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VOL. 49, NO. 24 '. Fri.day"June 17,2005
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Bishop announces ,fournew assignments: .' FALL RIVER - Four priests serving in the Diocese of Fall River have received new assign-, ments from Bishop George W.¡ Coleman, it was announced today. All of the appointments are effective June 29. They are: Father David C. Frederici, parochial vicar at Our Lady of Victory Parish in Centerville, will become chaplain at Cape Cod Hospital, with residence at Our Lady of Victory Parish. Father Dariusz Kalinowski, parochial vicar at St. Mary's Parish in Mansfield, will become parochial vicar at Our Lady of Victory Parish, Centerville. Father Hugh J. McCullough, parochial vicar at St. Pius X Parish, South Yarmouth, will be the new parochial vicar at St. Francis Xavier Parish in Hyannis. Father John M. Murray, chaplain at Cape Cod Hospital, will leave that post and become the parochial vicar at St. Pius X Parish in South Yarmouth
Appeal enters final week
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ESPIRITO SANTO SCHOOL Second-Graders Kate Carreiro, Angelica Ferreira, Caitlyn Borges, and Skye Cuvallier prepare to march in a religious procession at Espirito Santo Church, Fall River, recently. The girls had made their first Communion a few weeks prior.
FALL RIVER - As the last full week of the Catholic Charities Appeal was drawing to a close Appeal headquarters announced that it had surpassed the $3.5 million dollar mark and hopefully was on its way to eclipsing last year's total of $3,947,000. The Appeal formally closes its books at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, June 21. As this edition of The Anchor went to press the phones were ringing off the hook at Appeal headquarters with parishes calling in their most recent totals, and advising them as to what they would be doing in the final few days to guarantee their parish exceeded its previous year's total. "What has become a 'benchmark' over the past few years is the level of effort that parishes have shown right up until the very last few minutes of the Appeal", said Mike Donly, director of Development for the diocese. Turn to page 11 - Appeal
Global stage being readiedfor push on debt reliefandAfrica aid
MEMBERS OF the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women delivered many non-perishable food items to the St. John of God Soup Kitchen in Somerset and personal items' to the Hope House of Fall River following their recent convention. All those attending donated items. From left: Madeleine Lavoie, convention co-chair; Lynette Ouellette, former president; and Claudette Armstrong, convention chairman.
WASHINGTON (CNS) - Getting the world's wealthy nations to pony up billions of dollars to cancel debt and to finance relief and development, particularly in Africa, fs shaping up as a theme for the' global stage this summer. And that "stage" is the artistic sort, as well as the political kind. In Washington, London and Brussels in early June, presidents, prime ministers and pop stars outlined their approaches to eliminating global poverty. At the_White Hous~ reGently, British Prime Minister Tony BlaIr said he hoped to have an agreement with the United States on a plan to eliminate poor countries' debt in time to present it at the July conference of the Group of Eight industrialized nations. Blair in July will become chairman of the G-8, made up of the leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Canada and Russia, Blair's Commission for Africa, a panel convened to determine how to defeat poverty in Africa, has recommended that wealthy nations cancel the debt ofthe poorest countries in Africa and double economic aid to the continent.
At the White House, President George
vy. Bush joined Blair in calling for the in-
ternational community to increase emergency humanitarian aid for Africa and announced the United States would contribute an additional $674 million. Blair said the United States and Britain share "a real and common desire to help that troubled continent come out of the poverty and deprivation that so many millions of its people suffer. In a situation where literally thousands of children die from preventable diseases every day, it's our duty to act, and we wilL" The Catholic Campaign Against Global Poverty, a joint project of Catholic Relief Services and the U.S. Conference ofCatholic Bishops, also is encouraging people to push to cancel the debts poor countries owe to the World Bank and other financial institutions, which requires the agreement of the Group of Seven, the G-8 countries minus Russia. Elsewhere, the world's music fans are the target audience for five concerts to be held July 2, when headliners will perform as part of a campaign to raise awareness about global poverty and put "political Turn to page 13 - Relief