Africa

• 4 July 2003
  AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - YOUNG SPANISH VOLUNTEER TEACHER ON FIRST MISSION SHOT DEAD AT POLICE ROAD BLOCK Bata (Fides Service) – Ana Isabel Sanchez, aged 22, a Spanish volunteer teacher on her first mission abroad, was shot dead by accident at a police road block in Equatorial Guinea on July 1. Ana was a member of the Neo ...
• 4 July 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - AFTER TEN YEARS OF PLANNING KENYA’S FIRST CATHOLIC RADIO STUDIOS RADIO WAUMINI OPENS TOMORROW: A MODERN MEANS AT THE SERVICE OF THE GOSPEL Nairobi (Fides Service) – “This is the arrival point of a process started ten years ago and at the same time the point of departure for new evangelisation” says Comboni Father Renato Kizito Sesana, enthusiastic dir ...
• 4 July 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “I SPEAK BEHALF OF THE VICTIMS OF THIS ABSURD WAR WHICH HAS LASTED FOR 17 YEARS” PASTORAL LETTER BY ARCHBISHOP ODAMA OF GULU NORTHERN UGANDA Kampala (Fides Service) – “I wanted to speak on behalf of the weakest members of society who for 17 years have been the victims of this absurd war” said Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu (northern Uganda) in a ...
• 3 July 2003
  AFRICA/ERITREA - TOWARDS A CULTURE OF PEACE: RELIGIONS ARE A BRIDGE FOR ETHIOPIA-ERITREA DIALOGUE Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Peace and reconciliation were our first concerns and so we discussed and reflected on the situations in our countries.” This was affirmed by the Catholic Bishops of Ethiopia and Erit ...
• 3 July 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - “IN LIBERIA, TAYLOR IS NOT THE ONLY PROBLEM” SAYS LOCAL MISSIONARY Monrovia (Fides Service) – “The appeal launched by the Pope will certainly help keep the spotlight and international attention on the tragic situation in Liberia” a missionary in Liberia told Fides Service after Po ...
• 2 July 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - SOS FROM BUNIA: HELP US BUILD A CULTURE OF PEACE Bunia (Fides Service) – “When the international peacekeeping force arrived we thought they would help restore peace; but we are perplexed to see the way they work”. This was reported to Fides Service by a local obs ...
• 1 July 2003
  AFRICA/MALAWI - THE YEAR OF THE ROSARY BRINGS A NEW SPRINGTIME FOR THE CHURCH IN MALAWI – ROSARY POSTERS IN CHICHEWA Balaka (Fides Service) – “The year of the Rosary is certainly helping the Church in Malawi to live a new springtime after celebrating its first centenary of evangelisation in 2001. The faith is taking deeper root in ...
• 1 July 2003
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - “ WE MUST WORK WITH PATIENCE TO OVERCOME THE CULTURE OF VIOLENCE LEFT BY THE WAR PROMOTING THE VALUES OF THE GOSPEL” SAYS ARCHBISHOP OF MAPUTO Vatican City (Fides Service) – “When the Pope placed the pallium on my shoulders I felt all the responsibility with which I have been charged”. This was how Archbishop Francisco Chimoio, OFM Cap., of Maputo in Moza ...
• 1 July 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - CRISIS OR HITCH? THIS IS THE QUESTION AFTER REBELS DECIDE TO STOP DISARMING Abidjan (Fides Service) “Let’s hope it is only a hitch in the process of peace” say local observers in Ivory Coast contacted by Fides Service with regard to the decision of rebels to suspend disarmament. United as ...
• 30 June 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - SITUATION CALM, BUT FEAR REIGNS. THREATS TO THE CHURCH Monrovia (Fides Service) – “After the cease fire announced by the rebels at the weekend, in Monrovia there is a situation of calm charged with tension” a local Missionary in Monrovia tells Fides Service. Monrovia h ...
• 27 June 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - IN MONROVIA “KILLING, SACKING AND TERROR” MISSIONARY TELLS OF YET ANOTHER OF AFRICA’S FORGOTTEN WAR Monrovia (Fides Service) – Killing, sacking, terror. This is how a missionary stationed in Monrovia, capital of Liberia, describes to Fides Service the situation in the town for days caught in conflict between troops l ...
• 27 June 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - A CRISIS LASTING MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS: BACKGROUND Monrovia (Fides Service) – Liberia has been in crisis since the 1980s of the last century, since a coup in 1980 led by Sergeant Samuel K. Doe put an end to centres of dominion of the so-called “Afro-Americans”. The ...
• 26 June 2003
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - UNHCR AWARD TO ITALIAN VOLUNTEER FOR THIRTY THREE YEARS OF WORK WITH TB SUFFERERS IN NORTHERN SOMALIA “TELLING THE GOOD NEWS OF THE GOSPEL WITH HER LIFE” Geneva (Fides Service) – A prestigious award has been given to an Italian volunteer who has worked for thirty three years in Somalia treating people with tuberculosis. On June 25 in Geneva the United Nations High Commi ...
• 26 June 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - “OUR ONLY HOPE IS FOR AN INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION”, SAYS MISSIONARY IN THE CAPITAL IN THE GRIP OF FRESH FIGHTING Monrovia (Fides Service) – “Liberia’s only hope now is for an international intervention” a missionary in Monrovia tells Fides Service. For the past few days in various city districts of the capital there has bee ...
• 26 June 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - RELIGIONS UNITE FOR PEACE. ARCHBISHOP ODAMA AND OTHER RELIGIOUS LEADERS SLEEP IN THE OPEN WITH 200,000 CHILDREN TO PROTECT THEM FROM WARLORDS. Kampala (Fides Service) – “We are here with about 20,000 children and young people offering concrete solidarity to people being persecuted” Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu in northern Uganda tells Fides Servi ...