Africa

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  7 September 2020
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Armed groups control almost 80% of the territory and threaten our future", denounce the Bishops Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "There are signs of hope, but the continued presence of armed groups threatens the future of the country". This is how the cry of alarm of the Bishops of the Central African Republic contained in ...
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  7 September 2020
  AFRICA/TOGO - Towards World Mission Day: "face-to-face" activities resumed Lomé (Agenzia Fides) – To prepare the pastoral activities of missionary animation in view of missionary October and World Mission Sunday, October 18: with this aim in recent days, the National Director and the diocesa ...
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  7 September 2020
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Kidnapped nuns freed, the Bishop: "We ask for peace" Mocímboa da Praia (Agenzia Fides) - The two sisters of the congregation of St. Joseph of Chambery kidnapped on 12 August in Mocímboa da Praia (Mozambique) have been freed. This was announced yesterday, September 6, by ...
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  5 September 2020
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The Bishop of El Obeid: "After thirty years of war that has disfigured religion, we hope peace does not remain only on paper" El Obeid (Agenzia Fides) - "People here prefer to be cautious: it is the history of our Country since independence in 1956 to today that obliges us. But the peace agreement covers a large part of Sudan and it is very im ...
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  5 September 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A Carmelite: "The Congolese Church plays a fundamental role in the pacification process of the Country" Lubumbashi (Agenzia Fides) - "Congo is experiencing a profound social crisis, poverty and precariousness: at the origin of these problems, there is the interest of a minority in having all the wealth of the Country. Not ...
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  4 September 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A Bishop: "The pandemic is an opportunity for Christians to renew their faith" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The Coronavirus pandemic is an opportunity for our spiritual growth because it "poses the fact that we renew our faith in Jesus Christ taken from his who assurance to all of our humanity and Chris ...
• 4 September 2020
  AFRICA/TOGO - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Donald Charit-Dine Fadaz Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 25 May 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed the rev. Donald Charit-Dine Fadaz, of the diocesan clergy of Sokodé ...
• 4 September 2020
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Léonidas Ngomanziza Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 10 May 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Léonidas Ngomanziza, of the diocesan clergy of Nyundo a ...
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  3 September 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops call on government to shut down abortion clinics Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - " We cannot claim God is in our midst when in fact we are allowing the evil of some individuals who may have killed their conscience to legislate for the killing of our unborn children", say the ...
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  3 September 2020
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - "Constructive dialogue" says President Nyusi after meeting with the Bishop of Pemba Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "The Country is experiencing a moment in which there is a need to speak, to dialogue. It is necessary to understand what the other sees and what the other knows. Being religious, this Bishop of o ...
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  2 September 2020
  AFRICA/BENIN - The training of seminarians of the Centro de Brésillac of Calavì during the Coronavirus period Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - Confinement for everyone, external commitments interrupted, house closed to parish groups and ecclesial movements that spent their days of retreat and formation there. In Benin, the number of co ...
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  2 September 2020
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "The peace agreement is good, but all the armed groups must join it" says the Archbishop of Khartoum Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "I do not know if we can call this agreement comprehensive because some other armed forces in Sudan are still out and I hear they haven’t accepted to sign. A peace agreement becomes comprehen ...
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  1 September 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Presidential elections in October; Cardinal Kutwa calls for respect for law and for dialogue Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The socio-political life of our Country has entered a dangerous curve. With the presidential elections approaching, we are forced to note the radicalization of the positions of both sides, whic ...
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  1 September 2020
  AFRICA/TOGO - A missionary from the diocese of Sokodé: "Again confined even if it is impossible to comply with health measures" Kolowaré (Agenzia Fides) - "Curfew from 6.30 pm to 5 am and again the closure of places of worship. The cities of Adjengré, Sokodé, Tchamba are again in confinement", writes to Fides Father Silvano Galli, priest of th ...
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  31 August 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Mgr. Sipuka's appeal: "Let's mobilize against the 'pandemic of corruption' that is devouring Covid-19 funds" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - We must take charge of the "pandemic" of corruption. There is a feeling that South Africa is going towards the direction of being known for corruption as a country", denounces His Exc. Mgr. ...