Africa

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  28 August 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The coordinator of "Justice and Peace" of the diocese of Wau arrested Juba (Agenzia Fides) - A coordinator for "justice and peace" commission at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wau, in South Sudan has been arrested. According to Radio Tamazuj, Natalina Andrea Mabu, was under investigations o ...
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  28 August 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The main suspect of the murder of Fr. Vincent Machozi arrested in Uganda Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Turning point in the investigations regarding the murder of Fr. Vincent Machozi, an Assumptionist priest killed on the night of March 20, 2016 in the village of Vitungwe-Isale, 15km from Bute ...
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  26 August 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - New allegations regarding the behavior of UN peacekeepers Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The UN forces in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) are still being accused of not defending civilians from militia attacks in villages in the southeast. Some Catholic priests whose villages ...
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  26 August 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "There are attempts to destabilize the Country in order to take power by force", denounces CEPADHO Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply concerned about the security situation in the cities and territories of the eastern provinces (North and South Kivu, Ituri and Tanganyika) and in the city and Province of Kinshas ...
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  25 August 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Owerri Ecclesiastical Province Bishops urge Ahiara faithful to be submissive to the Holy Father Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In a Pastoral Statement issued at the end of their second Plenary meeting, the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Owerri have called on the priests, religious and lay faithful of Ahiara Dio ...
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  25 August 2017
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Victory of the MPLA contested; Bishops call for calm Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - Large victory of the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the legislative elections held on 23 August (see Fides 24/8/2017). The party, in power in Angola since independence ...
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  25 August 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - 72 members of Neocatechumenal way of South Africa go in mission Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - From 11 to 21 August, to answer to the call of Pope Francis, 72 men and women of the Neocatechumenal communities of South Africa have been sent on a worldwide mission two by two, with nothi ...
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  24 August 2017
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Tanzania will offer citizenship to more Burundi refugees who have been in the country for more than 45 years Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - Tanzania has said it will offer citizenship to more Burundi refugees who have been in the country for more than 45 years. This is the outcome of the talks between Tanzania's Interior Mini ...
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  24 August 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - "The Holy Eucharist celebration must always be solemn", admonishes Cardinal Onaiyekan Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja had admonished Catholics in Africa to keep the Holy Eucharistic Celebration solemn as possible. The Cardinal spoke at the Official Opening ...
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  24 August 2017
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Waiting for the outcome of the elections that will determine dos Santos’ successor Luanda (Agenzia Fides) – Angolans voted on Wednesday in an election marking the end of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’s 38-year reign. About 9.3 million registered voters were called to the polls to elect the Nat ...
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  23 August 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Archbishop of Kaduna: "The government must compensate churches and other victims of attacks carried out by Boko Haram" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "In the past six years, insurgents have attacked churches and other Christian places in the north, but the federal government is yet to compensate the victims", said His Exc. Mgr. Matthew Man-oso ...
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  23 August 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Auxiliary Bishop of Juba: "The government is the orchestrator of the war, and the people are suffering as a result" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The government is the orchestrator of the war, and the people are suffering as a result ", denounces Mgr. Santo Loku Pio Doggale, auxiliary Bishop of Juba, in an interview with National Catholic R ...
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  23 August 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - SACBC "JUSTICE AND PEACE" COMMISSION: more than 70‚000 mine workers have lost their jobs in the past two years Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply worried about the levels of retrenchment and unemployment in our Country ", says a statement signed by His Exc. Mgr. Abel Gabuza, Bishop of Kimberly, and President of the SAC ...
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  22 August 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "No elections in the DRC within the end of 2017", state the Austro-African Countries Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo cannot be organized by the end of 2017. This is what the Austro-African Development Community (SADC) noted at the summit that ended on Sunday, Augu ...
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  22 August 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishops' appeal to national unity: "Stop the violent propaganda that risks plunging the Country into war or a very serious crisis" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Enough of this drum beat of war". This is the title of the statement signed by His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos, and His Exc. Mgr. William Amove Avenya, Bishop of Gboko, res ...