Africa

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  30 January 2021
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The local Catholic Church protects the rights of people with albinism Blantyre (Agenzia Fides) - In several African countries the phenomenon of albinism makes albino people live in fear of being kidnapped and killed, due to the widespread belief that some parts of their bodies have special ...
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  30 January 2021
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - World Day of leprosy: Camillian missionaries "alongside the last to announce the Good News" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "The main cause of suffering for people affected by leprosy is social exclusion: even when they manage to recover from this disease, social reintegration is often difficult". This is what Fa ...
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  30 January 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops of Central Africa: "Stop war and violation of human rights in the east of the DRC" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "What happens is great misery, there is always war! The great misery of the population, who feels abandoned. And then a lot of suffering is what we have encountered", said His Exc. Mgr. Marcel ...
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  29 January 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Exhortation of the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio to 150 new confirmed on the need to be ambassadors of Christ Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - On January 10, on the occasion of the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, 150 faithful from the Parish of Saint Mary Mother of God of Yambio received the sacrament of confirmation. The Bish ...
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  29 January 2021
  AFRICA - The second wave of Covid-19 and Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Several African countries are currently experiencing the second wave of the virus", says Fr. Charles Chilufya SJ, Coordinator of the Task Force Africa of the Vatican Covid-19 Commission and Direct ...
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  28 January 2021
  AFRICA/NIGER - The testimony of a Christian kidnapped by jihadists Niamey (Agenzia Fides) – Italian missionary Father Mauro Armanino from the Society for Africa Missions lives and works in Niger. He reports on the torture suffered by a Christian farmer, originally from the same area ...
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  28 January 2021
  AFRICA /TOGO - Mission and the desire to leave for distant places Sokodè (Agenzia Fides) - "If someone asks me today why I want to be a missionary, the answer is different from that at the beginning. It is not just a feeling, it is something deeper", writes Sebastião Moniz, seminaria ...
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  27 January 2021
  AFRICA/DJIBOUTI - The pandemic increases the vulnerability of street children: the Church offers hospitality Djibouti (Agenzia Fides) - The shelter for street children in Djibouti, organized by the country's Caritas to reduce the the threat of minors living on the streets in connection with pandemics and offers protection to 80 ...
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  27 January 2021
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Various Church figures also affected by Covid-19 Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - The spread of Covid-19 in Zambia does not stop, where three parishes of the Archdiocese of Kasama were closed for two weeks after priests and their lay collaborators tested positive for the virus ...
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  27 January 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - 125 years of evangelization in the country: "A path of reconciliation, peace and fraternity" acknowledges a representative of the Head of State Grand-Bassam (Agenzia Fides) - "We have come to share with all the people of God the graces received from these zealous missionaries who brought the good news to Ivorian land. Today this good news should be a source of r ...
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  26 January 2021
  AFRICA/BENIN - Bishops' Conference wishes "Dialogue for free and transparent elections" Porto-Novo (Agenzia Fides) - "The Bishops' Conference of Benin urges all political parties and institutions involved in the election for an open dialogue for a peaceful, genuinely inclusive, democratic and transparent pr ...
• 26 January 2021
  AFRICA/CONGO - Appointment of the Rector of the "Msgr. Georges-Firmin Singha" Philosophical Seminary in the archdiocese of Brazzaville Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 3 September 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rector of the "Msgr. Georges-Firmin Singha" interdiocesan Philos ...
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  25 January 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A missionary: "Only love and generosity build the Church" Naandi (Agenzia Fides) - "The mission of the Church is continuous, the completion of one work being the beginning of the next". This is what Father Christopher Hartley Sartorius, a missionary in South Sudan, wrote to Fid ...
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  25 January 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Eight children kidnapped in attack on orphanage in Abuja area Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - At least eight children have been abducted from an orphanage in Naharati in the Federal Territory of the capital, Abuja. On Saturday 23 January, at around 01.00 local time, a large group of heavil ...
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  25 January 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Church delegation visits Tigray: "The humanitarian situation is alarming" Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "The number of people in need of food, water and medicine is currently tripling compared to the initial planning of the assistance project", said a report by the delegation of the Catholic C ...