Africa
16 December 2006
AFRICA/KENYA - “A chance to initiate the process of healing, to forgive and reconcile with one another in the interest of peaceful co-existence now and in the future”: the Bishops of AMECEA express satisfaction for Great Lakes Summit
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “We, wish to express our appreciation to the Heads of States and Governments, of the Great Lakes Region for their initiative to come together to reflect and discuss matters of common good for ...
16 December 2006
AFRICA/NIGER - Thanks to record cereal harvest in 2006 Niger overcomes food crisis. Still struggling Angola will boost agriculture
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Good news for Africa's agriculture. This year Niger, affected by a serious food shortage (see Fides 21 September 2005), has a record harvest with a surplus of 457,237 tons. According to the loc ...
15 December 2006
AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - After devastating the west, floods strike in the east, thousands of homes evacuated, people living on pirogues
Bumba (Agenzia Fides)- The consequences of climate change are ever more serious in Africa. After Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea now the eastern regions of Democratic Congo are being devastated by torrential rains a ...
13 December 2006
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Commemoration of 60 Loyola Jesuit College students killed a year ago in Port Harcourt air-crash
Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- A special Mass was celebrated on Sunday 10 December for the repose of the souls of the 60 students at Loyola Jesuit College Karu, Abuja (Nigeria) killed a year ago in an air crash in Port Harcourt ...
13 December 2006
AFRICA/SUDAN - Holy See Permanent Observer to the United Nations and the International Organizations attends 4th Special Session of UN Human Rights Council: “The victims are not just statistics; they are real people. Indeed the priority is action to end the killings and the abuses over political arrangements and commercial interests.”
Geneva (Agenzia Fides) -“For three years already the Holy See has been following with grave concern the terrible suffering of the people caught up in the tragic conflicts intermittently erupting in the Darfur region o ...
12 December 2006
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - On the feast of the Immaculate Conception local Camillan celebrated three important events
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Although in the capital of Burkina 8 December is not a Bank Holiday on the feast of the Immaculate Conception the Camillan Community in Burkina Faso celebrated three important events. The fi ...
12 December 2006
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Perverse spiral of war, extremism and natural disasters. Islamic Courts ultimatum: “Ethiopian troops out by the end of the week or it will be war ”
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - With the humanitarian emergency caused by floods affecting vast areas of Somalia in recent months still critical, threatening clouds of war now appear on the horizon. Both the national interim ...
12 December 2006
AFRICA - Africa’s oil and Africa’s future
Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Pope Benedict XVI’s warning with reward to disregard for the environment and damage caused by the oil rush describe with dramatic precision the situation in Africa where new and old powers fight ...
7 December 2006
AFRICA - Ecological fuel from seaweed and dates. From north to south African countries launch innovative solutions to guarantee energy for development
Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Africa is joining the market for ecological fuels derived from vegetal organisms. A local South African company hopes in five years time to produce between 16 and 24 billion litres of bio-diesel.
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7 December 2006
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE -Catholic Bishops concerned about spreading violence
Maputo (Agenzia Fides)- The Catholic Bishops of Mozambique warn that a “climate of violence is spreading across the country from the cities to the more remote areas of the country with banditry, attacks by armed gangs, ...
6 December 2006
AFRICA/KENYA -Fourth National Mission Congress
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- Catholics from all over Kenya have gathered in Nairobi for the 4th National Mission Congress. “We are about seventy, priests, diocesan and religious, women religious and lay people from all the ...
6 December 2006
AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - President Kabila takes office. What challenges does he face?
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- Joseph Kabila Democratic Congo’s first democratically elected president sworn in today.
The new head of state will have to tackle difficult problems. He will have to consolidate peace in a c ...
6 December 2006
AFRICA/R.D. CONGO - Catholic Bishops call for national reconciliation, an act of clemency for political prisoners and an international fund for reconstruction of war torn Congo
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) -“Now the elections are over the most urgent problem is national reconciliation and respect for democratic opposition” the Catholic Bishops of Congo said in an appeal launched today as the ne ...
5 December 2006
AFRICA/MALAWI - Italian missionary Fr. Eugenio Cucchi 34 years of mission in Malawi moves to new mission in Democratic Congo
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 December the community of Monfort missionaries in Lilongwe said goodbye to Superior Fr. Eugenio Cucchi 34 years of service in Malawi who was leaving for a new mission in the Democratic Re ...
5 December 2006
AFRICA/BENIN - “Putting Children at the Centre of Advent”: Pastoral Letter from Bishop of Natitingou
Natitingou (Agenzia Fides) - Children are the centre of a reflection on Advent in a Pastoral Letter “Christmas: popular religiosity and the future of our children”, issued by Bishop Pascal N’Koué of the diocese of ...
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