Africa

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  28 October 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Cardinal Filoni in Kampala: "Catechists, determinative force in the work of evangelization" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "The role of catechists in Uganda has always been and remains a determinative force in the work of evangelization. Without your generous dedication, surely the growth of the Church would be much ...
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  27 October 2017
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Aid for Ong Mogadishu and Catholic Church after the maxi attack Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after the bloody attack in Mogadishu by Al-Shabaab, a Somali terrorist group, which killed more than three hundred people and hundreds were injured (see Fides 16/10/2017), Perigeo O ...
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  27 October 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Cardinal Filoni: "The Church does not need bureaucrats, but passionate missionaries" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - In the second appointment this morning in Kampala, where the celebrations of the Jubilee of the Archdiocese are about to conclude, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the E ...
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  27 October 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Cardinal Filoni to the young people of Kampala: "The future of the Church in Uganda and Africa depends on each of you" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "Take in hand the development of your local Church and of your country. Always remember that the spiritual future, as well as other aspects of your continent and of this Nation, no longer depend ...
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  26 October 2017
  AFRICA/TOGO - Political crisis: appeal to dialogue from France and the United States, solidarity of the Bishops of Benin to the Togolese people Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal to dialogue was launched by France and the United States to all political parties in Togo, majority and opposition, so that political reforms are made and to respect the right to demonst ...
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  26 October 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Cardinal Filoni in Kampala for the 50 years of the Archdiocese Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, is in Uganda to conclude the 50th anniversary celebrations of the creation of the Archdiocese of Kampala ...
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  26 October 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Elections and clashes; Bishops reveal: "Right to the end we tried to bring Kenyatta and Odinga to the negotiating table" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Tension increases in Kenya where today fresh Presidential election are to be held after the Supreme Court had nullified the election of the President after the August 8 poll. There were clashe ...
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  25 October 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Churches also involved in the campaign in favor of a second presidential term for Sisi Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egypt's presidential elections are scheduled for 2018, but Egyptian intellectuals and public figures have already begun promoting press and social media campaigns to re-elect President Abdel Fatta ...
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  25 October 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops of Sudan/South Sudan to Kenyans: "Choose the path of peace" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a message that we Kenyans cannot just close our eyes, ears, and hearts to": this is the reaction shared with Fides of the President of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB), Bis ...
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  25 October 2017
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - A nun killed; the murderer arrested: a young man with mental disorders Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Ruvadiki Plaxedes Kamundiya, a 49-year-old Catholic religious, was brutally murdered on Sunday 22 October in Mutoko, in the Province of Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe. The police arrested a su ...
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  25 October 2017
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Five Church leaders detained in the Country's capital, oppression towards religions continues to increase Omdurman (Agenzia Fides) - Five leading members of the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCC) were detained after saying prayers at a church building in Omdurman, on October 22nd. Local sources reported to Fides that the pries ...
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  24 October 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Catholic priest killed; tension increases on the eve of the presidential vote Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - A Kenyan priest was killed: Fr. Evans Juma Oduor, who was found unconscious on Sunday evening, October 22 near a sugar cane plant near Chiga Market Center in Muhoroni, 30 km from the Convent of ...
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  24 October 2017
  AFRICA/NIGER - A missionary: "The challenge of Pope Francis: a border Church without borders" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The words used in the Letter from Pope Francis to Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples on the occasion of the Centenary of Pope Benedict's Miss ...
• 24 October 2017
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Appointment of the Apostolic Administrator of Gweru Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Pope Francis has appointed His Exc. Mgr. Michael Dixon Bhasera, Bishop of Masvingo as Apostolic Administrator "sede vacante et ad nutum Sancate" in Gweru (Zimbabwe). (SL) (Agenzia Fi ...
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  23 October 2017
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Archbishop of Khartoum: "Stop ethnic clashes among South Sudanese in refugee camps" Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "We are trying to make people live in peace because people are still fighting even in the camps", said His Exc. Mgr. Michael Didi Adgum Mangoria, Archbishop of Khartoum, referring to the situat ...