Africa

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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 ...
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  7 September 2018
  AFRICA - China-Africa Summit: where is the Church, "expert in humanity"? Lome (Agenzia Fides) - "The massive participation of African heads of State at the China-Africa Cooperation Forum (Focac) is impressive: it is a real record. The fate of millions of Africans is sealed by political and ec ...
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  6 September 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Nigerian priest kidnapped on September 1 has been released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Christopher Ogaga, pastor of the Emmanuel Catholic Church in Oviri-Okpe, in the State of the Delta, kidnapped on the evening of Saturday, September 1 while traveling from Okpe to Warri, in s ...
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  6 September 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Too many individual interests hinder the achievement of peace; Ethiopia and Eritrea are positive examples", says Mgr. Hiiboro Kussala Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "There are still too many individual interests that hinder the full achievement of the peace agreement", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Barani Edward Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop of Tombura-Yambio, ...
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  5 September 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A Catholic priest kidnapped in southern Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Another Catholic priest kidnapped in southern Nigeria. Father Christopher Ogaga was taken Saturday evening as he traveled from Okpe to Warri, where he was scheduled to celebrate Mass at Mother of ...
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  4 September 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Another human rights defender murdered in South Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Human rights defenders in Uvira and Fizi, in South Kivu are appalled by the brutal murder of their colleague Masumbuko Birindwa, called Aimable, a very active and highly experienced human righ ...