Africa

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  4 July 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops renew their request asking President Muhammadu Buhari to resign, after the massacre of over 200 Christians Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In a statement published on June 29 following the massacre of more than 200 Christian farmers committed on June 23 by Fulani Muslim pastors (as the Peuls in Nigeria are called) in some villages in ...
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  4 July 2018
  AFRICA - Why does corruption spread across the continent? African Union Summit Kara (Agenzia Fides) - Why is corruption rampant in Africa? "This is a phenomenon that goes beyond the problem linked to the extreme poverty that afflicts our Africa", says Father Donald Zagore of the Society of African ...
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  3 July 2018
  AFRICA - Six million people risk hunger in the Sahel region Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly 6 million people are struggling to get food in Burkina Faso, Ciad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger e Senegal. Severe malnutrition is threatening the lives of 1.6 million children. This is the alar ...
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  3 July 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The Catholic Church in the Central African Republic is in mourning after the murder of the Vicar General of Bambari Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Monsignor Firmin was a key person in all the mediation processes to try and keep peace in Bambari, and was therefore known by everyone. His assassins cannot say they killed a person they did not ...
• 3 July 2018
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Appointment of the Bishop of Cabinda Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today the Holy Father has appointed Fr. Belmiro Cuica Chissengueti, C.S.Sp., currently Provincial Superior of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit in Angola, as Bishop of the diocese of Ca ...
• 2 July 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Resignation of the Bishop of Oudtshoorn Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Outdshoorn (South Africa), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Francisco Fortunato De Gouveia. (SL) (Agenzia Fid ...
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  2 July 2018
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Church commitment to contribute to peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time in 20 years a high-level Eritrean delegation, led by Foreign Minister Osman Saleh, arrived in Addis Ababa on Tuesday June 26, to talk about the end of the decade-long conf ...
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  28 June 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Kivu, an area of indirect confrontation between Rwanda and Burundi Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Kivu, a province in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is turning into a battlefield for allied foreign forces with some local armed groups. This is stated in a note sent to Ag ...
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  28 June 2018
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - For the first time the World Water Forum in Sub-Saharan Africa Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The next World Water Forum, the biggest water event in the world, will be held for the first time in Sub-Saharan Africa. The ninth World Water Forum, organized by the World Water Council and the G ...
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  27 June 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops: 770,000 children under 5 years of age risk hunger in Kasai Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 770,000 children under the age of five suffer from severe malnutrition in the center of the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is what the Bishops of Kasai denounce on the basis of st ...
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  26 June 2018
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - The Bishops: "speculation and wild urbanization among the causes of the deadly flood in Abidjan" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - It is not just climate change that provokes humanitarian tragedies, but also human responsibility. This is what the Ivorian Episcopal Conference states in a note expressing its condolences for t ...
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  25 June 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - Church's commitment to the promotion of human rights, a precondition for peace and development Lome (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the celebration of the 13th anniversary of its institution, the Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace (CEJP) of the Archdiocese of Lomé organized three days "open to the pu ...
• 23 June 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of the Bishop of Machakos Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today the Holy Father Francis has appointed Bishop of the diocese of Machakos (Kenya) His Exc. Mgr. Norman King'oo Wambua, currently Bishop of the diocese of Bungoma. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 2 ...
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  23 June 2018
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The bishops announce the intention to start a new national Catholic Television Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops of Uganda have announced their intention to start a new national Catholic Television. In a press statement that was released on June 8, 2018 by the bishops after their annua ...
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  22 June 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Violent fighting provokes the flight of the population of several villages in South Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Violent fighting has caused victims and are pushing the population to flee from the highland villages of Uvira, in the province of South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. T ...