Africa

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  17 November 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The population of the Red Sea and the Blue Nile is dying of thirst Ad-Damir (Agenzia Fides) - Members of the Sudanese Parliament have declared that several people have died of thirst in the Red Sea and the Blue Nile, where there is a severe shortage of drinking water. The authorities ha ...
• 17 November 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Appointment of the Rector of the "St. John M.Vianney" Major Seminary in Pretoria Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 8, 2016, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Thembayona Paul Manci, of the "Servants of Christ the Priest" (SC ...
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  16 November 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Report of an NGO on human rights violations: "We risk genocide if nothing is done" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "Crimes are being committed against humanity and there is a risk of genocide" denounces Anschaire Nikoyagize, President of Iteka, the local representative of the International Federation of Hu ...
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  16 November 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Cardinal-elect Nzapalainga distributes school kits and food to the children of Km5 Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "I have come here so that the children whose parents do not have the means to send them to school, and the abandoned orphans, can study and I hope can be nurses, ministers, deputies tomorrow", sa ...
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  15 November 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops warn: "We risk electoral violence again, just like nine years ago" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Beware, we risk the situation we were in, in the year 2007-2008" warn the Bishops of Kenya, who "note with concern the resurgence of violence, confrontational languages and hate speeches" in th ...
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  15 November 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - In North Kivu abductions and assaults on military: this is how terrorists of the ADF welcome a UN delegation Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – There have been new attacks of the ADF in different places in the Territory of Beni, in North Kivu, province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in which various armed groups terrorize th ...
• 15 November 2016
  AFRICA/TOGO - Resignation of the Bishop of Dapaong, appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 15 November 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Dapaong (Togo), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Jacques Nyimbusède Tukumbé Anyilunda ...
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  14 November 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - South African faithful mobilized to help Haiti devastated by hurricane Matthew Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - A special collection for Haiti on the three last Sundays of November. This is the initiative launched by His Exc. Mgr. Sithembele Sipuka, Bishop of Umtata and Vice President of the SACBC (S ...
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  14 November 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - In February 2017 a seminar in Cairo on a joint study between Al Azhar and the Holy See on the major contemporary issues Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A coordination Committee linked to the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the Center for Dialogue of the University of Al Azhar, the most authoritative academic and theological cen ...
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  14 November 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishop of Tombura-Yambio: "Mercy as a way of peace for South Sudan" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "We must be compassionate towards one another so that peace prevails in our society", said His Exc. Mgr. Barani Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop of Tombura-Yambio, in South Sudan, at the closing cer ...
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  11 November 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Precarious security increases while the population demands a round table Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The security situation is serious outside the capital, as demonstrated by the attack on the camp of displaced people in Kaga Bandoro on 12 October", say Church sources to Agenzia Fides from Bang ...
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  10 November 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The civil society of North Kivu to the UN: "Strengthen the Blue Helmets to do away with the armed groups" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - An attack on the Indian Blue Helmets of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) resulted in the death of a 7-year-old and the injury of 34 people. The explosion of a hand ...
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  10 November 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 37 publishing houses participate in the "Coptic Book Fair" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - There are 37 publishing houses involved these days in "Coptic Book Fair", underway until November 22 at the exhibition hall in St Mark's Cathedral in Cairo. The inauguration, which took place on T ...
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  10 November 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops hand over an anti-corruption book to President Kenyatta Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Any officer adversely mentioned and implicated in graft ought to step aside even as investigations proceed. There should be conclusion to investigations and actual convictions for those found g ...
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  9 November 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishop of Embu: "No to political propaganda from the pulpits and no to vote-buying" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - No to political propaganda from the pulpits of the churches. This was stated by His Exc. Mgr. Paul Njiru Kariuki, Bishop of Embu, Kenya, in a pastoral exhortation sent to the priests and faithfu ...