Africa

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  28 January 2016
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Two hundred and fifty Islamic scholars sign the Marrakech Declaration calling for religious freedom for all Rabat (Agenzia Fides) – An appeal to develop an Islamic jurisprudence on the concept of citizenship, that is inclusive of all groups, was signed on January 27 by 250 leading Islamic scholars gathered in Marrakech, at t ...
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  28 January 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Is there a real political will to defeat the LRA?" asks the Bishop of Bossangoa Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The LRA rebels continue to enslave villagers, making them load carriers and sex slavesand they are also burning down villages", says His Exc. Mgr. Nestor Desire Nongo-Aziagbia, Bishop Bossangoa ...
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  28 January 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Ten Coptic workers in prison for having built an "illegal" wall Samalout (Agenzia Fides) - Ten Coptic men were arrested while they were building a fence wall for the Coptic church in the village of Abu Hennis, near the city of Salamout, in the governorate of Minya. The news was repor ...
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  27 January 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishop of Garissa: "We offer education to Christians and Muslims to overcome divisions" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Education is an essential tool to overcome religious, tribal and political barriers, as well as being an essential element for human development. This is what His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Alexander says ...
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  27 January 2016
  AFRICA / SUDAN - Five thousand newly displaced in the capital of West Darfur El Geneina (Agenzia Fides) - The Government Commission for Humanitarian Aid (HAC) and the Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) have estimated that, since January 10, 5000 people displaced from Mouli and surrounding villa ...
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  27 January 2016
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - The Cameroonian military claim successes against Boko Haram but are accused of massacres against civilians in Nigeria Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - The Cameroonian authorities announced they had inflicted "heavy losses" on Nigerian Boko Haram extremists who perpetrated a fourfold suicide bombing on January 25 in the town of Bodo, in the far ...
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  26 January 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops: "The perpetrators have to be punished with justice, no to innocent victims" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Need to punish the real culprits of terrorism and corruption, avoiding innocent victims". This is what the Nigerian Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ibadan say in a statement sent to Age ...
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  26 January 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishops of Sudan and South Sudan: "more efforts are needed for peace in our Countries" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The international community have to develop alternative plans if peace agreements reached between the Government of South Sudan and the armed opposition should fail. This is what the Bishops of Sou ...
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  25 January 2016
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - The political crisis in Mozambique also affects Malawi due to the many refugees Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - The number two of the Renamo (the former guerrilla movement which has become the main opposition party), Manuel Bissopo, escaped an ambush in the second largest city in Mozambique, Beira. On Janu ...
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  25 January 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Even the LRA rebels respect Pope Francis Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Even the LRA rebels respect Pope Francis. When a seminarian from St. Andrew parish told Ugandan rebels that their car and the computer was a gift from the Pope, they did not touch it", says to A ...
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  23 January 2016
  AFRICA/CONGO DRC - Bishops cancel the march of February 16 to avoid possible political manipulation Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - On 12 January, in a letter addressed to all the Bishops in the country, the National Episcopal Conference of the Democratic Republic of Congo (CENCO) announced that it has decided to cancel the ...
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  22 January 2016
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - A second case of Ebola has been confirmed in Sierra Leone Kambia (Agenzia Fides) - A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in Sierra Leone, the second since west Africa celebrated the end of the epidemic last week. The new case involved a relative of a 22-year-old student who di ...
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  22 January 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Holy Cross, the only Church in the entire World inside a refugee camp Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We are two priests here and reaching out to all the faithful is a challenge", said Fr. Augustine Kharmuti, Salesian priest who works in the Holy Cross church, the only Church in the entire worl ...
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  22 January 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - Concern in the country for the arrival of two former Guantanamo detainees Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Two Catholic lay groups have issued statements in support of the Ghana catholic Bishops’ Conference’s (GCBC) call on Government to do all it could to send the two Guantanamo detainees back to ...
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  21 January 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops: "Pray for our fallen soldiers in Somalia and we hope for the return of peace" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We stand in solidarity with our men and women in uniform who are carrying out their service in neighboring Somalia and those who, for their selfless service to our country, have paid the ultima ...