Africa

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  18 September 2020
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Bishops to the government: "a social market economy" to eradicate poverty Dodoma (Agenzia Fides) - The Tanzanian government must adopt a new economic model, that of the "social market economy", which aims to have a nation with sustainable and inclusive economic growth. This is what the Tanzani ...
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  18 September 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Towards World Mission Day: the Church in Malawi on Radio Maria Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of Malawi has started preparation for World Mission Day which this year is celebrated on October 18, with new forms due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It was in fact decided to m ...
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  17 September 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Covid-19: marriages postponed until "it is safe to celebrate the Sacrament with freedom and festivity Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - " The best is to defer marriages until it is safe to celebrate the Sacrament with greater freedom and with greater festivity", said the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Cape Town, Syl ...
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  17 September 2020
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - "To seek the common good" urges the President of the Episcopal Conference in the face of growing tensions Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "For some time our Country no longer lives in the perspective of its progress, but in growing chaos. The effects of this creeping chaos are easily visible in our cities and villages: they deriv ...
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  16 September 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - At least 50 dead in the gold mine collapse in Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are those who wonder why a person should work for 3 euros an hour, or harvest tomatoes for one euro per box, or like young people from Kamituga (Kivu, eastern Congo) dig makeshift mines w ...
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  16 September 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - 'Your Word is a lamp for my feet': first edition of the Bible in Pazande has been delivered Tombura-Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - It is an important milestone reached, the culmination of years of hard work, perseverance in missionary work: the first edition of the Bible in the local Pazande language was presented on ...
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  15 September 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Grand Imam of al Azhar: Islam and Christianity have never been at the root of wars Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "We believe with certainty that Islam and Christianity have never been the origin of wars and conflicts, but rather religious faiths represent the opposite of conflicts and wars in which they are ...
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  15 September 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Meeting between two Bishops and President Kiir: "Let's work together for peace" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "A very productive and successful meeting". This is how His Exc. Mgr. Barani Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop of Tombura-Yambio, defined the meeting together with His Exc. Mgr. Stephen Amenyu, Archb ...
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  15 September 2020
  AFRICA/NIGER - Two years after the kidnapping of Fr. Gigi Maccalli: "There is always, somewhere, someone who betrays friends" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "It was night when they took you away and since then two years of darkness have passed, only interrupted by a short video message on 24 March, the first and for now the only sign of life. There h ...
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  14 September 2020
  AFRICA/ERITREA - The Italian School of Asmara, a precious educational center, closes Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - The Italian school of Asmara has closed its doors. Born in 1903, it survived the period of colonialism, the British protectorate, the period of the Negus, that of the communist dictatorship and c ...
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  14 September 2020
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Towards Mission Sunday - "Here I am send me": the poor and simple in Foya understand Foya (Agenzia Fides) - "Our small presence, with Fr. Walter Maccalli (Fr. Pierluigi’s brother, kidnapped in Niger two years ago) in the parish of Foya, is important in order to accompany the whole Lofa county in faith" ...
• 11 September 2020
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Appointment of the Bishop of Gweru Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed His Exc. Mgr. Rudolf Nyandoro, currently Bishop of Gokwe, as Bishop of the Diocese of Gweru (Zimbabwe). (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 11/9/2020) ...
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  11 September 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Thirtieth anniversary of the basilica of Notre Dame de la Paix in Yamoussoukro: "it is a challenge to promote peace in the Country" according to the Apostolic Administrator Yamoussoukro (Agenzia Fides) - 10 September 1990 - 10 September 2020, 30 years ago, the Basilica of Notre Dame de la Paix in Yamoussoukro (in the center of the Country) was consecrated by Pope John Paul II in the presenc ...
• 11 September 2020
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "Nothing is too little": appeal by the Country's bishops to fight Covid and hunger Monze (Agenzia Fides) - "Brothers and sisters, nothing is too little", declared the bishop of Monze, Mgr. Moses Hamungole in reference to the precariousness of resources that plunges the country in the grip of the Covid1 ...
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  11 September 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "Excellent results with online teaching; now the challenge is to reopen face-to-face courses", says the Vice-Chancellor of the Catholic University Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The Vice-Chancellor of the Catholic University of Malawi Rev Dr. George Buleya during a seminar for academic staff, praised the faculty for their commitment to continue teaching, despite the cl ...