Africa
9 October 2023
AFRICA/UGANDA -Young people celebrate anniversary of independence from British colonialism
Terego (Fides News Agency) - "We are in the district of Terego, in northern Uganda, and it is a day of great celebration. The people are celebrating their independence from British colonialism that took place 62 years ag ...
9 October 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We have no information about our kidnapped sisters"
Abuja ( Fides News Agency) - Three nuns and a seminarian were kidnapped along with their driver in Imo State, southern Nigeria.
According to a memo from their congregation, the nuns belong to the Missionary Daughters of ...
7 October 2023
AFRICA/CHAD -Archbishop Djitangar: Impatience growing against foreign military presence in our country
N'Djamena (Fides News Agency) - We are the youngest Church in Africa, so much so that we will be the last African Church in 2029 to celebrate 100 years since the first evangelization" says Archbishop of N'Djamena, Goetb ...
6 October 2023
AFRICA/TOGO- Caritas and "Justice and Peace" project to prevent conflict on the Togo-Benin border
Lomé (Fides News agency) - The cross-border project "Nuwaki Togo-Benin", implemented by the Episcopal Council for Justice and Peace of the Togolese Diocese of Dapaong in collaboration with Caritas Natitingou (Benin), h ...
6 October 2023
AFRICA/LIBERIA - Pre-Election Clashes in Foya
Foya (Fides News Agency) - Twenty years ago with the peace agreements signed in Accra, Ghana, one of the bloodiest pages of African history came to an end: the dual Liberian civil war. "The memory of the conflict, of the ...
5 October 2023
AFRICA/KENYA - Kenyan delegation presents expectations and hopes of Kenyan Catholics at synod
Nairobi ( Fides News Agency) - The expectations and hopes of Kenyan Catholics are being brought to the Assembly of the Synod of Bishops by the Kenyan delegation, represented by the President of the Kenya Conference of Ca ...
5 October 2023
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Annalena Tonelli: Somali Church remembers the martyr on the 20th anniversary of her murder
Djibouti ( Fides News Agency) - "I chose to be for others: the poor, the suffering, the abandoned, the unloved, which I was as a child and so I have been and I trust to continue until the end of my life. I wanted to foll ...
4 October 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - 5 female students kidnapped from a university hostel in the north of the country
Abuja (Fides News Agency ) - At least five female students were abducted by an armed group that attacked a hostel at the Federal University of Dutsin-Ma, in Katsina State, northern Nigeria.
Reports indicate that the ass ...
4 October 2023
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Severe humanitarian crisis on Sudan-South Sudan border; war in Khartoum continues unabated
Khartoum (Fides News Agency) - The humanitarian crisis in Sudan is worsening with strong repercussions in neighboring countries especially South Sudan. The World Food Program (WFP) has sounded the alarm over the looming ...
4 October 2023
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Resignation of Archbishop of Gagnoa
Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father accepted the resignation of Bishop of Molegbe Joseph Aké Yapo from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Gagnoa (Ivory Coast).
(EG) ( Fides News Agency 04/10/2 ...
3 October 2023
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Ethnic conflicts, hunger and drought: despite numerous challenges, missionaries do not give up
Robe (Agenzia Fides) - "The month of September is special in Ethiopia because the Ethiopian New Year begins, which this year is 2015, and we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Cross, which is also a national holiday. The st ...
3 October 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Detained priest accused of belonging to a separatist group released
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Anambra State Police Command (southern Nigeria) has released Father Samuel Aniebonem and seven other people arrested on September 27 on charges of belonging to the Movement for the Actualizati ...
2 October 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Arrest of the alleged murderers of the seminarian burned alive
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The alleged murderers of Stephen Na'aman, the seminarian burned alive during the September 7 attack on the St. Raphael parish in Fadan Kamantan, in the diocese of Kafanchan, in the state of Kaduna ...
30 September 2023
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The President of Bishops on the tragedies of emigration: our young people are dying at sea because they cannot benefit from the Country's riches
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The first missionaries of the Society of African Missions (SMA) arrived in Ivory Coast in 1895. We are therefore a relatively young Church", declared to Fides Msgr Marcelin Yao Kouadio, Bishop ...
29 September 2023
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Ugandan troops invade South Sudanese territory: “Border dispute with Uganda should be resolved through diplomatic channels”
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The border dispute between Uganda and South Sudan should be resolved through diplomatic negotiations. This was stated by South Sudanese army spokesman Major General Lul Ruai Koang, saying the matte ...
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