Africa

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  4 July 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - Lay people need to intensify their involvement in the pastoral activities of the Church Accra (Agenzia Fides) – The laity in Ghana should begin to intensify their involvement in the Pastoral activities of the Church by assisting Priests to provide spiritual and emotional support to Christ’s faithful and ...
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  4 July 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "Stop contagion": campaign against trachoma Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - There are 2 million blind people around the world due to trachoma, an eye infection that spreads in precarious hygiene conditions through contact, even with a simply kiss or a caress. In Eth ...
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  3 July 2017
  AFRICA/NIGER - "Marriage is not a game for children": 60% of girls are married in the Country Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Every 7 seconds, somewhere in the world, a girl under 15 years of age gets married. Niger is one of the countries where the highest rate of girls between 15 to 19 years of age get married. Accord ...
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  3 July 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The drama of Internal Displaced People, mainly mothers and children, young girls, often widows Nyal (Agenzia Fides) - "From Juba by plane to Rumbek, a former state of the Lakes, and from here by helicopter for 40 minutes, to Nyal, in the south of the former Unity state. You cannot travel by car, it is too dangerou ...
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  30 June 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishops thank the Pope "for his affectionate support to South Sudan" Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "In my name, as President of the Catholic Bishops 'Conference of Sudan (SCBC) and in the name of my Bishops of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Sudan, I wish to express my sincere gratitude ...
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  28 June 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The police releases a priest, victim of a seizure for extortion Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest who had been the victim of a kidnapping for extortion was released by the police. Father Charles Nwachukwu of the diocese of Okigwe in the State of Imo (in Southeast Nigeria) wa ...
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  27 June 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - No to impunity for crimes committed, otherwise the Country will sink back into hatred and violence Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Over 5,000 dossiers on violence committed in the Central African Republic from 2014 until today will be submitted to the Special Criminal Court for Central Africa by the "Justice and Peace" Episc ...
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  27 June 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Poverty is serious and rampant, there are more and more weapons and insecurity increases Padua (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent days, Fao, Unicef and Wfp (World Food Program) have officially declared the famine to be over. Perhaps, maybe in the capital Juba! Surely not in Yirol, Rumbek, Cueibet, Maper or in any ...
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  26 June 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops: "We all demand respect for the New Year's Eve Agreement" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The New Year's Eve Agreement is the only roadmap based on the Constitution, which we must demand respect and its application by the signatories", the Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Cong ...
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  26 June 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Azhar presents a bill against those who use religion to justify violence and hate campaigns Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The scholars of the University of al Azhar, the main theological-academic center of Sunni Islam, submitted the text of a bill to the offices of the Presidency of the Egyptian Republic to counter v ...
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  23 June 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Violent clashes in Bria, in the east of the Country Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Unfortunately, the situation in Central Africa is deteriorating despite the peace agreements signed on June 19 in Rome", say Missionary sources to Agenzia Fides, from Bangui, the capital of the ...
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  23 June 2017
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Attack failed in Beni: 13 assailants killed Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - 13 rebels killed, 13 captured and 6 injured, is the official toll of yesterday’s attack, 22 June, against the city of Beni in northern Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (se ...
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  23 June 2017
  AFRICA/BENIN - Record of cotton production: almost half a million tons Porto Novo (Agenzia Fides) - According to estimates from the Ministry of Economy, the cotton production in Benin has reached record levels of almost half a million tonnes. For years, "white gold" did not record such figu ...
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  22 June 2017
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Clashes in the city of Beni between the army and a coalition of rebels Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Strong clashes occurred this morning, June 22, in Beni in the province of North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to information sent to Agenzia Fides, the clas ...
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  22 June 2017
  AFRICA - Half a million African children learn to read and write thanks to the initiative of other African girls Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The African Children and Young Workers Movement (MAEJT) has allowed the literacy of over half a million boys and girls in Africa. MAEJT was born in 1994, when a group of illiterate girls in Côt ...