AMERICA/HAITI - Two million people living on the street, 600,000 homeless
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - In Haiti, 6 months after the earthquake, there are still about 2 million people living on the streets. Approximately 1,300 emergency tents have become their permanent home. 600,000 are ho ...
ASIA/CHINA - Religious vows ceremonies in several Chinese orders
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – In recent days, religious from several congregations on the Chinese mainland took temporary or perpetual vows, according to information gathered by Fides. Two religious of the Congregation of ...
10 July 2010
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - As population grows, Church faces more challenges
Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – The final results of General Census of Population and Housing of Guinea Bissau, submitted July 9, opens a new page for a new distribution of religious assistance to Catholic communities in the ...
ASIA/CHINA - Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo of the Diocese of Zhengding released
Zhengding (Agenzia Fides) – Yesterday, July 7, Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo, the legitimate non-official Bishop of the Diocese of Zhengding in the Province of He Bei in mainland China, was released. Age 75, Bishop Julius J ...
AFRICA/KENYA - Child malnutrition rate lowered in refugee camps in Kakuma
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Aid workers in a camp for some 80,000 refugees in northwest Kenya have in six months slashed acute child malnutrition rates by doubling the provision of nutritional supplements, scaling up fee ...