Africa

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  24 April 2020
  AFRICA - "How can one be a missionary in times of Covid-19, when you cannot meet people?" Kara (Agenzia Fides) - Missionary activity is suffering heavily due to the Covid-19 crisis, many are trying to adapt through technology by offering masses, adorations, exhortations, etc. "Guaranteeing the evangelizing mi ...
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  22 April 2020
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appeal of the Bishop of Bamenda to end the conflict in the English-speaking regions: "Now is the time for peace" Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "After so many years fighting and killing each other, now is the time for peace", Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Bamenda wrote in his pastoral letter dated April 17 in which he appeals for a ...
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  22 April 2020
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Missionaries in times of Covid-19: "a small and humble sign of the love of Christ in this land" Adaba (Agenzia Fides) - "Our missions are numerically small, but we immediately followed the indications that were given to us by public and religious institutions regarding Covid-19", explains missionary Fr. Nicola de G ...
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  22 April 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Lockdown for Covid-19, the Scalabrinians: "Poor and immigrants without livelihood" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - In South Africa the situation is becoming increasingly tense. Government measures that require the lockdown due to Covid-19 prevent those who live for today from getting food. The poorest p ...
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  21 April 2020
  AFRICA/NIGER - Covid-19 "Protests due to confinement measures cause fear of assault on Christians" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "It was to be expected. There have been scenes of urban guerrilla warfare for several days in Niamey due to the 'confinement' measures caused by the Covid-19 pandemic", writes Fr. Mauro Armanino, ...
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  21 April 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Oldest Cathedral in South Africa Desecrated Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "It is with great sadness and alarm that we confirm the news that has been doing the rounds on Social Media, that the Cathedral had been vandalized and that a ciborium, a pyx, four silver c ...
• 21 April 2020
  AFRICA/CONGO - Appointment of the Coadjutor Archbishop of Brazzaville Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 18 April 2020, the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Bienvenu Manamika Bafouakouahou, currently Bishop of the Diocese of Dolisie, as Coadjutor Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Brazzavi ...
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  20 April 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - COVID-19: Nigerian Caritas distributes food to the poor blocked at home Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Caritas Foundation of Nigeria (CCFN) donated food materials to over 500 households in Durumi community and its surroundings in Abuja (federal capital of Nigeria), as part of measures ...
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  20 April 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - National Day of Prisoners: appeal by a priest for greater humanization of prisons Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Ivory Coast, through the Episcopal Commission for Social Pastoral, has been celebrating the national day of prisoners every year since 2007 on the feast of the Divine Merc ...
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  18 April 2020
  AFRICA/NIGER - Appeal to global ceasefire: violence carried out by jihadist groups continues Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The ceasefire implored by Pope Francis here in Niger is almost completely unheard: jihadist terrorism continues to bloody this land and claim hundreds of victims. Even the situation at the borde ...
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  18 April 2020
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - A Church fund to fight Covid-19; the solidarity of the Bishops of Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "We are close to the brothers and sisters who contracted and suffer because of the Coronavirus disease", say the Catholic Bishops of Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in the Easter message signed by Mg ...
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  17 April 2020
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Coronavirus: the President of Tanzania proclaims three days of national prayer Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Tanzania John Pombe Magufuli has called for a three-day national prayer to ask for "the intercession of the Most High against the new coronavirus". "Tanzanian compatriots, ...
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  17 April 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Fight against Covid-19, priests distribute face masks to the most exposed people Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "In this struggle that turns out to be varied, everyone makes their own contribution. And the least we can bring is first of all the prayer we say every day for the whole humanity that is suffer ...
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  16 April 2020
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - A mission attacked in the province of Capo Delgado Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Jihadist terrorist groups operating in the northern province of Cabo Delgado murdered 5 people in the Quirimbas archipelago on Good Friday, April 10, according to the newspaper "Carta de Mocambiq ...
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  16 April 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Cardinal Kutuwa urges a conversion of hearts and minds: "Yes, this pandemic will surely pass, but what will it have taught us?" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The pandemic, like death, will never have the last word on the history of men because Christ is, and will always be, victorious over death, from any form of death", said Cardinal Jean Pierre Ku ...