Africa

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  25 October 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "The Extraordinary Missionary Month is an opportunity to renew our personal relationship with Christ" Pretoria (Agenzia Fides) - "The Extraordinary Mission Month is meant for each person to renew one’s personal relationship with Christ", said Fr. Barney McAleer, who previously worked in the SACBC (Southern Africa Catho ...
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  24 October 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The visit of the President of the PMS makes us feel the embrace of the universal Church in this difficult time" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are happy to welcome Mgr. Dal Toso as a sign of communion with the universal Church", says Fr. George Olusegun Ajana, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Nigeria, wh ...
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  24 October 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Extraordinary Missionary Month: "The Lord asks you to be a gift wherever you are" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "We become missionaries living as witnesses of the Gospel of Christ, not with words, not with diplomas or certificates, but with life": this was underlined by Father Lucas Marabezé, interim cha ...
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  23 October 2019
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The Church in prayer to quell political tensions and promote reconciliation Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The results of the presidential elections held last May 21, 2019 (see Fides, 21/5/2019) are still being disputed and the issue has been brought to court. Mgr. Gianfranco Gallone, Apostolic Nunc ...
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  23 October 2019
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - A lay missionary, an apostle of lepers, towards beatification Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The cause for the beatification of British-born John Bradburne, a Franciscan secular missionary, has started in Zimbabwe. His life and his testimony of faith in the midst of the lepers will be ex ...
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  18 October 2019
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - The Bishop of Bissau proposes the creation of a national reconciliation commission Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "Many Countries in Africa have already given the example, having created reconciliation commissions and achieved important results. Why do some of our Guinean brothers do not want to believe in t ...
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  18 October 2019
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Extraordinary Missionary Month: lay people committed to evangelization Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - It will be the parish of St. Pius, in the archdiocese of Blantyre, to host the culminating event of the Extraordinary Missionary Month, that is, the Sunday Eucharistic Celebration in which the ...
• 17 October 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the auxiliary Bishop of Owerri Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis appointed the rev. Moses Chikwe of the clergy of Owerri, currently Director of Education of the Archdiocese of Owerri and collaborator of the parish of St. Thomas Mo ...
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  17 October 2019
  AFRICA/KENYA - Priest kidnapped and killed Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The body of Fr. Michael Maingi Kyengo, vice parish priest of Thatha, in the diocese of Machakos, was kidnapped on October 8, and found buried near the banks of the Mashamba river, in Makima, in ...
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  16 October 2019
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Peaceful vote, despite tensions on the eve Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - The presidential, political and provincial elections in Mozambique took place yesterday, October 15th. According to information gathered by Fides, the vote was not marked by episodes of violence, ...
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  15 October 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The promotion of better working conditions at the center of the international meeting of young Christian workers in West Africa Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "We want to transmit a family spirit, of solidarity, through the promotion of better working conditions which consists in the promotion of man in all its dimensions", says the coordinator of the ...
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  15 October 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Appeal by the Head of State: "Let us not fall into the trap of sectarian war" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "These attacks aim to weaken the way we live together, passed down through our ancestors, and that we must safeguard at all costs", said the President of Burkina Faso, Roch Kaboré, in his m ...
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  15 October 2019
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - The vocation of women religious: to pray and work for peace in Africa and in the world Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) "The world needs leaders, men and women, peacemakers": said Archbishop Emeritus of the archdiocese of Dar es Salaam, Cardinal Polycarp Pengo on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the fo ...
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  14 October 2019
  AFRICA - Extraordinary Missionary Month: the real challenge is a mission of hope for Africa Kara (Agenzia Fides) - "The message of hope that the Gospel of Christ brings is fundamental to the mission in Africa. Christ came among us so that we could have life in abundance", says Father Donald Zagore, a theologian ...
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  14 October 2019
  AFRICA/CHAD - Extraordinary Missionary Month: "We do not reach faith alone or through our own efforts" says the Bishop of Goré N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "By decreeing the Extraordinary Missionary Month, the Pope wants to give each of us the opportunity to realize that our faith in Jesus Christ manifested in baptism is first and foremost a gift ...