Africa

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  25 October 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - Archbishop emeritus of Lomè: "The Constitution is the path of salvation for democracy" Lomè (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the reopening of dialogue between the Government and the opposition, Archbishop emeritus Mgr. Philip Fanoko Kpodzro, who led the transitional parliament in Togo, had launched an ...
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  24 October 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A priest denounces: "It is poverty, not religion or ethnicity, that drives young people to become terrorists" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - We need to change the narrative on the causes of the spread of terrorism in Nigeria, says Fr. Cornelius Afebu Omonokhua, Director of the mission and dialogue Office of the Episcopal Conference of ...
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  24 October 2018
  AFRICA/ERITREA - Fr. Zerai’s alarm: "The regime does not reduce pressure: it is a State-prison" Asmara (Agenzia Fides) – People still flee from Eritrea. The official end of the war with Ethiopia has not stopped the exodus. Boys and girls run away from an oppressive regime and from a very poor society that does no ...
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  23 October 2018
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Young people from Burkina Faso and Niger are also bewitched by smartphones Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I believe that the Synod will be of great benefit to the young people of Burkina Faso and Niger" said His Exc. Mgr. Gabriel Sayaogo, Bishop of Manga (Burkina Faso), representing Burkina Faso and N ...
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  23 October 2018
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Radio Maria Liberia remembers and prays for the abducted missionary in Niger every day Foya (Agenzia Fides) - "Every day a prayer is held at Radio Maria Liberia for the release of my brother Fr. Gigi Maccalli": says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Walter Maccalli, brother of the missionary kidnapped in Niger. The two ...
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  22 October 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "It is our duty to give young people a perspective of life" says Cardinal Nzapalainga Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Central African Youth is sick" said His Eminence Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, on the margin of the XV Ordinary General Assemb ...
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  20 October 2018
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - World Mission Day: the experience of a missionary who visits prisoners Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) - Every week Alex Goffinet, a French white father who has been on a mission in Africa since 1962, visits the prison in Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He listens to prisoners, gives t ...
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  19 October 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Church collapses during the prayer of the rosary; at least two dead and one missing Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - At least two people died in the collapse of the church of Sainte Marceline de Minkan in Odza, a suburb of the capital of Cameroon, Yaoundé, which occurred on the evening of 17 October. The col ...
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  19 October 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "The hundreds of miners affected by pneumoconiosis are an indictment of human greed" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "For decades, coal mining companies allowed their workers to be exposed to unsafe levels of coal dust. The mines need to take both ethical and legal responsibility for the sick miners", sa ...
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  18 October 2018
  AFRICA/NIGER - The Church of Niamey: prayer and fasting for Father Maccalli Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Niamey has begun a prayer triduum for the release of Father Gigi Maccalli. "The last day of the triduum, which takes place from 17 to 19 October, will be a day of fasting that all ...
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  18 October 2018
  AFRICA/CONGO - Catholic schools are committed to educating respect for creation, theme taken from the Encyclical Laudato Sì Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - The XIV National Council for Catholic Education was held at the Inter-diocesan Center of Brazzaville from 15 to 17 October on the theme: "respect and integrity of creation in the Catholic sc ...
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  17 October 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Synod on Youth: "Need to take into account the situation of young people and the Church in other parts of the world" says Cardinal Napier Vatican City - (Agenzia Fides) - "Africa is losing some of its most gifted young people to migration because of the exploitation of natural resources and the environment ", said His Eminence Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, ...
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  16 October 2018
  AFRICA/NIGER - "Release Fr. Gigi Maccalli": voices join in the appeal in favor of the kidnapped Italian missionary Crema (Agenzia Fides) - "It is essential for us to express our closeness to the father Gigi Maccalli’s family, to all Madignano who wants to embrace their fellow citizen, sending this message to the Foreign Ministry: w ...
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  16 October 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - A young seminarian killed in the English-speaking region Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - A seminarian was killed in one of the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon. According to a statement signed by His Exc. Mgr. Cornelius Fontem Esua, Archbishop of Bamenda, the young seminari ...
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  15 October 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - Togolese youth to Pope Francis: need to strengthen youth pastoral Lome (Agenzia Fides) - In Togo we need "a concrete and effective accompaniment of young Catholics on behalf of priests", as well as a "strengthening of youth pastoral care". As reported to Fides, these are some of the re ...