyewitness statement, provide conclusive force that lethal force was used at Aba town by the Chinese ]]> http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/12004/missioni/0/ http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/12004/missioni/0/ Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:22:52 +0100 Yesterday, 14 March 2008, at 2 o'clock, Chiara Lubich at 88 years of age, has concluded her earthly journey in a serene and sacred atmosphere. She passed away in her home at Rocca di Papa (Rome), where she had returned after having been discharged from the Gemelli hospital the night before. This had been her desire during the last days of hospitalization. All day long, in the concluding hours of her life, hundreds of people - relatives, close collaborators and her spiritual sons and daughters : paid their last farewell in her room, and then stopped for a moment of meditation in the adjacent chapel. It was a constant and spontaneous prayerful procession. Afterwards, they lingered on around her house in recollection. Some of these people Chiara was able to recognize despite her extreme ]]> http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/9433/missioni/0/ http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/9433/missioni/0/ Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:58:11 +0200 AFGHANISTAN MISNA; [After a day dominated by news related to Afghanistan, we gladly receive and publish the text for the appeal by Teresa Sarti Strada, president of the humanitarian organization "Emergency".] We are in anguish for the safety of Rahmatullah Hanefi, the Afghan director of the Emergency hospital at Lashkargah. At dawn on Tuesday 20/03 he was taken by the Afghan security services. From that moment none of us has been able to see or talk to him. No charge has been laid against him and there is no document that makes his detention official. For now. Because the ones detaining him have given us to understand that the accusations and the evidence can be invented. Some Afghanis who work in the place where Rahmatullah Hanefi is detained, have told us that he is in the ]]> http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/7573/missioni/0/ http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/7573/missioni/0/ Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:11:21 +0200 On a warm Saturday afternoon, 32,000 "Paulistanos," as residents of this 10.9 million population city are known, assembled for an important purpose: to learn about and promote religious freedom. Although the crowd was far greater than the Ibirapuera Gymnasium could hold, some judicious arrangements allowed almost everyone to hear part of the event. The first "Religious Liberty Festival" held by Brazilian Seventh-day Adventists and the International Religious Liberty Association (IRLA), drew attendees from across society, including representatives of other Christian and Jewish groups. The large turnout for the event impressed organizers with the many Brazilians' commitment to freedom of conscience. "We celebrate religious liberty because people who do not have liberty do not have a ]]> http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/6532/missioni/0/ http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/6532/missioni/0/ Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:51:15 +0200 In the general audience, held this morning in St. Peter's Square in the presence of more than 40,000 people, Benedict XVI continued his catechesis on the relationship between Christ and the Church in the light of the experience of the Apostles and the task with which they were entrusted. "Through the apostolic ministry," said the Pope. "the Church, the community brought together by the Son of God, ... will live through the ages, building and nourishing the communion in Christ and in the Spirit to which everyone is called and in which everyone can experience the salvation given by the Father. "Indeed, the twelve Apostles were careful to provide successors so that the mission entrusted to them would continue after their death. Thus over the centuries the Church, organically structured ]]> http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/4795/missioni/0/ http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/4795/missioni/0/ Fri, 04 Feb 2005 00:36:12 +0100 DAKAR, (IRIN) - The meeting-place was at a noisy down-market street café where the waiter as well the clients were gay, but where everyone was staunchly pretending not to be. Senegal's homosexual men are peeping out from behind the mask, but social and religious taboos run strong. "We are always pretending," said one of a couple of the leaders of the country's underground movement who had agreed to come out of the woodwork to talk to PlusNews on condition of anonymity. "Sometimes we feel sick of the lies." Hit by a spate of deaths and disease in the community five years ago, a group of gays got together "to find out whether it was HIV/AIDS and what to do about it," said 27-year-old Mamadou (not his real name). "There were no free tests available, people wondered if it was malaria." ]]> http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/956/missioni/0/ http://www.ladysilvia.biz/ladysilvia/956/missioni/0/ Fri, 27 Dec 2002 12:14:18 +0100 iL CRISTIANESIMO COME MARTIRIO. Nella preghiera dell\'Angelus, nel giorno in cui la Chiesa commemora santo Stefano primo martire del cristianesimo, lapidato per non aver rinnegato Gesù, il Papa esorta i cristiani a non dimenticare che seguire il Signore in alcuni casi può voler dire «martirio» e salire «senza compromessi alla Croce». Il Pontefice richiama inoltre l\'attenzione sui tanti cristiani che, in molte parti del mondo, soffrono persecuzioni a causa della propria fede. Giovanni Paolo II, affacciatosi alla finestra del suo studio si è rivolto ai molti fedeli e turisti radunati in piazza san Pietro e ha sottolineato il «clima di gioia del Natale»; ma è poi passato a riflettere su Stefano protomartire che, ha spiegato, «ci aiuta a capire più in profondità il mistero che stiamo vivendo ]]>