Africa

• 31 July 2015
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - “Print your Future” : Graphic Art for very vulnerable young people Mekanissa (Agenzia Fides) – At the beginning of June 2015 work began at last to build a School of Graphic Art in Mekanissa, an outlying district of Addis Ababa. The project called “Print your future: developing grap ...
• 31 July 2015
  AFRICA - For some 10,000 children development and survival threatened by congenital malformation Maputo (Agenzia Fides) – Every year in east African countries about 10,000 children are born with harelip and-or malformation of the palate, congenital malformations which threaten proper development. According to the ...
• 30 July 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA – Bishops call for general ‘boycot’ of upcoming vaccination campaign until vaccine is tested Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Bishops of Kenya have urged citizens to boycot a maAFRICA/KENYA – Bishops call for general ‘boycot’ of upcoming vaccination campaign until vaccine has been confirmed throu ...
• 29 July 2015
  AFRICA/CAMEROON – For women kamikaze detonators easier to hide Maroua (Agenzia Fides) – Suicide bombing attacks continue in the northern region of Cameroon and in the Nigerian state of Yobe. In both countries more recently it would appear that suicide bombers are mainly women, an ...
• 29 July 2015
  AFRICA/ERITREA - United Nations investigates human trafficking Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - Eritreans with the Syrians, form the second largest group which risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean sea in an attempt to reach Europe. A recent report issued by the United Nations Organiz ...
• 24 July 2015
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA – Training to counter unemployment: 29 teachers receive diploma Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – Despite a situation of war, 29 students at the Jean Paul II Teachers Training College in Bangui recently received their diploma and will soon start work in schools in Central Africa where teach ...
• 24 July 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN – School instruction during emergency situations a basic humanitarian necessity Juba (Agenzia Fides) – In South Sudan school instruction for girls is particularly difficult: early pregnancies or marriage, poverty and gender discrimination prevent many girls from regular attendance at school. Fight ...
• 23 July 2015
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Some 16 months since the epidemic outbreak, Ebola still not under control Conakry (Agenzia Fides) – New cases of Ebola reported in Liberia and Guinea are spreading the fear that the virus could cross the border into Guinea-Bissau. A warning has been issued by the international chairman of Do ...
• 23 July 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - President al-Sisi decrees that even church buildings and mosques shall soon pay for electricity AFRICA/EGYPT - President al-Sisi decrees that even church buildings and mosques shall soon pay for electricity Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – All Egypt’s church buildings and mosques will soon have to pay electricity bill ...
• 22 July 2015
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Ebola: people want to go back to normality, but we must not let our guard down Pujehun (Agenzia Fides) - The humanitarian organization "Doctors with Africa-Cuamm" continues to be vigil with regards to the situation in Sierra Leone and the spread of the Ebola virus, even though the most critical pha ...
• 22 July 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A law is being requested against conversions of Christian minors without parental consent Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Coptic Mikel Munir, founder and leader of the political party of liberal character al-Haya, addressed a public appeal to Egyptian authorities to ensure that the personal status law under review, s ...
• 21 July 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Council of Christian Churches convenes a day of prayer on the anniversary of the 1952 "Revolution" Cairo (Agenzia fides) - The Council of Christian Churches in Egypt, through a statement of Coptic Orthodox priest Bishoy Elmy, head of the General Secretariat of the Council called on all Egyptians to join the "Day of Pr ...
• 20 July 2015
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Three African Christians kidnapped by jihadis in the south of Sirte; four Italians kidnapped in Mellitah Sirte (Agenzia Fides) - Three Christians - a Ghanaian, a Nigerian and a Coptic Egyptian – have been kidnapped in Libya by a jihadist group linked to the Islamic State (Daesh). The kidnapping dates back to 11 July, but ...
• 17 July 2015
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - More violence in the M'Zab valley. Bishop Rault: repression alone cannot help but spread violence Ghardaia (Agenzia Fides) - The M'Zab Valley in southern Algeria, continues to be the scene of sectarian violence on ethnic-religious basis, that the Algerian security apparatuses are not able to stop. The clashes have cr ...
• 17 July 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "We must start again from scratch", says the Bishop Emeritus of Juba Juba (Agenzia Fides) - On 9 July, South Sudan celebrated its fourth year of independence. Unfortunately the anniversary is marred by ethnic conflict, due to the clashes of government forces of President Kiir, an ethnic D ...