Africa

• 22 January 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - UN PEACEKEEPERS DETERMINED TO DISARM MILITIA IN ITURI, NORTH-EAST CONGO, WHERE FIGHTING CONTINUES Bunia (Fides Service) – There is no peace for Ituri. For more than a week armed groups have been attacking UN peacekeepers in north east Democratic Congo (RDC) where, since 1999 at least ten different militia groups fi ...
• 22 January 2004
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU – PORTUGUESE SPEAKING BISHOPS CALL FOR MORE SOLIDARITY AMONG CHURCHES TO MEET CHALLENGES OF EVANGELISATION Bissau (Fides Service) – To meet more effectively the challenge of new evangelisation, the Catholic Bishops of Portuguese speaking countries have called for more solidarity among the local Churches. This emerged at the ...
• 21 January 2004
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - BISHOPS STATEMENT DENOUNCING CLIMATE OF INSECURITY AND WIDESPREAD VIOLENCE BRINGS POSITIVE REACTION Bangui (Fides Service) - “Reactions were positive to the Bishops’ statement. The message was welcomed by both government and people” local Church sources in Bangui, Central African Republic told Fides. In a recent ...
• 21 January 2004
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - MAIN REBEL MOVEMENT IN LIBERIA SPLITS: WILL PEACE PROCESS BE ENDANGERED? Monrovia (Fides Service) - “It is the old story of fighting over seats in the unity government”. SMA Father Mauro Armanino told Fides with regard to the news that Mrs Asha Keita-Conneh, wife of Sekou Conneh leader of ...
• 20 January 2004
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - SLOWLY CALM RETURNS TO GAMBELLA AFTER FIERCE ETHNIC CLASHES. CONCERN FOR 16,000 PEOPLE IN FLIGHT TOWARDS SUDAN Gambella (Fides Service)- “The situation is slowly returning to normal” said Reverend Angelo Moreschi Prefect of the Apostolic Prefecture of Gambella in Ethiopia. Gambella is situated about 800 km west of the capital ...
• 20 January 2004
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU – POLITICAL PRIORITIES COMMON GOOD AND DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON FOR PORTUGUESE SPEAKING BISHOPS Bissau (Fides Service )- “The common good must be given first place by political parties”. This was the sense of an intervention by Auxiliary Bishop of Lisbon, Tomaz da Silva Nunes, at a Conference “Ethics and Poli ...
• 19 January 2004
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - BISHOPS OF NORTHERN AFRICA: “THE WITNESS OFFERED BY THE CHURCH IN MAGHREB IS NOT SEEN AS AGGRESSION BY THE LOCAL PEOPLE ”. ARCHBISHOP FOUAD TWAL ELECTED PRESIDENT OF CERNA. Tunis (Fides Service) - “In Christian-Muslim relations in Maghreb we have good reason to think that the witness to the Gospel of Christ offered by the Church, through which the local society receives the Good News, is ...
• 19 January 2004
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - IS PEACE IN BURUNDI CLOSER? LAST RESISTING GROUP OF REBELS SITS AT NEGOTIATING TABLE WITH GOVERNMENT Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “If an agreement is reached between the FLN and the government Burundi’s dream of peace will come true” say local church sources in Bujumbura, where hope grows now that peace talks have ...
• 17 January 2004
  AFRICA/KENYA - STRONG SPIRIT OF ECUMENISM IN KENYA, LOCAL CHRISTIAN CONFESSIONS PREPARE TO CELEBRATE WEEK FOF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY Nairobi (Fides Service/Cisa) – The spirit of ecumenism is lively in Kenya and it has been for some years. The Nairobi Ecumenical Group has a long history of ecumenical meetings and collaboration, especially between th ...
• 16 January 2004
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA AND BURUNDI - INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERS FOR DEVELOPMENT HELP Rome (Fides Service)- “The situation has certainly improved: the last harvest was good and the food emergency is under control, but malnutrition is chronic as FAO and World Food Programme have announced. More than 7 mi ...
• 15 January 2004
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - WE MUST NEVER STOP THE PATH OF LOVE! Rome(Fides Service) – Here is a message of hope and cheer sent to Fides Service by Archbishop Simon Ntamwana of Gitega who is also President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Burundi. His words of love and hope ...
• 14 January 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - MACHETE SLAUGHTER CONTINUES: AT LEAST 18 PEOPLE MURDERED IN RECENT WEEKS. 40-60,000 ARMED YOUNG MILITARY RUN WILD Abidjan (Fides Service)-“Violence in the north west of Ivory Coast will not stop the peace process between government and rebels” local Church sources in Abidjan told Fides Service. “Sad to say these episodes come ...
• 12 January 2004
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - ARCHBISHOP OF DAKAR THREATENED. ALL SENEGAL EXPRESSES SOLIDARITY. PRESIDENT WADE DEFENDS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ON TELEVISION Dakar (Fides Service)- In Dakar, in the news for the international car rally, signs of religious intolerance were immediately quashed by the majority of people. “Newspapers and political and religious leaders, Muslims ...
• 12 January 2004
  AFRICA/CONGO - DIOCESE REJOICES FOR RETURN OF SICK ARCHBISHOP OF BUKAVU ABSENT FOR THREE YEARS Bukavu (Agenzia Fides)- Four bishop concelebrated a special Mass for peace in Democratic Congo and for the health of Archbishop Charles Kambale Mbogha of Bukavu diocese who recently returned after two years of absence fo ...
• 12 January 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - IN THE CABINDA ENCLAVE (700,000 DRUMS OF OIL A DAY), THE DRAMA OF WAR AND HUNGER. AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED DENOUNCES INJUSTICE Roma (Fides Service)- Fides has received a new complaint with regard violation of human rights in the Angolan enclave of Cabina separated from Angola by a strip of land belonging to Democratic Congo. According to Portugu ...