Africa

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  18 December 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishop Sipuka: "Let us not be discouraged by the Covid pandemic that, like Herod, tries to transform joy into pain, but it will not win" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "As heaven and earth united when Jesus was born, more than ever in this COVID-19 period God is calling us to solidarity" says His Exc. Mgr. Sithembele Anton Sipuka, Bishop of Umtata and Pre ...
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  18 December 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Kankara school students released: "Nigeria runs the risks of exploding" warns a Nigerian prelate Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The 344 students kidnapped from the Kankara public secondary school in Katsina state, northwestern Nigeria, attacked on the night of December 11-12, have been released (see Fides, 14/12/2020). Thi ...
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  17 December 2020
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Inauguration of the Nazareth-Mwendakulima Seminary located in Kahama Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - The inaugural Mass of the Seminary was celebrated by Cardinal Polycarp Pengo, Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Dar es Salaam and concelebrated by 26 Bishops and many priests - fro ...
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  17 December 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The priest kidnapped on his way to his father's funeral released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "I can confirm to you that the kidnapped Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Valentine Oluchukwu Ezeagu, has been released unhurt, by his captors on the evening of December 16", said the Imo State Police Co ...
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  16 December 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Abduction of a priest on his way to his father's funeral Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest was kidnapped by four heavily armed men on his way to the state of Anambra for his father's funeral. Fr. Valentine Oluchukwu Ezeagu, of the Congregation of the Sons of Mary Mot ...
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  16 December 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Nigerian religious leaders call for immediate release of students from Kankara school Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The National Interfaith and Religious condemns in its totality acts of sabotage aimed at disrupting the peace and tranquillity in the country by some individuals and organizations that do not mea ...
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  15 December 2020
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Appeal in favor of Eritrean refugees in the face of the looting perpetrated to the detriment of the local population in the context of the conflict in Tigray Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - The inhabitants of Macallè, in Tigray, are afraid. After the fighting in November, the city is under the control of the Ethiopian federal forces, but it is still not safe. Gangs of local crimina ...
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  15 December 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - Christian leaders: "The Country is devastated by Covid-19; but it is possible to rise again with the solidarity of all" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply concerned about the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic is having on our nation", says, a statement published at the end of a meeting organized by the Episcopal Commission for Justi ...
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  14 December 2020
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Conflict in Tigray: fate of the bishop and his collaborators in the Eparchy of Adigrat Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Since the beginning of the fighting in the Tigray region on November 4th, there has been no reliable information about the fate of the Catholic Bishop Tesfaselassie Medhin and his priests an ...
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  14 December 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Contradictory messages on the number of students still in the hands of the kidnappers after the attack on a school in the north of the country Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Contradictory messages arrive on the number of students of the government secondary school of Kankara, in the state of Katsina, attacked on the night between 11 and 12 December, still in the hands ...
• 14 December 2020
  AFRICA/CHAD - Resignation and appointment of vicar apostolic of Mongo, Chad Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the apostolic vicariate of Mongo, Chad, presented by Bishop Henri Coudray, S.J. The Holy Father has appointed the Rev ...
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  12 December 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The nation needs forgiveness and reconciliation: the Church alongside those who suffer Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Ivory Coast left civil war behind only ten years ago, and we still suffer from the wounds this conflict caused. Many problems arose from it: many citizens fled, many were arrested, others injur ...
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  11 December 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Doctors Strike: Constructive Dialogue Needed Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The sufferings patients go through whenever there is a strike should remind us that saving life ought to be a priority for both government and the medical staff", say the Bishops of Kenya, in a ...
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  11 December 2020
  AFRICA/GHANA - Akufo-Addo re-elected President of Ghana Accra (Agenzia Fides) - The presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, President Nana Addo Dnkwa Akufu-Addo, has been re-elected the President of Ghana. The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana who b ...
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  10 December 2020
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - At least 25 Salesian missionaries trapped in the war in the Tigray Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty-five Salesian missionaries are blocked without communications in the Tigray region - in the north of Ethiopia, at the center of the clash between regular soldiers and the militias of ...