Africa

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  20 October 2018
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - World Mission Day: the experience of a missionary who visits prisoners Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) - Every week Alex Goffinet, a French white father who has been on a mission in Africa since 1962, visits the prison in Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He listens to prisoners, gives t ...
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  19 October 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Church collapses during the prayer of the rosary; at least two dead and one missing Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - At least two people died in the collapse of the church of Sainte Marceline de Minkan in Odza, a suburb of the capital of Cameroon, Yaoundé, which occurred on the evening of 17 October. The col ...
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  19 October 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "The hundreds of miners affected by pneumoconiosis are an indictment of human greed" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "For decades, coal mining companies allowed their workers to be exposed to unsafe levels of coal dust. The mines need to take both ethical and legal responsibility for the sick miners", sa ...
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  18 October 2018
  AFRICA/NIGER - The Church of Niamey: prayer and fasting for Father Maccalli Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Niamey has begun a prayer triduum for the release of Father Gigi Maccalli. "The last day of the triduum, which takes place from 17 to 19 October, will be a day of fasting that all ...
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  18 October 2018
  AFRICA/CONGO - Catholic schools are committed to educating respect for creation, theme taken from the Encyclical Laudato Sì Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - The XIV National Council for Catholic Education was held at the Inter-diocesan Center of Brazzaville from 15 to 17 October on the theme: "respect and integrity of creation in the Catholic sc ...
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  17 October 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Synod on Youth: "Need to take into account the situation of young people and the Church in other parts of the world" says Cardinal Napier Vatican City - (Agenzia Fides) - "Africa is losing some of its most gifted young people to migration because of the exploitation of natural resources and the environment ", said His Eminence Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, ...
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  16 October 2018
  AFRICA/NIGER - "Release Fr. Gigi Maccalli": voices join in the appeal in favor of the kidnapped Italian missionary Crema (Agenzia Fides) - "It is essential for us to express our closeness to the father Gigi Maccalli’s family, to all Madignano who wants to embrace their fellow citizen, sending this message to the Foreign Ministry: w ...
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  16 October 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - A young seminarian killed in the English-speaking region Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - A seminarian was killed in one of the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon. According to a statement signed by His Exc. Mgr. Cornelius Fontem Esua, Archbishop of Bamenda, the young seminari ...
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  15 October 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - Togolese youth to Pope Francis: need to strengthen youth pastoral Lome (Agenzia Fides) - In Togo we need "a concrete and effective accompaniment of young Catholics on behalf of priests", as well as a "strengthening of youth pastoral care". As reported to Fides, these are some of the re ...
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  15 October 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Strong insecurity in the diocese, while the UN sends contradictory messages", denounces the Bishop of Kaga-Bandoro Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Where is the truth?" asks His Exc. Mgr. Tadeusz Kusy, Bishop of Kaga-Bandoro, in the central-northern part of the Central African Republic, complaining about the lack of transparency on behalf o ...
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  12 October 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Too many delays in the preparation of the vote; the Bishops to the UN: "The hypothesis of postponing the elections appears again" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The hypothesis of a postponement of the elections appears again", warned the Bishops of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in front of the UN Security Council delegation who went to the DRC ...
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  11 October 2018
  AFRICA - To reinvent missionary activity in Africa, respecting local cultures Kara (Agenzia Fides) - "The Second Vatican Council, and in particular the Nostra Aetate declaration, saved the missionary activity of the Church, especially in areas such as Africa, putting an end to the old evangelizing ...
• 11 October 2018
  AFRICA/CHAD - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Barthélemy Kikina Wang-Tou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 15 July 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Barthélemy Kikina Wang-Tou, of the clergy of the diocese of Lai as Na ...
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  11 October 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - The Bishops: "vote was carried out in a calm manner but there were irregularities especially in the English-speaking regions" Yoaundé (Agenzia Fides) - "The elections were held in a calm manner, but there were serious irregularities in the English-speaking regions", says the Cameroonian Episcopal Conference in a statement that draws up a provi ...
• 10 October 2018
  AFRICA/CHAD - Appointment of the Bishop of Sarh Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father has appointed His Exc. Mgr. Miguel Ángel Sebastián Martínez, M.C.C.J., currently Bishop of Laï as Bishop of the diocese of Sarh (Chad). (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 10/1 ...