Africa
16 July 2024
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - 'Mobile Journalism': Training course for journalists from the local radio of the Salesian missionaries
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - For five days, journalists from the Radio Don Bosco station participated in a training course on basic photography and video techniques through the practice of 'MoJo' (Mobile Journalism). T ...
16 July 2024
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Nekemte
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Getahun Fanta Shikune, C.M., until now spiritual director of the Lazarist School of Addis Ababa and spiritual director of the Daughters of Cha ...
15 July 2024
AFRICA/GHANA - "Pilgrims of Hope": campaign by men and women religious for the protection of the environment
Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of Consecrated men and women crossed the streets of the main cities of Ghana such as Accra, Kumasi, Cape Coast, Takoradi, Sunyani, Damongo, Wa, Koforidua, Donkokrom, Bolgatanga, Konongo, ...
13 July 2024
AFRICA - Alliance of Sahel states: irreversible rupture in the Economic Community of West African States?
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The process of polarization in the Sahel between pro-Western "moderate" states and states that demand their independence from neo-colonial logic, but rely on non-African powers such as Russia and C ...
12 July 2024
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Catholic Bishops and the Islamic Forum of Nigeria contrary to the Samoa Agreement: “A threat to the sovereignty and values of Nigeria”
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "A threat to the sovereignty and values of Nigeria". This is how the Bishops of Nigeria defined the Samoa Agreement, agreed on 15 November 2023, in Apia (Samoa Islands) by the European Union and i ...
11 July 2024
AFRICA/UGANDA - Raising awareness for aid and health care: nuns serving in rural areas of the country
Kasese (Agenzia Fides) - Due to poverty and the resulting inability to pay for medical services, in rural areas of the country access to health facilities and doctors is very limited and residents end up dying easily tre ...
11 July 2024
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - South Sudan celebrates the anniversary of independence in hope, but the situation remains difficult
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Between light (little) and shadow (a lot), South Sudan celebrated the anniversary of independence on July 9.
On the one hand, there are the timid hopes of a peace agreement with the armed groups ...
10 July 2024
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Withdrawal of the Blue Helmets from the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo: Paris and Washington take different positions
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is at the center of the geopolitical interests of the great powers due to its natural resources and its strategic location. On July 8, the UN Securi ...
9 July 2024
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Humanitarian ceasefire in North Kivu: opportunity to provide aid or opportunity to rearm?
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are two important new developments in the forgotten war in North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo: the first is the two-week humanitarian ceasefire that came into for ...
9 July 2024
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Mikah Suleiman released
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "I thank you for your prayers for my rescue", Father Mikah Suleiman thanked those who prayed for his release. In a video posted on social media, the Nigerian priest kidnapped on June 22 (see Fides ...
8 July 2024
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "Resilience is the best definition to describe the people in Tigray": the voice of the eparch of Adigrat
by Antonella Prenna
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Healing from the traumas of war, recovery on a human and physical level, building peace, are the salient points on which we are focusing to deal with the devastation and vi ...
6 July 2024
AFRICA - Sahel and beyond: the war of the mercenaries
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Russians are coming," Western observers have been repeating for some time, referring to the arrival of mercenaries from the former "Wagner Group" in the Sahel, particularly in the states where ...
5 July 2024
AFRICA//ETHIOPIA - Cardinal Souraphiel: “If you want to help us, train our young people so that they can work”
Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "In Ethiopia there are several conflicts, but we must never lose hope", says Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, Metropolitan Archbishop of Addis Ababa, who gave an interview to Fides. ...
4 July 2024
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Not only cocaine: priests call for the fight against drug trafficking
Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "As a Church, we are concerned about the damage caused by drugs because they destabilize the country, ruin the economy and their trafficking is seen as an easy way to enrich themselves," say the ...
4 July 2024
AFRICA/UGANDA - Protection of the dignity and sacredness of all human life: the diocese of Kasese against human trafficking
Kasese (Agenzia Fides) - Each human being is precious and worth much more than any material good, and since each life is a gift from God and is sacred, it deserves to be protected and cared for; each of us has the respon ...
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