Africa

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  21 November 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Immediate action to respond to the suffering of displaced persons El Obeid (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of the internally displaced continues to worsen due to the ongoing conflicts between the Ngok and Twiic Dinka ethnic groups in one of the four counties called Aneet Romamer in the ...
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  21 November 2022
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - 400 years of Propaganda Fide: "let us ask God for the gift of a strong faith, following the example of the first missionaries Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "Do we still have that strong faith of the early missionaries or not?" asked Moons. Damian Denis Dallu, Archbishop of Songea and President of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Tanz ...
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  19 November 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The President of Rwanda in favor of a ceasefire in eastern DRC Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Rwandan President Paul Kagame has agreed to assist the EAC facilitator to encourage the M23 to cease fire and withdraw from the conquered territories", reads a statement from former Kenyan Pre ...
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  19 November 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Umueri's Vigilante Group frees Catholic priest abducted 24 hours earlier Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The kidnapping of a Catholic priest in the state of Anambra, in Anambra State, south-eastern Nigeria, ended in 24 hours. Father Cyril Okafor was abducted on November 15, 2022 from the Holy Ghost A ...
• 19 November 2022
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of bishop of Mahajanga Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Zygmunt Robaszkiewicz, M.S.F., of Morombe, as bishop of Mahajanga, Madagascar. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 19/11/2022) ...
• 18 November 2022
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Appointment of the Rector of the Libermann Major Seminary, in Dakar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 1, 2022, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Alphonse Diomaye Niane, of the clergy of the archdiocese of D ...
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  18 November 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Gas exports begin, but will this resource be used to lift the country out of poverty? Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Mozambique welcomes its first export of liquefied natural gas (LNG) with the departure on November 13 of a first supply of gas from the Coral Sul offshore plant, while "social and economic inequa ...
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  17 November 2022
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Bishops warn of illegal gold mines and see dangers to health, the environment and agriculture Yamoussoukro (Agenzia Fides) - In Ivory Coast, as in Ghana, illegal gold mining is a problem that endangers the health of residents and harms the environment. And as in Ghana (see Fides, 16/11/2022) in Ivory Coast the bi ...
• 17 November 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Rector of the Pope John Paul II Major Seminary in Awka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 27, 2022, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle appointed rev. Cyril Chukwudozie Udebunu, of the diocesan clergy of Onitsha as Rector of the Pope John Paul II Major Seminary in the diocese ...
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  16 November 2022
  AFRICA/GHANA - Bishops warn: 'People's anger and frustration are on the rise' Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Corruption, economic crisis, environmental disasters linked to illegal mining activities, and potential risks of extension of jihadist activities from neighboring countries. These are the problems ...
• 15 November 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of coadjutor Archbishop of Maputo, Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop João Carlos Hatoa Nunes, until now bishop of Chimoio, as coadjutor Archbishop of Maputo, Mozambique. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 15/11/2022) ...
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  15 November 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - After the Covid-19 pandemic, now there is that of the kidnapping of children Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Every 5 hours a child disappears in South Africa". The dramatic data is reported by Missing Children South Africa which cites the statistics of the South African police referring to 2013. ...
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  14 November 2022
  AFRICA/GHANA - Giving back childhood to street children and offering them a better future Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Reception and rehabilitation services, education, are some of the interventions that the Salesian missionaries have launched in favor of street children in the areas where they are involved. 'Reco ...
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  14 November 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishops warn of 'miracle healers' and 'false prophets' Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Beware of false prophets. Some of these use the pulpit and television to deceive the people of God", warned Msgr. David Ajang, Bishop of Lafia, in his homily on Sunday November 13, warning the fa ...
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  12 November 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Forced marriages increase the risk of violence and suicide for women Wau (Agenzia Fides) - A young 19-year-old mother is serving a three-month prison sentence in the Wau juvenile detention center, in the western Bahr el Ghazal state of South Sudan, for refusing to marry a man chosen by he ...