Africa

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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 ...
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  11 July 2020
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Seven new Camillian priests close to the service of the poor, the sick and those in need of comfort Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Despite the serious precariousness that continues to rage in the Country due to the Covid-19 pandemic (see Fides, 4/7/2020) the Camillian religious family of Ouagadougou welcomes seven new p ...
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  10 July 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Ivorians have become psychotic one month after the attack on Kafolo Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - On 11 June, 14 Ivorian soldiers died in a terrorist attack against a joint army/gendarmerie checkpoint in the Kafolo area, on the border with Burkina Faso. This was the second jihadist offensive ...
• 10 July 2020
  AFRICA/SENEGAL and MAURITANIA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 22 April 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Joachim Francois Ndione, of the diocesan clergy of Thiès as Na ...