Africa

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  10 January 2019
  AFRICA/NIGER - Tensions and violence in the area adjacent to the mission of Father Maccalli Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Tension in Niger continues: Agenzia Fides receives reports of current military operations against Boko Haram. "The affected region is that of the extreme south-east of the country, in the area of ...
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  10 January 2019
  AFRICA - Electoral disputes in Africa: the Congolese episcopate, a model for the continent Kara (Agenzia Fides) - "Publicly exposing dissent and divisions, especially in electoral disputes, is a fact that wounds and weakens the Church and leads it away from the evangelizing and missionary activity in Africa", ...
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  9 January 2019
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Waiting for the results. "Justice and Peace" of Belgium: "The international community must do its part" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Tension in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo rises, where the results of the presidential and political elections of December 30 are expected to be announced. Dozens of poli ...
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  9 January 2019
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Assault against the Comboni nuns: "The goal was the loot, not religion" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The assailants were common bandits. Small criminals who were looking for an easy loot to take away": this is how the Italian Comboni nuns summarize the assault suffered by the Foyer Community of ...
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  8 January 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops warn: "Do not irritate the population, proclaim the truth" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "It is the irregularities that would irritate the population and the most serious thing that could lead the Congolese people to revolt would be to publish results which do not conform to the tr ...
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  8 January 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A missionary says: "father, why did God allow me to be born in South Sudan?" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "I arrived in South Sudan in Juba in January 2015, where we have the only home of the Friars Minor of the country. At the beginning we were 5 friars, two from Italy, one from Slovakia, Australia an ...
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  7 January 2019
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Imam of al Azhar at the "inauguration" of the Cathedral and Mosque in the new administrative capital Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of the Sunni University of al Azhar, led by the Grand Imam Ahmed al Tayyb, also took part together with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi at the "official inauguration" of the n ...
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  7 January 2019
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Comboni Missionaries attacked and robbed in their community Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "On 5 January 2019, the Foyer Community of the Comboni Missionary Sisters in Bangui, in Central Africa, was attacked and robbed by a gang of about 8-9 people – said the Superior General of the ...
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  5 January 2019
  AFRICA/LIBYA - A mass grave of 34 Ethiopian Christians executed by Islamic State militants has been discovered in Libya Sirte (Agenzia Fides) - The government authorities of the Libyan national agreement have announced the discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of 34 Ethiopian Christians killed in 2015 by jihadists affiliated to ...
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  5 January 2019
  AFRICA/GHANA - The care of the Guanellian missionaries towards the disabled in Africa Adidome - School and work: along these lines the Fathers of the Opera Don Guanella have been carrying out a project of evangelization and charity for young people with disabilities in Adidome for eight years, in the dioc ...
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  4 January 2019
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - The Bishops' appeal: "May 2019 be the year of peace and reconciliation" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "May 2019 be a year of peace and reconciliation", is what the Bishops of Burundi hope for in their message to the faithful for the Christmas holidays and for the new year. The country is going ...
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  4 January 2019
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Sisi will also participate in the Christmas vigil presided over by Coptic Patriarch Tawadros Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Also this year Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi will take part in the solemn Coptic liturgy of the Christmas vigil, scheduled in the new Cathedral dedicated to the Nativity of Jesus, built ...
• 3 January 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Appointment of the Bishop of Torit Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today the Holy Father appointed Rev. Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla, of the clergy of Torit, Bishop of the diocese of Torit (South Sudan), currently Lecturer and Dean of the St. Paul National M ...
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  3 January 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Justice and Peace" applauds the introduction of guaranteed minimum wages but stresses that more needs to be done Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We applaud the President and the cabinet for taking the first step towards addressing wage disparities and the plight of the working poor" says His Exc. Mgr. Abel Gabuza, Coadjutor Bishop ...
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  3 January 2019
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Friars become breeders to support the mission Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Nature and mission can be allies. This is the conviction of the Capuchin friars in Mozambique, who have given birth to breeding to support the pastoral activities in Quelimane, the administrative ...