Africa

• 30 June 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Resignation of bishop of Popokabaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 29 June 2020, the Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Popokabaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, presented by Bishop Louis Nzala Kianza. ...
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  27 June 2020
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Initiative of a religious order to help families in difficulty due to Covid-19 Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "Since there is lockdown and limited movements, most people are staying at home and are not able to do casual jobs for their economic sustainability. So, we have people coming to our Convent ...
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  27 June 2020
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The PMS National Director: "Tracing new paths in the wake of the mission" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Although the emergency of Covid-19 this year prevented us from meeting the Holy Father in person in the annual General Assembly dedicated to the Pontifical Mission Societies, it was equally very ...
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  26 June 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops: "Let families take care of the emotional education of children" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Parents have the God-given privilege and obligation to bring forth life and to nurture every life they bring forth, especially in matters of virtues, values, and character-building, including a ...
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  26 June 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "We must fight sexual violence as we are fighting COVID-19" say the Bishops Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) Justice and Peace Commission said it "strongly and unreservedly condemns the recent surge of gender based violence and femicide that ...
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  25 June 2020
  AFRICA - The appeal to ceasefire for the Covid-19 crisis has not been received in Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The clarion call for a ceasefire amid COVID-19 crisis in areas of armed conflicts by world leaders including the Holy Father and the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, have been di ...
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  25 June 2020
  AFRICA/LESOTHO - The Church in Lesotho, despite the conditions imposed by Covid-19, its evangelizing mission continues Maseru (Agenzia Fides) - "To date Lesotho has seen just seventeen confirmed cases of COVID-19 making it the lowest country in the Southern African Region. So far, only 2130 persons have been tested in a national populati ...
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  25 June 2020
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Covid-19, lockdown extended in Khartoum: the government meets the needs of street sellers Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The Sudan Security and Defense Council has further extended a lockdown in the state of Khartoum to June 29, in response to the recommendations of its Supreme Committee for Health Emergencies. T ...
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  24 June 2020
  AFRICA/MALI - Cardinal Zerbo: Catholic sentinels and mediators among violence and conflict Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "In the midst of this difficult situation, we religious are sentinels and act as mediators to encourage dialogue and a return to calm". In the chaos in Mali, overwhelmed by post-election politica ...
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  24 June 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Rape is repulsive, reprehensible and dehumanizing" says Mgr. Kaigama in the face of the increase in sexual crimes Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The increasing cases of the heinous crime of rape are frightening. The rape culture is as repulsive and reprehensible as it is dehumanizing", Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of Abuja said Sunday ...
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  23 June 2020
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Wave of IDPs in the northern province, caused by violence and destruction Nampula (Agenzia Fides) - "People are terrified and run away from villages. There are now only two thousand in Namialo, more than 300 here in Nampula. They flee the violence and destruction that has been shaking the nort ...
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  23 June 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Winds of war with Turkey, Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate and Evangelical leaders alongside al Sisi Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic Orthodox Church has always been at the side of the Egyptian nation in all the difficult passages of its history, and now supports the national political and military authorities by supp ...
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  23 June 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "I believe in a unique, strong, stable and free South Sudan", says the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio Tombura-Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "The struggle for liberation was founded on the pillars of a law-abiding, prosperous and peaceful South Sudan", said Mgr. Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop of the diocese of Tombura-Yambio ...
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  23 June 2020
  AFRICA/TOGO - The Bishops: "Enough of the cynical way of proceeding that plays with the sacredness of life" Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - "Without a serious reform of the electoral framework in view of free, transparent, credible and peaceful elections, democracy cannot really thrive in Togo", say the Bishops of Togo in a press rele ...
• 23 June 2020
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Appointment of the Rector of the interdiocesan theological seminary of Conakry Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 25 March 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Francois Sylla, of the Archdiocesan clergy of Conakry as R ...