Africa

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  12 February 2024
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - The Council of Catholic Laity: "Risks of destabilization". More clashes over the postponement of the vote Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - Three dead and over 250 arrested. This is the outcome of the clashes on the sidelines of the protests that took place last weekend in Senegal against the postponement of the presidential elections ...
• 12 February 2024
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Dodoma Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Father has appointed the Reverend Wilbroad Henry Kibozi, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Dodoma, until now vice rector and professor at the Holy Family Major Seminary in ...
• 12 February 2024
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of Bishop of Morombe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Jean Désiré Razafinirina, of the clergy of the diocese of Toliara, until now rector and professor at the Saint Jean Baptiste Major Seminary of V ...
• 12 February 2024
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - Resignation and appointment of Bishop of Nouakchott Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 10, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Nouakchott, Mauritania, presented by Bishop Martin Happe, M.Afr. The Holy Father has appoi ...
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  9 February 2024
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - On the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita: Sisters of the “Talitha Kum” project celebrate World Day Against Human Trafficking Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Talitha Kum Zambia (TAKUZA) celebrated yesterday, February 8, World Day against Human Trafficking, on the feast day of Saint Josephine Bakhita, patron saint of victims of modern slavery and human ...
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  9 February 2024
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Catholic Association of Friends meets in the spirit of the encyclical 'Fratelli tutti' Foya (Agenzia Fides) - Three hundred Catholic women from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone recently met in the parish of St. John Vianney in Foya, in the light of 'the mystery of the Visitation'. "The international experi ...
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  8 February 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Religious abducted in Plateau State are free Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The two Claretians who were kidnapped on the night of February 1 in the central Nigerian state of Plateau have been released. Fr. Ken Kanwa C.M.F, parish priest of St. Vincent De Paul Fier Church, ...
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  8 February 2024
  AFRICA/MALI - The “sabbatical year” of Father Ha-Jo in the hands of the kidnappers: “They asked me for forgiveness, and I had already forgiven them" by Antonella Prenna Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "Germany is waging war against us, has soldiers in Gao (Mali) and, together with the European Union, is training the Malian army in Kulikoro, on the banks of the Niger river ...
• 7 February 2024
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Appointment of the new Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 27, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed the Rev. Fr. Juvenal Nzohabonayo of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Gitega ...
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  7 February 2024
  AFRICA/BENIN - Seminar on violent extremism and the proliferation of weapons in West Africa Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "Prevention of violent extremism, radicalization and the proliferation of small arms in the Sahel and coastal countries of West Africa". These are the objectives of the training course launched ...
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  6 February 2024
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Cardinal Czerny: "We are close to the people of South Sudan" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Free and credible elections were promised by South Sudanese President Salva Kiir to Cardinal Michael Czerny, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development, on the occasion ...
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  5 February 2024
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Archbishop of Dakar: “Like many of our fellow citizens, I am disturbed by what is happening” Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "Like many of our fellow citizens I am disturbed by what is happening", Archbishop Benjamin Ndiaye, Archbishop of Dakar, the capital of Senegal, told the press after President Macky Sall announced ...
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  5 February 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Two religious kidnapped in Plateau State: in Nigeria questions are being asked about the complicity in the banking sector for the payment of ransoms Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Two Claretian missionaries (Missionaries of the Immaculate Heart of Mary) were kidnapped by armed men on the night of February 1 in Plateau state, central Nigeria: Father Ken Kanwa C.M.F., parish ...
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  3 February 2024
  AFRICA - Beginning of a new era: Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger leave the Economic Community of West African States Rome (Agenzia Fides) - With the announcement last January 28 of the withdrawal of the military regimes of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the integration process ...
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  2 February 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - President of the Bishop's Conference: "Everyone must respect the rule of law" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We have been advising Kenyans to respect the law. Even before the elections in 2022 we called on Kenyans to remain peaceful and where they were not happy with the outcome of the election, they ...