AFRICA/NIGERIA - Woman lynched for blasphemy: the five suspects acquitted
Kano (Agenzia Fides) - The five men suspected of having lynched a woman accused of blasphemy in the city of Kano, in northern Nigeria have been acquitted. On June 2, Bridget Patience Agbahime, a 74-year-old street vendor ...
VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni on a pastoral visit to Malawi and Zambia
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, begins his pastoral visit to Malawi today, where on November 5 he will preside at the consecration o ...
ASIA/PAKISTAN - A new educational center in Youhanabad
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A new social and educational center in Youhanabad has opened in the entirely Christian Lahore district, upset by a serious attack in front of two Christian churches in 2015. We are talking about ...
3 November 2016
ASIA/INDIA - Youth Pastoral in India: "Young people like eagles"
Trivandrum (Agenzia Fides) - "Why do you need and how to set up Youth Pastoral in India? A typical pessimistic answer to this question should not be given: 'Young people are not interested in faith, young people are led ...
AFRICA/NIGERIA - 10,000 children missing in Borno State
Maiduguri (Agenzia Fides) - The northwestern State of Borno, Nigeria, welcomes millions of internally displaced persons. Among these 10 million children have allegedly disappeared to be recruited as terrorists by Boko Ha ...