Africa
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 ...
31 October 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Auxiliary Bishop of Minna: "We live in difficult times, but we remain strong in prayer. Nobody wants a bloody revolution"
Minna (Agenzia Fides) - "Our country continues to experience situations of conflict, both in the Church and in society in general", writes the Auxiliary Bishop of Minna, Luka Sylvester Gopep, to Fides regarding the escal ...
31 October 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic priest kidnapped on Sunday, October 29 released
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Father Thaddeus Tarhembe, the priest kidnapped in the rectory of the parish of Saint Anne in the State of Taraba (north-eastern Nigeria) in the early hours of Sunday 29 October (see Fides, 30/10/2 ...
30 October 2023
AFRICA/MAROCCO - A bell tower next to a minaret: Marrakech, workshop of fraternity
Marrakech (Agenzia Fides) - "Imam, rabbi, Franciscan, Muslim and Christian friends, all gathered in moments of sharing about peace, prayer and long silences: moments full of responsibility. And mystery..." This is the de ...
30 October 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bandits attack rectory and kidnap parish priest in north-east Nigeria
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) -Kidnappings of priests in Nigeria do not stop. The priest, Rev. Fr. Thaddeus Tarhembe, was abducted from his parish in Ibi Local Council of Taraba State (north-eastern Nigeria) in the early hours o ...
28 October 2023
AFRICA/BENIN - "The catastrophic security situation in Libya opens the door to terrorism in the Sahel region"
Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "The increasing spread of armed groups that are causing fear and terror throughout the Sahel region is a consequence of the catastrophic security situation in Libya. And the label 'jihadists' sh ...
27 October 2023
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Caritas Freetown calls for “immediate action” against the spread of synthetic marijuana
Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - "Immediate action" against the spread of Kush, a synthetic marijuana that has dangerous health effects among young people. This is what Caritas Freetown in Sierra Leone is asking for. “The wi ...
26 October 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Brother Eze was killed to scare the other two hostages"
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – "Brother Godwin Eze was killed to scare the two postulants who were kidnapped with him," say the Benedictines of the Eruku monastery in Kwara state, northern Nigeria to Fides. On the night of Oc ...
25 October 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - One of the three Benedictines killed after the kidnapping on October 17; the other two set free
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Brother Godwin Eze, one of the three Benedictine monks kidnapped by an armed gang on the night of 17 October in Eruku monastery in Kwara State, in central-northern Nigeria, was brutally killed (se ...
23 October 2023
AFRICA/ALGERIA - Appointment of Bishop of Oran
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, October 22, 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed the Reverend Fr. Davide Carraro, P.I.M.E., until now vicar general of Alger, as bishop of Oran, Algeria.
Msgr. Davide Carraro ...
23 October 2023
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops of the Great Lakes region call for an end to violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Everything must be done to put an end to the suffering of the people of the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)", say the members of the Association of Bishops' Conferences of Centr ...
23 October 2023
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Eparch of Adigrat: "Our world order seems to be in need of a serious transformation": we do not want Tigray to remain forgotten
Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - "Our world order seems to be in need of a serious transformation, otherwise the consequences will continue affecting more and more, of course the weaker ones being first loosers", writes to Fide ...
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