ASIA/INDONESIA - Youth and Mission: a Festival in Jakarta
Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The young Catholics of Jakarta have begun to prepare the "Joyfest 2018", a Youth Festival which intends to reinvigorate faith and increase the missionary dimension of their Christian life, as Ge ...
30 May 2018
AFRICA/UGANDA - Walk of Faith: a pilgrimage for Ugandan martyrs
Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – 2018 Uganda Martyrs Day is celebrated on 3 June, an event that gathers pilgrims at the Namugongo Catholic Shrine. Since Saturday 26 May the faithful have thronged Munyonyo Martyrs Catholic Shr ...
30 May 2018
VATICAN - PMS Assembly: Extraordinary Missionary Month of October 2019
Sacrofano (Agenzia Fides) - " October 2019 should help bring the entire People of God to a new awareness of Christian baptismal responsibility for the Church’s mission to evangelize to the ends of the earth. It was dec ...
30 May 2018
AFRICA - The Jesuits: focus on governance, peace, human rights
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Political governance and human rights, sustainable development, peace, equitable sharing of natural resources, climate change and sustainable food: these are the points on which Jesuit social ce ...
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Fear reigns in the North-West: no social life
Bamenda (Agenzia Fides) - "There are no clashes in Bamenda. However, there is a lot of tension. Traders and entrepreneurs fear that their activities will be destroyed or damaged. Taxi drivers are afraid of being attacked ...
ASIA/NEPAL - More efforts are needed to defeat poverty
Kathmandu (Agenzia Fides) - The Nepalese government must do more to tackle the problem of poverty in the country: says to Agenzia Fides Sr Marisa, of the Congregation of Jesus, , commenting on the data of the Economic Su ...