Africa

• 27 July 2010
  AFRICA/REPUBLIC DEMOCRATIC OF CONGO - Poverty and illiteracy worsen living conditions pushing minors to prostitution Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A dramatic and concerning situation emerges from an inquiry carried out by a don Guanella Mobile Team, involving 315 young girls living on the streets in the district of Tshangu, a district wh ...
• 27 July 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - National Task Force to combat spread of illegal weapons Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- According to the United Nations Organisation about eight million illegal weapons circulate in West Africa, a consistent percentage of these in Nigeria. This was affirmed by Gen. Aliyu Gusau, Nation ...
• 27 July 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Insertion course for newly arrived missionaries Bissau (Agenzia Fides)- The dioceses of Guinea-Bissau are organising a course 2 - 27 August, for recently arrived missionaries, we read in a statement sent to Fides. The course provided for new missionaries includes basi ...
• 26 July 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “We have reached a time to move and prepare for change” Sudanese Bishops affirm Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- “ This is an historic moment. This is a moment of change. Sudan will never be the same again,” the Catholic Bishops of Sudan said in a message made public at the end of an Extraordinary Plen ...
• 26 July 2010
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Combating terrorism, the situation in Somalia and Sudan, focus of African Union Summit Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- “Let us now act in concert and sweep them (terrorists) out of Africa” the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said on Sunday 25 August at the opening ceremony of the 15th African Union Summit ...
• 23 July 2010
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Clean safe water for hill people in Jamba thanks to twelve new fountains Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - Also in the region of Byumba, northern Rwanda, difficult access to water renders life difficult for more than 65,000 people. Two years ago the Italian NGO Movimento Lotta Fame nel Mondo (MLFM) st ...
• 21 July 2010
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Formative project for “young talents” from poor families Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - Brilliant high school students in the upper classes living in isolated rural areas, or from poor families in urban districts, may have a chance to change their future through a 3 year 2010-2012 ...
• 21 July 2010
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Xaverian missionaries and the building up the local Church, today “dynamic and resourceful” Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - July 8 marked the 60th anniversary of the arrival of the first Xaverian Missionaries in Sierra Leone (see Fides 7/7/2010). In all these years they contributed considerably to building up the ...
• 21 July 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - As many as 95% of children with a right to vaccination against measles, are not vaccinated; 758 registered deaths in 2009 Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – Since 2009 southern Africa is tackling a serious epidemic of measles which has already taken 758 lives, mainly in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, Lesotho and South Africa. According to ...
• 20 July 2010
  AFRICA/SÃO TOMÉ - Less poverty, more development: “the Church must never be afraid to evangelise ” São Tomé (Agenzia Fides) – “ While not overlooking the role of governments and various institutions active in the social field, with freedom and courage the Church must assume her prophetic role to proclaim the Gos ...
• 19 July 2010
  AFRICA - Peace, respect for human life and human rights, intercultural and interreligious dialogue: agreement between African Union and Community of S. Egidio Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - A Protocol of agreement for cooperation between the Community of S. Egidio and the Commission of the African Union was signed on Thursday 15 July at the African Union head offices in Addis ...
• 19 July 2010
  AFRICA/TOGO - New paediatrics and neonatology departments in the poorest part of the country at Afagnan Hospital Afagnan (Agenzia Fides) - Two new departments, paediatrics and neonatology, complete with the modern equipment will soon be opened at Saint John of God Hospital at Afagnan in Togo. A hospital recently nominated Ambassado ...
• 17 July 2010
  AFRICA - Mobility of Africans must be an opportunity for human promotion rather than exploitation Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Africa today is home to almost one billion people, (14.8% of the entire world population). According to the United Nations, by 2050 Africans will number almost 2 billion, a little less than one qua ...
• 16 July 2010
  AFRICA/UGANDA - This coming Sunday, in churches across the country, special prayers will be said for the victims of the July 11 bomb blasts Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – “ We appeal to all aggrieved parties in our society to renounce violence as a means of solving conflicts and whenever there are misunderstandings, let people embrace dialogue in the resoluti ...
• 15 July 2010
  AFRICA/R. D. CONGO - “ Without peace, it is impossible to see the way forward ”: Congress on Peace in Uvira Uvira (Agenzia Fides) - In the diocese of Uvira in the Democratic Republic of Congo there has been no peace for over seven years and “without peace, it is impossible to see the way forward, or even rebuild the region� ...