Africa

• 20 March 2010
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Brief Overview of the Country Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Burkina Faso has an area of 286,451 km2 and a population of 13 million inhabitants. The country, which until 1984 was called Upper Volta, is located in northwest Africa. It is bordered to the nor ...
• 20 March 2010
  AFRICA/NIGER - Brief Overview of the Country Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The Republic of Niger has an area of 1,287,000 km2 and a population of about 14 million inhabitants. It is bordered to the north by Libya and Algeria to the west by Mali and Burkina Faso, on the ...
• 20 March 2010
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Importance of formation of the laity for full collaboration in the Church's mission and in the life of African nations Kigali (Agenzia Fides) – From March 10 to 14, the Centre Saint-François d'Assise at Kicukiro (Kigali, Rwanda) hosted the Fourth Continental Meeting of the African Movement of Catholic Action, which brought together re ...
• 18 March 2010
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - “Angola is a country with a great potential that should be used to improve the living conditions of the population,” Bishop of Benguela tells Fides Roma (Agenzia Fides) - "Angola is enjoying strong economic growth, as evidenced by positive data concerning the increase of Gross Domestic Product, which is derived primarily from its mineral resources, especially oil an ...
• 18 March 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Acting President dissolves government, while Plateau State Governor claims: “ key people in this nation” are behind recent violence Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – The Vice-President and provisional Head of State of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, dismissed the government yesterday, March 17. Political analysts say it is meant to strengthen his power. Jonathan ...
• 17 March 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Another massacre in Nigeria; Archbishop of Jos tells Fides “this is just another retaliation over loss of livestock, not a religious conflict,” talk of interreligious violence ends up spreading it Jos (Agenzia Fides) – "This is a retaliation against the Fulani herders against the villagers, for an alleged theft of livestock. This is not a clash between Christians and Muslims," Fides was told by Archbishop Ignati ...
• 17 March 2010
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Mysterious fire destroys Kasubi Tombs of ancient Buganda Kingdom, tensions and conflict feared Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – On March 16, a fire destroyed the "Kasubi Tombs," the mausoleum near the capital Kampala, belonging to the Buganda Kings who ruled the traditional southern Ugandan kingdom. The causes of the f ...
• 17 March 2010
  AFRICA/UGANDA - 1 doctor:16,200 refugees, need for medical personnel at Kyaka Refugee Camp Kyaka (Agenzia Fides) – Inadequate health services is only one of many challenges faced by the 16,200 refugees in the settlement of the Kyaka II Refugee Camp in Western, where there is only one doctor. The lack of medi ...
• 16 March 2010
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Bishops' Message for Year for Priests: “The people of Angola, thirsting for God, fervently hope that their priests be 'men of God.'” Luanda (Agenzia Fides) – "It is an easily verifiable fact that most of the men of our time form an idea of Christ and His Church, first and foremost through His consecrated ministers. Therefore, this makes the need for ...
• 16 March 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Turkish President visits Kinshasa: Congolese diplomacy is “tous azimuts” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is developing diplomatic action across the board, emerging from the isolation of the war years 1998-2003. This action is developed along different lines ...
• 15 March 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - “Cardinal Malula's thought is relevant today and urges us to act,” affirms Archbishop of Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Celebrations are in full swing in Kinshasa, capital of Democratic Republic of the Congo, in honor of Cardinal Joseph Malula (1917-1989), considered the "father and founder of the Church of Ki ...
• 15 March 2010
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Marlene's Story: a 13-year-old girl spends 540 days as a slave of LRA guerrillas Bangassou (Agenzia Fides) – We often speak of children and child soldiers, abducted and enslaved by Ugandan rebels LRA (Lord's Resistance Army), a military group that is raging on the northeastern part of the Democrati ...
• 13 March 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Archbishop of Jose tells Fides: “It is time that political leaders do their part and address the root causes of violence,” Archbishop of Jos tells Fides Jos (Agenzia Fides) – "The politicians must take the bull by the horns and address the root causes of these cyclical episodes of violence. I will not tire of repeating: the real causes of violence are not religious, bu ...
• 12 March 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “We call on all students to be open and generous to the world-wide missionary apostolate of the Church”: Final Statement from Young Catholic Students of Nigeria (YCSN) Benin City (Agenzia Fides) – The Young Catholic Students of Nigeria (YCSN) have issued an explicit invitation calling Nigerian youth to be missionaries, at the end of their National Meeting held in Benin City, at Holy ...
• 10 March 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Nuncio Montemayor visiting Guinea Bissau Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – Archbishop Luis Mariano Montemayor, Apostolic Nuncio to Guinea-Bissau, is paying a visit to the local church, to the two dioceses of Guinea Bissau and Bafata (see Fides 25/2/2010). According to ...