Africa

• 22 March 2024
  AFRICA/GHANA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Konongo-Mampong Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Konongo-Mampong, Ghana, presented by Bishop Joseph Osei-Bonsu. The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Msgr. John Opoku-Agyemang ...
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  21 March 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Ambongo: "unscrupulous greed" is the root of new colonialisms by Luca Attanasio Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Archbishop of Kinshasa, in addition to leading the diocese of the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), also holds important ...
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  20 March 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudan Youth conference: ‘War an attempt to beat Sudanese back into submission’ Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - More than 160 Sudanese youth convened from Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Chad, and Egypt, to discuss ways to bring an end to the ongoing conflict. To provide humanitarian aid ...
• 20 March 2024
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Kananga Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 19, the Holy Father appointed Bishop Félicien Ntambue Kasembe, C.I.C.M., until now bishop of Kabinda and apostolic administrator of the archdiocese of Kananga, Democratic Republic ...
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  16 March 2024
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The new cold war passes through mercenaries Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Is the Central African Republic a "Paradise of mercenaries"? The country has long been the scene of the intervention of various private military companies (PMCs), at least since March 2003, when ...
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  15 March 2024
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishop of Tombura Yambio “The situation is catastrophic and therefore requires urgent action” Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Hunger, floods, drought and growing insecurity, a weak economy on the verge of collapse. These are the factors that bring great suffering to the people of South Sudan, says Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, ...
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  14 March 2024
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Zambian missionary murdered in South Africa Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - A priest of Zambian origin was shot dead yesterday, March 13, in South Africa. Father William Banda of the St. Patrick's Society for Foreign Missions (Kiltegan Fathers) was shot dead as he ...
• 14 March 2024
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Sister Maria Viader Alberich appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 16, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed Sister Maria Viader Alberich, RJM. National Director of the Pontifical Missio ...
• 13 March 2024
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Mbeya Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 9, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Godfrey Jackson Mwasekaga, of the clergy of the metropolitan archdiocese of Mbeya, Tanzania, until now vicar general of Mbeya and parish p ...
• 13 March 2024
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of Bishop of Miarinarivo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 9, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Msgr. Jean Claude Rakotoarisoa, of the clergy of the diocese of Tsiroanomandidy, until now vicar general and national director of the Pont ...
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  12 March 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Mass kidnappings widespread: a criminal and political phenomenon rather than “religious” Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Safe Schools Initiative, a Nigerian organization founded after the kidnapping of 276 students from a secondary school in Chibok in 2014 (the fate of 100 of them is still unknown) and is commit ...
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  11 March 2024
  AFRICA/CHAD - Situation appears to be calm during the day: At night, opposition members are arrested N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - In N'Djamena, capital of Chad, where arrests took place during the night, the situation appears to be calm during the day, despite ongoing tensions. "During the day the situation seems calm, e ...
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  9 March 2024
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - The 'small domestic church' in Bengo: "Lent began with the washing of feet" Terreiro (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite all the rain, there is no shortage of people attending church services. And with the invitation to the path of prayer and meditation on the Word of God, the creation of a 'small domest ...
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  8 March 2024
  AFRICA/RWANDA - No to the "sustainable mining" agreement between the EU and Rwanda Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - How can the European Union sign an agreement on the sustainability and traceability of strategic minerals with a country that does not produce them itself, but obtains them illegally from a neigh ...
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  7 March 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - More than 200 pupils kidnapped from a primary school in northern Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - More than 200 pupils (some sources say 232) were kidnapped this morning, March 7, in Kuriga, Chikun Local Government Area, Kaduna State, in northern Nigeria. The hostages are pupils from the LEA ...