Africa

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  2 December 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - At least 14 dead in an attack on a Protestant church Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - At least 14 people were killed during Sunday service in a Protestant church in Hantoukoura, in the eastern part of Burkina Faso. According to local authorities, an armed group entered the ch ...
• 2 December 2019
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Moshi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Hios Exc. Mgr. Ludovick Joseph Minde, ALCP/OSS, currently Bishop of Kahama, as Bishop of the Diocese of Moshi (Tanzania). (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 2/12/2019) ...
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  2 December 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Celebration of Missionary Childhood Week 2020: a choral competition and a missionary piggy bank has been launched Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Every year, the Pontifical Mission Societies celebrate World Missionary Childhood Day at Epiphany so that children within the Church feel part of the Church and missionaries. In order to prep ...
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  30 November 2019
  AFRICA - World AIDS Day: The DREAM program of the Community of Sant’Egidio for 11 African countries Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Saving the future of Africa by fighting the main cause of death among the continent's adolescents: HIV virus. This is the challenge of the DREAM program of the Community of Sant’ Egidio which, on ...
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  30 November 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Comboni Missionaries: "To accompany the population towards a path of peace and reconciliation" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "South Sudanese leaders have a moral obligation towards their citizens to promote real prospects for peace, development and democracy in the country". This is what Father Daniele Moschetti, a Combo ...
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  30 November 2019
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Father Zerai's appeal: "An international plan to save African immigrants from detention centers" Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - In Libyan detention centers the living conditions of hundreds of Africans are inhumane. Many lives are at risk if there is no plan or international intervention to save poor and unarmed prisoner ...
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  29 November 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Africa consecrated to the Merciful Heart of Jesus at the end of the 4th Congress on Divine Mercy Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "We implore your Mercy so that all the inhabitants of the continent may live as brothers and sisters who love each other". With this prayer, His Eminence Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Arc ...
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  28 November 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - This year alone 9 priests kidnapped in the State of Enugu Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Malachy Asadu, a priest from the Diocese of Nsukka, in the State of Enugu, in southern Nigeria was released two days after his abduction. This was confirmed by the Police yesterday, November 2 ...
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  28 November 2019
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Passion and zeal at the service of patients: the commitment of the Catholic community of Chipata Lumezi (Agenzia Fides) - A nursing school in the district of Lumezi was recently inaugurated. The initiative is part of the Diocesan Strategic Plan 2017-2021 of the Catholic community of Chipata which, in the context of ...
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  27 November 2019
  AFRICA/TOGO - The Bishops: "May the next elections be peaceful, free and fair" Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - "At a certain point in the history of our nation, voices were raised to reproach the Catholic Church for maintaining a complicit silence in certain socio-political situations. Today it may seem th ...
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  26 November 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Violence in the East, Bishops' appeal: "Enough to decades of human rights violations" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) is very concerned about the insecurity in the east of our Country, in particular in the provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu, due to the re ...
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  25 November 2019
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Tension and violence in the northern provinces: the Church calls for inclusive dialogue Bamenda (Agenzia Fides) - In the Anglophone provinces of Cameroon violence continues. Although in some areas clashes have stopped, in other places the tension is very high. The law enforcement agencies in Yaoundé have p ...
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  25 November 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO DR - Protests in eastern DRC after yet another raid by Ugandan ADF rebels Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Strong tension this morning in Beni and Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the population took to the streets to protest against the continuing violence committed ...
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  22 November 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Burkina Faso is being targeted because so far it has been an example of coexistence among different religious communities Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - A further sign of the progressive deterioration of security conditions in Burkina Faso (see Fides, 20/11/2019) is given by the recall back home of the children of US diplomats accredited to ...
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  22 November 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - No sacrifice is "too big" to achieve peace Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the coup d'état in 1999, the post-election crisis of 2011 and the bloody armed rebellion of 2002, the Country continues to chase this priceless gift of God that is peace", says to Agenzi ...