AFRICA-File: the regional threat of the LRA
Rome (Fides Service) - The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) was born in 1987 in northern Uganda, on the basis of a previous insurrectionary movement. In the early 90s it begins to install some bases in the south-east of Suda ...
ASIA/INDONESIA-The priest, author of "communion" in a pluralistic nation
Semarang (Agenzia Fides) - The priest is a man called to build "community" at all levels: in the community, in relationships with other religions, in civil society in a pluralistic nation like Indonesia. This is what was ...
15 June 2011
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA-Beggars in Addis Ababa and the Day of the African Child
Addis Ababa (Fides Service) - The African Union has promoted in the month of June, the Day of the African Child. The Salesian missionaries, have been present in the continent for over 100 years, have developed many proje ...
15 June 2011
AMERICA/HAITI - Mobile units to fight the cholera outbreak
Lodi (Fides Service) - An emergency operation for the creation of mobile units against cholera in Haiti has recently been approved. OCHA, the United Nations Organization for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid, has ap ...
AFRICA/BENIN-Appointment of the Archbishop of Parakou
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 14, 2011 the Holy Father Benedict XVI appointed the Archbishop of Parakou (Benin), His Exc. Mgr.Pascal N'Koué, who has been Bishop of Natitingou (Benin). (SL) (Agenzia Fides 06/14 ...