Africa
2 September 2010
AFRICA/KENYA - Catholic NGO working against trafficking in human persons
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Between 600,000 and 2,000,000 people each year are victims of human trafficking. Among the countries affected by this crime in Africa is Kenya. According to the Trafficking in Persons Report ( ...
2 September 2010
AFRICA/SENEGAL - Raising a child with disabilities, without suitable aid or facilities
Dakar (Agenzia Fides) – In Senegal many women refuse to take mentally disabled children on public transport; families hide children with mental or neurological disorders, and some parents disown them outright. Accordin ...
1 September 2010
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishops: No to the law on the media, as it “violates the spirit of openness and accountability” of government officials
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of South Africa have “serious concerns about the wisdom and the constitutionality of the Protection of Information Bill currently before Parliament, as well as about the nee ...
1 September 2010
AFRICA/KENYA - Nairobi seminar on establishing a Catholic information agency for all Africa
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “Today communications is taken as the first aeropagus of the modern world, which is unifying humanity and turning it into a global village. Thus, we as Catholic Communicators we expect and wan ...
31 August 2010
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Local Fides sources tell of a new rebel group in Central Africa
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – A newly formed rebel group has appeared in the southeastern Central African Republic, according to a report in the international press. Bishop Juan Jose Aguirre Muños, Bishop of Bangassou, sen ...
31 August 2010
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Sharp increase in child malnutrition in north
Kousseri (Agenzia Fides) – In northern Cameroon, as in much of Africa’s western Sahel band, there is an unusually high child malnutrition rate. Six children died from malnutrition in Kousseri hospital, northern Camer ...
30 August 2010
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Formation course for 20 new missionaries concludes; first Guinean priest ordained for the PIME
Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – The sessions of the Missionary Training Course begun August 2 ended on August 27 with a Mass presided by two bishops of Guinea Bissau. According to information sent to Fides from the Curia of B ...
30 August 2010
AFRICA/NIGER - Nearly 200,000 refugees following severe flooding
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Further heavy rains in Niger have caused the number of people displaced by flooding to soar from 111,000 last week to 198,740 this week, says the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Af ...
30 August 2010
AFRICA/SENEGAL - “A pastor who knew how to live suffering with strength and serenity, along with the sense of giving one's life until the end.”: PMS Director's testimony of Bishop of Ziguinchor
Dakar (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Bruno Favero, OMI, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Senegal and Mauritania sent Fides his testimony on Bishop Maixent Coly, Bishop of Ziguinchor (capital of Casamance ...
28 August 2010
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Spreading the Gospel in a context marked by violence: theme of Missiology Conference in East Congo
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – How should we communicate the Good News to the victims of recent wars? How should we communicate the Gospel of peace to those who find it difficult to live as brothers, after the horrors of w ...
27 August 2010
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “The empty World Cup stadiums will now be filled with the fear of the people,” missionary tells Fides
Cape Town (Agenzia Fides) – "South Africa is experiencing a difficult moment. The situation is no longer calm,” Fides was told by Fr. Mario Tessarotto, Scalabrinian missionary in Cape Town who assists refugees from o ...
26 August 2010
AFRICA/SOMALIA - “The Holy Father has launched a strictly humanitarian appeal, without any hidden political interests,” Apostolic Administrator of Mogadishu tells Fides
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - “The Holy Father has launched a strictly humanitarian appeal, without any hidden political interests. However, I fear that the Shabab, blinded by their extremist ideology, may interpret it a ...
25 August 2010
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Cardinal Napier sides with critics of new legislation aimed at restricting freedom of the press
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - “It is hard to imagine how any person, group or organization, which only a few years ago was protesting so vigorously for the exposing of all injustice, all corruption, all favoritism and ...
24 August 2010
AFRICA/SOMALIA - 30 victims, including 6 MPs, perish in hotel attack near Presidential Palace
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) – "Thirty people were killed in the attack: six are members of Parliament and four are senior government officials. The other 20 victims are innocent civilians." This is the assessment followi ...
23 August 2010
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Church in Jos on violence: “Religion alone should not be blamed”
Jos (Agenzia Fides) – The recent episodes of violence that have plagued the Plateau State (central Nigeria) in the past months (see Fides 17/3/2010 and 25/3/2010) were at the heart of the discussions at the 8th General ...
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