Africa

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  18 January 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Church raises the alarm over the spread of the "South African variant" of Covid-19 Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - In southern Africa there is concern about the spread of the so-called South African variant of the Sars-Cov2 virus, responsible for the Covid-19 disease. "We have been reliably informed by ...
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  18 January 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A Catholic priest brutally killed Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. John Gbakaan, parish priest of the Saint Anthony Church in Gulu, in the diocese of Minna, was kidnapped and murdered on January 15 along the road from Lambata to Lapai in the state of Niger. T ...
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  16 January 2021
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Archbishop of Algiers: "We are a Church dedicated to encounter and brotherhood" Algiers (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church of Algeria dates back to the 2nd century, with its martyrs and Saint Augustine. It is a church that lives with and for its mostly Muslim fellow men. In the footsteps of Archbishop He ...
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  16 January 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Church media work in times of Covid Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The first ordinary session of the Episcopal Social Media Commission of 2021 met in Yamoussoukro from January 11th to 14th. About a dozen communication officers from the dioceses and employees of ...
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  16 January 2021
  AFRICA/TOGO - Missionary at the beginning of the year: "People hope for a better 2021" Sokodè (Agenzia Fides) - The year that has just ended was not easy for Togo. "The effects could also be felt in Kolowaré, where the armed soldiers were patrolling and their presence was palpable", Father Silvano Galli, ...
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  15 January 2021
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Completely destroyed the Nangololo mission, occupied by the insurgents in October Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "Everything has been destroyed ...", said the Brazilian missionary Father Edegard Silva, about the damage in the Nangololo Mission in the Muidumbe district in the Cabo Delgado province in norther ...
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  15 January 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Bishop Medhin's appeal for an urgent response to the humanitarian crisis in Tigray Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - The war in the Ethiopian region of Tigray continues. In addition to the Axum massacre of 750 people, people who had been hiding in the church where the Ark of the Covenant is kept since December ...
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  14 January 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Precarious calm in Bangui after the failure of the rebel offensive Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The rebel offensive against the Central African capital Bangui has been repelled (see Fides, 13/1/2021). "The attack was repelled by the UN peacekeepers, together with the Central African armed f ...
• 14 January 2021
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 15 October 2020, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Louis Koroma, of the diocesan clergy of Makeni as National D ...
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  14 January 2021
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Missionaries help with registration at the residents' registration office Kikolo (Agenzia Fides) - "An identity card is precious, because without it one does not exist for the state and society", says in a letter to Fides Father Renzo Adorni, priest of the Society for African Missions, who liv ...
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  13 January 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Orthodox Church warns of “fake news” on social media Cairo (Agenzia Fides) -"The multiplication of social communication platforms and networks is leading to information chaos: anyone can write messages and send anything online without having to take into account the authen ...
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  13 January 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Security forces thwart rebel offensive against the capital Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The Central African security forces thwarted an attempted attack on Bangui "in the early hours of the morning", the responsible authorities of the Central African Republic reported on January 13t ...
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  13 January 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference: review of the 2020 activities and prospects for 2021 Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "It is well known that in 2020 the health crisis of Covid-19 had repercussions on the practice of faith and on pastoral care. From this point of view, the planned activities were not carried out ...
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  13 January 2021
  AFRICA/GHANA - St. Martin Deaf Ministry: Missionaries support the deaf Accra (Agenzia Fides) - The "St. Martin Deaf ministry" is the new missionary initiative promoted by the Society for African Missions (SMA) in the archdiocese of Accra, in favor of deaf people. The initiative was presente ...
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  12 January 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Two Bishops denounce: "Distressing situation for migrants at the South African border due to Covid controls" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Over the past few days the distressing situation at the border posts in Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe has made headlines. This occurred at the beginning and at the end of ...