Africa

• 11 November 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of Bishop of Kamina Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed the Reverend Léonard Kakudju Muzinga, of the clergy of Lubumbashi, until now parish priest of Saint Paul and vicar forane in Lubumbashi, as bishop of ...
• 11 November 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Basankusu Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Basankusu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, presented by Bishop Joseph Mokobe Ndjoku. The Hol ...
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  10 November 2023
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Cardinal Protase Rugambwa appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Tabora Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tabora (Tanzania) presented by His Exc. Msgr. Paul Runangaza Ruzoka, and appoint ...
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  10 November 2023
  AFRICA/TOGO - Ministry of Youth warns against drug use in schools Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - The Togolese Ministry of Youth is sounding the alarm and deploring the increasing drug use among young people between 12 and 24 years old. Since the beginning of the year, the government has redou ...
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  10 November 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The President of the Bishops' Conference: "The so-called 'energy transition' is causing enormous environmental damage in my Country" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Wars for the mineral resources of the energy transition, exploitation of Congolese resources for a supposed global ecologism that in reality causes enormous damage to the environment and people ...
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  9 November 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Parish priest again warns Catholics about “false priests” Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Once again Ugandan Catholics are warned about the presence of "false priests" in the country's dioceses. After the previous warning issued at the beginning of September in the ecclesiastical pro ...
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  8 November 2023
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Massacre in southwest Cameroon on the anniversary of President Biya's rise to power Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - At least 25 people were killed in western Cameroon on November 6, the day President Paul Biya celebrated the 41st anniversary of his rise to power. Paul Biya took control of Cameroon on Novembe ...
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  8 November 2023
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Head of the “Catholic Immaculate Conception” clinic in Njmafor in Bamenda murdered Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - A member of the Congregation of the Sons of the Immaculate Conception was killed in a road attack in Cameroon. Brother Cyprian Ngeh was stabbed to death in the Ndamukong district of Bamenda o ...
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  7 November 2023
  AFRICA/GHANA - Bishop of Navrongo-Bolgatanga: “Recent clashes in northern Ghana must be clarified” Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "The Upper East Regional Peace Council and the Catholic Diocese of Navrongo-Bolgatanga view with great concern the recent events in Garu involving the military and residents and condemn the brutal ...
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  7 November 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Conflict between Tiv and Jukun in Wukari: Church efforts for peace Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A cross intended to give hope to peoples marked by centuries of conflict was created for this purpose by Father Anthony Odey of his parish "St. James" in Taraba State (eastern Nigeria), which is p ...
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  6 November 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Sister Elena Balatti: “Paride Taban testified that hatred is not the right way” Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "My first thought when I heard about the death of Bishop Paride Taban on the evening of All Saints was 'he has gone to the saints'; I was not the only one, I heard other people make the same remark ...
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  6 November 2023
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Purges in the army after the assault on the Conakry prison and the failed escape of former President Camara Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in Conakry, capital of the Republic of Guinea, is tense. At least nine people died in an attack on the central prison where former President Moussa Dadis Camara is imprisoned. The ...
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  4 November 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishop Carlassare: "South Sudan is on the right path, but the path is long" by Luca Attanasio Rumbek (Agenzia Fides) – Christian Carlassare, a Comboni missionary, is the youngest bishop in Africa. He was born in Schio (Vicenza) in 1977 and immediately after his ordination in 2004 went to Sou ...
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  3 November 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A priest from the archdiocese of Abuja has been missing for a month Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Since October 1, there has been no news of a Nigerian priest living and working in the Archdiocese of Abuja. The news of Father Sampson Emokhidi's disappearance was made public by the Chancellor o ...
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  3 November 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The tireless peacemaker Paris Taban, first bishop of Torit Juba (Agenzia Fides) - He was a bishop who placed peace and reconciliation at the center of his life at the service of the people of God. This is how one can describe the figure of Paride Taban, the first bishop of the D ...