ASIA/MALAYSIA - Fear for the biggest dengue epidemic ever recorded
Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - Armed with brochures and insecticides, an 'army' of Malays, mostly elderly, wander the streets of Kuala Lumpur among suburbs, buildings and skyscrapers, to fight against one of the most let ...
EUROPE/ITALY - Claretian Missionaries: the new Superior General is Indian
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On 5 September 2015, the General Chapter elected Fr. Mathew Vattamattam CMF, as the 13th Superior General of the Congregation of the Claretian. Fr. Mathew Vattamattam was born on 30th May, 1959 i ...
VATICAN - Pastoral visit of Cardinal Filoni in Bangladesh, India and Nepal
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, is leaving for a pastoral visit in Asia. From 9 to 13 September he will be in Bangladesh, where he w ...
AFRICA/DR CONGO - New massacres committed by jihadists in North Kivu
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - At least nine people have been killed in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in a new attack of the ADF-NALU, group of Ugandan origin that now calls itself Muslim Defense Internat ...
ASIA/LAOS - Christians arrested on charges of proselytizing
Vientiane (Agenzia Fides) - Two Christians were arrested by the police in the province of Khammouan, in the East of Laos, on charges of alleged proselytizing. The police broke into the house of a Christian in the village ...