Africa

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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 ...
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  5 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - 5 dead, 134 churches surrounded, 6 priests arrested; is the provisional report of the 31 December repression Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nunciature in the Democratic Republic of Congo has published a first, yet provisional, report of the violence suffered by the Church following the brutal repression of the march o ...
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  4 January 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Islamic University of al Azhar convenes Muslims and Christians to discuss the "Jerusalem issue" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The University of Al Azhar, the main academic-theological center of Sunni Islam, is preparing to host an international conference on Jerusalem, to confront "institutions and important bodies" arou ...
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  4 January 2018
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Small Christian orphans converted to Islam Gode (Agenzia Fides) - About 30 Christian (Orthodox) children have already been forcibly converted to Islam. And the danger threatens about 120 children, adolescents and young Christians in 12 reception centers for orpha ...
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  4 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Catholic laity promise new protests Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We can be proud for having participated in the protest on 31 December 2017. We can not backtrack anymore, our children look at us, the whole world looks at us, our conscience asks us", says in ...
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  29 December 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Massacre in front of a Coptic church. Bishop Antonios Mina: "they want to eliminate our smiles during the Christmas holidays" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - An armed assault on the church of Mar Mina, carried out in the Helwan City district on the capital’s southern outskirts, by at least two terrorists on the morning of Friday 29 December, caused s ...