Africa

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  28 February 2018
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - A small community of Somali Christians lives their faith in hiding Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - A small community of Somali Christians lives in Mogadishu. There are about thirty elderly people. They live hidden for fear of the reprisals of Islamic fundamentalists. But, they consider thei ...
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  27 February 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Third church-led demonstrations: "Repression was less violent even if there were at least 3 victims" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Repression was less violent even if unfortunately at least three people were killed", report to Agenzia Fides Church sources in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where on Sunday 25 February fo ...
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  27 February 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Boko Haram terrorism: "Allah does not send anyone to kill on his behalf" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Four years after the kidnapping of a group of girls from Chibok, members of the Nigerian terror group "Boko Haram" have kidnapped hundreds of students from a school of Dapchi. This is the umpteent ...
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  23 February 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Kenyan missionary:"I will continue to work in South Sudan despite the alarm of my government" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Here in Rumbek, the few Kenyans I have met feel unsafe but as they work in these areas, they just entrust their lives to God", says to Fides Father John John Waweru, a Kenyan priest incardinate ...
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  23 February 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Still violence while the world is praying for the DRC and South Sudan Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – While today, 23 February, the world Day of prayer and fasting for peace in the world is being celebrated, and in particular for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan, announced ...
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  22 February 2018
  AFRICA - Africa ready to pray for peace in the DRC and in South Sudan Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in all of Africa is mobilized to welcome the appeal launched on February 4 by Pope Francis to dedicate the second Friday of Lent, 2018, February 23, to a day of prayer and fasting for pe ...
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  22 February 2018
  AFRICA - Congo and South Sudan: peace and hope against all appearances Kara (Agenzia Fides) - The "Day of Fasting and Prayer for Peace in the Congo and South Sudan and in the world", announced by Pope Francis (see Fides 19/2/2018) was welcomed with gratitude by the Christians of South Sudan ...
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  21 February 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Azhar is "open" to Coptic students (but they must memorize the Quran) Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The University of al Azhar, the most prestigious theological and academic center of Sunni Islam, supports the consolidation of a "modern and democratic" State in Egypt, and does not exclude openin ...
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  21 February 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Bishops applaud the State of the Nation Address by President Ramaphosa Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We are at a moment in the history of our nation when the people, through their determination, have started to turn the country around", said the newly elected President of South Africa Cyr ...
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  21 February 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - National political dialogue begins: Catholics pray for peace Kolowarè (Agenzia Fides) - National political dialogue among the various political parties in Togo has begun in Lomé: the government and the coalition of the 14 opposition parties, which organized demonstrations almost ...
• 21 February 2018
  AFRICA/LESOTHO - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Felix Lerata Mahlatsi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 16, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Felix Lerata Mahlatsi, of the diocesan clergy of Leribe, ...
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  20 February 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops: "A campaign of defamation of the Church underway while the Country prepares to vote" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We denounce the campaign of discrediting and defamation of the Catholic Church and its hierarchy", says the National Episcopal Conference of the Congo (CENCO) in the statement published at the ...
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  20 February 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Overcoming the sin of tribalism: a challenge for the Church of Africa Ahiara (Agenzia Fides) - The well-known ethnic and tribal crisis that struck the Nigerian diocese of Ahiara "is just the tip of the iceberg", reports Ivorian theologian Donald Zagore, missionary of the Society of African ...
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  19 February 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Church invites us to pray for peace:"The country needs unity and compassion" Tombura-Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community, during Lent, and in particular on Friday 23 February, will pray for peace in the conflict-stricken nations of South Sudan and in the Democratic Republic of the Con ...
• 19 February 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Ahiara and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Ahiara (Nigeria), presented by his Exc. Msgr. Peter Ebere Okpaleke, and at the same time appoin ...