Africa
21 March 2023
AFRICA/NIGER - Release of two Western hostages kidnapped in the Sahel
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The two hostages were recovered safe and sound by the Nigerien authorities before being handed over to the French and American authorities", said the Minister of Interior of Niger Hamadou Souley ...
20 March 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Awaiting the results of Saturday's poll. Reported intimidation and violence
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The counting of the local elections of March 18 (see Fides, 18/3/2023) is underway. According to Festus Okoye, spokesman for the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria, these electio ...
20 March 2023
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Ingwavuma, Father Vusumuzi Francis Mazibuko, OMI
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Vusumuzi Francis Mazibuko, O.M.I., hitertho parish priest of Saint Mary’s in Pietermaritzburg, archdiocese of Durban, as vicar apostolic of ...
20 March 2023
MOZAMBIQUE - "They remained in their place, close to the persecuted people, until their bloodshed". The story of the Jesuit martyrs of Chapotera
by Stefano Lodigiani
In view of the thirty-first "Day of Missionary Martyrs" on March 24, promoted by the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fides presents some profiles of missionary martyrs for whom the Cause of Canoniza ...
18 March 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Elections to change governors are underway; uncertainty about turnout
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nigerians return to the polls today, March 18, to elect the governors of 28 of the 36 states of the Federation and more than 900 representatives to the state assemblies.
After the presidential an ...
18 March 2023
AFRICA/MALAWI - More than 400 dead and 200 thousand displaced: the situation continues to worsen in the area of the Archdiocese of Blantyre
Blantyre (Agenzia Fides) - Roads and bridges swept away, entire communities isolated, unable to receive aid. Houses and infrastructures, thousands of families are without shelter, exposed to bad weather. These are the fi ...
17 March 2023
AFRICA/BENIN - The Mission is an adventure worth living
Calavì (Agenzia Fides) - "At the beginning of January 2022, I moved to Calavì, Benin, to the 'Brésillac' Center where the seminarians of the Society for African Missions attend the International Year of Spirituality ( ...
17 March 2023
AFRICA/BURUNDI - The fruits, failures, wounds, the new beginnings. Archbishop Nahimana recounts 125 years of the Gospel in Burundi.
by Luca Mainoldi
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the beginning of our evangelization, the family has been the first cell of the Burundian Church", says Msgr. Bonaventure Nahimana, Archbishop of Gitega and President of the ...
15 March 2023
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “Protests over the just demands of healthcare workers must not harm patients,” says Bishop of Mthatha
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The South African Labor Court of Appeal has ordered public health workers to end a week-long strike that has affected some of the country's main hospitals.
Members of the National Educatio ...
15 March 2023
AFRICA/TOGO - Faith can grow even in the difficulties that all missionaries face every day
Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - "Each of our young people has a story to live, to tell. We would like to share some of their reflections on mission, the joys, the difficulties, the challenges". It was Fathers Walter Woamede and ...
14 March 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Over 5 million trees to be planted in 5 years: the project to combat desertification promoted by the Nigerian Bishops
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) is to plant 5.5 million trees over the next five years to mitigate the effects of climate change in the country. Consequently, the conference laun ...
10 March 2023
AFRICA/TANZANIA - The Maasai people forced to leave their homes in the protected area of Ngorongoro
Malambo (Agenzia Fides) - The Tanzanian authorities are pushing the Maasai people to move away from the protected area of Ngorongoro, where most of the population resides, proposing financial 'aid' which is not sufficien ...
10 March 2023
AFRICA/LESOTHO - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 2, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle appointed Rev. Paul Lithebe Tjokosela, of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Maseru, as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societie ...
10 March 2023
AFRICA/RUANDA - "Forgiveness comes from listening to the other". Interview with Cardinal Kambanda, Archbishop of Kigali
by Luca Mainoldi
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I believe that conflicts arise from the fact that we do not want to listen to the other. Listening to the other involves us, it asks us to change", says Cardinal Antoine Kamban ...
9 March 2023
AFRICA/CAMEROON - The Catholic Bishop of Obala offers his condolences for the murder of the priest of the so-called Gallican “Church”
Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "We learned with pain of the heinous murder in Obala of Father Olivier Ntsa Ebodé, priest of a separated Christian community", says Msgr. Sosthène Léopold Bayemi Matjei, bishop of Obala, in ...
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