Africa

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  15 January 2018
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Caritas Senegal: "Let us give back hope to young people; migration is not the only way for the future" Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "Give back hope to our young people". This is Caritas Senegal's goal during its 54th Ordinary Plenary Assembly, which opened in Thiès on January 13th and ended on Sunday 14th. In his opening add ...
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  12 January 2018
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "Tunisia has won the bet for democracy but not for economic development" Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "There is an economic problem that then becomes social", says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Jawad Alamat, parish priest of Carthage and general secretary of Catholic schools, commenting on the recent prote ...
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  12 January 2018
  AFRICA/ERITREA - Clinics and schools closed: the regime prohibits Christian social activities Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - "In Eritrea, the regime has begun to persecute religious confessions and, in particular, the Catholic Church. The objective is clear: to try to prevent its influence on society: not by prohibitin ...
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  11 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops call for the intervention of the President of Congo Brazzaville in the crisis in Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The elections (at the end of the year) are sustainable" said Fr. Donatien Nshole, Secretary General of CENCO (Congolese National Episcopal Conference), in reference to the presidential, legisl ...
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  11 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Caritas to rescue flood victims in Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Misfortune never comes alone. After the violent repression of the peaceful march of Catholics on December 31, 2017, which resulted in at least seven dead and several injured, Kinshasa began the ...
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  10 January 2018
  AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - A mercenary at the head of the failed coup in Central Africa Malabo (Agenzia Fides) - There is a former high-ranking Chadian official with a past as commander of the Central African rebellion Seleka at the head of the attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea, thwarted by the authoritie ...
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  10 January 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - Political crisis, a missionary: "People do not feel safe" Sokodé (Agenzia Fides) - "The country has been going through a serious political crisis for five months, since a coalition of 14 opposition parties, have been organizing rallies and protests almost every week against th ...
• 9 January 2018
  AFRICA/CAPE VERDE - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. José Mario Goncalves Moreira Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On May 15, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. José Mario Goncalves Moreira, of the diocesan clergy of Mindelo, as ...
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  9 January 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Cardinal Nzapalainga: "2017 is a year marked by violence against the people and the Church" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Where are we going? What will the people of Central Africa in 2018 become?" asked Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, in his opening speech for the plenary meeting of the Bish ...
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  9 January 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Kidnapped religious sisters released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are happy; to God be the glory", said Sister Agatha Osarekhoe, Superior General of the Sisters of the Eucharistic Heart of Christ, announcing the release of the three sisters and three reveren ...
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  8 January 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - A priest engaged in peace attacked in Bangassou Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - A priest engaged in dialogue and reconciliation in the Central African Republic was attacked by unknown persons. We are talking about Fr. Alain Blaise Bissialo, parish priest of the parish of Chr ...
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  8 January 2018
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Massacre in Casamance; the rebels "we have nothing to do with it, we reaffirm our commitment to peace" Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The rebels of the Mouvement des Forces Démocratiques de Casamance (MFDC) stress that they have nothing to with the massacre of 13 young loggers killed on 6 January in a forest in this region of S ...
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  8 January 2018
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - SOS Children's Villages reaffirms its commitment to children at risk Paris (Agenzia Fides) - SOS Children's Villages is a secular and apolitical organization. When asked about the reception of Christian children at the SOS Children's Village of Gode, Ethiopia (see Fides 4/1/2017), the NGO ...
• 8 January 2018
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Appointment of the Bishop of Chinhoyi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 30, 2017 the Holy Father appointed as bishop of Chinhoyi, (Zimbabwe), Rev. Fr. Raymond Tapiwa Mupa, C.Ss.R., currently regional Superior of the Redemptorist Fathers in Harare. ...
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  5 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Monsengwo: "Agreements must be respected" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The victims of December 31 died because they reminded us that pacta sunt servanda" said Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Archbishop of Kinshasa during a mass celebrated in the cathedral of ...