Africa

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  2 October 2019
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Let's help Fidei Donum priests" urges the National Director of the PMS Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Bonaventure Luchidio, Coordinator of Fidei Donum Programs in Kenya, and Executive Secretary for Commissions for Missions at the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB), and National Dire ...
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  2 October 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - A genuine and solid educational system is needed to limit the horror of violence Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - Violence, sacrifices of children, suicides, increased child pregnancies, incivility, criminality, are among the many evils that undermine Ivorian society. "The Ivory Coast is getting worse in th ...
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  1 October 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The youth of Juba axis of Catholicism, missionaries in the archdiocese Juba (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the celebrations for the centenary of the South Sudanese Catholic Church, the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Juba, Mgr. Santo Loku Pio, the head of the Committee for Cent ...
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  1 October 2019
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Extraordinary Missionary Month: “Be missionaries, not spectators” the Bishops exhort Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We want you to rekindle your missionary spirit in order to proclaim Christ's Salvation everywhere", write the Bishops of Burundi, in the message for the Extraordinary Missionary Month which o ...
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  30 September 2019
  AFRICA/GABON - "The Jubilee was important to reinvigorate the Church in Gabon", says the Nuncio Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - "We are satisfied for the participation of the faithful in the closing ceremony of the Jubilee" says His Exc. Mgr. Francisco Escalante Molina, Apostolic Nuncio in Gabon and in Congo Brazzavil ...
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  30 September 2019
  AFRICA/GABON - Archbishop Dal Toso presides over the celebration of 175 years of evangelization Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - All the "spiritual and pastoral fervor", which characterized the year of preparation for the 175 years of evangelization of Gabon (see Fides, 27 and 28/9/2019), "will not stop at the closing ...
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  27 September 2019
  AFRICA/GABON - Sunday 29 September solemn closing of the Jubilee for the 175th anniversary of the Church in Gabon Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - "Celebrating the 175th anniversary of the arrival of Spiritan missionaries in this land is important not only for the Church in Gabon but also for the sister Churches. In fact, from Gabon the ...
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  26 September 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Let us overcome the situation of precariousness in which we live" exhort the Bishops Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We need to strengthen the sense of national belonging", write the Bishops of Nigeria in the final document published at the end of their second Plenary Assembly held from 10 to 20 September in Ag ...
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  25 September 2019
  AFRICA/ESWATINI - The Extraordinary Missionary Month gives life to an extraordinary year of mission in the diocese of Manzini Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - "Welcoming Pope Francis' call to revive our missionary commitment, I am calling our diocese to deepen on this missionary awareness and commitment by celebrating an “extraordinary mission year� ...
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  25 September 2019
  AFRICA/TOGO - The sacredness of Creation celebrated by young people for the Extraordinary Missionary Month Kara (Agenzia Fides) - Debates, conferences, days of formation and prayer, protection of the environment, are some of the activities that the youth of the Mary Queen of the World parish in Saoude, in the diocese of Kara, ...
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  24 September 2019
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The number of churches "legalized" by the Egyptian government rises to 1171 Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - In Egypt the process of "legalization" of Christian places of worship built in the past without the necessary permits is proceeding at a rapid pace. In recent days, the governmental committee in c ...
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  24 September 2019
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Religious leaders will participate in the great national debate focused on the crisis in the English-speaking regions Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "We were invited to the meeting of the great national debate and we agreed to participate", declared the religious leaders who had organized in August the Anglophone general conference aimed at ...
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  23 September 2019
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "The vote, the only way to get an alternation in power" write the Bishops Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We appreciate the fact that many of our fellow citizens have understood that the elections are the only way to obtain an alternation in power", say the Bishops of Burundi in the message read ...
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  23 September 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Ebola: "As religious communities we must encourage the population to trust health professionals", says the Bishop of Goma Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - " We are jubilant at the marvels of medical science in finding a vaccine to cure this deadly disease, but a cure brings no hope if fearful people have no trust in the health teams administering ...
• 20 September 2019
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Simplisio Manyika, O.Carm. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 16, 2019 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Simplisio Manyika, of the Carmelite Order as National Director of the ...