Africa

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  9 June 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Stop of the Coptic Church to those who distribuite "thaumaturgical" products against the pandemic Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic Orthodox Church has made known the name of the first monk who died from coronavirus: Father Sawiris, of the Monastery dedicated to St Paul the Hermit, not far from the Red Sea. Born in ...
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  9 June 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Malaria drugs have run out, patients forced to buy them from private clinics Maridi (Agenzia Fides) - In the states of Mundri and Maridi, western Equatoria, the door-to-door information campaign on Covid and the distribution of hygiene materials continues, through the local non-governmental body ...
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  8 June 2020
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "We need to clarify the recent gas attacks, before the worse happens", says the Bishop of Chipita Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "We cannot wait any longer, in silence, for explanations and appropriate action. If we are to prevent something worse to happen other than the gassing, it is now we have to do something", said Hi ...
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  8 June 2020
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Presidential vote; the Bishops: "We have not appealed to the Constitutional Court" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "The Bishops’ Conference has never appealed to the Constitutional Court, all it did was report its observation work to the public for which it had received accreditation", says a statement f ...
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  6 June 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - The economic damage of Covid-19 is only the last of the plagues that hit a country already devastated by floods and locusts Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - 52 people have died in Kenya since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. A beginning that overlapped with the first rains of a long and violent season: floods, landslides that have caused over 200 ...
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  6 June 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Personal protective equipment to mission hospitals Madisi (Agenzia Fides) - "Most of the population of Malawi is engaged in informal work, and is the most exposed sector to contracting Covid 19", says to Agenzia Fides the national coordinator of the Catholic development ...
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  5 June 2020
  AFRICA - Love for the Gospel heals racism: healing man's heart to build a civilization of love Kara (Agenzia Fides) - "Only love for the Gospel can cure the disease of racism. The challenge today is to work to build a civilization of love. To carry out such a project, it will obviously be necessary to heal, with t ...
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  5 June 2020
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - "Hunger and fear viruses do more damage than COVID-19" Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "We were in the middle of Lent, a strong moment, a moment of preparation for the Easter of the Lord, when the state of emergency was decreed, while the news that came from other parts of the plan ...
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  4 June 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The "White Masks" movement, born to support emeritus bishops, retired priests, pastors and elderly imams, in times of pandemic Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "We must not and cannot abandon old priests who gave a lot, emeritus Bishops who did a lot", said Fr. Eric Norbert Abekan, parish priest of the Holy Family parish of Riviera in Abidjan, in expla ...
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  4 June 2020
  AFRICA - COVID-19 - The appeal of African Bishops "we call upon large companies which exploit African resources to make significant contributions in this tragic moment" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The pandemic caused by COVID-19 is without doubt is having devastating effects with tragic consequences for the poorest populations", say the African Bishops in a SECAM (Symposium of the Episcopal ...
• 4 June 2020
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Sister Ines Paulo Albinom, ASC Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 5, 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Sister Ines Paulo Albino, ASC (Adorers of the Blood of Christ) as N ...
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  3 June 2020
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - PMS Solidarity Fund: "In this period people need the Word, but also bread to survive" Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "Angola registered two first cases of COVID-19 in March, and as a result, civil and religious authorities took appropriate measures to avoid the risk of community infection, since the registered ...
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  3 June 2020
  AFRICA - Credible elections in Africa: the thorny struggle of the African Bishops Kara (Agenzia Fides) - In the dynamic of the mission as a commitment to justice, the challenge for a transparent electoral policy occupies a very important role in the public activity of the African Bishops' Conferences. ...
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  2 June 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Covid-19 and election campaign for the presidential elections: tensions increase Blantyre (Agenzia Fides) - "Tension due to the election campaign and serious episodes of violence are being registered", writes to Agenzia Fides the missionary, Anna Tomasi of the Franciscan Auxiliary Lay Missionaries of ...
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  2 June 2020
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - "Today in Cameroon apart from known, reported or detected cases, one does not have an idea or the exact proportion of the development of COVID-19", says a priest Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "Although all ten regions of the Country are affected, there are very different levels of contagion, with some epicenters from which the contagions spread in the rest of Cameroon. These epicent ...