Africa

• 12 May 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Positive comments and controversy over the case of the Ethiopian Christians freed in Libya thanks to the Egyptian intervention Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The recent case of 27 Ethiopian Christians abducted in Libya and released thanks to the decisive involvement of the Egyptian apparatus is arousing positive appraisal regarding the efforts by the E ...
• 11 May 2015
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Liberia was declared free from Ebola, but MSF warns that the outbreak is not yet over Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - Liberia was declared free from Ebola by the government and the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday, May 9, 2015 after 42 days without a new case of the virus. However, MSF warns that, w ...
• 11 May 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops warn: "A Government that cannot protect its own people loses its legitimacy to govern" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Kenyans are worried and desperate. The Government, which swore to protect Kenyans, seems hopelessly incapable of offering permanent solutions to perennial insecurity", said the Kenyan Bishops i ...
• 11 May 2015
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Salafi leaders: let us close all the churches in the Country Algiers (Agenzia Fides) - We have to close all Christian churches scattered on the Algerian territory, and turn them into mosques, where possible. This is the proposal launched by the Algerian Salafist leader Abdel Fatta ...
• 11 May 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI – There are already more than 50,000 Burundian refugees in neighboring Countries Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - Burundi, the protagonist of one of the best reintegration programs for refugees in recent years, sees again part of its population seeking refuge abroad because of the political crisis linked ...
• 8 May 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Kidnapped priest released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Innocent Umor, the Catholic priest kidnapped in the early hours on May 4 in his parish in Ikanepo, in the diocese of Idah, in Kogi State, in central southern Nigeria (see Fides 07/05/2015) has ...
• 8 May 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Difficult negotiations between the government and opposition to overcome the political crisis Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - Protests in Burundi against incumbent President Pierre Nkurunziza, who intends to stand for election on 26 June for a third term, continues. "So far we have counted fifteen dead in recent clas ...
• 7 May 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "May elections be held" ask the Bishops, invoking the path of dialogue Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We strongly recommend elections to be held so that Country has institutions elected by the people", say the Bishops of Burundi in a message on the situation of the Country, in the grip of pro ...
• 7 May 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic priest Kidnapped Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - According to local media sources, a Nigerian priest, Don Innocent Umor, was abducted from his parish in Ikanepo, in the diocese of Idah, in Kogi State, in central southern Nigeria. The fact happen ...
• 6 May 2015
  AFRICA/MALI - President of the Episcopal Conference:"Mali wants peace, Muslims have suffered the violence of the jihadists" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We desire peace, this is why Mali prays and hopes the peace agreement is signed", says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Jean-Baptiste Tiama, Bishop of Sikasso and President of the Episcopal Conference Mali, ...
• 6 May 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - South African Bishops' donate money for the victims of xenophobic violence Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of South Africa, through the foundation by them promoted, have donated 100,000 Rand to bring relief to the victims of the recent xenophobic attacks. The sum was donated to the p ...
• 5 May 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - The Constitutional Court approves third term for Nkurunziza, while protests continue Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "According to the Red Cross, at least three people were killed and several others injured yesterday as a result of shots fired by the police on the crowd" say local sources from Bujumbura, cap ...
• 5 May 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More than 7,000 Burundian asylum-seekers in South Kivu; UN and Caritas mobilized Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 4,000 Burundian refugees have been welcomed in Uvira area in recent days, according to what was stated by the Episcopal Conference of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Uvira is locate ...
• 5 May 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros II: the possibility to celebrate Easter together on the third Sunday in April is being studied Amsterdam (Agenzia Fides) - The debate on the opportunity to unify the dates of the liturgical solemnities currently celebrated on different days from different Churches and communities, is "a historical problem" that in ...
• 4 May 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI – Shooting in Bujumbura while protesters make their way to the center of the capital Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - In most of the districts of Bujumbura police is firing into the air to quell the demonstrations which have continued for days against the candidature of outgoing President Pierre Nkurunziza, i ...