Africa

• 9 November 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - A school for children of HIV/AID victims in Kibera slums Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - More than one million people live in Kibera, the slum communities of Nairobi, among them are 30,000 orphaned children due to the HIV/AID epidemic. The Jesuit Father Terry Charlton is the co-foun ...
• 9 November 2011
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - "Forty Catholic buildings have been attacked in two and a half months", reports the spokesman of the Archdiocese of Abidjan, while robberies continue Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "In two and a half months, about 40 churches and religious men and women’s houses all over Abidjan have been attacked by armed bandits with the aim to steal" the complaint to Fides is by Fr. ...
• 9 November 2011
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Poor turnout for the ballot; the candidate of the opposition denounces an assassination attempt, the police denies Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - Low turnout in the second round of the presidential elections in Liberia, where one of the two candidates, Winston Tubman, the rival of the outgoing President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, has sent v ...
• 8 November 2011
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - "After this election there will be a fractured country": a missionary’s opinion Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - "After this election there will be a fractured country, not united" says to Fides Fr. Mauro Armanino, of the Society of African Missions who lived in Liberia for several years (now works in Ni ...
• 8 November 2011
  AFRICA/MALAWI - A testimony of the Church’s growth in the Country: 50 years of the diocese of Mzuzu Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Mzuzu in Malawi celebrated on November 5 its Golden Jubilee in the Cathedral dedicated to St. Peter. According to a note sent to Fides, the Eucharistic celebration was presided b ...
• 8 November 2011
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Thousands of girls forced to leave school Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Poverty, abuses, cultural traditions prevent one third of girls to attend school in Zimbabwe, denying them a basic education. According to a recent study carried out by Plan International, an NGO ...
• 7 November 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Benedict XVIs words will encourage the authorities to act quickly", says the Archbishop of Jos Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very happy that the Pope has Nigeria in mind and prays for the peaceful coexistence of the people in Nigeria. We are very reassured by his words, for which we thank him", says to Fides Arc ...
• 7 November 2011
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - After the post-election disorder children start going back to school, late and traumatized Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - In Côte d'Ivoire the school year generally begins in late October. Instead this year the opening has been delayed by the difficulties caused by post-election violence that disrupted classes for ...
• 5 November 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - After the drought, the rain hits the Somali refugees, "Kenyan military operations make the situation even more complex", says Caritas Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - After the drought, torrential rains are aggravating the Somali refugees’ situation, at home and abroad. According to reports from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at the refugee ...
• 5 November 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Even a Catholic church was destroyed in the attacks in the north-east of the Country; "corrupt politicians foment violence" reports to Fides the Bishop of Maiduguri Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Even a Catholic church was destroyed in a series of bombings that occurred in Damataru in the north-east of Nigeria. This is confirmed to Fides by His Exc. Mgr. Oliver Dashe Doeme, Bishop of Maidu ...
• 4 November 2011
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - "Too many weapons in circulation and too many unemployed feed insecurity", says the Bishop of Man Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a climate of generalized insecurity especially in the villages on the border with Liberia, some of which have been recently attacked by armed gangs. We do not know who causes all this, ...
• 4 November 2011
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Caritas Germany reopens a road link to bring aid to 10,000 displaced people in the east Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The project of Caritas Germany has allowed us to reopen the road in Opienge, in Tshopo district, in the Eastern Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). According to the spokesman of ...
• 3 November 2011
  AFRICA/NIGER - Drought and famine: the catastrophic situation in the country Tera (Agenzia Fides) - The severe drought that has struck Niger for months has destroyed crops and amplified the serious problems of food supply that the country has been suffering from for years. The Spanish Catholic or ...
• 3 November 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - "I am puzzled on the military offensive of Kenya in Somalia", says Mgr. Bertin who has just visited the Somali refugees in Ethiopia Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "I am puzzled, remembering what happened in the recent past with other adventures like that," says to Fides Mgr. Giorgio Bertin, Bishop of Djibouti and Apostolic Administrator of Mogadishu, re ...
• 3 November 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - " We are deeply troubled by the ongoing violence in our two nations", say the Bishops of North and South Sudan that will remain united in the same Episcopal Conference Wau (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply troubled by the ongoing violence in our two nations. Civil war has broken out in the Nuba Mountains / South Kordofan State and in the Blue Nile State, alongside the ongoing war in Dar ...