AFRICA/KENYA - “A new culture of transparency and accountability”
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “We acknowledge the democratic decision exercised by the majority of Kenyans in passing the new Constitution,” says Archbishop Zacchaeus Okoth of Kisimu, President of the Bishops' Commission ...
AFRICA/GHANA - SECAM/SCEAM Permanent Committee Meeting
Accra (Agenzia Fides) – A meeting of the thirteen-member Standing Committee of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) will take place in Accra, Ghana from October 24- 27, 2010.
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22 October 2010
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians protest chapel violently taken over by Muslims
Rawalpindi (Agenzia Fides) - A nonviolent protest and an outdoor Mass: this is how Christians in Pakistan intend to raise awareness in the national government and public opinion regarding the case of an illegal occupati ...
AMERICA/HAITI - After the earthquake and hunger, cholera strikes Haiti
Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) – A news bulletin of a local radio station, which sent a copy of it to Fides, says Haitian health officials have reported at least 80 victims in the diarrhea epidemic in the northeast, cl ...
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Women used as targets in DRC's 20 year-long war
Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) - “Congolese women are tired of conferences on the violence they suffer and they want to get to the root causes of these acts,” says Sister Teresina Caffi, of the Missionaries of Mary, Xaverian ...