Africa

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  20 July 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Bishops: "No to the registration of pastors and ministers of religion" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "The recommendation that new laws be introduced to enforce registration of pastors and ministers is overkill and a response that one would expect more from a totalitarian state than a const ...
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  20 July 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Postponement of the general elections; the hypothesis of a transition without Kabila or separate elections is being considered Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The announcement on July 7 on behalf of the President of the Electoral Commission of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Corneille Nangaa, on the fact that the parameters in his possession do not ...
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  19 July 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Denial regarding the recent reports on Patriarch Tawadros' health conditions Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - An official statement of the Orthodox Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria denied the allegations that social media had spread regarding a sudden deterioration of the health conditions of Patriarch ...
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  19 July 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - Give powers to traditional leaders to manage development projects Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Africans have been called to change their mindset in order to develop the African continent. If traditional leaders joined parliament members, development projects could be managed more quickly an ...
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  19 July 2017
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "Home-to-Home" campaigns to prevent cholera Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Presentations on the streets, online videos, posters, bars of soap: are some of the local initiatives that have been done to help people fight against infection and raise awareness about the ra ...
• 19 July 2017
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Claudio Santangelo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 11, 2017 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Fr. Claudio Santangelo, of the Congregation of the Mission (CM) Lazar ...
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  18 July 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Religious leaders denounce the terrorist attacks and banditism to prevent the people from voting Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We are convinced that these attacks, though masquerading as terrorism or banditry, may actually be orchestrated criminality aimed at displacing populations so that they don’t participate in t ...
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  18 July 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Two priests kidnapped. The Bishops' condemnation: "Hurting them means harming the community they serve" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Two Congolese Catholic priests were kidnapped during the night between Sunday 16 and Monday, July 17. Don Pierre Akilimali and Don Charles Kipasa were kidnapped by strangers in the Notre-Dame d ...
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  17 July 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Boko Haram attacks a mosque: "It is an enemy of humanity", says the Social Communications Director of the Diocese of Maiduguri Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Boko Haram is an enemy of humanity and does not hesitate to kill faithful Muslims. Its tactics is to commit atrocities against innocent civilians in order to maximize the terrorist impact on the ...
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  14 July 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Forced repatriation and violence push Nigerian refugees to go back home Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - There are 91,000 people who left Nigeria to take refuge in Cameroon, but the hostilities encountered are pushing many to return to their country of origin at the cost of exposing themselves to ...
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  14 July 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The son of a Coptic killed by jihadists donates the sum for the families of the victims to a mosque and a church Minya (Agenzia Fides) - Young Coptic Michael Atef Munir, son of one of the victims of the massacre of the Coptic pilgrims killed on May 26 in a jihadist ambush, announced he wants to donate the money that the Egyptian go ...
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  14 July 2017
  AFRICA/GABON - The Festival of Cultures, the most popular cultural event in the Country opens its doors again Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - The 2017 edition of the Festival of Cultures in Gabon has just ended in Libreville, Akanda and Owendo. The 2017 edition was celebrated under the theme ‘Cultural Diversity and National Cohes ...
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  13 July 2017
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Women, true primary missionaries of Faith Mansa (Agenzia Fides) - "You women are naturally the first catechisers who communicate faith and morals to us from the earliest stages of our life. Do not neglect this singular honour God has bestowed upon you, especiall ...
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  13 July 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: 5% of jobs in churches and ecclesial works will be dedicated for the disabled Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Orthodox Catholic Patriarch Tawadros II has decided that 5 percent of the work regarding people working in ecclesiastical churches and institutions will now be dedicated for the disabled. The same ...
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  12 July 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Anniversary of Independence: "Many, of all religions have not given up hope" Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "Six years after liberation, South Sudan’s humanitarian crisis is worse than ever, with grave violations of human rights and a lingering brutal civil war", writes His Ex. Mgr. Edward Hiiboro ...