Africa

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  22 July 2019
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The Bishops of SECAM thank God for the gift of Baptism and the Church Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - More than 400 delegates from Africa, Madagascar, Europe, America and Asia have gathered in Kampala for the celebrations of the Jubilee of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Mad ...
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  19 July 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The diocese of Butembo Beni remembers the two priests kidnapped two years ago of whom there is no news Butembo Beni (Agenzia Fides) - "Why can't we say where they are, who took them? Who kidnapped them and why? For what reasons? Nobody has the right to touch the dignity of a person who God gave us creating us in his image ...
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  19 July 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Diocesan Caritas: "at the center of the Church's raison d'être" Yamoussoukro (Agenzia Fides) – To improve coordination between diocesan Caritas, carry out a check and evaluation of projects, pay more attention to the analysis of budgets for an efficient management of the project: t ...
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  18 July 2019
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - President of the Bishops' Conference: "It is time Zambia became a fully-fledged missionary Church" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - It is time Zambia became a fully-fledged missionary Church, in realization of Pope Paul VI’s vision of a African missionary Church. The exhortation came from the President of Zambia Conference ...
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  17 July 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A missionary denounces: "In the East the population is exhausted" Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) - "In the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo, life is very hard. One touches misery. People are exhausted. Young people want to escape". This was reported to Agenzia Fides by Fr. Alberto Rove ...
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  16 July 2019
  AFRICA/CHAD - The work of the "Good Samaritan", a pivot of the health system in Chad N’Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic university hospital complex "Le Bon Samaritain" in Chad, a center of excellence in the nation, is 45 years old. The institute, founded in 1974 by the Jesuit from Bergamo, Fr. An ...
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  15 July 2019
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Missionary from the bottom of his heart: 10 months since the abduction of Father Maccalli Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "Our communities in Angola are deeply involved and sensitive in the face of the abduction of Father Pier Luigi Maccalli. Our people suffer this absence with us, and hope with faith in his return" ...
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  13 July 2019
  AFRICA/GHANA - The missionary who creates wheelchair Tricycles for the disabled: a hope for the "last among the last" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - On the streets of Tamale, a Ghanaian town of over three hundred thousand inhabitants, you see boys and adults with disabilities. In those conditions, disabled people can only stay near their home. ...
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  13 July 2019
  AFRICA/ERITREA - Father Zerai: "The international community must not be silent in the face of the tragedy of the Eritrean people" Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church in Eritrea has always collaborated and cooperated with the institutions. With regards to healthcare, the quality of the service offered by our facilities was considered by th ...
• 12 July 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Rector of the "St. John Vianney Major Seminary" in Pretoria Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 20, 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Masilo John Semela, of the diocesan clergy of Tzaneen (South Afr ...
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  12 July 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Presidential elections: tensions over the Ivorian Independent Electoral Commission Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The new Ivorian Independent Electoral Commission (CEI), set up to prepare for the presidential elections to be held in 2020 (see Fides, 9/10/2018) is already a source of controversy. "There are ...
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  12 July 2019
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Bishops ask the new government to guarantee peace and security Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Guinea-Bissau have asked the new government to guarantee peace and national security, in order to bring the country out of the crisis in which it has fallen in recent years. In pa ...
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  11 July 2019
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Drought emergency: 2.3 million people in a state of food insecurity, of whom 490,000 are children Chiulo (Agenzia Fides) - In the south of Angola, in the provinces of Cunene, Huila and Namibe, a state of emergency due to drought has persisted for over six months, with very serious repercussions on the health conditio ...
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  11 July 2019
  AFRICA - A special issue of Mundo Negro to have "Africa in hand" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A continent with one billion and 300 million inhabitants, 40% of whom are under 15, and 60% do not reach 25 years of age. And it is to this Africa that the magazine Mundo Negro, published in Spain ...
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  10 July 2019
  AFRICA/UGANDA - "We want the truth about the murder of Brother Mugarura", says Bishop Emeritus of Masaka to Agenzia Fides Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "We are trying to verify the circumstances of the death of Brother Norbert Emmanuel Mugarura", says His Exc. Mgr. John Baptist Kaggwa, Bishop emeritus of Masaka to Agenzia Fides, with regards to ...