ASIA/INDIA - Forced mass sterilizations continue
Bilaspur (Agenzia Fides) - The freedom and personal dignity of Indian women continue to be trampled. From 2013 to 2014 over 4 million forced sterilizations were carried out in the country. There was turmoil in the State ...
11 March 2015
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Bishops: "Be a poor Church for the poor"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Our ministry now has a clear aim: to be a poor Church for the poor. Pope Francis' visit in Korea, in August 2014, is a starting point for the change and renewal of the Korean Church". This ...
11 March 2015
AFRICA/KENYA – A study of the Church: the factors of internal conflict
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Youth unemployment, unequal distribution of resources, land disputes, fights between ethnic and political groups. These are the potential causes of conflict in Kenya according to a study sponsor ...
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - A primary school for children in Hosanna
Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - In Hosanna, 250 km south-east of Addis Ababa, about 70 thousand people live, mainly very poor families, who do not have sufficient resources to ensure education to their children. The precar ...
ASIA/PAKISTAN - Jobs and scholarships for religious minorities in Punjab
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Punjab province promotes concrete steps to improve the lives of religious minorities: it has officially accepted to apply the law - promoted by the former Catholic Minister kill ...
ASIA/IRAN - Iranian MPs are preparing to commemorate the Armenian Genocide
Tehran (Agenzia Fides) - In the Islamic Republic of Iran the centenary of the Armenian Genocide will be the focus of a series of commemorative events that will also involve the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Iranian Parl ...