Africa

• 2 February 2021
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Appointment of the Bishop of Uíje Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed as bishop of the diocese of Uíje, Angola, the Reverend Joaquim Nhanganga Tyombe, of the clergy of Lubango, until now rector of the Fr. Leonardo Sikufinde Majo ...
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  2 February 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops of the Province of Ibadan: "We ask for a review of the security forces" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "With current realities it has become more necessary than ever to demand the review of Nigeria’s security architecture", said the Catholic Bishops of Nigeria’s Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province a ...
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  2 February 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Launch of the “Missionaries and Saint Joseph” Foundation in favor of greater devotion in the country towards the Patron of the Universal Church Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - On 8 December 2020, on the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, Pope Francis dedicated an entire year to Saint Joseph to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of Saint Joseph as ...
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  1 February 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Do ethnic conflicts undermine the country's stability? Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - In the Ethiopian province of Tigray, 2 million people have been dependent on food aid since November last year after the region became a theater of war between the regular Ethiopian armed fo ...
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  1 February 2021
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Zambia and Zimbabwe hit hard by Covid-19; the Bishops: "let's put aside divisions and unite in the struggle" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Let's put aside social, cultural, religious and political differences and let's unite to fight Covid-19 together", urge the Bishops of Zambia, where the spread of the coronavirus is currently al ...
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  30 January 2021
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The local Catholic Church protects the rights of people with albinism Blantyre (Agenzia Fides) - In several African countries the phenomenon of albinism makes albino people live in fear of being kidnapped and killed, due to the widespread belief that some parts of their bodies have special ...
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  30 January 2021
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - World Day of leprosy: Camillian missionaries "alongside the last to announce the Good News" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "The main cause of suffering for people affected by leprosy is social exclusion: even when they manage to recover from this disease, social reintegration is often difficult". This is what Fa ...
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  30 January 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops of Central Africa: "Stop war and violation of human rights in the east of the DRC" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "What happens is great misery, there is always war! The great misery of the population, who feels abandoned. And then a lot of suffering is what we have encountered", said His Exc. Mgr. Marcel ...
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  29 January 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Exhortation of the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio to 150 new confirmed on the need to be ambassadors of Christ Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - On January 10, on the occasion of the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, 150 faithful from the Parish of Saint Mary Mother of God of Yambio received the sacrament of confirmation. The Bish ...
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  29 January 2021
  AFRICA - The second wave of Covid-19 and Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Several African countries are currently experiencing the second wave of the virus", says Fr. Charles Chilufya SJ, Coordinator of the Task Force Africa of the Vatican Covid-19 Commission and Direct ...
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  28 January 2021
  AFRICA/NIGER - The testimony of a Christian kidnapped by jihadists Niamey (Agenzia Fides) – Italian missionary Father Mauro Armanino from the Society for Africa Missions lives and works in Niger. He reports on the torture suffered by a Christian farmer, originally from the same area ...
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  28 January 2021
  AFRICA /TOGO - Mission and the desire to leave for distant places Sokodè (Agenzia Fides) - "If someone asks me today why I want to be a missionary, the answer is different from that at the beginning. It is not just a feeling, it is something deeper", writes Sebastião Moniz, seminaria ...
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  27 January 2021
  AFRICA/DJIBOUTI - The pandemic increases the vulnerability of street children: the Church offers hospitality Djibouti (Agenzia Fides) - The shelter for street children in Djibouti, organized by the country's Caritas to reduce the the threat of minors living on the streets in connection with pandemics and offers protection to 80 ...
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  27 January 2021
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Various Church figures also affected by Covid-19 Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - The spread of Covid-19 in Zambia does not stop, where three parishes of the Archdiocese of Kasama were closed for two weeks after priests and their lay collaborators tested positive for the virus ...
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  27 January 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - 125 years of evangelization in the country: "A path of reconciliation, peace and fraternity" acknowledges a representative of the Head of State Grand-Bassam (Agenzia Fides) - "We have come to share with all the people of God the graces received from these zealous missionaries who brought the good news to Ivorian land. Today this good news should be a source of r ...