Africa

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  17 November 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Pasinya accused of "black masses": when politics exploits religion Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The social and political climate in the Democratic Republic of Congo is becoming increasingly tense due to the postponement of the presidential elections to December 23, 2018. And political cla ...
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  17 November 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Multitude of Coptic pilgrims in Rizeigat for the feast of St. George Luxor (Agenzia Fides) – A moltitude of Coptic pilgrims crowded the San Giorgio Sanctuary in Rizeigat, in the southwestern province of Luxor for days, in one of the most impressive celebrations of Christian popular devo ...
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  17 November 2017
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Mugabe reappears in public; Christian leaders call for a government of national unity Harare (Agenzia Fides) - "The hope of a real change is fading between the people of the Country, because President Mugabe seems does not want to give up power", say sources of the local Church in Harare, capital of Zimb ...
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  16 November 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian court sentences man to death for the killing of Coptic priest Samaan. The Grand Mufti will have to approve the ruling Cairo (Agenzia Fides). The North Cairo Criminal Court approved the death sentence for Ahmed Said al-Sonbati, the young man who on October 13, killed and stabbed Coptic priest Samaan Shahata in a peripheral street in Cair ...
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  16 November 2017
  AFRICA/TOGO - "Let us take destiny in our hands", says a Togolese missionary working in the DRC Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - "The population is asking for one thing: an alternative. That is because the reality in Togo has been the same for 50 years, the same name, the same family. The people therefore only ask this: giv ...
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  15 November 2017
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - "The population is at work and the spirit is high" in Harare, where the military has taken control Harare (Agenzia Fides) - "The military has taken control of the key points of the capital: the presidential palace, parliament, airport, bus station, and the radio and television headquarters", says the Commission of Soc ...
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  14 November 2017
  AFRICA - Migrants and land-grabbing, spies of injustice; the commitment of all against fake news Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Migrants from Africa are the spies of a series of global economic and social injustices who call all to work for true justice based on solidarity: this is the sense of the series of speeches during ...
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  14 November 2017
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Elections in Somaliland, Mgr. Bertin: "Democracy is possible in the Horn of Africa" Djibouti (Agenzia Fides) – The vote in Somalia gives hope and represents an encouraging form of democracy: the November 13 elections, to choose the president who will succeed Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo, took place regularly ...
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  13 November 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - An attack against a peace concert in the Muslim area relights tensions in Bangui Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Four dead and about twenty injured is the toll of the explosive attack against a coffee bar on November 11 in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic. Some strangers threw an explosive w ...
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  11 November 2017
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Eritrea: a "North Korea of Africa" «Eritrea is the country with less freedom in the world ». These words come not from someone who opposes president Isayas Afeworki or from the hated government of Ethiopia, instead they come from an official United Nati ...
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  10 November 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - New jihadist threats against Copts: they must be eliminated because they build churches, evangelize, do not respect the Sharia Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Coptic Christians in Egypt do not accept the condition of submission imposed on Christians in Islamic societies: they continue to build churches and even promote television networks to spread the ...
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  10 November 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops launch a National Dialogue Forum while the political crisis risks making the country explode Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The Country is now threatened with disintegration and conflict, if the situation witnessed currently is anything to go by. This is why we have announced to organize a National Dialogue Forum, w ...
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  8 November 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The extension of Kabila's mandate has the support of the United States Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Outgoing President Joseph Kabila has received some important international awards as the expiration of his mandate, as envisaged by the San Silvestro Agreement, signed on December 31, 2016, is ...
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  7 November 2017
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Tunisia: culture promotes interreligious dialogue In Tunisia, culture plays a very important role in interreligious dialogue and mutual understanding and acceptance among different peoples and civilizations. This is what the director of the Bardo Museum in Tunis, Moncef ...
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  7 November 2017
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Joint appeal of African and European Bishops: "Human trafficking and brain drain from Africa are being fought" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "We call for justice and equity in trade in goods and services, but especially with regard to natural resources, which are taken each year from Africa", say the Bishops of Africa and Europe, in ...