Africa

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  21 November 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Humanitarian Crisis: Millions displaced without food, drinking water, sanitation, and shelter El Fasher (Agenzia Fides) – With the intensification of fighting that led to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) taking control of El Fasher and the withdrawal of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Joint Operations Com ...
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  21 November 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - About a hundred students kidnapped in the attack on a Catholic school Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – A Catholic school in Nigeria was attacked, and around 100 students were kidnapped. In the early hours of November 21, an armed group on 60 motorcycles and in cars stormed St. Mary’s Catholic P ...
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  20 November 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “Father Paschal is alive”: Archdiocese of Kaduna denies rumors of the murder of the priest kidnapped on November 17 Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – “It is not true that Father Bobbo Paschal was killed,” reads a statement from the Archdiocese of Kaduna, sent to Fides, refuting rumors circulating on various social media platforms that the ...
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  19 November 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - South Sudan Council of Churches appeals to Kenyan President for efforts to achieve peace in South Sudan Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – “South Sudan is at a delicate and challenging stage,” members of the South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC), which unites the main Christian denominations in South Sudan, including the Cat ...
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  19 November 2025
  AFRICA/GHANA - Dozens dead in illegal mine. Bishops propose state of emergency to combat the phenomenon Accra (Agenzia Fides) – Three illegal miners have died of asphyxiation after being trapped in a tunnel in Ghana. The three men were part of a group of “galamseyers” (a term that refers both to the illegal mining of ...
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  18 November 2025
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Violence continues in Nampula province Nampula (Agenzia Fides) - Houses and a school burned, properties looted, and civilians killed, wounded, or kidnapped. This is the scene of the escalating violence that continues to plague the districts of Memba and Erati ...
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  18 November 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic priest kidnapped in Kaduna State. Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Another Catholic priest has been kidnapped in Nigeria. Father Bobbo Paschal, parish priest of St. Stephen's Parish Church in the Kushe Gudgu Kagarko Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State ( ...
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  17 November 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Several schoolgirls kidnapped in attack on school in northeastern Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – An unknown number of girls were kidnapped by armed men who attacked a girls' school in northwestern Nigeria overnight. The gang members attacked the Maga Government Girls' Comprehensive Secondar ...
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  15 November 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Peace in eastern DRC must also include Congolese civilians" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “We want the voices of the residents in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to be heard in the peace negotiations,” lawyer Néné Bintu Iragi, president of the civil society of South Kiv ...
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  14 November 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops concerned over amendments to cybercrime law: "Freedom of expression at risk" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – "The fears expressed by Kenyans regarding these new laws must not be ignored. They deserve to be heard, and corrective action must be taken where necessary," the bishops of Kenya said in a sta ...
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  14 November 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishops of Sudan and South Sudan: "Building Peace, Healing Wounds and Strengthening Unity" Malakal (Agenzia Fides) – "Having prayed, reflected, and shared on the pastoral situation of our two countries, we find ourselves deeply disturbed by the ongoing devastating conflicts and the dishonoured peace agreemen ...
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  13 November 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The war continues: US appears prepared to impose sanctions on Rapid Support Forces Khartoum (Fides) – The Sudanese army announced it had repelled a drone attack on the Merowe Dam and the town of the same name, including its airport. The 19th Infantry Division of the SAF (Sudan Armed Forces) explained ...
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  13 November 2025
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The “Pan-African Missionary Conference” begins, under the motto “Ecclesia in Africa” and “Evangelii Nuntiandi”
  Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – “Ecclesia in Africa and the proclamation of Christ in times of synodality” is the theme of the Pan-African Missionary Conference, which opened this mo ...
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  12 November 2025
  Rome, Manila, Nairobi: Nilda Castro's "long march" between diplomacy and mission by Victor Gaetan* Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The classic image of a Catholic missionary is a devout religious person who leaves home for a remote location, then never, or infrequently, goes home, becoming thoroughly d ...
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  12 November 2025
  AFRICA/MALI - Annual marian pilgrimage cancelled for security reasons Bamako (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops' Conference of Mali announced that it has decided to cancel the 54th National Marian Pilgrimage to Kita due to transportation difficulties and fuel shortages caused by the blockade ...