Africa

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  29 April 2019
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Five dead and 15,000 displaced: first toll of Cyclone Kenneth, less than a month from Idai Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Hurricane Kenneth made landfall on Thursday 25 April with the force of a Category 4 hurricane, on a scale of up to 5. The strong winds up to 280 km/h hit the northern regions, especially the area ...
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  27 April 2019
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - The Christians of Egypt, between discrimination and transformation The history of the Christians of Egypt is very ancient. The Copts are in fact the heirs of the ancient Egyptians who converted to Christianity, starting from the first century, thanks to the preaching of St. Mark. Until ...
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  27 April 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "The peace agreement is like a vow made to God", say the leaders of Christian confessions Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "His Holiness Pope Francis kissed the feet of our leaders, as if to say, I am a servant, now you serve your people in South Sudan, this is the true message of Easter" states the Easter message of l ...
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  27 April 2019
  AFRICA/BENIN - Tension on the eve of the vote; waves of arbitrary arrests have been denounced Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - Tense electoral vigil in Benin, where the legislative elections will be held tomorrow, Sunday 28 April, in which opposition candidates have been excluded. On March 5, the Electoral Commission ex ...
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  26 April 2019
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "Now a civilian government" asks the population; the Church: "stop discrimination against Christians" Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "A civil society movement has for the first time brought all Sudanese people together, and the church is part of it", said Bishop Yunan Tombe Trille Kuku of the Diocese of El-Obeid in south-cen ...
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  25 April 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Xenophobic wave ahead of elections: triggered by poverty Durban (Agenzia Fides) - A new xenophobic wave has hit South Africa, while attacks against foreign communities in Durban continue. Gangs of South Africans, mostly poor and unemployed people, attack the homes, shops and a ...
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  25 April 2019
  AFRICA/BENIN - "Let us pray for peaceful elections" says PMS Diocesan Director of Cotonou Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church invites the faithful to pray so that the Lord will inspire us to find ways to get the country out of the crisis", says Fr. Augustin Placide Houessinon, of the Society of African Miss ...
• 24 April 2019
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Resignation of the Bishop of Goma and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 23 April the Holy Father Francis accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, presented by H.E. Msgr. Théophile Kaboy Rubone ...
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  24 April 2019
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Cardinal Nzapalainga celebrated Easter with 500 prisoners Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "It is our duty to show them tenderness and love" said Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, who celebrated Easter with about five hundred prisoners in Ngaragba prison, in the ca ...
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  13 April 2019
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Bishops offer support to flood victims Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) – “We are here to stand with you to fulfill our duty to help those in need” said His Excellence Monsignor Thomas Luke Msusa, Archbishop of Blantyre and President of the Catholic Bishops’ ...
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  12 April 2019
  AFRICA/NIGER - The government of Burkina Faso: "Fr. Maccalli, is alive". "We are surprised", says a missionary from Niger Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "We are surprised because there has been no talk about it", says Fr. Mauro Armanino, missionary of the Society of African Missions (SMA), from the capital of Niger, Niamey, on the announcement by ...
• 12 April 2019
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Appointment of the Rector of "Saint Augustine" philosophical Seminary in the diocese of Kabwe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 7 February 2019, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the Rev . Patrick Banda, of the diocesan clergy of Chipata (Zambia) as ...
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  12 April 2019
  AFRICA - Farewell missionary and journalist Father Paolo Costantini Treviglio (Agenzia Fides) – Missionary and journalist: is how Paolo Costantini defined himself, already an established director of the press agency of Padri Bianchi (Missionaries of Africa) in Brussels, then of the mag ...
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  12 April 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - “South Sudanese touched by the act of Papa Franceso done in their name.” Juba (Agenzia Fides) – “South Sudanese were left positively stunned as they witnessed Papa Francesco plead on his knees and kiss the feet of politicians of South Sudan. The video and images of the event are circulat ...
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  11 April 2019
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Nearly 900 churches "regularized" by the Egyptian government in less than 3 years Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - In Egypt the process of "legalization" of Christian places of worship built in the past without the required permits, along with the granting of permits for the construction of new churches contin ...