Africa

• 26 March 2015
  AFRICA - Rome -Caritas meeting: A million displaced persons and refugees fleeing Boko Haram Rome (Agenzia Fides) - An action plan for displaced persons and refugees from the violence of Boko Haram will be discussed during the meeting promoted by Caritas Internationalis in Rome which begins today and will end to ...
• 26 March 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Orthodox Church reaffirms ban on pilgrimages to Jerusalem Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, through spokesman Father Boulos Halim, confermed the ban to visit Jerusalem, as provided in 1979 by the then Patriarch Shenouda III, which remains in force for th ...
• 25 March 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Elections can be held in Maiduguri" says the Bishop Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The security situation has improved, and I think it likely that elections can be held in the city of Maiduguri on March 28, even if not in the whole Borno State" says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mg ...
• 25 March 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - President Sisi endorses the new regulation for the election of the Coptic Pope Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi approved yesterday, Tuesday, March 24, the decree containing the rules and procedures for the election of the Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Sourc ...
• 25 March 2015
  AFRICA/LIBYA - The Islamic State claim new attacks Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - The Islamic State has claimed two attacks carried out respectively in a suburb of Benghazi, capital of Cyrenaica, and in Misurata in Tripolitania. In the first case a suicide bomber is of Tunisi ...
• 24 March 2015
  AFRICA/ANGOLA – Angola, a nation of contradictions Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - Angola is a nation of contradictions. Children die because they do not have medicines. In many communities there are no schools, mosquito nets and toilets. The only sources where one can get drin ...
• 24 March 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Inexperience and corruption are the cause of civil war" says the Bishop of Wau Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Claims of ethnicity are too simplistic and offensive to people who come from the area. Many times, African conflicts are reduced to clans, tribes. It is not as simple as that", said Mgr. Rudolf De ...
• 23 March 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The conviction for the Salafist leader who tore up a copy of the Bible confirmed Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian Court of Appeal confirmed the sentence to five years in prison against the preacher Ahmed Mahmoud, also known by the nickname Abu Islam, convicted for having torn the pages of a Bible ...
• 23 March 2015
  AFRICA/LIBYA - After two days of bombing, the situation is calm in Tripoli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in Tripoli is quite calm. We do not know yet how long the calm will last", report local sources to Agenzia Fides from the capital of Libya. The government of Prime Minister Abdul ...
• 23 March 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Cardinal Onaiyekan: "We need a change in policy, people are tired" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "There has to be change in the policy of Nigeria, no matter who wins on March 28", said Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja, the federal capital of Nigeria. On March 20, in his speech for ...
• 20 March 2015
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "Tunisians, peaceful people who want a democratic Country are those who suffer the most" says the Director of the PMS Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "Tunisians are deeply saddened because they are the first to experience the violence of the terrorists", says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Jawad Alamat, Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) ...
• 20 March 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Hospitals in Al Azhar open their doors to Christian doctors Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Abel Hai Azab, dean of the University of Al Azhar - known as the greatest theological center of Sunni Islam - has announced the decision to take advantage of Christian doctors and professors withi ...
• 18 March 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New violence in North Kivu: "there is an attempt to block the operations against the FDLR" denounces civil society Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "From east to west, from north to south, there is insecurity in the territory of Rutshuru", says a statement sent to Agenzia Fides by the Civil Society of North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republ ...
• 18 March 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - No trace of the schoolgirls abducted in areas reconquered by the army Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Nigerian military have found no trace of the 200 girls abducted in April last year by Boko Haram, in the territories they reconquered in northern Nigeria. "In the liberated areas we made some ...
• 18 March 2015
  AFRICA – One out of 5 people with Ebola is a child Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - 20% of cases of Ebola recorded so far in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are children. Ebola continues to be a tragic reality for nine million children living in infected areas. Besides moni ...