Africa

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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 ...
• 20 January 2025
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Thousands of families displaced due to continuous seismic activities in Afar and Oromia Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "Some residents in Awash and Dulecha districts are reluctant to evacuate, particularly pastoralist communities concerned about their livestock and property," reads the note from the United N ...
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  20 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A pact for peace in the east of the DRC Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Social pact for peace and coexistence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Great Lakes Region". This is the name of the agreement signed by the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (C ...
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  18 January 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - In Nnewi, the last farewell to Father Tobias, the priest-pharmacist shot dead in the street Nnewi (Agenzia Fides) - Father Tobias Chukwujekwu Okonkwo, a priest-pharmacist shot dead in the street by a group of men on the evening of December 26, 2024, had just finished his internship. Killed while driving on the ...
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  17 January 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Tensions between Juba and Khartoum after the massacres of South Sudanese in Wad Madani Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, January 16, riots broke out in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, where demonstrators took to the streets to protest against the massacre of South Sudanese in neighboring Sudan. Some cr ...
• 16 January 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of coadjutor bishop of Meru Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Jackson Murugara, I.M.C, until now parish priest and rector of the Consolata Shrine in the archdiocese of Nairobi, as coadjutor bishop of Meru ...
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  16 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - At least 600 militiamen lay down their arms in Ituri Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - In a significant step towards peace, at least 600 militiamen have decided to lay down their arms and join the Disarmament, Demobilization, Community Reintegration and Stabilization Program (P-D ...
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  16 January 2025
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Christmas in the Catholic community of Robe: “Recognizing the flesh of Christ in the most vulnerable brothers and sisters” Robe (Agenzia Fides) - “The Christmas season here in Ethiopia ends with the Feast of Timkat, the Ethiopian Orthodox Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, which in the theology and ecclesial practice of the Orthodox Church ...
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  15 January 2025
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Bishops: "The tax burden is strangling the citizens" Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "The tax burden is strangling the country," say the Bishops of Cameroon in the message published at the end of their Plenary Assembly in Buea, in the south-west of the country. "One of the ca ...
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  15 January 2025
  AFRICA/GHANA - Bishops call on new President to approve the Bill on family values Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "What we want is that it is made into a law," said the President of the Episcopal Conference of Ghana and Bishop of Sunyani, Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi, during his meeting yesterday (January 14) with Pr ...
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  14 January 2025
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Tensions remain high on the eve of the inauguration of the new President Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Today, January 14, the new Mozambican Parliament, which emerged from the general elections of October 9 (see Fides, 22/10/2024), was inaugurated. However, the opposition parties, which contest th ...