Africa

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  23 November 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The bus to transport HIV positive women from the mission to the regional hospital has arrived Addis Abeba (Agenzia Fides) - "The bus we asked to transport HIV positive women has arrived at last". This is what Father Christopher Hartley, a Spanish missionary who has been living in Gode since 2008 between Ethiopia ...
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  22 November 2017
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Post-Mugabe: "The population wants democracy and a net improvement in the economy" Harare (Agenzia Fides) - "Popular joy exploded with regards to the news of the resignation of Robert Mugabe", says to Agenzia Fides Fratel Alfonce Kugwa, National Coordinator of the Social Communication Committee of the ...
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  22 November 2017
  AFRICA/DRCONGO RD - 56 protestors killed between April and October in DR Congo: report Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - 56 people were killed during public demonstrations and meetings in the Democratic Republic of Congo between April and October this year. This is what the report "monitoring events and public me ...
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  21 November 2017
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Waiting for Mugabe's resignation; the Bishops: "give priority to the interests of the nation" Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Zimbabwe lives in suspense while waiting for President Robert Mugabe to resign, requested by his party's leadership, ZANU-PF. "I call on President Mugabe to take into account the people's appeals ...
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  21 November 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The individual bodies of the "Libyan martyrs" identified thanks to the DNA. Their burial is imminent Minya (Agenzia Fides) - The deadly remains of the 21 Coptic martyrs beheaded in Libya by jihadists linked to the Islamic State (Daesh) may arrive during the weekend or at the beginning of next week in Cairo to be buried ...
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  21 November 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Kenyatta's victory confirmed; Bishops call on citizens to resist persuasions toward violence Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We urge all Kenyans to embrace peace and resist any attempt to persuade them in engaging in criminal activities", the Catholic Bishops in Kenya state in a letter sent to Fides, signed by the Ch ...
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  20 November 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - Contemporary (negative) values threaten the family: Bishops at a conference on Amoris Laetitia Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "The phenomenon of teenage and single parenthood, poor or irresponsible parenting, separate household and distant marriages that make couples live apart, and in some cases far away from each other ...
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  20 November 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - 80% of the country in the hands of rebels; a missionary: "We are the poorest State in the world" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The war seemed to be over, but unfortunately it is not over everywhere", writes to Agenzia Fides Fr. Federico Trinchero, a Carmelite in the monastery Our Lady of Carmel in Bangui, capital of th ...
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  18 November 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Archbishop Obinna: "The poor are our treasure" Owerri (Agenzia Fides) - This Sunday in the parishes and then on November 29 in the Cathedral: in the Nigerian Archdiocese of Owerri, the "World Day of the Poor" is celebrated in two appointments. The first, explains Arc ...
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  17 November 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Pasinya accused of "black masses": when politics exploits religion Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The social and political climate in the Democratic Republic of Congo is becoming increasingly tense due to the postponement of the presidential elections to December 23, 2018. And political cla ...
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  17 November 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Multitude of Coptic pilgrims in Rizeigat for the feast of St. George Luxor (Agenzia Fides) – A moltitude of Coptic pilgrims crowded the San Giorgio Sanctuary in Rizeigat, in the southwestern province of Luxor for days, in one of the most impressive celebrations of Christian popular devo ...
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  17 November 2017
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Mugabe reappears in public; Christian leaders call for a government of national unity Harare (Agenzia Fides) - "The hope of a real change is fading between the people of the Country, because President Mugabe seems does not want to give up power", say sources of the local Church in Harare, capital of Zimb ...
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  16 November 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian court sentences man to death for the killing of Coptic priest Samaan. The Grand Mufti will have to approve the ruling Cairo (Agenzia Fides). The North Cairo Criminal Court approved the death sentence for Ahmed Said al-Sonbati, the young man who on October 13, killed and stabbed Coptic priest Samaan Shahata in a peripheral street in Cair ...
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  16 November 2017
  AFRICA/TOGO - "Let us take destiny in our hands", says a Togolese missionary working in the DRC Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - "The population is asking for one thing: an alternative. That is because the reality in Togo has been the same for 50 years, the same name, the same family. The people therefore only ask this: giv ...
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  15 November 2017
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - "The population is at work and the spirit is high" in Harare, where the military has taken control Harare (Agenzia Fides) - "The military has taken control of the key points of the capital: the presidential palace, parliament, airport, bus station, and the radio and television headquarters", says the Commission of Soc ...