AFRICA/NIGER - Noma severely affects the poorest and malnourished children
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Severe malnutrition in Niger continues paving the way for Noma disease to claim more victims among poverty-stricken children, most of whom feel socially outcast as they see the infection eating a ...
AMERICA/PERU - Lost childhood in coffee plantations
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - 25% of Peru's population, or 7 million 700 thousand people, live in poverty, mainly in rural areas. One million people live in extreme poverty, less than one dollar a day. To help families, thousan ...
3 July 2015
ASIA/MALAYSIA - Evangelii Gaudium in Bahasha language
Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation "Evangelii Gaudium" will be translated in Bahasha, the indigenous language spoken by the majority of the population of Malaysia and Indonesia. As Agenz ...
3 July 2015
ASIA/IRAQ - The founding conference of the Chaldean League has concluded
Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – The first elected President of the Chaldean League, the organization - strongly supported by Chaldean Patriarch Raphael Louis I - that celebrated from the first to July 3 its founding conferenc ...
AFRICA/LIBERIA - Ebola nightmare is back: 3 new cases
Nedowein (Agenzia Fides) - Liberia, declared "Ebola-free" on May 9 by the World Health Organization (WHO), has plunged back into the nightmare of a new epidemic. Three new cases were registered in the same village, Nedow ...