Africa

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  21 July 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Gaza: Southern African bishops reaffirm their support for the South African government's genocide complaint Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – The Southern African bishops re-affirmed their full support of South Africa’s legal case against Israel at the International Criminal Court (ICJ), which accuses Israel of genocide again ...
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  19 July 2025
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - School, vegetable gardens, and livestock farming: the Consolata Missionaries teach a trade to young girls in difficult situations Iringa (Agenzia Fides) - Learning to care for animals on a farm to create a livestock farm and cultivate vegetable gardens to sell the produce at the market. This is the new objective of the "House of Joy," a facility ru ...
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  18 July 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The fires of war will not kill learning for young Sudanese Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Prolonged conflict and mass displacement have denied young Sudanese even the most basic tools for self-development. The criticality also emerged on the occasion of the recently celebrated W ...
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  15 July 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Kidnapped seminarians: Bishop of Auchi confirms contact from kidnappers Auchi (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after the armed attack on the "Immaculate Conception" diocesan minor seminary in Ivhianokpodi, in Edo State, Nigeria (see Fides, 12/7/2025), the attackers who kidnapped three young semi ...
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  15 July 2025
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - In the footsteps of Bishop Brésillac Monasao (Agenzia Fides) - "When I was preparing to go to Africa, I was warned of the difficulties I would encounter… Not only due to the problems of adaptation: climate, food, or other minor issues, but also due to ...
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  12 July 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Armed attack on the Seminary in Ivhianokpodi: three young seminarians kidnapped Auchi (Agenzia Fides) – An armed attack took place at the "Immaculate Conception" diocesan minor seminary in Ivhianokpodi, Edo State, Nigeria. Three young seminarians were kidnapped by an armed group. A security office ...
• 10 July 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - Erection of the diocese of Kapsabet, Kenya and appointment of the first bishop Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has created the new diocese of Kapsabet, Kenya, with territory taken from the diocese of Eldoret, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan archdiocese of Kisumu, Kenya. The Hol ...
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  10 July 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Goma: Relics of Blessed Floribert transferred to the Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament Goma (Agenzia Fides) - Less than a month after the beatification ceremony at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, the mortal remains of Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi were transferred from the city cemete ...
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  10 July 2025
  AFRICA - "Neocolonialism in fishing": The fishing industry in West African countries is in crisis by Cosimo Graziani Banjul (Agenzia Fides) - In West African countries, the local fishing industry is in crisis. European countries are also to blame for this. Gambian activist Mustapha Manneh also spoke out at the Un ...
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  9 July 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishop Hiboro Kussala: Happy birthday to You, Republic of South Sudan! Tombura-Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - " Empowered by Grace, Equipped for Mission, United in Hope," thus begins the message from the bishop of the diocese of Tombura Yambio, Eduardo Hiboro Kussala, on the occasion of the 14th ...
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  9 July 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - 'Saba Saba Day': Violence, destruction, corruption, death toll increase Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Tuesday, July 8, the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) recorded a total of 31 deaths and 107 injuries in the demonstrations that took place on July 7 on the anniversary of "Saba Sa ...
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  5 July 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "We Women of Bukavu": A mother of four reports from the city occupied by the M23 Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "I am a mother of four children whom I send to school. I collect empty plastic bottles; after washing them, I fill them with water or fruit juice from a powdered preparation, put them in the fr ...
• 5 July 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Wote Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Simon Peter Kamomoe, auxiliary of the metropolitan archdiocese of Nairobi, as auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Wote, Kenya. Bishop Simon Peter Kamomo ...
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  3 July 2025
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - "Training seminar" for judges and prosecutors canceled Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Under pressure from legal experts, lawyers, and members of civil society, an order requiring Zimbabwean judges to participate in a series of training courses at the Herbert Chitepo School of Ideo ...
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  2 July 2025
  AFRICA/TOGO - The Bishops: "disproportionate" violence Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - "We condemn in the strongest possible terms the unacceptable and disproportionate violence, regardless of its origin, perpetrators, or justification," the bishops of Togo issued a joint statement ...