Africa

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  29 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - President Kabila in an open dispute with the Catholic Church Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Nowhere in the Bible, has Jesus Christ ever presided over an electoral commission", said President Joseph Kabila in the press conference convened on January 26 to take stock of the political, ...
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  26 January 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - New peaceful demonstrations on the streets of the country are scheduled Lome (Agenzia Fides) - The popular movement of peaceful protest does not stop: on 31st January, the 1st and 2nd February the Togolese have been invited to take to the streets of the capital Lomè and other cities as a si ...
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  25 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops: "Where the police behaved professionally, there were no incidents" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Where the police behaved professionally there were no incidents". This was underlined by Donatien Nshole, Secretary General of CENCO (National Episcopal Conference of Congo), presenting a repo ...
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  25 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Fr. Robert Masinda is free", says the Vicar General of Butembo-Beni to Fides Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Fr. Robert Masinda is free and on his way to reach the Bishopric", says to Agenzia Fides Mgr. Laurent Sondirya (and not Emmanuel Mwanapenzi Nyonyu as erroneously reported yesterday), Vicar Gen ...
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  25 January 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros visits al Ahram public newspaper: Coptic marginalization is coming to an end Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Copts of Egypt have suffered growing political and social marginalization since the 1950s. But this trend has actually reversed in the last seven years. And many unpublished facts - such as th ...
• 25 January 2018
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO and NIGER - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Isidore Nombré Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 January 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Isidore Nombré, of the diocesan clergy of Koudougou (Burki ...
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  24 January 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA - Sport as a driving force for street children in Nairobi Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - In the urban area of Nairobi, there are about 60 thousand street children and about 22 thousand under-age refugees. Thanks to the development of a project that uses sport as a driving force, we ...
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  24 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Fr. Robert Masinda is still a prisoner but we know he is alive" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Fr. Robert Masinda is still a prisoner, but we know he is alive and we hope he will be released soon", says to Agenzia Fides Mgr. Laurent Sondirya, Vicar General of the diocese of Butembo-Beni ...
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  23 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Protests led by the Catholic laity will continue"; the Nunciature: "fatal bullets fired against demonstrators" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The government is trying to put the blame on the organizers regarding the violent protest march held on Sunday", report Church sources of the Democratic Republic of Congo to Agenzia Fides, wh ...
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  23 January 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - Women, in black, take to the streets to demonstrate against the President Lome (Agenzia Fides) - Togo women are at the forefront of the popular protest against the power of President Faure Gnassingbe. Since September, a coalition of 14 political parties has held almost weekly marches, where th ...
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  23 January 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian Parliament rejects the memorandum of the US resolution on discrimination against Copts Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian parliament's foreign affairs committee has finished drafting a response to a memorandum on "Coptic issues" in Egypt, that was made public on December 21 by six members of the US Cong ...
• 23 January 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Bonaventure Luchidio Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 16, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Bonaventure Luchidio, of the diocesan clergy of Kakamega, as Nati ...
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  22 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Violent repression of demonstrations: at least 6 dead, a dozen priests kidnapped Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - At least 10 priests and two nuns were kidnapped by the police in the clashes which occurred yesterday, Sunday, January 21, in several cities of the Democratic Republic of Congo, due to the viol ...
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  22 January 2018
  AFRICA/KENYA - The proto-Cathedral of Marsabit attacked Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The proto-Cathedral of Our Lady of Consolata in Marsabit, a Catholic church in northern Kenya, on the border with Ethiopia, was sacked during violent demonstrations for the arrest of a Muslim pr ...
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  20 January 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - A living Church that strives to be an element of national union Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The percentage of Catholics in the south of Cameroon is very high. There is a large number of well-organized parishes with good facilities. I saw brand new churches and others under construction. ...