Africa

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  7 November 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Childhood denied for the Karamoja children, among misery and begging Karamoja (Agenzia Fides) - They sit all day, until two or three at night, at the edge of the streets, begging for a few pennies. They cannot have a hot meal, go to school, play, wash, feel safe and secure. They are child ...
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  6 November 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Azhar on the massacre in the US church: all religions forbid to shed innocent blood Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Violence acts "which desecrate the holiness of places of worship and destroy innocent lives threaten the people's stability and security". And the shedding of innocent blood, irrespective of race ...
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  6 November 2017
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Presidential elections on 23 December 2018; the opposition protests: "so Kabila remains in power until January 2019" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Presidential, legislative, provincial and local elections will be held on December 23, 2018 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. "At 6pm, yesterday, Sunday, November 5, 2017, the election calen ...
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  6 November 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Nomadic herdsmen in Taraba force settled farmers to flee Jalingo (Agenzia Fides) - Many ethnic groups live in the state of Taraba, one of Nigeria’s 36 States situated in the eastern part of the Country, bordering Cameroon. Tribes are divided into settled farmers, mostly Cath ...
• 6 November 2017
  AFRICA/GABON - Appointment of the Bishop of Franceville Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 4, 2017, the Holy Father appointed as Bishop of the diocese of Franceville (Gabon), the Rev. Jean-Patrick Iba-Ba, currently rector of the “Saint Augustin” national major sem ...
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  3 November 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - DNA tests to identify the bodies of the Coptic martyrs of Libya Minya (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian authorities have been conducting DNA tests on the deadly remains of the 21 Coptic Christians beheaded in Libya by jihadists linked to the Islamic State, whose bodies were found in early O ...
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  3 November 2017
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The President of the Bishops' Conference: "A church which grows in Malawi, thanks to the laity" Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "I am very happy because in Malawi, the Church is very active at a pastoral level and counts on the precious contribution of the laity": says Mgr. Thomas Msusa, Archbishop of Blantyre, Presiden ...
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  31 October 2017
  AFRICA/NIGER - Guerilla in Niamey: the testimony of a missionary Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "On Sunday, October 29, the neighborhoods in the center of Niamey resembled the urban guerrillas of other ages", writes to Agenzia Fides Mauro Armanino, missionary of the Society of African Missi ...
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  31 October 2017
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - "Presidential elections in 2018": for the Bishops they are possible, for the US they must be held Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Presidential elections are to be held by 2018. This is a point where both the Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo and US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley agree on. On 27 Oc ...
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  30 October 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Following the example of the Ugandan Martyrs, let us renew our promise of putting faith in action Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - In the late morning of Saturday, 28 October, Cardinal Fernando Filoni chaired the dedication Mass of the Uganda Martyrs’ Shrine, Munyonyo (see Fides 26/10/2017). "Today we too are gathered in ...
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  30 October 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Cardinal Filoni concludes the Jubilee of the Archdiocese of Kampala: "new commitment, new perspectives" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "The past half-century has mainly been a period of consolidation of the excellent work begun by the missionaries. The coming 50 years should be, among other things, a period of deeper growth in ...
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  30 October 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A Christian condemned to prison under the new anti-terrorism laws Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Andrew Nassif is the first Christian condemned to jail under the new laws laid down by the Egyptian government with the stated aim of countering terrorism. The conviction - according to Egyptian m ...
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  30 October 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Tensions awaiting the results of the vote. "Kenians want peace, I have faith that the violence which took place 10 years ago will not be repeated", says a missionary Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is still quite alarming, though tension has calmed down a bit in the last few hours. Kenya is awaiting the results of the vote", says to Agenzia Fides Alfonso Poppi, Missionary of ...
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  28 October 2017
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Uganda: listen to the voice of civil society to trace the future To rewrite the Constitution to extend his political life and to remain the leader of the country that he has ruled for over 30 years. The attempt of 73-year-old Yoweri Kaguta Musuveni divides Uganda: on the one hand ther ...
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  28 October 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Witnesses of the Christian value of marriage, builders of the Church and society Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni met married couples at St. Mary’s Cathedral Church, or rather "Rubaga Cathedral", on October 27, in the context of the concluding celebrations of the Jubilee of the ...