Africa

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  23 March 2020
  AFRICA/GABON - A religious woman who dedicated her life to abandoned elders has been murdered in Libreville Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - On the night between 19 and 20 March, Sister Lydie Oyanem Nzoughe who had dedicated her life to welcoming and caring for the elderly abandoned by their families, poor and homeless, was attack ...
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  21 March 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Central Africa: what lies behind interreligious violence Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The war continues in the Central African Republic. It is not a real civil conflict nor a classic clash among armies. It is widespread violence that undermines the stability of the Country and sev ...
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  21 March 2020
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The Church in the front line to help the victims of human trafficking Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The fight against human trafficking was at the center of the Regional Conference on Human Trafficking at the Arrupe Jesuit University in Harare, Zimbabwe. The Conference was organise ...
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  21 March 2020
  AFRICA/NIGER - Concerns about the collapse of healthcare facilities after the first case of COVID-19 Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "Yesterday evening a big rain came to 'wash' the dreaded virus that officially contaminated a person who traveled through various Countries", reports to Fides Fr. Mauro Armanino, missionary of th ...
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  20 March 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - From Patriarch Tawadros a spiritual thought a day, in the time of the global epidemic Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Coronavirus epidemic can lead everyone to take note that nature and the human condition remain fragile, even in the time of global development. It is from this realistic consideration that Pop ...
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  20 March 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Coronavirus is a threat like Ebola", say the Bishops Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "You must be aware that the one transmitted by coronavirus is an equally dangerous disease like Ebola", say the Bishops of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a statement sent to Agenzia Fi ...
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  20 March 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - COVID-19: President Kenyatta proclaims a national day of prayer Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We cannot ignore the need to turn to God," Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta said in an official statement in which he declared Saturday, March 21 a National Day of Prayer, to ask for divine p ...
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  18 March 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - 'When we start, we stay': the "blood pact" of the Doctors WITH Africa CUAMM Nyal (Agenzia Fides) - "There is only one humanity" said Don Dante Carraro, Director of Doctors with Africa CUAMM, returning to Italy from South Sudan, and was shocked to find deserted cities and hospitals in distress du ...
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  18 March 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Fight against Coronavirus: the Church adopts drastic measures Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Ivory Coast have adopted a series of measures to be applied during gatherings (Masses, Via Crucis, funeral vigils, pilgrimages, catechesis ...) in order to adapt to the provis ...
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  17 March 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Court of Cassation advocates canceling the death sentence of a Coptic monk accused of the murder of Anba Epiphanios Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Court of Cassation has advocated the annulment of one of the two death sentences imposed by the Egyptian court of first instance against the monk and ex monk accused of the murder of Anba Epip ...
• 17 March 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of Bishop of Kitui Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed as bishop of the diocese of Kitui, Kenya, the Reverend Joseph Mwongela, of the clergy of Kitui, currently vicar general of the same diocese. The Reverend Jos ...
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  17 March 2020
  AFRICA/GHANA - Coronavirus: "Respect the guidelines of the government"; the invitation of the Bishops to the faithful Accra (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference and Metropolitan Archbishop of Tamale, Msgr. Rev Philip Naameh, in a statement released by the conference on Monday, March 16, 2020, advis ...
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  17 March 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Religious dies in the flames after rescuing students Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - Sr.Henrietta Alokha, an administrator at Bethlehem Girls College, Abule Ado, Amuwo Odofin local government area of Lagos state lost her life in the explosion which occurred on Sunday Sunday, March ...
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  16 March 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - At least 70 priests and religious kidnapped or killed since June 2015 Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "In Nigeria no fewer than 20 clergymen including at least eight Catholic Priests/Seminarians were hacked to death in the past 57 months and not less than 50 abducted or kidnapped.". This is what a ...
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  16 March 2020
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Christian Churches: "Critical situation, common action for dialogue" Harare (Agenzia Fides) - "After the elections, we all thought that we would face violations of rights and take the road to a fully democratic future. In fact it seems that in less than two years everything is being throw ...