Africa

• 13 June 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Still no contact with the kidnappers of the priest kidnapped Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Diocese of Ekiti has asked the faithful not to enter into negotiations with the kidnappers of Fr. Emmanuel Akingbade, the pastor of St. Benedict of Ido-Elkit (in south-west Nigeria), seized on ...
• 12 June 2015
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Bishops: "let us avoid repeating the language of those who want to destroy the family" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - From 8 to 11 June the preparatory meeting for the Synod on the family to be held in October in Rome was held in Accra (Ghana). According to a statement sent to Agenzia Fides, the meeting, entitled ...
• 12 June 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The UN representative offers himself as a mediator in the national dialogue Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The head of the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), Martin Kobler, has offered to mediate in the national dialogue (see Fides 02/06/2015) initiated by President Josesph Kabila in view of the upcom ...
• 11 June 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We are waiting to be contacted by the kidnappers", says the Bishop of Ekiti after the kidnapping of a priest Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are waiting for the kidnappers of our priest to get in touch with us to tell us their demands in exchange for his release" says His Exc. Mgr. Felix Ajakaye, Bishop of Ekiti. Don Emmanuel Aking ...
• 11 June 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Three people killed in Bujumbura, but for the President the demonstrations have now finished Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "Last night the police killed three people, a woman and two children, in a neighborhood in Bujumbura, where so far there had been no demonstrations" refer local sources from the Burundian capi ...
• 10 June 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - A shelter for 129 small children with Aids Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - A place where to find shelter, where everyone knows who they are and what they need, from medicines, food and a family. We are talking about Nyumbani children’s home in Nairobi, which includes ...
• 10 June 2015
  AFRICA - "The main problem in Africa is the crisis of values", says a UN African Special Representative Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - "The main problem in Africa is the crisis of values", said the UN Special Representative for Central Africa, the Senegalese Abdoulaye Bathily, during a meeting of Heads of the UN missions, wh ...
• 10 June 2015
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Fleeing insecurity and epidemics, Burundians pour into Uganda Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – More than 7, ooo Burundian refugees, mostly women and children, had arrived in Uganda through Rwanda and Tanzania. The cholera outbreak and worsening sanitation conditions in some of the refug ...
• 10 June 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - New appeal of Christian leaders to stop the "senseless war" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Stop immediately this senseless war that is bringing immense suffering to the South Sudanese people". This is the urgent appeal of the new South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC). The appeal, whic ...
• 9 June 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - After the Bishops also civil society denounces the massacres committed by jihadists in Beni, "the world must intervene" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Who has killed 430 people in such a horrendous way, from October to today, in the territory of Beni (North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo)? They are jihadist terrorists, say the lea ...
• 5 June 2015
  AFRICA - More than one million children prisoners worldwide with adult criminals Freetown (Agenzia Fides) – Many children are locked up in cells with criminal adults and are given only a cup of black tea without sugar and a plate of rice. These young boys and girls are in prison and, in addition to ...
• 5 June 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - International ecumenical initiative launched to accompany the 2016 elections Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - An International Ecumenical initiative to accompany Churches in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the 2016 presidential elections and in the following post-election period: is the result ...
• 3 June 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "The President is not liable for any non-security upgrades to his private residence"; Bishops: "we are afraid" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We note with dismay the determination in the report released by the police Minister Nathi Nhleko last week that President Zuma is not liable for any non-security upgrades to his private re ...
• 3 June 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Boko Haram hits Maiduguri again Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Maiduguri, capital of Borno State in northeastern Nigeria, is again at the center of the attacks of Boko Haram, the Islamist sect, that despite having suffered heavy losses on behalf of the army i ...
• 2 June 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops’ request to the President: "A national dialogue in accordance with the Constitution" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "A national dialogue in accordance with the Constitution". This is what the Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) hoped for during the meeting with President Joseph Kabila, dedicate ...