Africa
21 October 2023
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Media representative of the Bishops' Conference: “Our listeners ask us above all for prayers”
The Catholic media in Côte d'Ivoire has undergone a profound evolution in recent years. A process intertwined with the journey of the entire ecclesial community, as Don Hervé Djezou secrétariat exécutif national des ...
20 October 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Three monks kidnapped in a Benedictine monastery
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – A novice and two postulants of the Benedictine order were kidnapped from a monastery in the Nigerian state of Kwara. At one o'clock on the night of October 17, an armed group, believed to be Ful ...
19 October 2023
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of Bishop of Njombe
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 19, 2023, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Eusebio Samwel Kyando, of the clergy of Njombe, until now member of the Finance and Development Committee and representative of t ...
19 October 2023
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of the Rev. Jovitus Francis Mwijage as Bishop of Bukoba
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 19, 2023, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Jovitus Francis Mwijage, of the clergy of Bukoba, until now National Executive Director of UMAWATA and member of the Regional Cou ...
19 October 2023
AFRICA/NIGER - "We are under embargo", trapped by our limitations and our poverty, trapped by our security and freedom
Dosso (Agenzia Fides) – "We are under embargo, in my opinion constantly; trapped by our limitations and our poverty, trapped by our security and freedom..." writes Father Rafael Casamayor, missionary in the small commu ...
19 October 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The 3 kidnapped nuns together with the seminarian and their driver have been released
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "With gratitude to our great God, the superior general, and the entire members of the Missionary Daughters of Mater Ecclesiae, joyfully announce the safe release of our three kidnapped nuns, a sem ...
18 October 2023
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - SABC on the conflict in the Holy Land: Bishops appeal for ceasefire
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We appeal for a ceasefire and that a humane way of dealing with the present situation be found to eliminate further suffering and deaths", says the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Confe ...
17 October 2023
AFRICA - African governments spend a total of $1 billion per year on surveillance technologies: basic human rights at risk
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - African governments spend a total of up to $1 billion a year on surveillance technologies, according to the report "Mapping the supply of surveillance technologies to Africa: case studies from Nige ...
16 October 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA- The initiation of the cause for the beatification of Vivian Uchechi Ogu, a 14-year-old killed like St. Maria Goretti
Abuja (Fides News Agency) - The Catholic Church in Nigeria has begun the process for the beatification and canonisation of 14-year-old Vivian Uchechi Ogu of Umuelem, Eniogu, who was shot dead Nov. 15, 2009, by gunmen for ...
16 October 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Institution of the diocese of Katsina, Nigeria, and appointment of bishop
Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has erected the new diocese of Katsina, Nigeria, by dismembering the diocese of Sokoto, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan See of Kaduna.
At the same time, the H ...
16 October 2023
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Resignation and appointment of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Ouagadougou
Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - On October 16, 2023, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, presented by Cardinal Philippe Nakellentuba Ouédr ...
14 October 2023
AFRICA/UGANDA - "It is not the poor who need us, but we who need the poor"
Arua (Fides News Agency) - On Oct. 10, 2023 in Arua located in northern Uganda, about 25 members living the spirituality of St. Daniel Comboni gathered to thank God for giving the Church and the world the great missionar ...
13 October 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - 40 days of fasting and prayer for the unity of the country
Abuja (Fides News Agency) - "One of the things that caused tension during the last election period was the fact that many Christians in Nigeria were frightened by the idea that a President and a Vice-President, both Musl ...
13 October 2023
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Amid dancing and sharing, the new pastoral year begins in the Bayaca Pygmy community
Monasao (Fides News Agency) - "For the beginning of the catechesis for catechumens, young people and adults who, accompanied by our catechists, are preparing for the sacraments - in Monasao there are about 200, in the ot ...
12 October 2023
AFRICA/ALGERIA - The prayer of the Rosary, a privileged way to prepare for World Mission Day
Algiers (Fides News Agency) - The prayer of the Rosary is at the heart of the initiatives of preparation launched, among others, in the framework of a Week of World Mission (16 October - 22 October) by the Pontifical Mis ...
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