Africa

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  15 December 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA - Uzima Catholic University College excels in medical training for all Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “The Catholic University College in Uzima was born of an idea of Emeritus Bishop Zacchaeus Okoth. Moved at the sight of needy suffering people, especially in the region of western Kenya, he ...
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  15 December 2018
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - The elderly in Africa: Capuchin Centre for abandoned elderly people Huambo (Agenzia Fides) – The Capuchin friars run a special home for the elderly in Huambo. The home is a village of ten small homes each with three or four old inmates. The villagers have their own piece of land to c ...
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  14 December 2018
  AFRICA/RWANDA - The Catholic Church intends to regulate the sale of holy pictures Kibeho (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Rwanda says it intends to regulate the commerce of statues and holy pictures to prevent sales by non authorised persons. “we are forming a committee to examine the s ...
• 14 December 2018
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Rev. Mario Cassera confirmed PMS National Director Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 11 October 2018 confirmed as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in A ...
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  13 December 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Catholic Church in Nigeria does not support or subscribe to any political party. Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - “No Catholic priest or people of consecrated life should be actively involved in partisan politics in obedience to the Canon Law of the Catholic Church ” says a statement issued by the Bishops ...
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  13 December 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Two Copts killed by security guard charged with church surveillance Minya (Agenzia Fides) – A security guard at a church in the Egyptian city of Minya used his service weapon to kill Copt Christians Imad Kamal Sadiq, aged 49, and the latter’s 21 year old son David. The double murd ...
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  12 December 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishops say, we must continue to pray for peace in our country Yei (Agenzia Fides) – “The Bishops of AMECEA, the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa, together with the governments of Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Sudan, helped promote the signing of the P ...
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  11 December 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA - Kenyan priest killed in a robbery Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – A Kenyan priest has been killed in a robbery. The morning of 10 December, Fr. John Njoroge Muhia parish priest at Kinoo, Kiambu, 25 km from Nairobi, was on his way to a bank in the town of ...
• 10 December 2018
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Bishop of Tunduru-Masasi appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Francis on 8 December 2018 appointed Bishop of Tunduru-Masasi (Tanzania) Rev. Filbert Felician Mhasi of the clergy of Mahenge, until now parish priest of the Cathedral ...
• 10 December 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Coadjutor of the Archdiocese of Durban appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Francis on 9 December 2018 appointed Bishop Abel Gabuza until now Bishop of Kimberley in South Africa, Coadjutor of the Archdiocese of Durban . (SL) (Agenzia Fides 10/12 ...
• 7 December 2018
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Auxiliary Bishop of Maputo appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Pope Francis appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Maputo (Mozambique) Rev. António Juliasse Ferreira Sandramo of the clergy of Chimoio, until now parish pr ...
• 7 December 2018
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Bishop of Kaya resigns, successor appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Pope Francis accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Kaya (Burkina Faso), presented by Bishop Thomas Kaboré. The Holy Father appointed ...
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  7 December 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Alindao Massacre; Cardinal Nzapalainga calls for an international inquiry Bangui (Agenzia Fides)-“We ask for an international enquiry into the massacre in Alindao” said Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, archbishop Bangui, who went to the town in south-east of Central Africa where on 1 ...
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  6 December 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA - “We must not lose our moral values if we are to live in a healthy society ” warn the Bishops Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – A society cannot be united if it loses its moral values. We learn from the Bible that Sodom and Gomorrah (Ezekiel 16:48-50) became a symbol of a decadent society, whose moral fabric was syst ...
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  6 December 2018
  AFRICA - Missionaries at the service of the poorest and most rejected people carrying the good news of the Gospel Kara (Agenzia Fides) – “In the remote parts of our villages and cities in Africa we carry forward the cause of the Gospel, putting ourselves at the service of the poor and the marginalised”: Fides was told by I ...