AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Eritrean refugees in Tigray need protection and help
Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Eritrean refugees in Tigray, in the northern region of Ethiopia, must be granted a legal status that protects them. This is what Abba Mussie Zerai, a priest of the eparchy of Asmara, who has ...
ASIA/THAILAND - Student protests: Parliament sets up "committee of experts"
Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Although there are no longer protest marches in the squares of the capital Bangkok and other Thai cities, the situation in the country remains tense after nine months of public demonstrations, m ...
AFRICA/GHANA - Death of former Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings
Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Former President of the Republic of Ghana Jerry John Rawlings died at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra on November 12 after a short illness.
73-year-old JJ Rawlings fell ill after his mother' ...
13 November 2020
AMERICA/HAITI - Appeal for the release of a kidnapped Scheut missionary
Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - According to local press reports, Father Sylvain Ronald of the Scheut Missionaries (CICM) was kidnapped by armed men on November 10th in Delmas, Haiti. The Haitian Religious Conference im ...
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Devastating drought for the communities of Tarvita
Chuquisaca (Agenzia Fides) - In the face of a devastating drought which affects half of the communities in Tarvita in the Chuquisaca department (Bolivia), the residents have set out for the mountains to ask God for rain, ...