ASIA/INDIA - The house of a Protestant Pastor in Orissa attacked by a Hindu
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - A Hindu man attacked, with shouts and death threats, the house of a Protestant Pastor in Kandhamal district, the scene of anti-Christian violence that occurred in the state of Orissa (easter ...
26 January 2012
ASIA/INDIA - NGO’s alarm: "Christianophobia also in government"
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "The secular India suffers from Christianophobia, a disease rooted and well established, but not publicly recognized by the state and society": this is the complaint that comes from Indian civ ...
26 January 2012
ASIA/YEMEN - Appeal to help 750 000 malnourished Yemeni children
Sana (Agenzia Fides) - Approximately 750 thousand Yemeni children under five years of age suffer from malnutrition. This is what is learned from a recent press release, sent to Fides, which was released in Sana by the R ...
ASIA - The Bishops: "To become Church of the poor and marginalized in Asia"
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - After a "full immersion" in the realities of poverty, vulnerability, marginalization and suffering, the Asian Bishops hope that the Asian Christian communities in Asia become a "Church of the po ...
AFRICA/SENEGAL - Appointment of the Bishop of Ziguinchor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Holy Father Benedict XVI on January 25, 2012 appointed Rev. Paul Abel Mamba, now Apostolic Administrator of the same diocese as Bishop of Ziguinchor (Senegal)
Rev. Paul Abel Mamba was born ...