AMERICA/GUATEMALA - More than 60 per cent of Guatemalans live in poverty
Ciudad de Guatemala (Agenzia Fides) - The scenario of inequality, racism, poverty and undernourishment in Guatemala is evident. Of the at least 16 million people living in this Latin American country, 60% suffer conditi ...
9 August 2017
ASIA/PALESTINE - Itinerant theatre to alleviate trauma of Gaza’s children
Gaza (Agenzia Fides) – A group of young people in Gaza has decided to take the only Itinerant theatre in Palestine to perform in orphanages, hospitals and day assistance centres, to alleviate the psychological stress a ...
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Funds assigned for the Catholic Church in Haiti
Washington (Agenzia Fides) – The United States Catholic Bishops Conference (USCCB), by means of its Commission for the Latin American Churches has assigned a sum of almost 6 million dollars: 4 to support the pastoral ...
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Drugs and crime behind massacre in a church at Ozubulu
Lagos (Agenzia Fides)- Yesterday Sunday 6 August 12 persons died and more than 20 were wounded in a shooting attack inside the church of Saint Philip at Ozubulu State of Anambra, in the south of Nigeria. Local Fides sou ...
ASIA/MYANMAR - Rohingya Muslims denied human rights
Naypyidaw (Agenzia Fides) – The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has urged the government of Myanmar to respect the human rights of the repressed minorities of Rohingya Muslims. OIC chairman during a recen ...