News
5 August 2010
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Worst cholera epidemic in 10 years: 30 cases a day
Maroua (Agenzia Fides) – Cholera has killed at least 94 people in northern Cameroon and is spreading, in what health officials say is the most severe outbreak in 10 years. Moloko has had more than half the region's cas ...
5 August 2010
ASIA/PAKISTAN - UNHCR appeal for 2 million refugees from flooding
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Floods and landslides are hitting northwest Pakistan and have already killed 1,500 people and displaced two million people now in need of immediate help to survive. The United Nations High Commis ...
5 August 2010
AMERICA/PANAMA - Bishops issue Pastoral Letter speaking out on national insecurity and violence
Panama City (Agenzia Fides) – The Panamanian Bishops' Conference (CEP) has indicated through a document that Panama is going through a serious situation of insecurity and violence, and urged all sectors to contribute t ...
5 August 2010
AMERICA/CHILE - From Chile: “an open letter to workers and those involved in their pastoral care”
Santiago de Chile (Agenzia Fides) – Fides was recently sent the final document issued after the seminar entitled: "Pastoral Care in the Working World in a Global Economy: Organization and Prospects," which took place i ...
5 August 2010
AFRICA/KENYA - Constitutional referendum showing large percentage in favor
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Signs show a nearly certain victory for those who voted “yes” in the constitution referendum that was held yesterday, August 4, in Kenya (see Fides 03/08/2010). After a reading of 75% of t ...
4 August 2010
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Thousands registered from across the world for “Jesus the Christ” eConference
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and the Broken Bay Institute are expecting thousands across the country and the globe to participate in an upcoming Jesus the Christ eConference on Se ...
4 August 2010
VATICAN - Populorum Progressio Foundation finances 186 projects for 20 Latin American nations
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Fides has been sent a statement from the Autonomous Foundation Populorum Progressio regarding their annual meeting of the Administrative Council of the Foundation held in Santo Domingo, D ...
4 August 2010
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Catholic Relief Services and the American law on the certification of Congolese minerals
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Caritas in the United States, welcomes the approval by the U.S. Congress of the Law 111-203, whose Article 1502 establishes standards to prevent the marketing ...
4 August 2010
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - 60th anniversary of perpetual vows for 8 Medical Mission Sisters working in health assistance for the poor
Philadelphia (Agenzia Fides) – On August 15, in Philadelphia, six Medical Mission Sisters (Medical Mission Sisters) from North America will celebrate their 60th anniversary of perpetual vows and another two, their 65th ...
3 August 2010
AFRICA/KENYA - Over 12 million Kenyans to vote tomorrow in referendum on new Constitution
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Over 12 and a half million Kenyans will hit the polls tomorrow, August 4, to vote on the referendum on the new constitution. The text submitted to popular opinion calls for restrictions on pre ...
3 August 2010
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Bishops: “Law on minerals is a sign of solidarity from the US towards the Congolese people”
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The Congolese bishops have welcomed the American Congress' adoption of a legislation to create an honest management in the marketing of minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is ...
3 August 2010
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Walking to spread the Word: 2,000 kilometer walk in Queensland
Brisbane (Agenzia Fides) – Three friends plan to walk 2000 kilometres, from Cairns to Stanthorpe in Queensland to raise awareness that the Bible remains untranslated in 2000 languages - representing 350 million people. ...
3 August 2010
AMERICA/MEXICO - Auxiliary Bishop of Durango: “Poverty and unemployment promote violence and insecurity.”
Durango (Agenzia Fides) – The situation is continually worsening in different parts of Mexico, creating great suffering. Bishop Enrique Sánchez Martínez, Auxiliary Bishop of Durango, has issued a letter to the commun ...
3 August 2010
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Course for priests at Missionary Cultural Center focuses on the missions
Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – Missionary formation today requires an intense human, spiritual, intellectual, and practical preparation. With this in mind, the Mission Cultural Center of Brasilia (CCM) held a course in mis ...
3 August 2010
ASIA/BANGLADESH - Sharp drop in tuberculosis rate, although disease remains very common among poor and illiterate
Dacca (Agenzia Fides) – The tuberculosis (TB) prevalence rate in Bangladesh has plummeted to 79 per 100,000 people from 800 in the 1990s, with the majority of cases among the rural, poor and uneducated, according to th ...
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