News
3 August 2010
AFRICA/KENYA - Over 12 million Kenyans to vote tomorrow in referendum on new Constitution
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Over 12 and a half million Kenyans will hit the polls tomorrow, August 4, to vote on the referendum on the new constitution. The text submitted to popular opinion calls for restrictions on pre ...
3 August 2010
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Bishops: “Law on minerals is a sign of solidarity from the US towards the Congolese people”
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The Congolese bishops have welcomed the American Congress' adoption of a legislation to create an honest management in the marketing of minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is ...
3 August 2010
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Walking to spread the Word: 2,000 kilometer walk in Queensland
Brisbane (Agenzia Fides) – Three friends plan to walk 2000 kilometres, from Cairns to Stanthorpe in Queensland to raise awareness that the Bible remains untranslated in 2000 languages - representing 350 million people. ...
3 August 2010
AMERICA/MEXICO - Auxiliary Bishop of Durango: “Poverty and unemployment promote violence and insecurity.”
Durango (Agenzia Fides) – The situation is continually worsening in different parts of Mexico, creating great suffering. Bishop Enrique Sánchez Martínez, Auxiliary Bishop of Durango, has issued a letter to the commun ...
3 August 2010
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Course for priests at Missionary Cultural Center focuses on the missions
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – Missionary formation today requires an intense human, spiritual, intellectual, and practical preparation. With this in mind, the Mission Cultural Center of Brasilia (CCM) held a course in mis ...
3 August 2010
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Sharp drop in tuberculosis rate, although disease remains very common among poor and illiterate
Dacca (Agenzia Fides) – The tuberculosis (TB) prevalence rate in Bangladesh has plummeted to 79 per 100,000 people from 800 in the 1990s, with the majority of cases among the rural, poor and uneducated, according to th ...
2 August 2010
AFRICA/KENYA - Former President Moi campaigning against new Constitution
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – On the eve of the referendum of August 4, for the approval of the new Constitution, former President Daniel Arap Moi of Kenya has intensified his campaign against the new constitutional text a ...
2 August 2010
AFRICA/CONGO DR - New American law on “conflict minerals” addressed by President of the Congolese Bishops' Conference
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “The Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the American Law on Conflict Minerals.” This was the title of a press conference held by Bishop Nicholas Djomo, Bishop of Tshumb ...
2 August 2010
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Over 1 million people affected by flooding, Caritas launches emergency plans
Freiburg (Agenzia Fides) – According to a provisional evaluation, there are still 870 victims of floods in Pakistan, particularly in the Punjab region.
Tens of thousands of people are still isolated from the rest of ...
2 August 2010
AMERICA/CHILE - 450 youth on the missions in the earthquake-stricken areas to help out in reconstruction
Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) – With great enthusiasm and joy, more than 400 students from Catholic University (from the group “DUOC” in charge of the education project for the social mission of UC) left the ci ...
2 August 2010
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Communications leaders of Latin America conclude meeting
Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) – The Department of Communication and Press of CELAM has sent Fides the final document of the meeting held in Cochabamba, July 28 to 30.
The objective of the meeting was to share experience ...
2 August 2010
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - The tragedy of the talibes street children
Gabu (Agenzia Fides) – Each year a minority of Koranic students, or talibés, put under the care of a religious leader, are at risk for abuse. In trying to find a solution to this serious problem, several agencies work ...
31 July 2010
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - World Soccer Cup: “let's use the same determination to tackle the country's social problems" Christian leaders say
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides)- After South Africa's success in hosting the first-ever soccer World Cup in Africa, the government needs to use the same determination to deal with the country's social problems, say church l ...
31 July 2010
AFRICA/UGANDA - From kidnapped seminarian to priest; testimonial of Stefano, abducted in northern Uganda in 2003
Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- Stefano was 16 when he was abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in an attack the minor seminary in the diocese of Gulu in northern Uganda on 11 May, 2003 (see Fides 12/5/2003 and 19/5/200 ...
31 July 2010
ASIA/YEMEN - Getting food to 300,000 internally displaced persons in northern Yemen
Sanaa (Agenzia Fides) – Getting food aid to more than 300,000 internally displaced persons IDPs in northern Yemen is a complex task for logistics and coordination. The United Nations World Food Programme, (WFP), with t ...
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