Africa

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  6 October 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Families of the "Martyrs of Libya" ask the government for confirmation regarding the announced discovery of the bodies of their relatives Minya (Agenzia Fides) – The families of the 21 Copts beheaded in Libya in 2015 by jihadists of the Islamic State (Daesh) have addressed the Egyptian Foreign Ministry an urgent request to confirm the discovery of the de ...
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  5 October 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - Christian churches targeted by jihadists: "A new and disturbing development" Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The jihadists have started to target Christian communities and it is a worrying development", says to Fides Fr. Edmond Dembelé, Secretary General of the Bishops' Conference of Mali, who reports ...
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  5 October 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Pope Francis greets the Egyptian delegation who went to the Vatican to promote the "The Path of the Holy Family" Rome (Agenzia Fides) – During the General Audience on Wednesday, October 4, Pope Francis welcomed the large Egyptian delegation who are in Rome to promote pilgrimages along the "The Path of Holy Family", the itinerary ...
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  4 October 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Mgr. Kariuki Njiru: "No to political controversy on anti-tetanus vaccines. They are safe because controlled" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Anti-tetanus vaccines are controlled and are safe", said His Exc. Mgr. Paul Kariuki Njiru, Bishop of Embu and President of the Bishops' Commission for the Pastoral Care of Kenya, speaking at th ...
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  4 October 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church establishes the "Sant'Atanasio Center for Doctrine" to counteract the spread of erroneous doctrines Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Orthodox Coptic Patriarchate has established an Integrated Center for Doctrinal Studies in the suburban district of Maadi, south of Cairo, which is added to the already existing Institute of S ...
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  3 October 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian Minister at the Vatican to promote pilgrimages on "The Path of the Holy Family" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian Tourism Minister Yahya Rashid returns to the Vatican with the mission of finding support and collaboration in the efforts made by the government of Cairo to relaunch pilgrimages along the ...
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  3 October 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - New clashes in the English-speaking regions: law enforcement agencies accused by NGOs Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - 17 people were killed in the clashes with the security forces in the English-speaking region of Cameroon on Sunday 1 October (see Fides 2/10/2017) according to Amnesty International, which call ...
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  2 October 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - The Church: "no to the independence of the Anglophone regions, yes to the administrative decentralization" Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - At least seven people were killed in several clashes between separatist demonstrators and security forces in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon, where yesterday, Sunday 1 October, the independe ...
• 2 October 2017
  AFRICA/BOTSWANA - Apostolic Vicariate of Francistown elevated to Diocese and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today, the Holy Father elevated the apostolic Vicariate of Francistown (Botswana) to Diocese with the same denomination and territorial configuration, making it a suffragan of the metropoli ...
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  29 September 2017
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Libyan Prosecutor: we know where the Coptic martyrs are buried, slaughtered by jihadists Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - In a press conference held on Thursday 28 September Libyan General Prosecutor Al Sadiq al Sour reported that the place where the dead remains of the 21 Coptic Christians slaughtered by jihadists ...
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  29 September 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Another priest abducted in the south of Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Another Catholic priest in the south of Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Lawrence Adorolo, of St. Benedict Catholic Church, Okpella in the State of Edo, was reportedly abducted. "Rev Adorolo was on his way back ...
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  28 September 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church announces a conference on homosexuality. Patriarch Tawadros: marriage can only be heterosexual Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Orthodox Coptic Catholic Patriarch Tawadros II reiterates the unavailability of the Coptic Church to legitimize in any form, marriage among same-sex, while Coptic environments announce a forthcomi ...
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  28 September 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops alarm: "There is a risk of economic collapse and open conflict if political forces do not talk" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Majority and opposition must listen to IEBC’s (Independent Electoral Commission) invitation to dialogue, and chart the way forward with the aim of holding free, fair and credible Presidential ...
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  27 September 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Church: Public institutions must help correct false religious concepts of reproduction Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - State institutions must help counteract and correct concepts of reproduction that claim to be religious-based, and are also followed by the people. This is the wish expressed in the public speech ...
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  27 September 2017
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - "The Church is under attack" denounces the President of the Episcopal Conference recalling the abducted priests Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Priests are not engaged in politics. If there have been appeals on behalf of some pastoral agents, it is in the framework of civil commitment, respect for values such as justice, peace and rec ...