Africa

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  10 February 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - Nun kidnapped: "No news from the kidnappers but we do not lose hope" Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "There are no claims or demands for ransom", says Fr. Edmond Dembele, Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Mali who updates Agenzia Fides about the investigation into the kidnapping o ...
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  8 February 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops appeal: "drought is to be declared a national disaster" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Drought is to be declared a national disaster". This is the appeal of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) through its Chairman, His Exc. Mgr. Philip Anyolo, Bishop of Homa Bay. "We ...
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  8 February 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - A Colombian nun kidnapped Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - A Colombian nun of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate was kidnapped last night, February 7, in Koutiala, in the south of Mali. "We do not know who the kidnappers are. T ...
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  1 February 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A priest who opposed the militiamen of Kamuina Nsapu was kidnapped and then released Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest who opposed the arrogance of the militia of the traditional late chief Kamuina Nsapu was first kidnapped and then released. The fact took place yesterday, 31 January, in Kanan ...
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  1 February 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishops' appeal to students: "Yes to demonstrations without interrupting the lessons" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We appeal to all our students in the beginning of this academic year to return to lectures and to their academic programmes while continuing their legitimate campaign" say the South Africa ...
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  31 January 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Civil society has been taken hostage by politics" denounces CEPADHO Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Congolese civil society has been taken hostage by politics" complains CEPADHO (Study Centre for the Promotion of peace, of democracy and human rights), a civil society organization in North Ki ...
• 30 January 2017
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Resignation of the Bishop of Gokwe, appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 January 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Gokwe, Zimbabwe, presented by His Exc. Mgr. Angel Floro Martínez, I.E.M.E. The Ho ...
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  30 January 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - One more week to reach an agreement on the implementation of the San Silvestro agreements Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Prime Minister's designation, allocation of ministries among the different parties of the coalition, the role of CENCO (Congolese National Episcopal Conference) in the transition period. These ...
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  30 January 2017
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - South Africa reassures the authorities in Harare: "we will protect your expatriates against xenophobic threats" Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The Zimbabwean government has received assurances from the South African authorities on measures taken to cope with the recent xenophobic threats against the Zimbabwean communities living in the ...
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  28 January 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. - The village of Pygmies in Ngouma to ensure essential health services and education for children and women Bagandou (Agenzia Fides) - The construction of a health center, a village and schools are some of the initiatives of the non-profit Friends for Central Africa, regarding the Aka Pygmies, which started in 2000 and still i ...
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  28 January 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The first patient suffering from multi-resistant tuberculosis has been cured Lorengachora (Agenzia Fides) - The Health Center of Lorengachora, Uganda, has celebrated the first patient who had been diagnosed with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and has been declared clinically cured after two ye ...
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  27 January 2017
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Rampant corruption aggravates the damage caused by drought Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - Drought is bringing the people in Malawi to their knees. This is what Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, a Monfortan missionary says to Agenzia Fides, "the water level in Lake Malawi has dropped a lot. The ...
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  27 January 2017
  AFRICA/GAMBIA - "The crisis is over, but we need help", says to Fides the Bishop of Banjul Banjul (Agenzia Fides) - "On his arrival in Banjul, yesterday, January 26, new President Adama Barrow was greeted by a cheering crowd of hundreds of thousands of people", says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Robert Patrick Elliso ...
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  26 January 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - Five young persons excel at the Jubilee Year of Mercy competition Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Every one of you is a leader, every one of you is a winner, and every one of you is unique", said the Archbishop of Accra, Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle, at an award ceremony held at the Holy ...
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  26 January 2017
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Peace must be a project for the future, says a missionary Duékoué (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of young people in Duékoué is marked by the wars of 1997 and 2011. In 2016 the first elections were boycotted. In December there were those laws, to which an opposition party f ...