Africa

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  9 October 2015
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Archbishop of Conakry: "Sunday's elections: a test of democracy and political maturity" Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - "Our Country is about to undergo a revealing test of its level of political maturity", said His Exc. Mgr. Vincent Coulibaly, Archbishop of Conakry, in a message for the presidential elections to ...
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  9 October 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Organizations call on President al-Sisi to reopen the investigation into the massacre of Maspero Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – After four years of the so-called massacre of Maspero, the Copts of Egypt Coalition - independent organization of the Coptic Orthodox Church, but animated by militant lay Copts - has asked Presi ...
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  8 October 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Perplexity about the creation of 28 new States Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The decision of President Salva Kiir to divide South Sudan (see Fides 03/10/2015) with the creation of 28 new States is provoking criticism. "I would have preferred to hear that the government is t ...
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  8 October 2015
  AFRICA/GHANA - Inquiry on corrupt judges: for the Bishops it is "a scandal that undermines the principle of legality" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not the first time that this eminent son of the soil has brought the nation’s attention to the prevalence of deep-seated bribery and corruption in her public and social life but, by far, ...
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  8 October 2015
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Ebola orphans abandoned on the streets or entrusted to families who mistreat them Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - More than 5,900 Liberian children lost one or both parents to Ebola. According to information sent to Fides, some are with a surviving parent, others found loving homes with friends or relative ...
• 6 October 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - First positive impact of the report submitted by Catholic organizations on the mine in Kibali Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – We have the first positive impact of the publication, in late August, on the report "Giant Kibali mine; remove impurities because gold is pure (Géant Minier Kibali : ôter les impuretés pou ...
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  6 October 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Sectarian clashes in Samalut, the "city of martyrs": ten Copts wounded Minya (Agenzia Fides) - At least ten Copts were wounded and several shops and homes attacked and devastated, but fortunately no victims: this is the toll of the sectarian clashes that on Monday, October 5 shocked the tow ...
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  6 October 2015
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appeal from Christian leaders: "No to ethnic or religious manipulations before the vote" Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "Beware of politicians who aim at dividing the population on the basis of a religious or ethnic group in order to obtain electoral advantage". This is the joint appeal launched by the Epis ...
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  5 October 2015
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - "We are all called to work for reconciliation" says Cardinal Ouédraogo after the failed coup Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "A new situation requires new tasks" said Cardinal Philippe Ouédraogo, Archbishop of Ouagadougou, during the Mass he celebrated on Sunday, October 4 at the Marian Shrine of "Notre Dame de Y ...
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  5 October 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: Christians who present themselves as candidates in the Salafist lists are not credible Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Christians who present themselves as candidates in the Islamist Salafist lists "lack credibility" because "no one can live following two opposite thoughts". This is the peremptory judgment that Co ...
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  2 October 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Malaria: 4,000 cases a week and the death of three children a day Bentiu (Agenzia Fides) - "The malaria outbreak in Bentiu camp is unprecedented in scope and has been claiming the lives of too many children", said the medical coordinator for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Bentiu, in ...
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  2 October 2015
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Leader of the coup surrenders; today a day of prayer for peace in the Country Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - The leader of the failed military coup in Burkina Faso, General Gilbert Diendéré, former head of the Régiment de Sécurité Présidentielle (RSP), surrendered to the authorities of his co ...
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  1 October 2015
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - More clashes, but people want the stability of institutions Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Very heavy clashes took place in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, on 29 and 30 September between the "anti-Balaka" and UN Minusca forces which lasted several hours. This was r ...
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  1 October 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Bishops joined the protest march of citizens: "Concrete actions against corruption" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We believe that the Government is not doing enough to demonstrate that it is serious in its efforts to prevent and combat corruption. Political rhetoric is often not accompanied by decisiv ...
• 30 September 2015
  AFRICA - Bishops on the challenges regarding the family in Africa: poverty, war, ecological crisis, contrary ideologies Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The family in Africa is threatened by poverty, war, ecological crisis and the spread of ideologies contrary to family values. This was stated in the Contribution to the 14th Ordinary General Assemb ...