Africa

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  7 May 2021
  AFRICA - Covid-19: "Africa's access to vaccines is one of the crucial points to contain the pandemic" recalls CUAMM Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "Africa’s access to vaccines is one of the crucial points to contain the pandemic. In the face of a global emergency, the only possible response must be global. Africa cannot be excluded. We ne ...
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  7 May 2021
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - The state of siege enters into force in two eastern provinces devastated by armed conflicts Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - As of yesterday, May 6, the state of siege in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has entered into force, proclaimed on May 3 by President F� ...
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  6 May 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - A young missionary collaborator dies in the car explosion in the Niem Mission Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - A young missionary collaborator is the only victim of the explosion of a mine that exploded under the car of the Catholic Mission of Niem. "Fr. Arialdo Urbani and one of his members of the Missio ...
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  6 May 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Cardinal Nzapalainga: "Need to disarm hearts" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "A change is underway in the Central African Republic. The armed rebels who had entered the cities have left them and are in the forests. It remains to be seen whether this is real or just tempor ...
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  5 May 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Missionaries' car blows up on a mine; at least one victim Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - A car of the Catholic Mission of Niem exploded on a mine this morning, May 5, 2021. "We are waiting to know the exact details of the sad episode", His Exc. Mgr Mirosław Gucwa, Bishop of the dioc ...
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  5 May 2021
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - The population continues to flee from Pemba, the town attacked by jihadists at the end of March Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - The exodus of inhabitants from Pemba continues, the small town in northern Mozambique attacked on March 24 by a jihadist group that claims to be affiliated with ISIS (see Fides, 27/3/2021). Accor ...
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  4 May 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros on the controversial Ethiopian dam: water is a gift from God, and may God enlighten the rulers Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Water is "a gift from God", that Divine Providence entrusts to human beings in order to guarantee life and prosperity, but as a result of individual and national conflicts of interest, attempts ha ...
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  4 May 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Imam victim of an attack in North Kivu: "He was a lover of peace and tolerance" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We regret the death of this unifying and moderate imam, a lover of peace and tolerance in the context of radical Islamism", said the local non-governmental organization CEPADHO (Center for Stu ...
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  4 May 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bangasu Christians in the footsteps of the Patron Saint George for a church that is supportive and evangelized Tombura-Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - The Parishioners of St. George, Bangasu in the Catholic Diocese of Tombura-Yambio on Friday, 23rd April 2021 celebrated their Parish’s Patron Saint Day for the first time since the crea ...
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  3 May 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Building peace in the Amhara region of the country: the commitment of Catholics Debre Berhan (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation led by the Secretary General of the Bishops' Conference of Ethiopia (CBCE), Abba Teshome Fikre, was recently visited the North Shoa conflict area, one of the administrative ar ...
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  3 May 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Labor Day: "Create jobs for young people to avoid the phenomenon of illegal immigration" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we must think about creating family businesses, private companies, this will give jobs to young people who will not think about crossing the Mediterranean", says Fr. Emmanuel Wohi Nin, Se ...
• 3 May 2021
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of bishop of Tsiroanomandidy Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On April, 30 the Holy Father has appointed as bishop of the diocese of Tsiroanomandidy, Madagascar, the Reverend Gabriel Randrianantenaina of the clergy of Moramanga, until now secretary ...
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  30 April 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Border mission and the Pope's blessing Gode (Agenzia Fides) - "In the tribulations of this very strange time, the Lord has reserved for us one of those consolations that rarely happen in life. In March, here in Gode, we unexpectedly received a visit from the ...
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  29 April 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Forgiveness, unity, and reconciliation: the message of the wounded Bishop Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Prayer, unity, forgiveness and reconciliation: this is the message sent, from a hospital bed, by the Comboni Msgr. Christian Carlassare, bishop-elect of Rumbek, in South Sudan, victim of an atta ...
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  29 April 2021
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Bishop Bertin: "Hidden life of the faithful and humanitarian work of Caritas" Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - For thirty years Somalia has been a divided country, without stable institutions, crossed by fundamentalist turmoil. In this complex context, a very small Christian community continues to live ...