Africa

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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 ...
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  9 June 2017
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Malnutrition and illness affect settlements of displaced people Kalèmie (Agenzia Fides) - "Conditions in the settlements in the territories of Kalémie and Kansimba and in the province of Tanganyika need to be urgently improved, healthcare must be made easily accessible, food aid sh ...
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  8 June 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Two Red Cross operators kidnapped in the east of the Country Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Two delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were kidnapped in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to news sent to Agenzia Fides by CEPADHO (a local ...
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  7 June 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Bishops sympathize with Capt. Mahama’s Family Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Cruel way of treating human beings must stop now: I have never seen anything like that. I pray for the soul of Capt. Mahama", said His Exc. Mgr. Charles Palmer-Buckle, Archbishop of Accra and Vic ...
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  7 June 2017
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Cholera epidemic: 14,659 people infected and 292 deaths Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Cases of cholera in Khartoum and White Nile States continue to increase. In the Khartoum Bahri areas, the Ministry of Health registered 30 new cases, while local sources confirm at least one hu ...
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  6 June 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops of the ecclesiastical province of Bukavu: "The solution is not armed gangs but evangelical non-violence" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Armed gangs are not a stable political solution. Created to endure an unacceptable political order, end up generating an ordeal imposed on their brothers and sisters", write the Bishops of the ...