Africa

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  22 April 2026
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “True development is not based on GDP, but on the effective improvement of living conditions” Abuja (Fides News Agency) – “The incessant violent attacks and indiscriminate killings occurring throughout the country are inhumane and unjustifiable acts, and a grave affront to the sanctity of life,” stated the ...
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  21 April 2026
  LEO XIV IN AFRICA - Pope in Equatorial Guinea: “The Church’s social teaching offers guidance to all who seek peace and justice” Malabo (Fides News Agency) – “It is always a joy to see places around the world where the Church is growing,” said Pope Leo XIV at a press conference on the flight from Luanda to Malabo in Equatorial Guinea, the la ...
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  21 April 2026
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Fears of possible escalation of violence in Tigray Addis Ababa (Fides News Agency) – The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) has announced the restoration of a regional parliament, the election of which was one of the triggers for the war in northern Ethiopia. In a ...
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  21 April 2026
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Divisions within the Wazalendo self-defense movement exacerbate insecurity Kinshasa (Fides News Agency) – A population caught between a rock and a hard place. This is how the inhabitants of the Lemera highlands/ Ruzizi plain, in South Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, live, ...
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  20 April 2026
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Pope Leo XIV warns against syncretism and superstition Luanda (Fides News Agency) – "We must always be vigilant regarding those forms of traditional religiosity that certainly belong to the roots of your culture, but at the same time risk confusing and mixing magical and s ...
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  20 April 2026
  AFRICA/TOGO - The “Ahonhon Center,” an advanced center for the treatment of brain disorders, has been inaugurated by the Togolese Province of the Society of African Missions Yokoè (Fides News Agency) – In Togo, cognitive disorders continue to be treated somewhat superficially, despite their serious impact on the lives of patients and their families: loss of autonomy, social isolation, and ...
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  19 April 2026
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - “Being like children”: The Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood and its projects for an “Angolan and missionary” Church Luanda (Fides News Agency) – Benguela and Ndalatando. Two of the projects for children supported by the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood (POSI) are located in these dioceses. Father José Diego Jerónimo Zola, ...
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  19 April 2026
  LEO XIV IN AFRICA - The Pope to the Angolans: The Risen Jesus can also heal the wounds of your people Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - Even in Angola, a ‘beautiful yet wounded’ country, the encounter with the Risen Christ “who walks beside us” can grant us the grace to “afresh and rebuild the future”. In Kilamba, a s ...
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  17 April 2026
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops lament shortage of marriage certificates and delays in civil registration Nairobi (Fides News Agency) – “For some time now, we have been experiencing difficulties in the legal process of civil registration and legalization of marriage,” the bishops of Kenya affirmed in a statement releas ...
• 17 April 2026
  AFRICA/GABON - Confirmation of the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 19, 2026, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), confirmed Father Hajjar Ma ...
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  17 April 2026
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - The Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood's commitment to "invisible children" Bafia (Fides News Agency) – In the Diocese of Bafia, approximately 20,000 children live without birth certificates. Children whose birth certificates do not exist. Children who, for the State, civil society, and the Ch ...
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  16 April 2026
  LEO XIV IN AFRICA - Pope Leo: Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic or political gain Bamenda (Fides News Agency) – It is the people who suffer the consequences of wars ordered by the powerful, and religion must not be instrumentalized to justify conflict, was the message of Pope Leo XIV during his meet ...
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  16 April 2026
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Tragic toll after three years of war: Over 150,000 dead and 14 million displaced Khartoum (Fides News Agency) – Three years have passed since the start of the war in Sudan, and there seems to be no end in sight. The conflict, which broke out on April 16, 2023 (see Fides, 17/4/2023), remains in a st ...
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  16 April 2026
  LEO XIV IN AFRICA - Pope Leo to the authorities in Cameroon: May energies be unleashed for peace and the construction of the common good Yaoundé (Fides News Agency) – Politics must be at the service of the common good, avoiding corruption that “disfigure authority and strip it of its credibility.” The words of Pope Leo XIV, spoken yesterday, April ...
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  15 April 2026
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Cardinal Brislin in response to President Trump: "Pope Leo XIV represents the position of the entire Catholic Church" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – Verbal remarks by US President Donald Trump about Pope Leo XIV are "a cause for great concern," according to Cardinal Stephen Brislin, Archbishop of Johannesburg, in an article published ...