Africa

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  20 July 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Rumors about an alleged contagion from Covid-19 for Coptic Patriarch Tawadros denied Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - No coronavirus infection for Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. It is the same Pope Tawadros who confirmed this, with a dry denial in which he de ...
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  18 July 2020
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - "Still too many infections" due to Covid-19, the Bishops postpone the opening of churches for worship Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - Last week the government of Guinea Bissau authorized the reopening of churches, mosques, places of worship and traditional rites, subject to compliance with a series of measures, including the ma ...
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  18 July 2020
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The Covid-19 crisis aggravated by the strike of nurses, exacerbated by low wages and corruption Harare (Agenzia Fides) - "We noted with concern that the current state of the health sector characterized by the failure by the government to amicably resolve the protracted strike by medical personnel, did not augur wel ...
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  18 July 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Grand Mufti Shawki Allam: "There is no objection to building churches with Muslim money" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Islamic law does not contain any legal objection to the possibility of building churches using money belonging to Muslims. This relevant observation, full of possible applications with respect to ...
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  17 July 2020
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Covid-19: concern over the increase in cases; for the Bishops "the health crisis reveals the importance of an efficient health structure" Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - In Antananarivo the number of coronavirus-related deaths is increasing with eight of the ten victims reported by the operational command center for the fight against coronavirus. Another ca ...
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  17 July 2020
  AFRICA/MALI - Religious leaders launch an appeal for peace after last week's violent demonstrations Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very concerned about the resumption of violence in Bamako. We take this opportunity to launch an appeal for peace, in light of all the damage caused. Mali does not deserve what is happeni ...
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  16 July 2020
  AFRICA/GHANA - Covid-19: the Archbishop of Accra asks to suspend students' exams Accra (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal to suspend the students' final exams was launched by His Exc. Mgr. John Bonaventure Kwofie, Archbishop of Accra, at the head of the educational sector of the local Bishops' Conference. T ...
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  16 July 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - President asks citizens to join him in prayer and fasting to ask for God's help to defeat Covid-19 Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera, urged his compatriots to join him in fasting and prayer against the spread of coronavirus in the country. The President urged "all citizens and reside ...
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  16 July 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Alarm of the Coptic Churches: there are those who give "false Bibles" and "false Gospels" contrary to the Christian faith Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Spokespersons of the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Coptic Catholic Church have both expressed concern about the growing spread of volumes distributed free of charge among the population, characte ...
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  16 July 2020
  AFRICA/NIGER - 22 months after the kidnapping of Fr. Gigi Maccalli, man who used "the weapon of peace" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "It is blindly believed that only through the use of weapons and spilled blood one can achieve peace: what happens in the Sahel, with the dead, injured, displaced, refugees or kidnapped, is a tan ...
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  15 July 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The faithful pray for the prompt release of Fr. Amadasun Idahosa, victim of kidnapping for extortion Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of Catholic faithful yesterday trooped down to churches across Edo State to offer special prayers for the release of Rev. Amadasun Idahosa who was kidnapped a few days ago along the Beni ...
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  15 July 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - "Thanks for the good seeds that you have sown during your life": the Church remembers the late Prime Minister Coulibaly Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Brothers and sisters, when we are no longer in this world, what we will leave are the seeds that we have sown in the hearts of men. All the rest is vanity", said His Exc. Mgr. Alexis Touably Yo ...
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  15 July 2020
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The drama of children left without school, between violence and poverty Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "In the regions of Burkina Faso on the border with Mali and Niger there is no more school, several school buildings have been set on fire, and many teachers murdered. The devastation is the ...
• 14 July 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Appointment of the Rector of the St. Paul Inter-diocesan Major Seminary of Juba Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 12 May 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Baptist Karim Bazawi Michel Moura, of the diocesan clergy of Tomb ...
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  14 July 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Sisi starts development projects in the area of St. Catherine's Monastery Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - While Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reopens the former Byzantine basilica of Hagia Sophia for Islamic worship, in Egypt President Abdel Fattah al Sisi launches development projects aimed ...