AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Minor workers engaged in heavy activity and at risk
Salta (Agenzia Fides) - The Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP) has discovered a traffic of child laborers in an agricultural property in Salta, at the foot of the Andes, where 97% of these were not recorded. ...
7 May 2013
AFRICA/GABON - Church organizes procession against ritual crimes
Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church is organizing in all the dioceses of Gabon on 11 May a procession to sensitize the population and authorities on the so called criminal rituals. This is what the Bishops o ...
7 May 2013
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The social media revolution has arrived in Papua
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - In order to go to school, look for a job, go shopping, go to church or participate in the prayer, the young people of Papua use Facebook: the social network, now widely spread among young p ...
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Another priest killed
Barranquilla (Agenzia Fides) - Another priest has been killed in Colombia. Father José Antonio Bayona Valle, 48 years old, a diocesan priest of the Archdiocese of Barranquilla (Colombia) was killed last night with 18 s ...
6 May 2013
ASIA/NEPAL - We need to change behavioral attitudes to combat malnutrition
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - Across the country, child malnutrition, which causes stunting (low height for age, also known as chronic malnutrition) and other long-term effects on health, is not due to food insecurity or l ...
ASIA/SYRIA - Bishop Audo: Easter in the tears of our Orthodox brothers
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "They sang 'Christ is risen', and while repeating those words of joy and victory, they all had tears in their eyes. All their prayers mingled with their tears." With this image the Chaldean Bisho ...