ASIA/INDIA - Intolerance and violence against Pentecostal Christians
New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "There is growing intolerance and hostility toward small Pentecostal Christian communities, that are not allowed to do what is guaranteed by constitutional guarantees": says to Agenzia Fides ...
AFRICA/MALAWI - "Malawi is slowly dying of starvation" writes a missionary
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Now it is hard to keep count. It happens in all villages with more and more frequency. Funerals with long vigils in the night and the sad daily processions, the most obvious signs that slowly, ...
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Peace talks with communist guerrillas: the Church hopes
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in the Philippines expresses "hope and confidence" for the upcoming peace talks between the Philippine government and the "National Democratic Front" (NDF) which will be held ...
13 August 2016
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Polio returns in Nigeria, two cases in the north
Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - Nigeria has reported its first two cases of polio after more than two years, in an area that was recently freed from Islamic extremists who attacked the volunteers because of vaccinations, announ ...
13 August 2016
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The border with Venezuela reopens
Cucuta (Agenzia Fides) - Five border crossings, of which the most important, Cucuta towards San Antonio del Tachira, will be reopened today, Saturday, August 13, according to the agreements by the presidents of Colombia, ...