Africa

• 3 February 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Poverty, food insecurity, inadequate health care and high cost of living Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In addition to the serious waves of violence that are affecting the Nigerian population, including kidnappings, clashes, terrorist attacks and brutal murders, there is poverty, food insecurity, in ...
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  31 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Without electricity and water: Catholic parish in Goma welcomes 2000 displaced people Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The greatest danger for the population of Goma is the so-called 'Wazalendo' militiamen," local church observers told Fides about the situation in the capital of the Congolese province of North ...
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  30 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “Foreigners leave Bukavu: fears of advance of the M23 rebel movement on the capital of South Kivu province” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “In Bukavu, foreigners are fleeing,” missionaries from the capital of the Congolese province of South Kivu tell Fides. “The various embassies in Kinshasa have ordered their compatriots to ...
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  29 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Did the flight of the military leadership facilitate the capture of Goma?" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "In Goma there are 2 million people in need," local Church sources, who asked not to be named for security reasons, told Fides. "At least a million of them are displaced from other areas of Nor ...
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  28 January 2025
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Simplicity and poverty": the words that extend Christmas to the rest of the year in Monasao Monasao (Agenzia Fides) - In Central Africa, the month of December was marked by a series of important celebrations, such as Republic Day (December 1st) and, for the Christian community, Christmas and New Year celebratio ...
• 28 January 2025
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Resignation and appointment of the Bishop of Iringa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Iringa, Tanzania, presented by Bishop Tarcisius Ngalalekumtwa. The Holy Father has appointed the Reve ...
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  28 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishop of Goma: "The neonatal ward at the Charité Maternelle General Hospital is affected by fighting" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Fighting continues in Goma, the capital of North Kivu, which the M23 rebels took over between Sunday 26 and Monday 27 January (see Fides, 27/1/2025). The M23 forces are encountering resistance ...
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  27 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - M23 enters Goma Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “It was a terrible night,” local sources told Fides from Goma, the capital of North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was conquered today, January 27, by the re ...
• 25 January 2025
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Nouna, Burkina Faso Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Nouna, Burkina Faso, presented by Bishop Joseph Sama. The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Guy M ...
• 25 January 2025
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Laghouat Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Laghouat (Algeria) presented by His Exc. Msgr. John Gordon MacWilliam, M. Afr. At the same time the ...
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  24 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Escalation of violence in North Kivu: M23 rebels advance towards Goma Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The North Kivu region, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is facing a serious escalation of violence, with intense fighting between the Congolese armed forces (FARDC) and th ...
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  24 January 2025
  AFRICA/GABON - The intention to establish a Catholic University in Gabon confirmed Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - “The Holy See is interested in offering young Gabonese people an educational alternative for professional and university studies,” said Msgr. Javier Herrera Corona, Apostolic Nuncio in th ...
• 23 January 2025
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Erection of the diocese of Alto Molócuè and appointment of first bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has erected the diocese of Alto Molócuè, Mozambique, with territory taken from the dioceses of Gurúè and Quelimane, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan archdiocese ...
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  22 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - CENCO: “We will pray for everyone, even for our enemies” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “The minister has proposed to bring together religious denominations on February 9 to pray for the FARDC and to organize a collection in their favor. The Catholic Church has no problem pray ...
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  21 January 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The drama of illegal miners trapped in Stilfontein sheds light on a phenomenon of inhuman exploitation Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - At least 78 illegal miners have died in the Stilfontein gold mine in South Africa after the police blocked the entrance to the mine in August 2024 to force them to leave the site and surren ...