Africa

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  24 September 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - A Nun to head Kenyan Bishops’ new national television Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - A nun at the head of the project for the creation of the first national Catholic television in Kenya. Sister Agnes Lucy Lando, the director of Research and Postgraduate Studies at Kenya’s Days ...
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  23 September 2020
  AFRICA/GUINEA - "The Church is still a victim of illegal expropriations", denounces the Archbishop of Conakry Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - "We are not faced with new facts. In fact, since the 1960s, the Catholic Church has often been the victim of the illegal expropriation of its assets in many places, throughout the country", said ...
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  23 September 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - "The abortion bill is contrary to morality and the Constitution" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of Kenya has opposed the bill on reproductive health care 2019, presented by the senator of Nakuru, Susan Kihika. In reiterating her concerns regarding the bill on serious ...
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  22 September 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "All human beings are created in the image of God, no tribe is better than other tribes" says the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "As the world celebrates International Day for Peace, we in South Sudan are at the forefront because we know the bitterness of the absence of peace. Since the birth of this new republic, we citizen ...
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  22 September 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The celebration of the Missionary Month: the involvement of the local media Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "To celebrate the month of October, the month of mission in the Church, we wanted to direct our action on the media", said Fr. Jean Noel Gossou, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Socie ...
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  21 September 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Religious leaders united in defending the sacredness of life: no to abortion Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Conference of Malawi (ECM) and other religious bodies, such as the Council of Churches of Malawi (MCC), the Evangelical Association of Malawi (EAM), the Muslim Association of Malaw ...
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  21 September 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - A new Director General of the Catholic National Radio Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "At the end of the recruitment process for the position of Director of National Catholic Radio, the President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of the Ivory Coast, His Exc. Mgr. Ignace Bessi ...
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  19 September 2020
  AFRICA/MAURITIUS - A Salesian missionary: at work with young people so as not to waste the heritage left by the Pope's visit Port Louis (Agenzia Fides) - "The Pope's visit, one year ago, left an indelible mark in Mauritius. Unfortunately, the pandemic arrived a few months later and blocked the Church's plans to put Francis' words into practice ...
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  19 September 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Africa, the sisters of the Good Shepherd alongside the exploited of cobalt Lualaba (Agenzia Fides) - "It was the bishop of Kolwezi who asked us to come here in 2012, worried about the living conditions of the population, especially children. When we first arrived, there were very few people aro ...
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  18 September 2020
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Solidarity campaign "Together for Cabo Delgado" to assist over 250,000 displaced people in the diocese of Pemba Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "Together for Cabo Delgado". This is the international solidarity campaign launched in July by the diocese of Pemba, in the province of Cabo Delgado, in the north of Mozambique, devastated by the ...
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  18 September 2020
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Bishops to the government: "a social market economy" to eradicate poverty Dodoma (Agenzia Fides) - The Tanzanian government must adopt a new economic model, that of the "social market economy", which aims to have a nation with sustainable and inclusive economic growth. This is what the Tanzani ...
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  18 September 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Towards World Mission Day: the Church in Malawi on Radio Maria Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of Malawi has started preparation for World Mission Day which this year is celebrated on October 18, with new forms due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It was in fact decided to m ...
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  17 September 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Covid-19: marriages postponed until "it is safe to celebrate the Sacrament with freedom and festivity Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - " The best is to defer marriages until it is safe to celebrate the Sacrament with greater freedom and with greater festivity", said the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Cape Town, Syl ...
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  17 September 2020
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - "To seek the common good" urges the President of the Episcopal Conference in the face of growing tensions Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "For some time our Country no longer lives in the perspective of its progress, but in growing chaos. The effects of this creeping chaos are easily visible in our cities and villages: they deriv ...
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  16 September 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - At least 50 dead in the gold mine collapse in Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are those who wonder why a person should work for 3 euros an hour, or harvest tomatoes for one euro per box, or like young people from Kamituga (Kivu, eastern Congo) dig makeshift mines w ...