ASIA/INDIA - Donating organs is a service to God and humanity
Bombay (Agenzia Fides) - The 77-year old Bishop Agnelo Gracias, auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, has decided to donate his organs after death. This trend has grown tremendously in the Christian community: an increasing number ...
VATICAN - PASTORAL CARE WORKERS KILLED IN 2016
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the year 2016, 28 Catholic pastoral care workers were killed worldwide. For the eighth consecutive year, the place most affected, with an extremely elevated number of pastoral care work ...
ASIA/THAILAND - "The Kingdom of God is among us", even in a slum
Pathumthani (Agenzia Fides) - "Last night, after the celebration of the vespers I asked Pan, one of the seminarians who helps me in the community work - the slums around Pathumthani, where he had been and he answered: I ...
ASIA/INDIA - New Jesuit university in New Town
Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) – The West Bengal Assembly has recently approved a 2016 draft law of the Saint Xavier University of Calcutta, thus paving the way for the creation of a new university in New Town, Rajarhat, to ...
29 December 2016
ASIA/INDONESIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Purwokerto
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 29 December 2016, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Purwokerto, Indonesia, presented by His Exc. Mgr. Julianus Kemo Sunarko, S.I. (S ...
AMERICA/MEXICO - Christmas between consumerism and street children
Oaxaca City (Agenzia Fides) - For street children there is no "Christmas dinner", no gifts. They live marginalized, in the cold, under bridges, they have no family and are exploited. Unlike many children who spend these ...