Africa

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  7 May 2019
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Bishops promote the leadership of Catholic women, in view of the elections Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Leadership for Salvation" this is the theme of the course in which 69 women from the eight Catholic dioceses of Malawi took part in recent days. The course was organized by the Bishops' Confer ...
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  6 May 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "It is necessary to create national unity by managing diversity", says the Bishop of Sokoto Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "I think that the problems in Nigeria have very little to do with the things that we ascribe, but is everything to do with our inability, sheer incapacity to manage diversity. Managing diversity i ...
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  6 May 2019
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Mgr. Francisco Lerma Martinez, Bishop of Gurué: a life dedicated to Mission Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "His dynamism, energy, entrepreneurship, liveliness and sense of humor were always a joy that infected and fascinated those who met him", writes to Agenzia Fides, Fr. Pedro José da Silva Louro, ...
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  4 May 2019
  AFRICA/BENIN - Bishops condemn post-election violence and offer themselves as mediators to overcome the crisis Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very worried about the incidents and violence that marked the vote, for the scarce participation of the population in the vote, and for the unimaginable scenes of violence of May 1st", s ...
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  3 May 2019
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The Mission gave the pygmies in addition to the Gospel, also freedom and dignity, preserving their culture and traditions" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Belemboké, 500 km south-west from Bangui, is a mission of only pygmies", writes to Agenzia Fides Fr. Federico Trinchero, a Carmelite missionary stationed in the capital of the Central African R ...
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  3 May 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Church in Tambura launches the project for a new maternity ward Tambura (Agenzia Fides) - In South Sudan, because of the civil war that began in 2013, the mortality rate of unborn children and mothers is very high due to the lack of adequate health facilities. The difficult health si ...
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  3 May 2019
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Cyclone Kenneth: "Rains and gusts of wind have turned the landscape into a landfill" Maputo (Agenzia Fides) – Destruction and inconveniences due to Cyclone Kenneth which devastated northern Mozambique last week causing about forty deaths. "The rains and gusts of wind at 280 km/h have transformed the l ...
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  2 May 2019
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - A missionary who denounces the environmental damage of gold mines has been stopped Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - An Italian missionary who denounces the environmental damage caused by the gold mines in the Central African Republic was stopped by the military", says Fr. Aurelio Gazzera, a Carmelite missionar ...
• 2 May 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Pretoria and Military Ordinary of South Africa, and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 30 April 2019, the Holy Father Francis accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Pretoria and of the military ordinariate of South Africa, presen ...
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  2 May 2019
  AFRICA - A true spirituality of work, not the "religion of prosperity" Kara (Agenzia Fides) - "It is time in Africa to develop a true spirituality of work. A spirituality rooted according to the plan and the vision that God wanted for work and the worker", says to Fides Fr. Donald Zagore, I ...
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  30 April 2019
  AFRICA/ERITREA - Bishops’ appeal: "It is necessary to grow together as a people and as a Country, without leaving anyone behind" Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - "In this unscrupulous world where we want to build the walls of division, we want to eliminate all forms of division: only in this way we can build a nation characterized by unity and harmony", s ...
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  30 April 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Xenophobia risks bringing us back to the times of apartheid" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "If unjustified violent attacks against migrants and refugees do not stop, South Africans run the risk of becoming like the oppressors of the apartheid era" warns Archbishop Buti Tlhagale o ...
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  29 April 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - "The news is totally false", the Bishop of Dori tells Fides about the alleged discovery of the body of Fr. Joël Yougbaré Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "The news is totally false". Thus, in a conversation with Agenzia Fides, His Exc. Mgr. Laurent Dabiré, Bishop of Dori, decisively denies the news released by some press services of the disc ...
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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 ...