Africa

• 11 April 2022
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Lindi and appointment Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 9, 2022 the Holy Father Francis accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Lindi (Tanzania), presented by His Exc. Msgr. Bruno Pius Ngonyani. The Holy Father ...
• 11 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Bishop of Katsina-ala Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 9, 2022 the Holy Father Francis appointed Rev. Fr. Isaac Bunde Dugu, of the clergy of Gboko Diocese, currently Director of the Pastoral Agents Department of the Catholic Secretaria ...
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  9 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Hunger, insecurity, desertification will be at the center of the regional meeting of the Bishops of West Africa Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Fratelli Tutti: Path to building human fraternity and sustainable peace in West Africa". This is the theme of the plenary meeting of the Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (RECOWA) to b ...
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  9 April 2022
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The kidnapping of Sister Tennyson, among the six Western hostages in the Sahel, has not yet been claimed Kaya (Agenzia Fides) - The kidnapping of Sister Suellen Tennyson, missionary of the Congregation of the Marianite Sisters of the Holy Cross, kidnapped by force on the night between April 4 and 5, 2022 (see Fides, 6/4/202 ...
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  8 April 2022
  AFRICA/BENIN - Christian and Muslim religious leaders held an inter-religious celebration Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "We met in the cathedral to celebrate, at the invitation of the Archbishop with other religious confessions, namely Muslims, Catholic Christians, Protestant Christians, Methodists and the tradit ...
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  8 April 2022
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - "Mutual trust, listening, sharing" the synodal journey of the parish community of Fés Fés (Agenzia Fides) - "If we wanted to symbolically represent the Catholic Church here in Morocco, it would look like a beautiful Sakura, the majestic tree that gives flowers in every season, and whose roots sink deep i ...
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  7 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We will kill train passengers if the government does not meet our demands" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are not interested in money, the federal government knows what we are asking for". In a video message posted yesterday, April 6, the group that attacked the train along the Abuja-Kaduna line o ...
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  7 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Peace and humanitarian aid to avert a preventable famine that is wiping out the population of Tigray Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - "The aid that manages to arrive, following the military truce promoted by Prime Minister Abiy (see Fides, 25/3/2022), is not changing the lives of the besieged people and all the services of bas ...
• 6 April 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Appointment of the Bishop of Kokstad Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Fr. Thulani Victor Mbuyisa, C.M.M., currently Superior General of the Mariannhill Missionaries as Bishop of the Diocese of Kokstad (South Africa). Hi ...
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  6 April 2022
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "We want to go home but we fear for our safety": the cry of Central African refugees in Cameroon to Cardinal Nzapalainga Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - More than 20,000 people, Central African refugees living in Gado-Badjeri, 26 km from Garoua-Boulai, on the road to Bertoua in Cameroon, have expressed their strong desire to return to the Central ...
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  6 April 2022
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The community of Yalgo in shock after the kidnapping of an American missionary Kaya (Agenzia Fides) - "The diocese of Kaya joins in prayer for the release of Sister Suellen Tennyson, kidnapped on the night of Monday 4 to Tuesday 5 April 2022 in the parish of Yalgo, 110 kilometers from Kaya, the cap ...
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  5 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops: "The government should stop trying to play the ostrich and take urgent steps to ensure the safety of citizens" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The government should stop trying to play the ostrich as the nation profusely bleeds and take urgent steps to unmask these marauding terrorists who terrorize innocent Nigerians", say the Nigerian ...
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  4 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Christian denominations of Kaduna: "No to the hypothesis of hiring foreign mercenaries to fight against terrorists" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are surprised by the news reported by some newspapers according to which governor Nasir el-Rufai has threatened to deploy foreign mercenaries if the federal government fails to fight banditry ...
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  4 April 2022
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Society of Africa Missions wants to ensure educational opportunities in rural areas Foya (Agenzia Fides) - "The level of education in Liberia differs greatly between urban and rural areas. In the rural areas we are disadvantaged, we have no help from the Ministry", says Joseph Vayombo, director of the � ...
• 4 April 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of the Bishop of Lodwar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Fr. John Mbinda, C.S.Sp., former Provincial Superior of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit in Kenya and South Sudan, as Bishop of the Diocese of Lodwa ...