Africa
10 November 2023
AFRICA/TOGO - Ministry of Youth warns against drug use in schools
Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - The Togolese Ministry of Youth is sounding the alarm and deploring the increasing drug use among young people between 12 and 24 years old. Since the beginning of the year, the government has redou ...
10 November 2023
AFRICA/DR CONGO - The President of the Bishops' Conference: "The so-called 'energy transition' is causing enormous environmental damage in my Country"
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Wars for the mineral resources of the energy transition, exploitation of Congolese resources for a supposed global ecologism that in reality causes enormous damage to the environment and people ...
9 November 2023
AFRICA/UGANDA - Parish priest again warns Catholics about “false priests”
Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Once again Ugandan Catholics are warned about the presence of "false priests" in the country's dioceses. After the previous warning issued at the beginning of September in the ecclesiastical pro ...
8 November 2023
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Massacre in southwest Cameroon on the anniversary of President Biya's rise to power
Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - At least 25 people were killed in western Cameroon on November 6, the day President Paul Biya celebrated the 41st anniversary of his rise to power. Paul Biya took control of Cameroon on Novembe ...
8 November 2023
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Head of the “Catholic Immaculate Conception” clinic in Njmafor in Bamenda murdered
Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - A member of the Congregation of the Sons of the Immaculate Conception was killed in a road attack in Cameroon.
Brother Cyprian Ngeh was stabbed to death in the Ndamukong district of Bamenda o ...
7 November 2023
AFRICA/GHANA - Bishop of Navrongo-Bolgatanga: “Recent clashes in northern Ghana must be clarified”
Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "The Upper East Regional Peace Council and the Catholic Diocese of Navrongo-Bolgatanga view with great concern the recent events in Garu involving the military and residents and condemn the brutal ...
7 November 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Conflict between Tiv and Jukun in Wukari: Church efforts for peace
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A cross intended to give hope to peoples marked by centuries of conflict was created for this purpose by Father Anthony Odey of his parish "St. James" in Taraba State (eastern Nigeria), which is p ...
6 November 2023
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Sister Elena Balatti: “Paride Taban testified that hatred is not the right way”
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "My first thought when I heard about the death of Bishop Paride Taban on the evening of All Saints was 'he has gone to the saints'; I was not the only one, I heard other people make the same remark ...
6 November 2023
AFRICA/GUINEA - Purges in the army after the assault on the Conakry prison and the failed escape of former President Camara
Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in Conakry, capital of the Republic of Guinea, is tense. At least nine people died in an attack on the central prison where former President Moussa Dadis Camara is imprisoned. The ...
4 November 2023
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishop Carlassare: "South Sudan is on the right path, but the path is long"
by Luca Attanasio
Rumbek (Agenzia Fides) – Christian Carlassare, a Comboni missionary, is the youngest bishop in Africa. He was born in Schio (Vicenza) in 1977 and immediately after his ordination in 2004 went to Sou ...
3 November 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - A priest from the archdiocese of Abuja has been missing for a month
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Since October 1, there has been no news of a Nigerian priest living and working in the Archdiocese of Abuja. The news of Father Sampson Emokhidi's disappearance was made public by the Chancellor o ...
3 November 2023
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The tireless peacemaker Paris Taban, first bishop of Torit
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - He was a bishop who placed peace and reconciliation at the center of his life at the service of the people of God. This is how one can describe the figure of Paride Taban, the first bishop of the D ...
3 November 2023
AFRICA/NIGER - Three months after the military coup: "Close to the poorest without fuss"
Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - "After three months of military government there is no way out. We continue to experience a complicated situation throughout the country. And the situation seems to be getting worse because so far ...
2 November 2023
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The missionary team of the small community in Gode, 'channel of God's goodness'
Gode (Agenzia Fides) – “We live on the 'frontiers of the Gospel' in Gode, a place where the vast majority of the population is Muslim; there is a small presence of Orthodox and Evangelical communities, and a tiny pre ...
1 November 2023
AFRICA/SUDAN - The "forgotten" war in Sudan and its external sponsors
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - There are recent developments in one of the many "forgotten conflicts" in Sudan between the Regular Armed Forces (SAF) led by General Abdel-Fattah Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) unde ...
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