Africa

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  7 November 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Anglophone crisis: the students of the school released Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - The 79 students of the Presbyterian Secondary School in Bamenda, the capital of one of the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon, were kidnapped on 5 November (see Fides 6/11/2018). Accordi ...
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  7 November 2018
  AFRICA/MALAWI - New Media Center of Montfort Missionaries, at the service of evangelization Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) – Montfort missionaries inaugurate a new multimedia center in Malawi. On Saturday 10 November, with a ceremony presided over by Mgr. Tarcisius Ziyaye Archbishop of Lilongwe, the activities of a ...
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  6 November 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - A new secondary school in the former "village of lepers" Kolowaré (Agenzia Fides) - "We have officially begun the construction of a secondary school in Kolowaré. In 2007 we had already built a structure for junior school. Now the construction of the new institute begins": sa ...
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  6 November 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Anglophone crisis: 79 students kidnapped in Bamenda; the Church organizes a fundraiser in Douala for displaced persons Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - The crisis is worsening in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon, where yesterday, 5 November in Bamenda in the north-west of the country, 79 students and three heads of the local Presbyteri ...
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  5 November 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Monsengwo, symbol of a committed African Church Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Cardinal Monsengwo has been until today the voice of an African Church that refuses to lose hope that the African people will not be sacrificed by politics; an African Church that does not rem ...
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  5 November 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - After the massacre of pilgrims, the Copts will not cancel the November liturgies: "the new martyrs must be celebrated" Minya (Agenzia Fides) - After yet another massacre of Christian pilgrims by jihadist terrorism, the Copts will not close churches and will not follow the calls of those who invite to suspend ordinary liturgical and pasto ...
• 5 November 2018
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Resignation of the Archbishop of Kinshasa and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 November 2018 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Archdiocese of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), presented by Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pas ...
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  31 October 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The diocesan phase of the beatification cause of Mgr. Munzihirwa, killed in Bukavu in 1996, has concluded Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The diocesan phase of the beatification cause of His Exc. Mgr. Christophe Munzihirwa Mwene Ngabo, Archbishop of Bukavu, assassinated in 1996, has concluded. The announcement was made during a p ...
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  30 October 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Five nuns kidnapped in south-eastern Nigeria, another two injured Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Five nuns of the Order of the Missionary of Martha and Mary of the diocese of Issele-Uku, were kidnapped, in the State of Delta in the south-east of Nigeria. According to news sent to Agenzia Fid ...
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  30 October 2018
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "80% of youth migration remains in Africa" says Cardinal Souraphiel Rome (Agenzia Fides) - H.E. Berhaneyesus Cardinal Souraphiel, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Addis Ababa said that the international media portrayal of "youth migrating to different areas of the Middle East and Europe on ...
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  29 October 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Presidential vote: the doubts of members of the Church Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "I question myself on the conduct of the vote", said His Exc. Mgr. Samuel Kleda, Archbishop of Douala, the day after the re-election of Paul Biya as President of Cameroon for the seventh time. ...
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  27 October 2018
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Mgr. Mtumbuka visits one of Malawi's most neglected communities as as part of the celebration of Mission Month Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Jesus was incarnated in human condition to save us and died on the cross out of love; it is this love that we must take to others as well. Those who have received the faith are obliged by the ...
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  26 October 2018
  AFRICA/BENIN - The Bishops: "One cannot live sexuality without love" Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "Sexuality is a force that must be learned how to command and steered, otherwise it is like a car, if you cannot drive it, you will have accidents", write the Bishops of Benin in a note in which ...
• 26 October 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - Appointment of the Rector of the Interdiocesan Theological Seminary in the Archdiocese of Lomé Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 18 July 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Etienne Inibide, of the diocesan clergy of Kara as Rector of ...
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  25 October 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "It is necessary to look at young people with a different gaze" says the Archbishop Coadjutor of Kinshasa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Young Africans want to live and want to live worthily" said His Exc. Mgr. Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Coadjutor Archbishop of Kinshasa and Vice President of CENCO (National Episcopal Conference of C ...