ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "Yolanda" survivors now helping "Hagupit" victims
Palo (Agenzia Fides) - Survivors of Typhoon Yolanda are now helping those affected by Typhoon Hagupit (also called Ruby): So says a statement from Caritas of the Philippines sent to Agenzia Fides. From the Archdiocese of ...
10 December 2014
ASIA/THAILAND - "Houses of Hope" for abandoned children
Pathum Thani (Agenzia Fides) - In a letter sent to Agenzia Fides, Father Adriano Pelosin, PIME missionary who has been in Thailand for 36 years talked about the work carried out in the Houses of Hope where abandoned chil ...
AFRICA/ANGOLA – Archbishop of Luanda appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Pope Francis, on 8 December 2014 appointed as Archbishop of Luanda in Angola, Bishop Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias, until now Bishop of Cabinda. (SL) (Agenzia Fides ...
AMERICA/MEXICO – Young man dies to obtain justice
San Cristobal de Las Casas (Agenzia Fides) – A sad" and "desperate act": said Bishop Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel of the diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas (Chiapas - Mexico), referring to the tragic gesture of a yo ...
ASIA/PAKISTAN – A Christian woman beaten and humiliated: justice moves
Sheikhupura (Agenzia Fides) – Besides the case of a Christian married couple burned alive on 4 November, another serous episode caused concern among the Christians in Punjab: only days ago in the town of Rana, Shiekhup ...