Vatican City (Fides Service) - Fides section “history in photos” and “news in photos” (www.fides.org) has a new method of searching by area, nation and date. We recently added 470 exclusive photos from Fides Archives which may be down-loaded free of charge. The photos document missionary activity in Africa, Asia, America, Oceania and Europe (1963 and 1968).
We have left the names of the countries as they were in the 1960s:
168 from Africa (South Africa, Upper Volta, Angola, Benin (Dahomey), Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Leopoldville, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Central African Rep., Rhodesia, South Rhodesia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Southern Sudan, Tanganica, Togo, Uganda.
193 from Asia (Burma, China, Korea, South Korea, Philippines, Formosa, Japan, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Macao, Madagascar, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, Portuguese Timor, South Vietnam.)
2 from Oceania: (Micronesia, New Guinea)
7 from America (Brazil, Ecuador).
100 from Europe (France, Italy, Spain, Vatican).
(R.Z:) (Agenzia Fides 26/2/2004 - Righe 18; Parole 178)