Africa

• 11 September 2014
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Ethnic groups and oil in the Libyan civil war Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - The clash between Islamist militias and so-called "nationalists" in Libya is turning into an ethnic clash with the intervention of guerrillas of the Tubu tribe of Kufra in the south of Cyrenaica ...
• 10 September 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Not even its Nigerian sponsors can control Boko Haram, now an international organisation AFRICA/NIGERIA – Not even its Nigerian sponsors can control Boko Haram, now an international organisation Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - “Boko Haram has escaped even its Nigerian sponsors and risks becoming an internation ...
• 9 September 2014
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "The murdered nuns will be buried in Africa: love to the very end” says former regional Xavarian superior Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - “All three of the murdered Italian nuns had serious health conditions , but all three, AFRICA/BURUNDI - “The murdered nuns asked to be buried in Africa: love to the very end” says f ...
• 9 September 2014
  AFRICA/BOTSWANA - “We have been blessed with good leadership: let’s vote to preserve this heredity” says Bishop of Gaborone Gaborone (Agenzia Fides)- “It is our duty, as citizens, exercise our right to choose leaders and government who will respect human dignity and work to improve the lives of everyone” Bishop Valentine Tsamma Seane, of ...
• 9 September 2014
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Archbishop of Freetown: “at each mass I speak about Ebola and how to avoid infection” Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – “Ebola is such a virulent virus that it is not easily treated; only experts can run the test to identify the virus and determine the stage of the infection. Therefore the Catholic Church, t ...
• 8 September 2014
  AFRICA/BURUNDI -Three Xaverian Missionaries killed in Burundi: the mission is full of people anxious to express sympathy with the sisters Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) – Three Italian Xaverian sisters have been killed in Burundi, at the mission of Kamenge. The news was confirmed to Fides by Sister Giordana, Directress General of the Xaverian missionary sist ...
• 8 September 2014
  AFRICA/LESOTHO – The Pope and the Bishops call for dialogue to resolve the crisis in Lesotho Maseru (Agenzia Fides) – The situation in Lesotho remains tense after the failure of an attempted coup on 30 August led by rebel general Tlali Kamoli, now in hiding in the hills with a few faithful heavily armed milit ...
• 6 September 2014
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE – Peace agreement signed in view of October elections Maputo (Agenzia Fides) – A peace agreement signed yesterday 5 September in Maputo, has put and end to almost two years of “low profile” conflict between government forces and former Renamo guerrillas (Resistenza Na ...
• 6 September 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “Christians, but also Muslims, flee from Boko Haram” say local Church sources AFRICA/NIGERIA - “Christians but also Muslims flee from Boko Haram” say local Church sources Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - “Several churches are in ruins and tens of thousands, mainly Christians, are running to escape ...
• 5 September 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA – New Rector of St. Mary inter-diocesan Major Seminary in the diocese of Nakuru, appointed. Vatican City(Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 12 March 2014 appointed Rector of St Mary inter-diocesan Major Seminary in Molo, in the dioces ...
• 5 September 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA – New Rector for St. Matthias Mulumba Major seminary in the diocese of Eldoret Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 12 March 2014 appointed Rector of St. Matthias Mulumba national major seminary, in the diocese ...
• 5 September 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN – Appeal for embargo on arms entering South Sudan, grave humanitarian crisis impending Juba (Agenzia Fides) - “As long as arms are imported into South Sudan, they will most probably be used to commit more atrocities” say the signees of an appeal for an embargo on arms sales to South Sudan, a country d ...
• 5 September 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - “Enough violence in northern Kenya!” cry Catholic Bishops Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “The situation of contining insecurity and violence is unacceptable. How many lives must still be lost before we Kenyans say enough is enough?” . This was said by the Kenyan Catholic Bishop ...
• 4 September 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA – Rector for St. Thomas Aquinas major seminary in Nairobi appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 12 March 2014, appointed as Rector of St. Thomas Aquinas major seminary in the Archdiocese of N ...
• 4 September 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “What is happening in the north of Nigeria is similar to what happened in Iraq” says a priest in Abuja Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - “What is happening in north-east Nigeria is very similar to recent events in the north of Iraq” Fides was told by Fr. Patrick Tor Alumuku, Communications Director of the Archdiocese of Abuja ...