Africa

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  22 July 2020
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Covid-19, side effects: people die due to the difficult access to hospitals Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - In Uganda coronavirus is likely to kill more for the side effects, deriving from the lockdown that has stopped social activities and has complicated access to hospitals. The alarm about what app ...
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  21 July 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Lay Catholics return to the streets for transparency and justice Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Our main request today is to clearly express refusal and indignation to have the so-called 'new animators' of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) imposed, chosen from among th ...
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  21 July 2020
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Missionary Childhood Day: children can be saints even with the little means they have Namugongo (Agenzia Fides) - "Jesus loves children and, like him, they too must share that love with their peers and their families", said Dorothy Atuhaire Ssonko, Sunday school teacher of the minor Basilica of the Martyr ...
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  20 July 2020
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Peace talks between government and separatists in the bishop's residence: the Church promotes dialogue and reconciliation Bamenda (Agenzia Fides) - Hopes for peace in Cameroon are rekindled. In the first week of July, meetings were held between official representatives of the government and separatists from the English-speaking regions of C ...
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  20 July 2020
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Fr. Walter Maccalli: the pastoral activities of our churches are slowly resuming Foya (Agenzia Fides) - "In Liberia we are in the middle of the rainy season and our people are engaged in rural work. During this period, malaria makes itself felt as every year and affects everyone, men, women and espec ...
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  20 July 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Rumors about an alleged contagion from Covid-19 for Coptic Patriarch Tawadros denied Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - No coronavirus infection for Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. It is the same Pope Tawadros who confirmed this, with a dry denial in which he de ...
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  18 July 2020
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - "Still too many infections" due to Covid-19, the Bishops postpone the opening of churches for worship Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - Last week the government of Guinea Bissau authorized the reopening of churches, mosques, places of worship and traditional rites, subject to compliance with a series of measures, including the ma ...
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  18 July 2020
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The Covid-19 crisis aggravated by the strike of nurses, exacerbated by low wages and corruption Harare (Agenzia Fides) - "We noted with concern that the current state of the health sector characterized by the failure by the government to amicably resolve the protracted strike by medical personnel, did not augur wel ...
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  18 July 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Grand Mufti Shawki Allam: "There is no objection to building churches with Muslim money" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Islamic law does not contain any legal objection to the possibility of building churches using money belonging to Muslims. This relevant observation, full of possible applications with respect to ...
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  17 July 2020
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Covid-19: concern over the increase in cases; for the Bishops "the health crisis reveals the importance of an efficient health structure" Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - In Antananarivo the number of coronavirus-related deaths is increasing with eight of the ten victims reported by the operational command center for the fight against coronavirus. Another ca ...
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  17 July 2020
  AFRICA/MALI - Religious leaders launch an appeal for peace after last week's violent demonstrations Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very concerned about the resumption of violence in Bamako. We take this opportunity to launch an appeal for peace, in light of all the damage caused. Mali does not deserve what is happeni ...
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  16 July 2020
  AFRICA/GHANA - Covid-19: the Archbishop of Accra asks to suspend students' exams Accra (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal to suspend the students' final exams was launched by His Exc. Mgr. John Bonaventure Kwofie, Archbishop of Accra, at the head of the educational sector of the local Bishops' Conference. T ...
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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 ...