Africa

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  9 January 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Testimony of a missionary: "In times of pandemic, the first evangelization remains our starting point" Ebimpé (Agenzia Fides) - "The first evangelization always remains our starting point. We are also particularly involved in matters relating to justice and peace". Thus reports, in an interview with Agenzia Fides, Fath ...
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  8 January 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Refusal of the word persecution to qualify the situation in Egypt on the part of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "When I meet the leaders of the world, they always ask me questions about the persecution that is affecting us in Egypt, and I answer that there is no persecution, clearly rejecting this expressio ...
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  8 January 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - At least 44 people killed between New Year and the first days of January in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "A real carnage was carried out between 19 and 21, local time, on Monday 4 January 2021. It caused the massacre of at least 22 civilians, including 6 members of the same family, not to mention ...
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  8 January 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Cardinal Souraphiel asks for respect for life and aid for the displaced Addis Abeba (Agenzia Fides) - "The government should guarantee people's right to life, respect for the supremacy of the Constitution and ensure that peace reigns", urges His Eminence Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraph ...
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  7 January 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Catholic Church ends 125th anniversary: "We must move on to a new dynamic of faith" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "January 24, 2021 marks the solemn closing of the celebrations for the 125th anniversary of the evangelization of our country and the closing of the 117th Plenary Assembly of the Catholic Bishop ...
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  7 January 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The South African Church hit hard by Covid-19; Christian leaders: "Do not delay vaccines" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We appeal to Government to pull out all the stops to ensure urgent rollout of the vaccine, which is a public good" say the Christian leaders of South Africa, in a note from the South Afric ...
• 7 January 2021
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 10 August 2020, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed the position of Fr. Edwin Mulandu as National Director of the Pon ...
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  5 January 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Bangassou, a ghost town. Bishop describes the situation as "calm but tense" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Juan José Aguirre Muñoz of Bangassou describes the situation in the city in the south-east of the Central African Republic conquered by the rebels as "calm but tense" (see Fides 4/1/2021 ...
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  5 January 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The "Way of the Holy Family" project takes off, despite the pandemic Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The "Way of the Holy Family" is "the Christmas gift that Egypt gives to the world". Even the pandemic, which has also paralyzed tourism around the world, has not stopped the great project supporte ...
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  5 January 2021
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Mission as the central point of priestly formation Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - From 28 to 30 December 2020, a missionary study seminar for priests who study in this ecclesiastical and academic institute was held at the "St. John Paul II" Interdiocesan Major Seminary in G ...
• 5 January 2021
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of bishop of Buéa, Cameroon Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Michael Miabesue Bibi, until now titular of Amudarsa and auxiliary of the metropolitan archdiocese of Bamenda, as bishop of the diocese of Buéa, Camero ...
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  4 January 2021
  AFRICA/NIGER - More than 100 people die in attacks on two villages Niamey (Agenzia Fides) – About one hundred people died on January 2 in Niger in attacks on two villages in the west of the country, in Tchoma Bangou, where 70 people were killed, and in Zaroumadareye, where 30 people w ...
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  4 January 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Bishop reports dead and wounded after the siege of Bangassou Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Yes, Bangassou has fallen into the hands of the rebels, many of whom are mercenaries and people from Niger. The morning was hectic. Heavy artillery from 5 in the morning with about thirty dead a ...
• 4 January 2021
  AFRICA/KENYA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Nairobi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nairobi (Kenya), presented by His Eminence Cardinal John Njue. (SL) (Agenzia F ...
• 4 January 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Appointment of the Archbishop of Korhogo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed His Exc. Msgr. Ignace Bessi Dogbo, currently Bishop of the Diocese of Katiola, as Metropolitan Archbishop of Korhogo (Ivory Coast). (SL) (Agenzia Fides ...