AFRICA/GHANA - New home for disabled adults in Adidome
Adidome (Agenzia Fides) – Work has just recently begun on a new home for the disabled in Adidome, Ghana, in the Volta Region. 7 adults between 18 and 32 years are being cared for at the facility, with programs designed ...
ASIA/HONG KONG - Diocesan seminar on “the priesthood and society”
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - "Priests should always have their heart and feelings conformed to those of Christ." This was the conviction expressed by participants in the seminar organized by the Diocese of Hong Kong on Se ...
AFRICA/KENYA - Precarious health conditions increase misery in slums
Korogocho (Agenzia Fides) – Poor sanitation, lack of water and related disease outbreaks are making the lives of the residents of the sprawling Korogocho slums in Nairobi even harder. The threat of typhoid, cholera and ...
AMERICA/CHILE - Mapuche hunger strike ends
Santiago (Agenzia Fides) – After 82 days of fasting, the Mapuche detainees in the prisons of Concepción, Temuco, Lebu have decided to put an end to their hunger strike on the evening of Friday, October 1, after reachi ...
AFRICA/CONGO DR - UN report on human rights violations 1993-2003 published
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "I think the UN report will force the international community to carry out further reflection on recent events in the region," Fides was told by Fr. Loris Cattani, Xaverian missionary with a lo ...
4 October 2010
ASIA/CAMBODIA - Overcrowded prisons are breeding ground for TB and HIV
Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – Tuberculosis and HIV rates in Cambodia's largest prison are roughly six and four times the respective national averages.
A screening of 1,783 inmates at the Prey Sar prison in Phnom Penh ...