Africa

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  20 April 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - National Day of Prisoners: appeal by a priest for greater humanization of prisons Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Ivory Coast, through the Episcopal Commission for Social Pastoral, has been celebrating the national day of prisoners every year since 2007 on the feast of the Divine Merc ...
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  18 April 2020
  AFRICA/NIGER - Appeal to global ceasefire: violence carried out by jihadist groups continues Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The ceasefire implored by Pope Francis here in Niger is almost completely unheard: jihadist terrorism continues to bloody this land and claim hundreds of victims. Even the situation at the borde ...
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  18 April 2020
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - A Church fund to fight Covid-19; the solidarity of the Bishops of Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "We are close to the brothers and sisters who contracted and suffer because of the Coronavirus disease", say the Catholic Bishops of Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in the Easter message signed by Mg ...
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  17 April 2020
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Coronavirus: the President of Tanzania proclaims three days of national prayer Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Tanzania John Pombe Magufuli has called for a three-day national prayer to ask for "the intercession of the Most High against the new coronavirus". "Tanzanian compatriots, ...
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  17 April 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Fight against Covid-19, priests distribute face masks to the most exposed people Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "In this struggle that turns out to be varied, everyone makes their own contribution. And the least we can bring is first of all the prayer we say every day for the whole humanity that is suffer ...
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  16 April 2020
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - A mission attacked in the province of Capo Delgado Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Jihadist terrorist groups operating in the northern province of Cabo Delgado murdered 5 people in the Quirimbas archipelago on Good Friday, April 10, according to the newspaper "Carta de Mocambiq ...
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  16 April 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Cardinal Kutuwa urges a conversion of hearts and minds: "Yes, this pandemic will surely pass, but what will it have taught us?" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The pandemic, like death, will never have the last word on the history of men because Christ is, and will always be, victorious over death, from any form of death", said Cardinal Jean Pierre Ku ...
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  16 April 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Library in Alexandria offers online lessons on St. Corona, to be invoked during pandemics Alexandria (Agenzia Fides) - In times of the coronavirus pandemic, the Coptic Studies Center of the Library of Alexandria of Egypt announced the continuation of its activities during the month of April through an online ...
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  16 April 2020
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The coronavirus emergency exacerbates the economic crisis Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The lockdown has been imposed in Zimbabwe until April 19. Only health workers can go to work. All gatherings are prohibited. Religious ceremonies and funerals with more than fifty people are also ...
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  15 April 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Easter among closed churches, "condoned" places of worship and rumors of thwarted attacks Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian government has accepted the indications of the follow-up committee which in recent days had certified the full compliance of other 74 churches and ecclesiastical buildings with the ru ...
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  15 April 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Covid-19 is a serious reality. The future belongs only to the Risen Christ", writes a missionary Weru (Agenzia Fides) - "The awareness that the disease was serious and pandemic has now become reality", writes from Kenya Don Vittorio Grigoletto, fidei donum priest on a mission in Weru, in the dicoesi of Nyahururu, es ...
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  15 April 2020
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Cardinal Ouédraogo: "I hope for a wave of international solidarity to fight the coronavirus" Ouagadougou (Agenzi Fides) - "I would like from the bottom of my heart as a pastor to cry out for support in favor of a profound impetus of solidarity, both locally, regionally and internationally for patients with Covid ...
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  14 April 2020
  AFRICA/TOGO - Prevention, prayer and sharing: the Church in the face of Covid-19 Lomè (Agenzia Fides) - "Our pastoral behavior in this pandemic period can be summed up in four words: pevention, prayer, pastoral life, sharing": this is what Mgr. Barrigah-Bènissan, Archbishop of Lomè says to Agenzia ...
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  9 April 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - Covid-19, "the Church is close to her people in this moment of fear and despair" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Kenya is working hard to raise awareness among the population so that the measures imposed by the government to combat the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic are respected. And there ...
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  9 April 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Churches remain open in our hearts and actions", says the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "We are unable to endure other wars, we have no more strength, people are destroyed, homeless. I pray to God that a solution is found as soon as possible to defeat the virus all over the ...