Africa

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  16 September 2017
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Inclusive dialogue only path to peace: bishops make new appeal to overcome political crisis Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - “Inclusive dialogue is the only path to peace” the Bishops of Burundi say in a message issued at the end of a Plenary Assembly and read out in all parishes at every Mass on Sunday 10 Septe ...
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  15 September 2017
  AFRICA/TOGO - “We are seriously concerned about what may come now” National Director Pontifical Mission Societies tells Fides Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - “The situation is still worrying in a Lomé. Since my return to Togo on 23 August tension is high with Opposition protests” Fides was told by Rev Donald Charif-Dine Fadaz, National Director of ...
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  14 September 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "We are tired of the impunity of guerrillas": protest of civil society in northern Kivu who call for greater security Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Some "dead city days" in Beni and Butembo (in North Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo) to protest the insecurity that persists in the area due to the presence of numerous arm ...
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  13 September 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Religious Kenian confessions: "The Electoral Commission must assure a credible vote" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC) should focus on the coming elections by ensuring that they put their house in order first. Do not drive with the rear mirror on. You do no ...
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  12 September 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The killers of Fr. Onunkwo, Nigerian priest kidnapped and killed on September 1 have been arrested Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Suspected killers of Fr. Cyriacus Onunkwo, Nigerian priest kidnapped and killed on September 1 in Orlu, the second city of the State of Imo, in south-east Nigeria (see Fides 4/9/2017), have been a ...
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  11 September 2017
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The Bishops: "The spread of sex parties marks the moral decay of several teenagers" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church is concerned about the moral decay that has engulfed some teenage girls and boys as it was reported of young ones who were involved in immoral activities of sex orgies and al ...
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  9 September 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A missionary: "In South Sudan there is an ethnic but above all political and power conflict" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "It is too easy to describe the conflict in South Sudan as exclusively ethnic. The struggle for power, corruption, poor management of military, political leadership, of resources and the lack of ba ...
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  8 September 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Internally displaced and famine: refugee camps packed Dolo Odo (Agenzia Fides) - As a result of the dramatic drought, the phenomenon of the displaced people of the southeast villages of Ethiopia, bordering Somalia, continues. In the so-called Somali region of the Country, w ...
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  7 September 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops’ appeal: "No threats to the Supreme Court. It is important to ensure the election is held in a peaceful manner" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We, the Catholic Bishops, call on all Kenyans to uphold the independence, dignity and integrity of the Supreme Court and Constitutional institutions even when we do not agree with their decisio ...
• 7 September 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of the Rector of the "S. Giuseppina Bakhita" Propedeutic Seminary of Ngaoundéré Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 28, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. André Pakeu of the diocesan clergy of Yagoua as Rector of "Santa Gi ...
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  6 September 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Coordinator of the Justice and Peace Commission, accused of food poisoning, released on bail Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Natalina Andrea Mabu, coordinator of the Justice and Peace Commission of Wau diocese, was released on bail. This was reported to Agenzia Fides by sources of the local Church, who for security reaso ...
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  6 September 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The government urges to publish the executive regulations of the law on the construction of churches Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian deputy Mohamed Fouad, a member of the Urban Planning Committee, in an appeal has urged Prime Minister Sherif Ismail to publish the executive regulations of the new law on the construction ...
• 6 September 2017
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Appointment of the Rector of the Interdiocesan Major Seminary of Harare Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 1, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, , appointed rev. Andrew Lastborn Foto, of the diocesan clergy of Masvingo as Rector ...
• 5 September 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A local NGO denounces a Pygmy massacre in the east of the Country, Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – A Pygmy massacre was carried out in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to a statement from CEPADHO (a local NGO) to Agenzia Fides, on September 2, some ADF guerrillas (a ...
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  5 September 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Anti Balaka are not Christians", says Cardinal Nzapalainga Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - We want a united Central Africa, where Christians and Muslims live in peace. This is what Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui and Imam Oumar Kobine Layama said in an interview t ...