AFRICA/UGANDA - Domestic violence at the center of reflection for Advent
Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – The local Episcopal Conference has launched the campaign "shared decisions, shared development, shared happiness".
"We want to intensify awareness so that we can bring about good behaviour a ...
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Students attending Catholic schools increase
Washington (Agenzia Fides) - "Catholic schools provide lasting faith formation, vocations to the religious life and priesthood, high educational attainments, and communities of the New Evangelization and should reach out ...
AMERICA/CUBA - Poverty forces children to beg in the streets and work
Havana (Agenzia Fides) - According to information sent to Agenzia Fides, child labor in Cuba is still a heavy plague. Some children are forced by their own parents to beg.
The majority of Cuban workers earn very little ...
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - From victims of violence to the protagonists of peace
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The project to have a clear and effective "place" in the process of rebuilding peace in Colombia, was proposed at the end of the fifth meeting of the Association of Victims of the conflict in Col ...
ASIA/HONG KONG - Pilgrims in Yim Tin Tsai recall St. Joseph Freinademetz
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic community on the island of Yim Tin Tsai, in Hong Kong, is paying tribute to the great Divine Word missionary St. Joseph Freinademetz (1852-1908), who lived in these places durin ...