Africa

• 28 October 2021
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Appointment of auxiliary bishops of the Archdiocese of Luanda Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed auxiliary bishops of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Luanda, Angola: the Reverend Msgr. António Lungieki Pedro Bengui, of the clergy of Luanda, until now Vica ...
• 28 October 2021
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of the Archbishop of Nairobi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed His Exc. Mgr. Philip A. Anyolo, currently Metropolitan Archbishop of Kisumu as Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Nairobi (Kenya). (SL) (Age ...
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  28 October 2021
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Bishops: "We are returning to a military era" El Obeid (Agenzia Fides) - "We are returning to a military era in Sudan, to war instead of peace", complained Mgr. Yunan Tombe Trille, Bishop of El Obeid, chairman of the President of the Bishops' Conference of Sudan an ...
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  28 October 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - A "missionary tour" to awaken the missionary vocation in the baptized Yamoussoukro (Agenzia Fides) - An authentic "missionary tour" crosses the four ecclesiastical provinces of the country and will end on December 18. The initiative was organized on the occasion of the missionary month of ...
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  27 October 2021
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Ouagadougou Pan-African Film Festival: an opportunity for the Church of Africa to evangelize Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "Cinema is an important art in the life of African populations. Africans love TV and cinema in particular". This is what Father Donald Zagore, an Ivorian priest of the Society for African Mi ...
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  27 October 2021
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Fr. Alain Mayama is new Superior General of the Spiritans Bagamoyo (Agenzia Fides) - The general chapter of the Spiritans, meeting in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, from October 3 to 24, elected for the first time an African brother as superior general of the congregation. Current assista ...
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  26 October 2021
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Christians, heralds of good news Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, October 24, the Bishop Emeritus of Zomba, Monsignor George Desmond Tambala, appointed Archbishop of Lilongwe a few days ago, during the celebration of World Mission Sunday in the par ...
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  25 October 2021
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The military takes power with a coup, people take to the streets Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "While we are speaking we hear gunshots. As we feared, the army began firing on demonstrators who, since the early hours of the morning, have poured into the streets to demand an immediate end ...
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  25 October 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - School Children We Are for Peace: students celebrate the annual Day of Catholic schools Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - While the country continues to experience a very serious humanitarian crisis, the children of the diocese of Tombura Yambio do not give up celebrating the Day of Catholic schools with the ...
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  23 October 2021
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Social crisis, a coup is feared: for the Bishop of El Obeid, the "future is uncertain" El Obeid (Agenzia Fides) - "Life in Sudan is very hard at the moment, we miraculously survive. Everything is very expensive, transport, food and the people have no bread. This situation is intolerable for the population ...
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  23 October 2021
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Fire at the headquarters of the Catholic Secretariat of the Bishops' Conference: "I ask all of you to pray for us", says the National Director of the country's Pontifical Societies Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - On Tuesday, October 19, around 10.30 in the morning, a fire broke out in the National Catholic Secretariat of the Bishops' Conference of Liberia (CABICOL). This is how the General Secretary, ...
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  23 October 2021
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Scalabrinian: Missionary Day brings us back to our communities around the world and to the new mission of Cabo Delgado Pemba (Agenzia Fides) - 125 years have passed since the foundation of the Congregation of the Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters. The Scalabrinian Year will begin next November 9, on the 25th anniversary of the beatificatio ...
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  22 October 2021
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Interventions against child malnutrition and for the care of pregnant women Muyanza (Agenzia Fides) - Two years after the end of the project for nutritional and health support for women and children in Muyanza, in the Rulindo district, concluded in 2019, Omar Fiordalisio, cooperating representat ...
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  21 October 2021
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Preserving and increasing faith and traditions: the bishops inaugurate the works in view of the synod Kiyinda-Mityana (Agenzia Fides) - "In this synod on synodality Pope Francis has invited all of us bishops to be together as Christians and share the Gospel", said Msgr. Anthony Zziwa, bishop of the diocese of Kiyinda-Mit ...
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  20 October 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Politics is not war: this is the democracy we want Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The launch of the Party of African Peoples-Ivory Coast (Ppa-ci) promoted by former president of Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo can be considered both a masterful lesson in politics and the seed sow ...