AFRICA/LIBERIA - LIBERIA’S DIFFICULT JOURNEY TO PEACE
Monrovia (Fides Service) – “We are moving towards the installation of the transition government and the situation in Monrovia is gradually returning to normal” Father Mauro Armanino, in the Liberian capital tells F ...
19 September 2003
AFRICA/KENYA - 2003 INTERNATIONAL ICAS CONFERENCE ON AIDS: CHALLENGES
Nairobi (Fides Service) – The 13th International Conference on AIDS will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, 21-27 September. Participants will discuss the Challenges to face in order to solve this serious problem, The first wi ...
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - EYEWITNESS MISSIONARY RETURNED FROM GUINEA BISSAU
(Rome) Fides Service) – “When I left Bissau on Saturday afternoon and there was no sign whatsoever of a coup” Father Agostino Martini head of the Venetian province of the Friars Minor told Fides. “Although, to te ...
15 September 2003
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - INFO: EVANGELISATION
Rome (Fides Service) – Evangelisation in Guinea Bissau which in 1998 marked 500 years took place in four or five laps. The first began with the arrival in Guinea of Portuguese Europeans in 1446, and ended with the crea ...
AFRICA/BURUNDI - GOVERNMENT AND MAIN REBEL GROUP MAY BE NEAR TO AGREEMENT
Bujumbura (Fides Service) – Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye and rebel leader Pierre Nkrurunziza, head of FDD, Forces for Defence of Democracy, will meet for talks on Sunday 14 September in Dar es Salaam, Tanzani ...