Africa
19 December 2023
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops urge vigilance on the eve of the election
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us not leave the polling stations until the results are published". This is the appeal that the Congolese Bishops' Conference (CENCO) made back in June to the voters who, tomorrow, Decembe ...
19 December 2023
AFRICA/GUINEA - The church of St. Joseph the Worker destroyed after fuel depot fire
Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - "The church of St. Joseph the Worker, located 500 meters from the fuel depot that caught fire on the night of December 17 to 18 has been completely destroyed" local Church sources report to Fide ...
18 December 2023
AFRICA/GUINEA - At least 8 dead after fuel depot explodes in residential area
Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - At least eight people were killed and just over eighty injured and a residential area was completely devastated. This is the sad conclusion of the major fire that broke out on the night of Decem ...
18 December 2023
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Ten years of civil war: Sexual violence as a weapon of war
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Victims of sexual violence are the invisible victims of the civil war that broke out in South Sudan 10 years ago in December 2013 (see Fides, 16 and 18 December 2013). Sexual violence is a real wea ...
18 December 2023
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Diocese of Yei publishes five-year plan: evangelization, social development, economy
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "This is a very important event, both for the faith and for the holistic development of the Church," said the Bishop of Yei, Alex Lodiong Sakor, on the occasion of the presentation of the five-year ...
15 December 2023
AFRICA/NIGER - Diocesan youth Days: Young people play an important role in the Christian communities of the Diocese of Niamey
Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - "Young people play an important role in the Christian community of Dosso, as in all communities where there are young people," said the missionary Father Rafael Casamayor to Fides on the occasion ...
15 December 2023
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Justice and Peace Commission publishes election handbook
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Citizen education is an essential part of any democratic society," says the handbook prepared by the Commission for Justice and Peace of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Southern Africa ...
13 December 2023
AFRICA/NIGER - Humanitarian crisis in the Sahel region: Catholic Church provides aid
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - The Sahel is increasingly at risk of becoming a "humanitarian black hole". In addition to the region's internally displaced people, refugees from neighboring countries such as Nigeria and Sudan ...
12 December 2023
AFRICA/NIGER - Sanctions against coup plotters extended: “The people of Niger are prepared to sacrifice their economy for nationalist pride”
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - The sanctions imposed by the Economic Community of West African States (CEDEAO/ECOWAS) against Niger following the military coup of July 26 that deposed President Mohamed Bazoum have been extende ...
11 December 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The priest and his companion kidnapped in southeastern Nigeria released
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Father Kingsley Eze and his companion Uchenna Newman, who were victims of a kidnapping on November 30 in Umuekebi, Osuoweerre, in the Isiala Mbano local government region of the State of Imo, sout ...
11 December 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of Bishop of Ilorin
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 8, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Anselm Pendo Lawani, until now diocesan administrator of Ilorin, Nigeria, as bishop of the same ecclesiastical circumscription.
Msgr. ...
11 December 2023
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Resignation and appointment of Bishop of Tôlagnaro
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 5, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Tôlagnaro, Madagascar, presented by Bishop Vincent Rakotozafy.
The Holy Father has appoin ...
7 December 2023
AFRICA/KENYA - Agricultural workers from Malawi and Kenya are supposed to work in Israeli fields
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - African agricultural workers are to work in Israeli fields as a replacement for Palestinian and Thai workers. After around 220 agricultural workers were recruited in Malawi in recent weeks, it i ...
7 December 2023
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Suspected mastermind of failed coup attempt arrested
Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - With the arrest of the former bodyguard of former President Ernest Bai Koroma and two police officers accused of having offered him refuge, the number of people arrested in Sierra Leone for the ...
6 December 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - At least 85 dead in an accidental military attack on Muslim procession
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu describes the attack by the Nigerian armed forces on a procession of Islamic believers celebrating the Mawlid an-Nabi holiday (birthday of the Prophet Mohammed ...
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