Africa

• 16 February 2017
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Erection of the Diocese of Maintirano and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 8, 2017 the Holy Father erected the new diocese of Maintirano (Madagascar), with territory taken from the Diocese of Tsiroanomandidy, Mahajanga and Morondava, making it a suffra ...
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  15 February 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Anglican Bishop: "Soldiers attacked a village and rape women and girls" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - An Anglican Bishop has accused the South Sudan army (SPLA) of mass rapes and violence against civilians in the state of Eastern Equatoria. "We do not know the exact number of women who were raped b ...
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  14 February 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A general denounces: "The army has become an instrument of ethnic cleansing of the President" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - A top army general of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), has resigned from the government, accusing President Salva Kiir and SPLA leadership of pursuing a tribal agenda in the country. L ...
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  14 February 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New ethnic violence in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Three people were killed and 13 abducted. This is the toll of yet another ethnic attack which took place in Rutshuru Territory in North Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. As rep ...
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  14 February 2017
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Initiatives, meetings and prayer for the sick of the diocese of Fianarantsoa Fianarantsoa (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the recent celebration of the World Day of the Sick, the community of Fianarantsoa gathered for two retreats at the Jean Marie Vianney childhood building, in Ambalapaiso. ...
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  13 February 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Unimaginable violence against civilians", denounces the Bishop of Luiza Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Violence and unimaginable atrocities have been committed against peaceful citizens", said His Exc. Félicien Mwanama Galumbulula, Bishop of Luiza in the Central Kasai province in the Democrati ...
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  13 February 2017
  AFRICA/CHAD - Hepatitis E outbreak: need to improve water and sanitation N'djamena (Agenzia Fides) - A hepatitis E outbreak is escalating across Am Timan, in the Salamat region of South-Eastern Chad. This is what the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Méd ...
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  10 February 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - Nun kidnapped: "No news from the kidnappers but we do not lose hope" Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "There are no claims or demands for ransom", says Fr. Edmond Dembele, Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Mali who updates Agenzia Fides about the investigation into the kidnapping o ...
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  10 February 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishop of Yei: "We demand justice for Sister Veronica" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "We demand justice for Sister Veronica Rackova" said His Exc. Mgr. Erkolano Lodu Tombe, Bishop of Yei, in southern Sudan, wondering why the government in Juba is remaining silent with regards to th ...
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  10 February 2017
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - A city bus in Spain becomes a mobile unit for street children in Sierra Leone Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - One of the operating urban buses in Badajoz, Extremadura, will be sent to Freetown, Sierra Leone, and will become a Mobile Unit for the assistance of thousands of at-risk children living in the ...
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  8 February 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - A Colombian nun kidnapped Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - A Colombian nun of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate was kidnapped last night, February 7, in Koutiala, in the south of Mali. "We do not know who the kidnappers are. T ...
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  8 February 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops appeal: "drought is to be declared a national disaster" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Drought is to be declared a national disaster". This is the appeal of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) through its Chairman, His Exc. Mgr. Philip Anyolo, Bishop of Homa Bay. "We ...
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  1 February 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishops' appeal to students: "Yes to demonstrations without interrupting the lessons" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We appeal to all our students in the beginning of this academic year to return to lectures and to their academic programmes while continuing their legitimate campaign" say the South Africa ...
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  1 February 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A priest who opposed the militiamen of Kamuina Nsapu was kidnapped and then released Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest who opposed the arrogance of the militia of the traditional late chief Kamuina Nsapu was first kidnapped and then released. The fact took place yesterday, 31 January, in Kanan ...
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  31 January 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Civil society has been taken hostage by politics" denounces CEPADHO Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Congolese civil society has been taken hostage by politics" complains CEPADHO (Study Centre for the Promotion of peace, of democracy and human rights), a civil society organization in North Ki ...