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 ...
2 January 2017
ASIA/IRAQ - The civil authorities: Christians, return to Basra
Basra (Agenzia Fides) - The celebrations for the beginning of the new year 2017 gave civil authorities of the province of Basra this opportunity to spread many messages and signals of attention towards Christians. In par ...
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 ...
29 December 2016
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/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 ...
22 December 2016
ASIA/INDIA - Christians in Orissa seek protection for Christmas
Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - A few days before Christmas, the Christians of Kandhamal district in the Indian state of Orissa, the epicenter of anti-Christian massacres of 2008, call for a Christmas in peace and free fro ...
ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishops of Bombay
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 20 December 2016 the Holy Father appointed rev. Allwyn D'Silva, Episcopal Vicar of Bombay, and rev. Barthol Barretto, of the clergy of Mumbai, parish priest and Vicar Forane as auxiliary ...
ASIA/INDIA - The tribal become entrepreneurs thanks to a nun
Kohima (Agenzia Fides) - Farmers, artisans, merchants: Garo tribals in the Indian state of Nagaland in northeast India, have become entrepreneurs and have improved their standard of life dealing with cultivation, process ...