Africa

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  14 November 2018
  AFRICA/NIGER - Army and traditional leaders called to collaborate in the fight against jihadists: a hope for Fr. Maccalli Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - The western part of Niger, on the border with Mali and Burkina Faso, has become in recent years the scene of operations by terrorist groups that carry out deadly attacks in these three countries ...
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  13 November 2018
  AFRICA - The role of university education in African development: Harambee Africa International report Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Our projects aim to strengthen the level of training of students in sub-Saharan Africa in various sectors", said Rossella Miranda, Communication Coordinator of Harambee Africa International, in pr ...
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  12 November 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The four priests kidnapped in southern Nigeria have been released thanks to the police force Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The four priests kidnapped on 6 November near Abraka, near Benin in the Delta State, in southern Nigeria (see Fides 10/11/2018) have regained their freedom. The priests were kidnapped on their wa ...
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  9 November 2018
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Two ex presidents neck and neck in Madagascar elections Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Madagascar is waiting for the final results of the first round of the presidential elections held on 7 November. According to a first partial count, announced yesterday, by the Independent ...
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  8 November 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Elections: a delegation of the Southern African Community pays tribute to the positive role of the Bishops Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The date of the presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, scheduled for December 23rd, is approaching, and national and international initiatives are multiplying to ensure tha ...
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  7 November 2018
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Torture, ill-treatment against Christians, forced to renounce their faith Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) calls upon the Sudanese government to urgently investigate the reported torture and ill-treatment of 9 Christian citizens who were detai ...
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  7 November 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Anglophone crisis: the students of the school released Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - The 79 students of the Presbyterian Secondary School in Bamenda, the capital of one of the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon, were kidnapped on 5 November (see Fides 6/11/2018). Accordi ...
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  7 November 2018
  AFRICA/MALAWI - New Media Center of Montfort Missionaries, at the service of evangelization Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) – Montfort missionaries inaugurate a new multimedia center in Malawi. On Saturday 10 November, with a ceremony presided over by Mgr. Tarcisius Ziyaye Archbishop of Lilongwe, the activities of a ...
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  6 November 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - A new secondary school in the former "village of lepers" Kolowaré (Agenzia Fides) - "We have officially begun the construction of a secondary school in Kolowaré. In 2007 we had already built a structure for junior school. Now the construction of the new institute begins": sa ...
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  6 November 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Anglophone crisis: 79 students kidnapped in Bamenda; the Church organizes a fundraiser in Douala for displaced persons Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - The crisis is worsening in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon, where yesterday, 5 November in Bamenda in the north-west of the country, 79 students and three heads of the local Presbyteri ...
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  5 November 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Monsengwo, symbol of a committed African Church Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Cardinal Monsengwo has been until today the voice of an African Church that refuses to lose hope that the African people will not be sacrificed by politics; an African Church that does not rem ...
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  5 November 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - After the massacre of pilgrims, the Copts will not cancel the November liturgies: "the new martyrs must be celebrated" Minya (Agenzia Fides) - After yet another massacre of Christian pilgrims by jihadist terrorism, the Copts will not close churches and will not follow the calls of those who invite to suspend ordinary liturgical and pasto ...
• 5 November 2018
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Resignation of the Archbishop of Kinshasa and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 November 2018 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Archdiocese of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), presented by Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pas ...
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  31 October 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The diocesan phase of the beatification cause of Mgr. Munzihirwa, killed in Bukavu in 1996, has concluded Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The diocesan phase of the beatification cause of His Exc. Mgr. Christophe Munzihirwa Mwene Ngabo, Archbishop of Bukavu, assassinated in 1996, has concluded. The announcement was made during a p ...
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  30 October 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Five nuns kidnapped in south-eastern Nigeria, another two injured Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Five nuns of the Order of the Missionary of Martha and Mary of the diocese of Issele-Uku, were kidnapped, in the State of Delta in the south-east of Nigeria. According to news sent to Agenzia Fid ...