Africa

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  15 October 2020
  AFRICA/MALI - Towards Mission Sunday: "For a peaceful Mali, here I am, send me Lord" Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "We have drawn from the theme of World Mission Day a theme adapted to the current situation in Mali and which will remain valid not only for the missionary month of October 2020 but also for all ...
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  14 October 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - A Church program to tackle teenage pregnancies in one of the poorest areas of Kenya Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - There were 100 girls from the villages of Kipanga-ajeni, Burangi, Pokea Mwana and Masheheni, mobilized by teachers in the area, for the launch of the program to tackle teenage pregnancies in the ...
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  14 October 2020
  AFRICA - The Superior of the SMA: "Fr. Maccalli, man of faith, forgiveness and fraternity" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - After two years of silence and solitude, Father Gigi Maccalli needed to feel at home, to feel welcomed and listened to. "He talked for an hour, without ever getting tired", said to Agenzia Fides Fr ...
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  14 October 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Towards Mission Day: "Responding generously to the call of the Lord" Blantyre (Agenzia Fides) - "The theme of this year's World Mission Day: Here I am, send me, at first made me think that Pope Francis wanted to address young people in particular", writes to Agenzia Fides Anna Tomasi, of ...
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  13 October 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Police brutality: Archbishop of Lagos calls for clarification Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - "Recently there have been reports and videos documenting that members of the Nigerian police, in particular SARS operatives, have been involved in various acts of brutality and extortion against i ...
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  13 October 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Archbishop of Bukavu: "People want to know the truth" Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) - Ten years have passed since the publication of the Mapping Report, recalls the Archbishop of Bukavu, Mgr. François-Xavier Maroy Rusengo, but also "20 years since the death of Mgr. Emmanuel Katal ...
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  12 October 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Videoclip of children recalls the massacre of the "Martyrs of Libya". Coptic Bishop Makarios: "inappropriate choice" Minya (Agenzia Fides) - In a video that was filmed in an Egyptian church and shared on social networks, children replicate the scenes of the massacre of 20 Egyptian Coptic Christians who were executed by jihadists on a b ...
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  12 October 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - A church desecrated, it is the third in two months; "The government must do everything to protect us" Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "We expect the government to do everything possible to protect the citizens of Malawi, including the Catholic Church. However, I know that the government and the police cannot protect every pri ...
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  12 October 2020
  AFRICA/NIGER - Fr. Gigi Maccalli: finally at home, but always with his heart turned to his mission in Bomoanga Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Father Gigi Maccalli, released after two years of imprisonment in the hands of Islamist kidnappers, returned to Madignano for a periodo of rest and quarantine with his family. One of the first pe ...
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  12 October 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Common prayer for peaceful presidential elections Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - A few days before the presidential elections on October 31, the socio-political climate remains tense in the Ivory Coast. For this reason, members of the PLCRD, platform of religious leaders for ...
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  10 October 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Reaffirmation of the equidistance of the Coptic Orthodox Church from the candidates and lists running in the political elections Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic Orthodox Church expresses its esteem and encouragement to all those who present themselves as candidates in the next parliamentary elections but, at the same time, maintains its equidi ...
• 10 October 2020
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of the Rector of the "St. Pius X" interdiocesan major Seminary of Maputo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 10 August 2020 Card. Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr.José Pinto Tene Rabiana, of the clergy of Maputo as Rector of the ...
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  9 October 2020
  AFRICA/MALI - The story of Fr. Maccalli is an example of the instability affecting the Sahel Bamako (Agenzia Fides) – The kidnapping of Italian missionary Father Pierluigi Macalli (Sma) began in Niger and released in Mali. The case of Fr. Pier Luigi (Gigi) Maccalli illustrates the cross-border action of Islami ...
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  9 October 2020
  AFRICA - Father Pier Luigi Maccalli is free: "A gift for World Mission Sunday" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The release of Father Pier Luigi Maccalli is the most precious gift for World Mission Day which we will celebrate next Sunday, October 18". This is the first reaction of Fr. Antonio Porcellato, Su ...
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  8 October 2020
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - 25 people die in attack on humanitarian convoy: UNHCR is "shocked" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - On the night of October 4 and 5, at least 25 people were killed in an attack on a humanitarian convoy in Burkina Faso. "25 people - all men - died and another was seriously injured after a ...