Africa

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  4 April 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New Islamist attacks in the east of the country: 30,000 students cannot go to school due to insecurity Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - At least 10 people were killed and several buildings burned down in an attack by ADF militants in the rural municipality of Mangina, in the Beni area, in the province of North Kivu, in the east ...
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  3 April 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The bishop of Sokoto: "Let us develop agriculture to give dignity to our people" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "No one should queue for help when we are not at war" says Matthew Hassan Kukah, bishop of Sokoto, in his Easter message, entitled "It is time to heal". In the message Msgr. Kukah lists what he be ...
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  3 April 2024
  Genocide in Rwanda, 30 years later. When fratricidal hatred lacerated even the heart of the Church by Stefano Lodigiani Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Will it ever be possible to give an exact figure for the massacres, the wounded, the refugees, the orphans that the Rwandan drama has sown on African soil? The dimensions ...
• 27 March 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Eldoret Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Revrend John Kiplimo Lelei, of the clergy of Eldoret, Kenya, until now vicar general, as auxiliary bishop of the same diocese, assigning him the titular se ...
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  26 March 2024
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Faye's victory confirmed: "Victory of democracy, but the future remains incertain" Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a great proof of democracy on the part of the Senegalese", says Father Bruno Favero, OMI missionary in Senegal for 30 years, commenting on the electoral victory of the opposition Bassirou D ...
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  25 March 2024
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Presidential elections: while awaiting official data, the Senegalese press affirms the victory of opponent Bassirou Diomaye Faye Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The result is not yet official but the Senegalese press considers as certain the victory in the first round of the presidential elections of the opponent Bassirou Diomaye Faye. The vote took place ...
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  25 March 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Leader of the gang that caused the death of a seminarian has been arrested Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The leader of the gang responsible for the attack on the parish of St. Raphael in Fadan Kamantan, in the diocese of Kafanchan, in Kaduna State, during which a young seminarian was burned alive, ha ...
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  23 March 2024
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - A "missionary tent" in Plaza de Mayo to commemorate Father Mugica and all the witnesses killed during the years of the military dictatorship Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "As Jesus announced, they are blessed". They are the Bishops, priests, men and women religious and lay people killed during the years of the military dictatorship, as they witnessed in word ...
• 22 March 2024
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Resignation and appointment of Metropolitan Archbishop of Gulu Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Gulu (Uganda) presented by His Exc. Msgr. John Baptist Odama. The Holy Father ha ...
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  22 March 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - President of the Bishops' Conference calls for the release of independence fighter Nnamdi Kanu Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - " I appeal to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to explore civil remedy in the release of Nnamdi Kanu so as to restore economic and social lives to southeast", said the President of the Catholic Bishops ...
• 22 March 2024
  AFRICA/GHANA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Konongo-Mampong Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Konongo-Mampong, Ghana, presented by Bishop Joseph Osei-Bonsu. The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Msgr. John Opoku-Agyemang ...
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  21 March 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Ambongo: "unscrupulous greed" is the root of new colonialisms by Luca Attanasio Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Archbishop of Kinshasa, in addition to leading the diocese of the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), also holds important ...
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  20 March 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudan Youth conference: ‘War an attempt to beat Sudanese back into submission’ Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - More than 160 Sudanese youth convened from Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Chad, and Egypt, to discuss ways to bring an end to the ongoing conflict. To provide humanitarian aid ...
• 20 March 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Kananga Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 19, the Holy Father appointed Bishop Félicien Ntambue Kasembe, C.I.C.M., until now bishop of Kabinda and apostolic administrator of the archdiocese of Kananga, Democratic Republic ...
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  16 March 2024
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The new cold war passes through mercenaries Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Is the Central African Republic a "Paradise of mercenaries"? The country has long been the scene of the intervention of various private military companies (PMCs), at least since March 2003, when ...