Africa

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  16 March 2017
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "The only thing that matters is daily survival. You cannot make plans for the future" Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - A Country that can only think of daily survival and is unable to plan for the future: Malawi has for a long time found itself in a serious economic, political and food crisis. Fr. Piergiorgio G ...
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  15 March 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - 968 displaced people return home thanks to funds donated by the Holy See Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas donated financial assistance to facilitate the return of 968 displaced persons welcomed in the John XXIII center in Bangui to their home. The necessary funds, 80 million CFA Francs, were ...
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  15 March 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Two UN experts kidnapped in central Kasai Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "On March 13, CEPADHO learned with dismay about the abduction of Michael Sharp and Zahida Katala of the UN Expert Group for the Democratic Republic of Congo", said a statement sent to Agenzia F ...
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  14 March 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops: "Since the end of Nigeria’s tragic civil war our citizenship has been subjected to more strain" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the end of Nigeria’s tragic civil war (1967-1970), at no other time in the history of our dear country has the issue of our common citizenship been subjected to more strain", say the Cath ...
• 14 March 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The UN evacuates 25 seminarians of the Seminary of Kananga assaulted in February Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty-five seminarians were evacuated by the Blue Helmets of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO). The seminarians evacuated in Mbuji-Mayi were part of the group that w ...
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  9 March 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - English-speaking areas without the Internet for 50 days to try to block the protest for bilingualism Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - English-speaking regions of Cameroon (in the north-west and south-west of the country), have now been without the internet for 50 days which is causing serious inconvenience to the local popula ...
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  9 March 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Serious loss for the Ethiopian Church: a tragic accident killed four religious sisters Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Ethiopia is mourning the deaths of four religious sisters of the Congregation of the Daughters of St. Anne who died in a car accident, a fifth is in a coma and two were critica ...
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  8 March 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - The consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus: a blessing for the Ghanaian nation Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "I bring the Pope’s greetings, his Apostolic Blessing and his fervent wish that your nation continues to move forward in peace and stability, on a path of development that may become a model of ...
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  7 March 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Still obstacles regarding the implementation of the San Silvestro agreement; for the Bishops "one must be patient" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not the task of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) to meddle in the internal affairs of political platforms", said His Exc. Mgr. Fridolin Ambongo, Archbishop of Mbandaka- ...
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  6 March 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Auxiliary of Juba: "No to National Prayer called by the President whose troops are responsible for the tragedy that afflicts us" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Why should I go to pray where there is no holiness, where there is no forgiveness? It is a joke to hear the President of the Country calling prayers while at the moment, the soldiers are hunting p ...
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  6 March 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - 10,000 displaced persons have returned home Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "All refugees have returned home!" The news was reported by Fr. Federico Trinchero, Discalced Carmelite missionary who works in the Notre Dame du Mont Carmel convent in Bangui, capital of the Cen ...
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  6 March 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian Minister of religious endowements: defending churches against the assaults is part of the doctrine of Islam Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The attacks on Christians and their property are "attacks on all of us". Attacks on churches are comparable to "attacks on mosques", and the defense of Christians and their churches "is part of th ...
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  4 March 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Even the Red Crescent provides assistance to the Copts fleeing from northern Sinai Ismailia (Agenzia Fides) - Local volunteers of the Red Crescent are among the groups engaged in offering aid and reception to Coptic Egyptians who fled from al Arish and northern Sinai, following a series of killings in ...
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  3 March 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian President al Sisi meets the Chaldean and Maronite Patriarchs: let us establish the principle of citizenship in all Arab countries Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Religious leaders, in the current historical phase, have a key role in spreading in all Arab countries, the principle of citizenship, and reject false interpretations of Holy Books and religious t ...
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  3 March 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Lenten Campaign: "Tribalism and corruption threaten the Country; The Beatitudes are the way to a better Country" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Tribalism and corruption undermine the peace and stability of the Kenyan nation", warned His Exc. Mgr. Cornelius Korir, Bishop of Eldoret and President of the Bishops' Commission for Justice an ...