Africa

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  24 June 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Mikah Suleiman kidnapped Abuja (Fides Agency ) - The parish priest of St. Raymond's Church in Damba (Gusau) in Zamfara State in northwestern Nigeria, Mikah Suleiman, was abducted by armed men who broke into the rectory on Saturday, June 22, at a ...
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  24 June 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Some will be waiting for Sister Ida at the door of heaven by Pascale Rizk Nairobi (Fides Agency ) – "Sister Ida left us suddenly on Sunday, June 16 shortly before 7 p.m. After praying the vespers together with the community in Nairobi, she felt sick suddenly in the kitchen ...
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  22 June 2024
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Coadjutor Bishop of Bangassou: “Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you” Bangassou (Agenzia Fides) - From Bozoum to Bangassou. From "simple" missionary to coadjutor bishop. This is what happened to Aurelio Gazzera, who worked for 17 years as a Carmelite missionary in Bozoum, in the north-west ...
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  21 June 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Young people take to the streets against the draft finance law Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Tuko wengi", "We are many" in Swahili. This is the slogan of the protests taking place in various Kenyan cities against the government's draft budget law, which provides for the introduction o ...
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  21 June 2024
  AFRICA/GUINEA - President of the Episcopal Conference. "We are a young and dynamic Church" Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Guinea is a young but at the same time dynamic Church" says Raphaël Balla Guilavogui, Bishop of N'Zérékoré, President of the Episcopal Conference of Guinea, who granted an int ...
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  21 June 2024
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Father Erminio De Santis: "We provide all-round care for hundreds of street children, orphans and young people in need" Ivato (Agenzia Fides) - On June 24, two days before the Malagasy National Day, the school year ends for the students of the "Notre Dame de Clairvaux" center of the Salesian missionaries (SDB). Agenzia Fides spoke to the ...
• 20 June 2024
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Appointment of bishop of Ziguinchor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Jean Baptiste Valter Manga, of the clergy of Ziguinchor, until now vice rector of the Notre Dame Major Seminary in Brin and vicar of the parish of ...
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  20 June 2024
  AFRICA/CHAD - After explosion in ammunition depot: official report speaks of nine dead and 46 injured N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "The official report speaks of 9 dead and 46 injured, but the number of victims is probably much higher," an observer from N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, where a large arms and ammunition dep ...
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  20 June 2024
  AFRICA/NIGER - Emmanuel's long journey: 33 years of loneliness and hope by Mauro Armanino Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Emmanuel, originally from Maryland County, Liberia, began his long journey when he was only 17 years old. It is 2008, during the first term of President Ellen Johnson Sirlea ...
• 19 June 2024
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Soddo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Dejene Hidoto Gamo, O.F.M. Cap., until now provincial viar of Kidane Meheret of the Capuchin Friars of Ethiopia, guardian of the fraternity of ...
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  19 June 2024
  AFRICA/CHAD - Explosion in the capital's largest weapons depot: number of victims still unknown N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "We were awakened yesterday evening around 11 p.m. by a huge explosion," an observer from church circles in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, told Fides. "The first loud explosion was followed b ...
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  18 June 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Indiscriminate bombing of hospitals and refugee camps in North Darfur Al-Fashir (Agenzia Fides) - Patients and staff at the Southern Hospital in Al-Fashir, in the Darfur region, in north-western Sudan, were wounded and shot by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The rebels also attacked the ne ...
• 18 June 2024
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Erection of the ecclesiastical province of Ndola and appointment of first metropolitan archbishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has erected the ecclesiastical province of Ndola, Zambia, with the suffragan dioceses of Kabwe and Solwezi, and has appointed Bishop Benjamin Phiri, hitherto bishop of the d ...
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  18 June 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Another Catholic priest kidnapped Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Another priest has been kidnapped in Nigeria. Father Christian Ike, parish priest of St. Matthew's church in Ajalli (Orumba North Local Government Area in the southern state of Anambra), was kidna ...
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  17 June 2024
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - President Ramaphosa re-elected for a second term Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected as President of South Africa, but it required the formation of an unprecedented coalition government made up of the historical opponents of apartheid and the ...