AFRICA-AIDS is also fought with a short film
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Last year, the AJAN (the African Jesuit Network against AIDS) launched a contest on the theme: "young people’s movies for life and love against AIDS", open to students of Jesuit schools on th ...
AFRICA/SOMALIA-Drought emergency for 10 million people
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The worst drought in 60 years has created a devastating food crisis that is hitting 10 million people in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Eritrea. Only this year, more than 135 000 Somalis have fl ...
EUROPE/POLAND-New draft law against any type of abortion
Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - The Pro-life activists Foundation in Poland have collected 600 000 signatures in favor of a bill that would prohibit any type of abortion in the country protecting the unborn from the moment of c ...
EUROPE/ITALY-The "White Sisters" are opening the 24th General Chapter
Rome (Fides Service) - The Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa (MSOL), known as the "White Sisters", are opening their 24th General Chapter in Rome, on July 13. For three weeks, until August 3, the 41 capitulants w ...
VATICAN-"Sea Sunday": the Pope prays for seamen kidnapped by pirates
Castel Gandolfo (Fides Service) – On Sunday, July 10, on the occasion of the celebration of the so-called "Sea Sunday", that is to say the Day for the apostolate in the maritime environment, during the Angelus the Holy ...