Africa

• 6 July 2021
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Hwange Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July, 5th 2021, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Hwange, Zimbabwe, presented by Bishop José Alberto Serrano Antón, I.E.M.E. The Holy ...
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  5 July 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic bishop Anba Moussa: no religious argument can justify the horrendous custom of female genital mutilation Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - In the Holy Bible there is not a single verse that can be used as a pretext to justify the practice of female genital mutilation, of which countless girls are still victims in many African countri ...
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  5 July 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Attacks in North Kivu; the population has been invited "not to fall into the provocation of terrorists" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not fall into the trap of the ADF and their allies who, with the latest attacks, are waging psychological warfare to induce the population to rebel against the state of siege", states a not ...
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  5 July 2021
  AFRICA/ESWATINI - Appeal for dialogue from the Pope, as well as from the Bishop of Manzini Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - In the small and usually quiet Swaziland (today the kingdom of ESwatini) important street protests have been underway for some days. The Bishop of Manzini José Luis Ponce de Leon and the member ...
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  3 July 2021
  AFRICA - New ongoing formation program for missionaries and pastoral workers Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The African continent is renewing itself in terms of support and ongoing training for pastoral workers. For a long time, enormous efforts have been made to offer missionaries and pastoral worker ...
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  3 July 2021
  AFRICA/Djibouti - Consolata missionaries alongside disabled children to "promote the dignity and integral development of the person" Ali Sabieh (Agenzia Fides) - "After several years of hard work, some disabled children have been admitted to primary and secondary school. This is a great joy for us, because before disabled children were kept hidden in ...
• 3 July 2021
  AFRICA/CHAD - Appointment of bishop of Pala, Chad Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed as bishop of the diocese of Pala, Chad, the Reverend Dominique Tinoudji, of the clergy of Moundou, until now rector of the Saint Luc Interdiocesan Theological ...
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  2 July 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Catholic seminary also open to non-seminarian students Tombura-Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - Offering a chance to the many students who otherwise would not have the opportunity to study due to the lack of higher education institutions in the country is the goal of the Catholic di ...
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  1 July 2021
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Bishop Bertin: towards the elections, the population aspires to security and stability Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "Following the political agreement reached in Somalia at the end of May, there is an air of cautious optimism in preparing for the upcoming elections. I would like to insist more on the adject ...
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  1 July 2021
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Third wave of Coronavirus: the President of the Republic urges the Bishops to support the Country Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Catholic Church has played a very important role in the fight against this disease", said the President of the Republic of Tanzanian, Sam ...
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  30 June 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Archbishop of Lagos: "state of emergency" to guarantee security for citizens Lagos (Agenzi Fides) - "Insecurity is now a widespread phenomenon in our country: kidnappings take place directly in homes as well as in churches, or in mosques, everywhere; bandits attack villages and kill, rob, loot an ...
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  26 June 2021
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Among poverty and instability, the prophetic voice of the Church in Congo Uvira (Agenzia Fides) - "Whether it is foreign powers (France, Belgium, USA, or others), neighboring countries (Uganda, Rwanda, etc.) or some Congolese leaders, warlords, multinationals, NGOs, or even some members of the ...
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  26 June 2021
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - "Alongside displaced people and children, in the name of the Gospel": the commitment of the Capuchin friars in times of crisis Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "The great crisis in which Cameroon is currently involved, relating to the tensions in the English-speaking regions of the country, generates heavy effects in various sectors from school to th ...
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  25 June 2021
  AFRICA/MALI - "We are sure of the release of the 4 lay people, but Fr. Léon is still missing", says the parish priest of Mopti Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The 4 parishioners have returned to Ségué, but we have not yet seen Fr. Léon Dougnon", says to Fides Fr. Amoudou Kizito Togo, parish priest of Mopti, specifying the circumstances of the relea ...
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  25 June 2021
  AFRICA - "We must save children from violence and moral depravity": alarm in West Africa Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - In the West African area, the situation of children is increasingly worrying. Child soldiers who took part in riots and civil wars, children exploited in cocoa and cotton plantations or who work ...