Africa

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  22 September 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Christian and Muslim religious leaders: dialogue and peace must prevail in the English-speaking regions Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - In Cameroon, Christians and Muslims join forces to demand that peace prevails in the English-speaking provinces. In a joint statement, the Council of Protestant Churches, the Supreme Islamic Co ...
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  21 September 2018
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - "Peace bearers": students apostles of the Gospel in a society marked by civil conflict Yamoussoukro (Agenzia Fides) – To educate for peace in a context marked profoundly by the civil war. This is the project that is taking place in Côte d'Ivoire "Porteurs de Paix" ("Peace Bearers"), an association led b ...
• 21 September 2018
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Appointment of the Rector of "Saint Charles Lwanga" Theological Seminary in Kiryama Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 21 June 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Giscard Hakizimana, of the archdiocesan clergy of Gitega as R ...
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  21 September 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops: "Release Leah Sharibu", the girl in the hands of Boko Haram who refused to denounce her Christian faith Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We see with great dismay that the violence we denounced in the past continues unabated", the Nigerian Bishops denounce in a statement published at the end of their Second Plenary Assembly held in ...
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  20 September 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Continuous clashes in the English-speaking provinces: it is urgent to open a political confrontation Bamenda (Agenzia Fides) - In the English-speaking provinces of Cameroon, tension continues to rise. The clashes between separatist groups and the army are more and more frequent and the civil population suffer the conseq ...
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  20 September 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "The document of agreement for Peace coincides with our meeting with Pope Francis. This is a miracle!", says Mgr. Hiiboro Kussala Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The Ad Limina Visit to Pope Francis begets miracle of Signed Peace in South Sudan", writes His Exc. Mgr. Barani Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop of Tombura-Yambio and President of Sudan and South C ...
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  19 September 2018
  AFRICA/NIGER - Missionary kidnapped: No request for a ransom yet Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "We have no news of Fr. Pierluigi. There has been no claim by the kidnappers at present", says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Mauro Armanino of the Society of African Missions (SMA), a confrere of Fr. Pier ...
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  19 September 2018
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Corruption and widespread illegality: the problems of the nation in view of the vote Atananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - "Politicians fight only for their own interests. They do not serve the nation or the people because they do not have the sense of the common good". With these words Father Prospère Ratovoma ...
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  18 September 2018
  AFRICA/NIGER - The Italian missionary kidnapped "is probably in Burkina Faso, where the jihadists are based" Genoa (Agenzia Fides) - The Society of African Missions (SAM) confirms the kidnapping of father Pierluigi Maccalli in Niger to Agenzia Fides and adds some details to the first news released this morning. According to wha ...
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  18 September 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - The Bishop of Batouri: "A Church full of hope for the future, despite the difficulties" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The east of Cameroon is full of hope for the future", says His Exc. Mgr. Marcellin-Marie Ndabnyemb, Bishop of Batouri, in the eastern part of Cameroon. The Bishop is in Rome to attend a Study Semi ...
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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 ...