Africa

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  18 September 2018
  AFRICA/NIGER - Italian priest of the Society of African Missions kidnapped Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "In the night between Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 September, Father Pierluigi Maccalli, of the Society of African Missions (SAM) was kidnapped by probably active jihadists in the area". The news was ...
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  17 September 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA - An impulse to catechesis to counter fundamentalism: the Bishops of AMECEA in view of the Synod Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Among the areas of intervention identified in the recent meeting in Nairobi, in preparation for the Synod of Bishops on young people to be held in the Vatican in October, by the Association of M ...
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  17 September 2018
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "Do not drag the name of Pope Francis into petty party politics" warn the Bishops Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "The attack on the Holy Father, Pope Francis is an attack on the whole Church that is, One Holy Catholic and Apostolic". Thus the Episcopal Conference of Malawi invites political leaders, both ...
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  14 September 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The suspected killers of Fr. Jude Egbom have been arrested Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The suspected killers of Fr. Jude Egbom, parish priest of St. Patrick's Parish Amucha, shot dead on the evening of 10 September in Umuwala, in the State of Imo in southern Nigeria (see Fides, 12/9 ...
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  13 September 2018
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - A theologian: "Economic policies are urgently needed for the poor" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Sometimes we have the feeling that our African economic policies, which enhance the fight against poverty, are in fact machines improved with care to fight the poor". This is how Father Donald ...
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  13 September 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Fr. Jude Egbom killed during a robbery. "What is striking is the total lack of respect for life" says a priest Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "It was an attempted robbery which ended badly", says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Patrick Tor Alumuku, Director of the Social Communications Office of the Archdiocese of Abuja, reporting the circumstance ...
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  12 September 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A priest killed in southern Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Fr. Jude Egbom was shot dead by armed men on the evening of Monday 10 September 2018 in Nigeria", reports the Facebook page of the diocese of Orlu, in the State of Imo in southern Nigeria. At th ...
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  12 September 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops' alarm: "May the elections in the DRC be credible or they risk inflaming the Great Lakes region" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We are worried about the state of the electoral process in our Country", stated in an appeal sent to the President of Zambia, Edgard Lungu, in his capacity as President of the SADC Troika on P ...
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  11 September 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Bishop of Minya rejects the "reconciliation session" after sectarian violence Minya (Agenzia Fides) - Anba Makarios, Coptic Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Minya and Abu Qurqas, rejected the proposal to hold a "reconciliation session" between representatives of Christian and Muslim communities aft ...
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  11 September 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishop of Awka, after the last kidnapping of a priest: "Why persecute those working out your salvation?" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Catholic priests live on parishioners’ benevolence. Whatever they receive as gifts are what they live with, no additional income anywhere. They have given up everything — children, accumulati ...
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  10 September 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The alleged murderers of Fr. Vincent Machozi, an Assumptionist father killed in 2016, have been acquitted Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The people accused of complicity in the murder of Fr. Vincent Machozi, an Assumptionist priest killed on the night of 20 March 2016 in the village of Vitungwe-Isale, 15 km from Butembo in the B ...
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  8 September 2018
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - An assistance center for children with physical malformations Fianarantsoa (Agenzia Fides) - "To take care of and educate children in order to reintegrate them in their communities of origin": this is the goal of the "Preventorium Rainier III", promoted by the Jesuits Victor Papof ...
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  8 September 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Catholic Church renews and re-launches its online information site Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The online information website of the Catholic Church in Egypt, re-launched after a phase of renewal and expansion, is identified by the "string" catholic-eg.com., with the patronage of the Counci ...
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  8 September 2018
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Caritas Somalia: support for local populations, respecting their Islamic faith Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Security is still a problem and relations with local institutions are not always easy, but Caritas Somalia continues to work with Somalis and for Somalis. "Our work is complex", explains Maria ...
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  7 September 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Archbishop of Johannesburg: "Xenophobic violence is a violation of the commandment of love" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Once again, we had to see media images of well dressed, well fed South Africans looting foreign owned shops, assaulting the owners, threatening them with death and leaving destruction and ...