Africa

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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 ...
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  21 October 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - In December an "exploratory" expedition of Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi on "The Path of the Holy Family" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - In the first days of December, a qualified delegation of Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi (ORP) will visit Egypt to carry out a first expedition in the places crossed by the "Path of the Holy Family", t ...
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  20 October 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Archbishop of Khartoum encourages Seminarians "to be ready for Mission" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "I have encouraged seminarians belonging to the nine dioceses in both Sudan and South Sudan to prepare themselves for the mission of the Church", said to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Michael Didi Ad ...
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  20 October 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Mgr Kaigama to the Fulani and the Irigwe after the massacre of 29 people: "Speak to each other in order to seek peace" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "For over two years now, Plateau State has enjoyed happy and peaceful coexistence... but peace has unfortunately been rudely interrupted by the outburst of recent killings in Bassa Local Government ...
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  19 October 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Among the Catholics uncertainty prevails over the politicians lack of will to resolve the crisis Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "There are so many things going wrong in our Country while the media seems to be focusing only on politics", says to Agenzia Fides Rose Achiego, a Catholic lay in Nairobi. "Let's take, for examp ...
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  18 October 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - : “The political crisis can be an opportunity for dialogue to tackle the country’s difficulties”. 18 October 2017 political elections Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “The political crisis can be an opportunity to start sincere dialogue on the country’s unsolved problems” the Catholic Bishops of Kenya say in a message sent to Fides, while the country is ...