Africa

• 30 June 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Condolences of the Council of Christian Churches for the assassination of Attorney General Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Council of Churches in Egypt expressed the unanimous sympathy of all Christian communities in Egypt for the assassination of Attorney General Hisham Barakat, who on Monday, June 29 was the vic ...
• 26 June 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Presentation of the report on the incidents in Marikana, in 2012: "a horrible tragedy" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - A judicial inquiry on the work of the police in the tragic events in the mine in Marikana and criticisms against the leadership of the Lomnin company, which manages the mine of platinum. Th ...
• 26 June 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Opposition announces the boycott of elections Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - The opposition in Burundi announced that it will boycott the elections which will begin on June 29, with the vote for the renewal of the municipalities and parliament. On July 15, the disputed ...
• 26 June 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Christians organize the "banquet of unity" for Muslims on the occasion of Ramadan Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Once again this year, according to custom, parishes and Christian families in Egypt organize spontaneously at the end of the day the so-called "banquet of unity", social occasions in particular of ...
• 25 June 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Cholera and rains aggravate the humanitarian situation, thousands of refugees fleeing the war: the testimony of a missionary Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The authorities have announced that 18 people have died from cholera and about 170 people have been admitted to hospital due to the epidemic, and three diagnostic centers have also been reopened t ...
• 25 June 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "We respect the Constitution, no to Kabila’s third term", says civil society in South Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Respect the Constitution". This is the main request made by civil society in South Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) during national talks promoted at a national and local level by P ...
• 25 June 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: the so-called "Gospel of Barnabas" is a fake Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The fake "Gospel of Barnabas", also passed off by the international media as a document found, is "a book full of also historical and geographical errors, the work of a forger", and has no value a ...
• 24 June 2015
  AFRICA/MALI - The peace agreement signed in a climate of emotion and conviviality Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The signing ceremony of the peace agreement took place in a very convivial climate" says Don Edmond Dembele, Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Mali to Agenzia Fides, who was prese ...
• 24 June 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The campaign to "clean up" the bookshops and libraries of mosques of extremist propaganda continues Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Operations to collect all books and materials of extremist and fundamentalist propaganda, that had been widely disseminated especially during the government led by the Muslim Brotherhood, have bee ...
• 24 June 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Despite the latest attacks, we hope that Boko Haram will be soon defeated" says the Bishop of Maiduguri Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We have concrete hope that Boko Haram will be defeated soon. We are praying that Boko Haram will soon become a thing that belongs to the past", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Oliver Dashe Do ...
• 23 June 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - The exhortation of Mgr. Pante to 600,000 refugees welcomed in Kenya: "Do not lose hope" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Every 15 minutes a person becomes displaced in the world", recalled His Exc. Mgr. Virgilio Pante, Bishop of Maralal and Vice President of the Commission for Refugees and Migrants of the Kenya E ...
• 23 June 2015
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Rwandan intelligence chief arrested in London London (Agenzia Fides) – It is believed that a diplomatic row will break out between the UK and Spain, on the one hand, and Rwanda on the other, due to the arrest of General Emmanuel Karenzi Karake in London, head of t ...
• 23 June 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Appeal from Torit: the few NGOs that have remained in South Sudan must not leave over 4 million displaced alone Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "It is necessary that the international community intervenes forcefully to stop the fratricidal war between the supporters of President Salava Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar", says, in ...
• 22 June 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros receives a delegation of Chinese People Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A Chinese delegation led by Wang Zuo'an, director of the State Administration for Religious Affairs of the Republic of China (SARA), was received on 18 June by Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros I ...
• 22 June 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Priest kidnapped on June 8 has been released, no ransom was paid Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Don Emmanuel Akingbade, the pastor of St. Benedict in Ido-Ekiti (in southwestern Nigeria), kidnapped on 8 June (see Fides 11/06/2015) has been released. This was confirmed to the local press by Hi ...