Africa

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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 ...
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  5 September 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - One Health: Multidisciplinary health model to improve living conditions Filtu (Agenzia Fides) - In the Liben Zone, southern Ethiopia, the One Health Program of the Medical Cooperation Committee (CCM) was launched on 31 August. The two veteranians of the new One Health team have started mappi ...
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  4 September 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Arson caused fire in a high school in Nairobi that killed 9 students Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Nine pupils at Moi girls' boarding school in Kibera, Nairobi were killed in a fire during the night of September 2 (see Fides 2/9/2017). Today Education Minister Fred Matiang'i updated the toll ...
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  4 September 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A priest in southern Nigeria kidnapped and killed Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A Nigerian priest, Fr. Cyriacus Onunkwo, was kidnapped and killed in the state of Imo, southern Nigeria. According to the police, in the late afternoon of 1 September Fr. Onunkwo’s car was bloc ...
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  1 September 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Kenya’s Supreme Court nullifies result of presidential vote. "New election must be held within 60 days" says the Supreme Court Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Kenya’s Supreme Court has nullified the result of last month’s presidential election which according to the Independent Election Commission (IEBC), outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta had secu ...
• 1 September 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Resignation of the Bishop of Aliwal and appointment of the apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Today Pope Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Aliwal, South Africa, presented by His Exc. Mgr. Michael Wüstenberg, and appointed His Exc. Mgr. ...