Africa

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  16 July 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - President asks citizens to join him in prayer and fasting to ask for God's help to defeat Covid-19 Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera, urged his compatriots to join him in fasting and prayer against the spread of coronavirus in the country. The President urged "all citizens and reside ...
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  16 July 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Alarm of the Coptic Churches: there are those who give "false Bibles" and "false Gospels" contrary to the Christian faith Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Spokespersons of the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Coptic Catholic Church have both expressed concern about the growing spread of volumes distributed free of charge among the population, characte ...
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  16 July 2020
  AFRICA/NIGER - 22 months after the kidnapping of Fr. Gigi Maccalli, man who used "the weapon of peace" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "It is blindly believed that only through the use of weapons and spilled blood one can achieve peace: what happens in the Sahel, with the dead, injured, displaced, refugees or kidnapped, is a tan ...
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  15 July 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The faithful pray for the prompt release of Fr. Amadasun Idahosa, victim of kidnapping for extortion Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of Catholic faithful yesterday trooped down to churches across Edo State to offer special prayers for the release of Rev. Amadasun Idahosa who was kidnapped a few days ago along the Beni ...
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  15 July 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - "Thanks for the good seeds that you have sown during your life": the Church remembers the late Prime Minister Coulibaly Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Brothers and sisters, when we are no longer in this world, what we will leave are the seeds that we have sown in the hearts of men. All the rest is vanity", said His Exc. Mgr. Alexis Touably Yo ...
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  15 July 2020
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The drama of children left without school, between violence and poverty Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "In the regions of Burkina Faso on the border with Mali and Niger there is no more school, several school buildings have been set on fire, and many teachers murdered. The devastation is the ...
• 14 July 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Appointment of the Rector of the St. Paul Inter-diocesan Major Seminary of Juba Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 12 May 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Baptist Karim Bazawi Michel Moura, of the diocesan clergy of Tomb ...
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  14 July 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Sisi starts development projects in the area of St. Catherine's Monastery Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - While Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reopens the former Byzantine basilica of Hagia Sophia for Islamic worship, in Egypt President Abdel Fattah al Sisi launches development projects aimed ...
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  14 July 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - Covid-19: churches re-open for worship next Sunday Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic Churches in Nairobi are set to reopen on July 19 in strict adherence to COVID-19 protocols from the Government.. "I urge you to take these guidelines seriously so that we may adequately ...
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  14 July 2020
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Covid-19; The Bishops of Senegal postpone the opening of the churches Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite our common thirst to find our way back to our churches, we, your Bishops, urge you to be patient in faith and in Hope", say the Bishops of Senegal in announcing the decision to keep churc ...
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  13 July 2020
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Tensions over the postponement of the parliamentary vote; for the Bishops "the Country's political and institutional stability is at stake" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Tensions continue in Burkina Faso, where yesterday, July 12, the president of the Supreme Communications Council (CSC), Mathias Tankoano, and his escort managed to escape unscathed from an a ...
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  13 July 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Last tribute to Anne Marie Say Tanoh, icon of the sacred choral song, "her life was a program for God" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - Anne Marie Say Tanoh, icon of the sacred choral song in Ivory Coast and vocal guide of the Maitrise du diocèse de Yopougon (the choir of the diocese founded by the Bishop of that time, Mgr. Lau ...
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  11 July 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Everyone must condemn rape which is an intrinsically evil act" says the Archbishop of Lagos Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The Holy Scriptures and the Church down through the ages have condemned all sexual perversion including rape. Rape deeply wounds the respect, freedom, physical and moral integrity of the victim. ...
• 11 July 2020
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Resignation of the Bishop of Bissau Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Bissau (Guinea Bissau), presented by His Exc. Mgr. José Câmnate na Bissign. (SL) (Agenz ...
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  11 July 2020
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Violence on women and girls increases: the effects of Covid-19 Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Among the harmful effects that the pandemic has caused in the world is the marked increase in abuse against women and children, exposed to violence due to the domestic confinement imposed by ...