Africa

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  30 November 2019
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Father Zerai's appeal: "An international plan to save African immigrants from detention centers" Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - In Libyan detention centers the living conditions of hundreds of Africans are inhumane. Many lives are at risk if there is no plan or international intervention to save poor and unarmed prisoner ...
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  29 November 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Africa consecrated to the Merciful Heart of Jesus at the end of the 4th Congress on Divine Mercy Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "We implore your Mercy so that all the inhabitants of the continent may live as brothers and sisters who love each other". With this prayer, His Eminence Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Arc ...
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  28 November 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - This year alone 9 priests kidnapped in the State of Enugu Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Malachy Asadu, a priest from the Diocese of Nsukka, in the State of Enugu, in southern Nigeria was released two days after his abduction. This was confirmed by the Police yesterday, November 2 ...
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  28 November 2019
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Passion and zeal at the service of patients: the commitment of the Catholic community of Chipata Lumezi (Agenzia Fides) - A nursing school in the district of Lumezi was recently inaugurated. The initiative is part of the Diocesan Strategic Plan 2017-2021 of the Catholic community of Chipata which, in the context of ...
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  27 November 2019
  AFRICA/TOGO - The Bishops: "May the next elections be peaceful, free and fair" Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - "At a certain point in the history of our nation, voices were raised to reproach the Catholic Church for maintaining a complicit silence in certain socio-political situations. Today it may seem th ...
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  26 November 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Violence in the East, Bishops' appeal: "Enough to decades of human rights violations" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) is very concerned about the insecurity in the east of our Country, in particular in the provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu, due to the re ...
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  25 November 2019
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Tension and violence in the northern provinces: the Church calls for inclusive dialogue Bamenda (Agenzia Fides) - In the Anglophone provinces of Cameroon violence continues. Although in some areas clashes have stopped, in other places the tension is very high. The law enforcement agencies in Yaoundé have p ...
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  25 November 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO DR - Protests in eastern DRC after yet another raid by Ugandan ADF rebels Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Strong tension this morning in Beni and Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the population took to the streets to protest against the continuing violence committed ...
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  22 November 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Burkina Faso is being targeted because so far it has been an example of coexistence among different religious communities Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - A further sign of the progressive deterioration of security conditions in Burkina Faso (see Fides, 20/11/2019) is given by the recall back home of the children of US diplomats accredited to ...
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  22 November 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - No sacrifice is "too big" to achieve peace Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the coup d'état in 1999, the post-election crisis of 2011 and the bloody armed rebellion of 2002, the Country continues to chase this priceless gift of God that is peace", says to Agenzi ...
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  21 November 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Christian community awaits the visit of Pope Francis to relaunch reconciliation Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "I believe that the visit of Pope Francis to South Sudan will be a joint mission, a joint visit together with the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and the Archbishop of the Presbyterian Church ...
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  21 November 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The Congress of Africa and Madagascar on Divine Mercy is "a blessing for the Country" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "Your Congress is a divine mercy for our time", said Siméon Sawadogo, Minister of Territorial Administration, Decentralization and Social Cohesion of Burkina Faso, who represents the Head o ...
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  20 November 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Human rights violations take place every day in the Sahel; the whole area risks sinking into insecurity Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "In the Sahel the fundamental human rights are violated every day: the right to life, to religious freedom, to education, to property, to security" denounce the Bishops of Burkina Faso, Nige ...
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  20 November 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The challenge of "freedom of speech" in Africa and the need for new prophets Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Freedom of speech in the African continent is a great challenge both in the political and the religious fields. "Speaking freely is far from being granted" - said to Agenzia Fides Father Donald ...
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  19 November 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Seminar on integral development: the State promotes social justice Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - 10 proposals emerged from the seminar on "Integral human development, Path of peace, Path to the future" which took place from 13 to 14 November, in Abidjan. The seminar is a joint initiative of ...