Africa

• 23 October 2023
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Appointment of Bishop of Oran Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, October 22, 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed the Reverend Fr. Davide Carraro, P.I.M.E., until now vicar general of Alger, as bishop of Oran, Algeria. Msgr. Davide Carraro ...
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  23 October 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops of the Great Lakes region call for an end to violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Everything must be done to put an end to the suffering of the people of the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)", say the members of the Association of Bishops' Conferences of Centr ...
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  23 October 2023
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Eparch of Adigrat: "Our world order seems to be in need of a serious transformation": we do not want Tigray to remain forgotten Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - "Our world order seems to be in need of a serious transformation, otherwise the consequences will continue affecting more and more, of course the weaker ones being first loosers", writes to Fide ...
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  21 October 2023
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Media representative of the Bishops' Conference: “Our listeners ask us above all for prayers” The Catholic media in Côte d'Ivoire has undergone a profound evolution in recent years. A process intertwined with the journey of the entire ecclesial community, as Don Hervé Djezou secrétariat exécutif national des ...
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  20 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Three monks kidnapped in a Benedictine monastery Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – A novice and two postulants of the Benedictine order were kidnapped from a monastery in the Nigerian state of Kwara. At one o'clock on the night of October 17, an armed group, believed to be Ful ...
• 19 October 2023
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of Bishop of Njombe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 19, 2023, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Eusebio Samwel Kyando, of the clergy of Njombe, until now member of the Finance and Development Committee and representative of t ...
• 19 October 2023
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of the Rev. Jovitus Francis Mwijage as Bishop of Bukoba Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 19, 2023, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Jovitus Francis Mwijage, of the clergy of Bukoba, until now National Executive Director of UMAWATA and member of the Regional Cou ...
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  19 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - "We are under embargo", trapped by our limitations and our poverty, trapped by our security and freedom Dosso (Agenzia Fides) – "We are under embargo, in my opinion constantly; trapped by our limitations and our poverty, trapped by our security and freedom..." writes Father Rafael Casamayor, missionary in the small commu ...
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  19 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The 3 kidnapped nuns together with the seminarian and their driver have been released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "With gratitude to our great God, the superior general, and the entire members of the Missionary Daughters of Mater Ecclesiae, joyfully announce the safe release of our three kidnapped nuns, a sem ...
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  18 October 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - SABC on the conflict in the Holy Land: Bishops appeal for ceasefire Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We appeal for a ceasefire and that a humane way of dealing with the present situation be found to eliminate further suffering and deaths", says the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Confe ...
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  17 October 2023
  AFRICA - African governments spend a total of $1 billion per year on surveillance technologies: basic human rights at risk Rome (Agenzia Fides) - African governments spend a total of up to $1 billion a year on surveillance technologies, according to the report "Mapping the supply of surveillance technologies to Africa: case studies from Nige ...
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  16 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA- The initiation of the cause for the beatification of Vivian Uchechi Ogu, a 14-year-old killed like St. Maria Goretti Abuja (Fides News Agency) - The Catholic Church in Nigeria has begun the process for the beatification and canonisation of 14-year-old Vivian Uchechi Ogu of Umuelem, Eniogu, who was shot dead Nov. 15, 2009, by gunmen for ...
• 16 October 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Institution of the diocese of Katsina, Nigeria, and appointment of bishop Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has erected the new diocese of Katsina, Nigeria, by dismembering the diocese of Sokoto, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan See of Kaduna. At the same time, the H ...
• 16 October 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Resignation and appointment of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Ouagadougou Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - On October 16, 2023, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, presented by Cardinal Philippe Nakellentuba Ouédr ...
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  14 October 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - "It is not the poor who need us, but we who need the poor" Arua (Fides News Agency) - On Oct. 10, 2023 in Arua located in northern Uganda, about 25 members living the spirituality of St. Daniel Comboni gathered to thank God for giving the Church and the world the great missionar ...