Africa

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  22 June 2017
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The drama of illegal migrants: where are the African politicians? Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "I am sad to see that several ministers had been invited for this constructive exchange of views, but only one came. Others preferred to go to the opening of a casino", said Fr. Norbert Éric Ab ...
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  21 June 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA -"Corruption is a cancer. He who is corrupt should resign" says "Justice and Peace" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "It is true that corruption in South Africa was a problem before Mr. Zuma came into office. It has however worsened during Mr. Zuma’s watch", says a statement by the Justice and Peace Com ...
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  20 June 2017
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - The Nuncio: in the Grand Kasai 3,338 victims of the clashes with militiamen Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are 3,383 victims of violence in the Ecclesiastical Circumscriptions of the Grande Kasai in the Democratic Republic of Congo, registered from October 2016 to present. This is what the Apo ...
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  20 June 2017
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Christian churches denounce: "Zambia is heading towards dictatorship" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Zambia is likely to head towards dictatorship, says the joint statement of the Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ), the Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ) and the Zambia Conference of Catholi ...
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  19 June 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - Assault on a tourist resort in Bamako and at Timbuctu airport Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - Two attacks within 24 hours against highly symbolic targets to show that the situation in Mali is still not stable. Yesterday, Sunday, June 18, a group of terrorists attacked "Kangaba" resort in ...
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  16 June 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Bishop: to propose a law to abolish foreign names is a time-waster employment Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Controversy and sarcasm in Egypt increase with regards to the bill submitted on Tuesday 13 June to the Egyptian Parliament to forbid the conferral of Western and "foreign" names to Egyptian babies ...
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  16 June 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Two hundred years of Christian faith: Cape Town opens the celebrations Cape Town (Agenzia Fides) - It was on June 7, 1818 that Pope Pius VII erected the Vicariate Apostolic of the Cape of Good Hope and Adjacent Territories, thus constituting for the first time a formal presence of the Catho ...
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  16 June 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Two Red Cross members released Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The two members of a team from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who were abducted in the morning of Wednesday, 7 June, between Kirumba and Beni, near Lubero, in North Kivu ...
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  14 June 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - “Bishop Bala did not commit suicide, he was brutally murdered; Bishops say let “justice to be done” Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - “Bishop Jean Marie Benoît Bala did not commit suicide; he was brutally murdered”. The news was announced in a statement released by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Cameroon regardi ...
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  14 June 2017
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Cholera epidemic grips the country; many infected, people uncertain what to do Karthoum (Agenzia Fides) – Hundreds continue to die of cholera in various parts of the country(see Fides 7/6/2017). The National Epidemiological Corporation says that 820 people have died and an estimated 23.766 are ...
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  13 June 2017
  AFRICA/LESOTHO - Parliamentary elections: applause from local Church observers Maseru (Agenzia Fides) - “The election was peaceful and well organised. Although some aspects could be improved, as the local Church we applaud the manner in which the election was held” says a report on parliam ...
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  12 June 2017
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Ranging from assistance for civil war evacuees to providing mother and child healthcare CUAMM Italian doctors in Angola mark 20 years of service Chiulo (Agenzia Fides) – On 13 June 1997 the first doctor of Medici con l’Africa CUAMM - the first healthcare NGO to be acknowledged in Italy and the largest Italian organization for safeguarding the health of Afri ...
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  12 June 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - “Let us do everything to make a future visit of Pope Francis possible” says the President of the local Bishops’ Conference Juba (Agenzia Fides) - “The cancelation of a planned visit by Pope Francis to South Sudan must be met with respect and prayer! The reasons for the cancellation surely go beyond superficial speculation and could be ...
• 9 June 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of the Rector of the "Notre Dame de l'Immaculée Conception" Major Seminary Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 11, 2017, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Jean Paul René Ondoua Omgba, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Ya ...
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  9 June 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian Minister to Christians: security at risk, reduce visits and celebrations in churches Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egypt is under attack by forces wishing to destabilize the Country, and among the security measures promoted by State apparatus there is also the advice to Christians to reduce visits and celebrat ...