Africa

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  11 September 2021
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Music, an instrument of joy and fraternity for the lives of children Fez (Agenzia Fides) - In the suffering time of the pandemic, music can be, especially for children, a joyful, uplifting experience, capable of giving new hope. With this conviction, the World Youth Orchestra Foundation b ...
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  11 September 2021
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - A missionary: "New Catholic schools for the good of all, giving the Gospel of Jesus" Foya (Agenzia Fides) - "We have decided to build a Catholic school. The head of the village assured us of collaboration and now Christians and Muslims are building the new building together". Thus reports in an interview ...
• 10 September 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Regional efforts are needed to stop terrorists linked to Daesh" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The support of neighboring states in the fight against the terrorists of the ADF/MTM (Allied Democratic Forces/Madinat Tawhid wa-l-Muwahidin, a group of Ugandan origin that over the years have ...
• 9 September 2021
  AFRICA/GUINEA - ECOWAS suspends Guinea; Catholic leaders had long warned about the crisis that resulted in the coup Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (CEDEAO/ECOWAS) suspended Guinea from their regional organization after the military coup on Sunday, September 5 (see Fides, 6/9/202 ...
• 8 September 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Endemic insecurity in the 3 eastern provinces is creating a humanitarian drama Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Endemic insecurity in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (North and South Kivu and Ituri) has serious humanitarian consequences. In the province of Ituri alone, according ...
• 7 September 2021
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Coup leaders try to reassure the international community and investors Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - "We want to place the transition that is opening under the sign of hope and of a new Guinea, reconciled with itself, with all the children of the country. (...) There will be no spirit of hatred ...
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  7 September 2021
  AFRICA/eSWATINI - Calm situation, but without indications on how the problems raised by the unrest will be addressed Manzini (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in the country remains 'calm' with sporadic episodes of violence. Some school buildings were set on fire. The army was deployed on June 29 and has not been called back to the barr ...
• 6 September 2021
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Coup: "Calm situation in Conakry; waiting for the meeting between the coup leaders and the deposed ministers" Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is calm in Conakry. Traffic in the city is normal and people have gone to work like every day", Church from the capital of Guinea sources told Fides, where yesterday, Sunday, Sept ...
• 4 September 2021
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Biblical Month: Bishops urge the faithful to read, meditate and put into practice the Word of God Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "The Word of God is a source of nourishment and spiritual growth. Its importance in our daily life obliges us to know it and to fully appreciate it. The Biblical Month, therefore, offers Cathol ...
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  4 September 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Ending the Culture of Murder: Call for Peace by Religious Leaders in Western Equatoria Tombura (Agenzia Fides) - "We are horrified to learn that insecurity and acts of terror continue to increase in our State. We are all tired of this situation, we continue to live with dismay the massacre currently underw ...
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  4 September 2021
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Bishop of Wa: "Let's not isolate the mentally disabled" Wa (Agenzia Fides) - “In December 2020, while I was distributing meals together with the volunteers, I met Agostino and Mary. Agostino, lived on the street, used cocaine and alcohol. . Mary, married and mother of three ...
• 3 September 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Attack on a convoy of civilians in the east of the country by alleged members of the Islamic State Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The Islamists of DAECH-DRC ambushed 14 cars and 2 large trucks on the morning of September 1 around 10 am local time, in Ofaye, on the Komanda-Eringeti road (RN4) in the Territory of Irumu". T ...
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  3 September 2021
  AFRICA/KENYA - "My father catechist": a mission carried out with joy, dedication and passion Nyangusu (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Ruth Bwaru Joseph, of the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver, SSPC, originally from Kenya, shares the testimony of faith received from her father, Joseph, a catechist for 25 years, a ...
• 2 September 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - 73 school pupils kidnapped; the Bishops: "Too many kidnappings of children. We risk a traumatized generation of young people" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The abductions of school children present us with the prospects of a traumatized generation of young people". The words of the Bishops of Nigeria resound as a grave warning after the kidnapping, ...
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  1 September 2021
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Catechists in Africa: reference point for Christians of small communities Foya (Agenzia Fides) - "In Africa I would never have been able to carry out my missionary service without the help and support of so many catechists", said Fr. Walter Maccalli in reference to the Motu Proprio “Antiquum ...