Africa

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  13 June 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - Covid-19: "Defending the values of the family severely tested by confinement" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "All Kenyans should not take this pandemic as an opportunity to deviate from our family values. Rather, reflect on them the fruits of marriage. A healthy family has a good relationship with God ...
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  13 June 2020
  AFRICA/NIGER - A missionary: "I am leaving Niger, but not Father Maccalli: the mission continues with the mark of the cross" Bomoanga (Agenzia Fides) - "I am definitely leaving Niger, but in times of coronavirus it is difficult to travel; and I carry in my heart a wealth of memories made up of questions and absences, such as that of Father Gig ...
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  12 June 2020
  AFRICA - "Africa and Europe united to revive multilateral cooperation", hope the Bishops of the two continents Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We are firmly convinced that Africa and Europe could become the engines for the revitalization of multilateral cooperation", say the Bishops of Africa and Europe in a declaration signed by Cardina ...
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  12 June 2020
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Death of President Nkurunziza: Bishops' message of condolences Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We express our sincere condolences for the death of President Pierre Nkurunziza, especially to his family and the government he led. We know that there is no one else who can comfort them, ex ...
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  12 June 2020
  AFRICA - Youth Lives Matter: religious and political forces united to defend young people from the thriving drug trafficking Kara (Agenzia Fides) - If on one hand the international activist movement 'Black lives matter' continues to protest against racist violence on the streets of the United States and other areas of the world, in Africa the ...
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  10 June 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - Covid-19: Good Shepherd Call Center of the Archdiocese of Nyeri offers spiritual and psychological assistance Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Archdiocese of Nyeri has launched a Christian based counseling and support center to provide support to individuals and families facing difficulties during the COVID-19 pandemic period. "The ...
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  10 June 2020
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Did Covid-19, whose incidence is minimized by the authorities, cause the President to die? Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - The sudden death of outgoing President Pierre Nkurunziza is raising questions in Burundi about the real causes of death. The Burundian Head of State passed away on June 8 at Cinusi's Karusi ho ...
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  10 June 2020
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Chikungunya alert: precautions against Covid-19 increase Kassala (Agenzia Fides) - The spreading of Chikungunya, the pandemic fever that caused the death of so many people in the country just a couple of years ago (see Fides, 15/11/2015) is causing concern in the State of Kass ...
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  9 June 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Covid-19, Archbishop Kaigama greets the reopening of churches: "Never forget the spiritual aspect in crisis like this" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The spiritual life is a central element of humanity, it cannot be excluded from people's lives", said His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Abuja, greeting the lifting of the ban on ...
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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 ...