Africa

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  6 April 2022
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "We want to go home but we fear for our safety": the cry of Central African refugees in Cameroon to Cardinal Nzapalainga Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - More than 20,000 people, Central African refugees living in Gado-Badjeri, 26 km from Garoua-Boulai, on the road to Bertoua in Cameroon, have expressed their strong desire to return to the Central ...
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  6 April 2022
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The community of Yalgo in shock after the kidnapping of an American missionary Kaya (Agenzia Fides) - "The diocese of Kaya joins in prayer for the release of Sister Suellen Tennyson, kidnapped on the night of Monday 4 to Tuesday 5 April 2022 in the parish of Yalgo, 110 kilometers from Kaya, the cap ...
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  5 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops: "The government should stop trying to play the ostrich and take urgent steps to ensure the safety of citizens" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The government should stop trying to play the ostrich as the nation profusely bleeds and take urgent steps to unmask these marauding terrorists who terrorize innocent Nigerians", say the Nigerian ...
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  4 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Christian denominations of Kaduna: "No to the hypothesis of hiring foreign mercenaries to fight against terrorists" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are surprised by the news reported by some newspapers according to which governor Nasir el-Rufai has threatened to deploy foreign mercenaries if the federal government fails to fight banditry ...
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  4 April 2022
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Society of Africa Missions wants to ensure educational opportunities in rural areas Foya (Agenzia Fides) - "The level of education in Liberia differs greatly between urban and rural areas. In the rural areas we are disadvantaged, we have no help from the Ministry", says Joseph Vayombo, director of the � ...
• 4 April 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of the Bishop of Lodwar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Fr. John Mbinda, C.S.Sp., former Provincial Superior of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit in Kenya and South Sudan, as Bishop of the Diocese of Lodwa ...
• 4 April 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Resignation of the Bishop of Inhambane and appointment Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Inhambane (Mozambique) presented by His Exc. Msgr. Adriano Langa, O.F.M.. The Holy Father has a ...
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  2 April 2022
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The commitment to the formation of the new generations of the Catholic Missionary Institute of Abidjan Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - ICMA, the Catholic Missionary Institute of Abidjan, was consecrated to Mary Our Lady of Evangelization last March 19 on the feast of St. Joseph. The rite at the end of the Holy Mass which conclu ...
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  2 April 2022
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - "Living the Gospel and accompanying young people": inauguration of a new community of the Missionaries of Mary Garoua (Agenzia Fides) - "For some years we have been planning to open a new community of the Missionaries of Mary in Cameroon: we will live in the midst of a Muslim majority people. Jesus, Light of the nations, wants to ...
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  1 April 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: Christians and Muslims should live Lent and Ramadan as a time of fasting and healing Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - This year, the Islamic holy month of Ramadan begins on the evening of Saturday, April 2, which coincides with the final weeks of Christian Lent, during which Christians prepare for Easter, the fea ...
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  1 April 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Forgotten war in Cabo Delgado: number of internally displaced persons increases Maputo (Agenza Fides) - The population continues to flee from Cabo Delgado, the northern Mozambican province where an insurrection led by armed jihadist groups has been ongoing since 2017. According to the latest report ...
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  1 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Robe Apostolic Prefecture: “We are turning the desert into an oasis” Addis Abeba (Agenzia Fides) - "Some may have the impression that I have abandoned the Prefecture, in fact I have lived all this time in the heart of our Church, where the Gospel has not yet arrived, among the Somali peop ...
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  31 March 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Attack on train in Kaduna: Condolences from Christian denominations Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Our hearts and prayers are with the bereaved families and we pray that God will give them comfort. And for those who have suffered injuries we pray for a speedy recovery", said the President of t ...
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  30 March 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Terrorist violence in Kaduna: Three priests have been kidnapped in the region this month alone Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - New attacks have occurred in the state of Kaduna, where two of the three priests kidnapped in Nigeria in the last month were kidnapped (see Fides 29/3/2022). In the last 24 hours, two attacks have ...
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  29 March 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Third priest kidnapped in Nigeria in March Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Father Leo Raphael Ozigi is the third Catholic priest kidnapped in March in Nigeria. Fr. Ozigi, parish priest of the church of St Mary, in the village of Sarkin Pawa, in the local government are ...