Africa
23 June 2003
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO-NIGER - CHURCH STILL YOUNG, DESPITE DIFFICULTIES TENDS TO MISSION, INTERVIEW WITH BISHOP OUEDRAGO, PRESIDENT OF BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE
Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Despite difficulties connected with the precarious living conditions of the local people, the missionary vitality of your diocesan Churches has expressed itself in various forms”, Po ...
23 June 2003
AFRICA/NIGERIA - NEGLECT AND IGNORANCE CAUSED LATEST NIGERIAN OIL TRAGEDY SAYS ARCHBISHOP ONAIYEKAN OF ABUJA
Abuja (Fides Service) – “This is the umpteenth tragedy caused by neglect on the part of those responsible for protecting one of the largest oil installations in Nigeria” Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuj ...
20 June 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO - FEAR AND UNCERTAINTY IN NORTH KIVU. DESPITE UNILATERAL CEASE-FIRE CALLED BY REBELS MORE VIOLENCE IS FEARED
Kinshasa (Fides Service) – Tension is still high in North Kivu, in the eastern part of Democratic Congo DRC, where rebels of the Congolese Group for Democracy (RCD-Goma) have declared a unilateral cease-fire. Local sou ...
20 June 2003
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - WORLD REFUGEE DAY: ASSISTANCE AND FORMATION FOR A BETTER FUTURE: SCALABRINI REFUGEE SERVICE IN AFRICA
Cape Town (Fides Service) – Shelter, food, medical assistance, schooling, professional training are some of the services offered by the Scalabrini Refugee Service in Cape Town, South Africa, a large port destination of ...
20 June 2003
AFRICA/UGANDA - ACHOLI PEOPLE VICTIMS FOR YEARS OF THE WORST FORM OF TERRORISM WHICH NEVER MAKES THE HEADLINES
Kampala (Fides Service) – “It is certainly a good sign the fact that the Ugandan press is talking of the need to end the carnage in northern Uganda which has gone on for too long” said a missionary with years of ex ...
18 June 2003
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - A YOUNG CHURCH FULL OF ENTHUSIASM
Ouagadougou (Fides Service) – In 2000 the Catholic Church in Burkina Faso celebrated the centenary of evangelisation in the region. The first mission here was opened by the White Fathers, today known as Missionaries of ...
18 June 2003
AFRICA/LIBERIA - DISBELIEF AND SCEPTICISM IN LIBERIA AFTER CEASE-FIRE BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND REBELS IS ANNOUNCED
Monrovia (Fides Service) – Liberia awoke with surprise, uncertainty and hope following the announcement of a cease-fire agreement and the resignation of President Charles Taylor. On June 17 at midnight the Liberian go ...
17 June 2003
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA-ERITREA - AS TENSION RISES, ONLY COLLABORATION CAN COMBAT LOGIC OF WAR WHICH STILL DIVIDES ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA
Addis Ababa (Fides Service) – As the United Nations Organisation is about to start the process of boundary marking between Ethiopia and Eritrea, tension between the two countries increases. Local Fides Service sources, ...
17 June 2003
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - ITURI: THE ROOTS OF A CONFLICT WHICH IS CAUSING THOUSANDS OF VICTIMS
Ituri (Fides Service) – From the Ituri region in north east Democratic Congo, reports of massacres and war continue despite the deployment of a European peacekeeping force under the aegis of the UN. Yesterday, 16 June, ...
16 June 2003
AFRICA/UGANDA - MISSIONARIES IN THE NORTH NOT AFRAID OF THREATS FROM LORD’S RESISTANCE ARMY: ARMY OR BANDITS?
Kampala (Fides Service) – “We are living an extremely tense situation” says Comboni Father Tarcisio Pazzaglia, who has worked for many years in the area of Kitgum, northern Uganda. “The threats to Catholic priest ...
16 June 2003
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - THE PROBLEM OF WAR AND NATIONAL RECONCILIATION AT THE CENTRE OF PLENARY ASSEMBLY OF IVORY COAST’S CATHOLIC BISHOPS
Abidjan (Fides Service) – To promote national reconciliation and continue on the path of evangelisation: these were the main topics discussed by the 76th plenary assembly of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ivory ...
13 June 2003
AFRICA/LIBERIA - UN SAYS LIBERIA’S PRESIDENT IS ACCOMPLICE TO DIAMOND SMUGGLING BETWEEN SIERRA LEONE AND LIBERIA, THE CHARGE COULD ENDANGER PEACE TALKS
Monrovia (Fides Service) – Peace talks organised under the aegis of the 15 countries of the Economic and Development Community of West African Nations, open today at Akosombo, near Accra. But Charles Taylor has said th ...
12 June 2003
AFRICA/DJIBOUTI - WITNESSES TO THE FAITH IN DJIBOUTI TODAY: CATHOLIC BISHOP OF DJIBOUTI ADDRESSES PASTORAL LETTER TO HIS LITTLE FLOCK
Djibouti (Fides Service) – “You shall be my witnesses in Djibouti” is the title of a Pastoral Letter issued by Bishop Giorgio Bertin of Djibouti at the end of special Church Meeting of reflection on the presence of ...
12 June 2003
AFRICA/KENYA - LOOKING TO THE FUTURE, DESPITE FLOODS, STATE DEFICIT AND THREAT OF TERRORISM
Nairobi (Fides Service) – At last the torrential rains which pounded Kenya for the past month have ceased. The most affected regions were in the east, particularly Nyanza Province and West Province.
The situation has ...
11 June 2003
AFRICA/MAURITANIA - VARIOUS HYPOTHESES ON ATTEMPTED COUP. EMERGENCY OVER. CELEBRATIONS FOR RETURN TO NORMALITY. NO DAMAGES TO CATHOLIC COMMUNITY
Nouakchott (Fides Service) – Calm is returning to Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania after the attempted coup days ago (see Fides Service link 9 June 2003). According to local sources the people have taken to the street ...
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