Africa

• 23 June 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of the Bishop of Machakos Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today the Holy Father Francis has appointed Bishop of the diocese of Machakos (Kenya) His Exc. Mgr. Norman King'oo Wambua, currently Bishop of the diocese of Bungoma. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 2 ...
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  23 June 2018
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The bishops announce the intention to start a new national Catholic Television Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Uganda have announced their intention to start a new national Catholic Television. In a press statement that was released on June 8, 2018 by the bishops after their annua ...
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  22 June 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Violent fighting provokes the flight of the population of several villages in South Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Violent fighting has caused victims and are pushing the population to flee from the highland villages of Uvira, in the province of South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. T ...
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  22 June 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops: we need to reach out to refugees Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – To reach out to refugees, embrace their cultures, sharing goods with them: is what the Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Seafarers of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) are as ...
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  21 June 2018
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - Twenty victims due to the floods in Abidjan; the solidarity of the Church Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - At least 20 deaths have been reported due to flooding caused by torrential rain overnight, between 18 and 19 June, in Abidjan. Among the worst hit areas of the Ivorian economic capital is the mu ...
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  21 June 2018
  AFRICA - Respect for the person and environment, according to the Gospel, for the benefit of all Kara (Agenzia Fides) - "The numerous deaths recorded in the Ivory Coast in recent days due to floods and heavy rains, invite once again to seriously examine the problem of the ecological crisis and its negative impact on ...
• 21 June 2018
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of the Archbishop Coadjutor of Dar-es-Salaam Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Jude Thaddaeus Ruwa'ichi, O.F.M. Cap., currently Archbishop of Mwanza, as Archbishop Coadjutor of the Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania). ...
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  21 June 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - There are powerful economic interests that want to leave Central Africa in chaos Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The security problems in our area are concentrated in the border area with Cameroon mainly due to the arrival of Peuls nomadic peoples, who are protected by Seleka rebels", says Fr. Aurelio Gazz ...
• 21 June 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "All Saints" Interdiocesan Seminary in Ekpoma Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 15 February 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Matthew Ovabor Ihensekhien, of the diocesan clergy of Uro ...
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  20 June 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Meeting between Kiir and Machar in Addis Ababa: hopes to put an end to the civil war? Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The two protagonists of one of the most dramatic and forgotten civil wars in the world, that of South Sudan, will meet in Addis Ababa today, 20 June. South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and former ...
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  20 June 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBBIC - The militias are raging: NGOs and UN troops are also attacked Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The situation in Bambari is dramatic. The population is at the mercy of the militias. There is no water, food or medicine. Children can not attend schools. This is how the Jesuit Refugee Service ...
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  19 June 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Strong condemnation on behalf of the Bishops for the attack on a mosque: it is the second in a month Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – Strong condemnation of the Church in South Africa for the attack on the Malmesbury mosque, a small town 65 km north of Cape Town, on 14 June. "On behalf of the Catholic Bishops of Souther ...
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  18 June 2018
  AFRICA/UGANDA - "We are taking care of the wounds inflicted by the LRA" says the Archbishop of Gulu Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The north of Uganda now lives in calm. The LRA threat concerns the past, since this guerrilla group is no longer present in Uganda, but has moved to some areas of neighboring Countries such as the ...
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  18 June 2018
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Patriarch Matthias: the Church will counteract the phenomenon of "child brides" Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - The Orthodox Tawahedo Church of Ethiopia will intensify the interventions and training and sensitization courses to warn families about the harmful effects produced by the social praxis of s ...
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  16 June 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Guanellians close to the disabled, the outcasts of society Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - They are rejected by the family. Excluded from the society. Mentally disabled children are marginalized in the Democratic Republic of Congo. For them there is no network of public facilities. T ...