Africa

• 13 January 2015
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Copts kidnapped: jihadist websites spread photos Sirte (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, January 12 some jihadist websites published photos of 21 Coptic Egyptians abducted in recent weeks in Sirte in two group seizures, attributing the kidnappings to the Islamic State (IS ...
• 13 January 2015
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA REPUBLIC - The situation is improving, the Bishops launch a campaign for social cohesion Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Central African Republic note with satisfaction that there is an improvement regarding the food situation and security in some cities of Central Africa. This emerged on Sunday, ...
• 13 January 2015
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Over 10,000 children at the yearly pilgrimage organized by Missionary Childhood Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - More than 10,000 children and teens of the Archdiocese of Dakar (capital of Senegal) gathered at the Shrine of Notre Dame de la Délivrance de Popenguine, to experience the annual pilgrimage in th ...
• 12 January 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Future hope for a major demonstration to take place just like the one in Paris to say no to Boko Haram" proposes Mgr. Kaigama Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The new strategy of Boko Haram terrorists to use innocent children as human bombs is abhorrent and unimaginable" says His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos and President of the E ...
• 12 January 2015
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Casamance: "Stalemate, the peace process must be relaunched" says the Bishop of Ziguinchor Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "The true peace that we await is an act of courage that commits both sides to lay down their arms to speak in truth and draw the outlines of a final and lasting peace, based on a written and signe ...
• 9 January 2015
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Cardinal-designate Souraphiel: "I will work for the Church so that it obtains the observer status in the African Union" Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) – To work so that the Catholic Church obtains the observer status in the African Union. This is one of first commitments expressed by Cardinal-designate His Exc. Mgr. Berhaneyesus Demerew So ...
• 9 January 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - New violence committed by Boko Haram: perhaps 2,000 dead, several churches burned Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Even several churches have been burned in the last series of attacks committed by Boko Haram in the city of Baga and in the surrounding villages, in the Nigerian Borno state, which according to so ...
• 9 January 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Salafist leader condemns the violence against Copts in Libya Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian parliamentary Younes Makhioun, president of the Salafi al-Nour Conservative Party, condemned the violence - murders and kidnappings - suffered in recent weeks in Libya by the Egyptian ...
• 8 January 2015
  AFRICA - The Holy See expresses gratitude to local Churches in Africa fighting Ebola Rome (Agenzia Fides) - " The Holy See wishes to express its appreciation to the local Catholic Church in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone for its timely response to the Ebola crisis. In order to strengthen these efforts ...
• 8 January 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Boko Haram is now a regional problem Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - More than 3,000 refugees fleeing the Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram have been welcomed in Chad. This was announced by the Prime Minister of Chad, Kalzeubé Pahimi Deubet, according to whom even ...
• 7 January 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - President al-Sisi attends Coptic Christmas mass at Cairo Abbasiya Cathedral Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi attended Christmas mass at Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral , where he greeted Coptic Christians in a speech on Tuesday January 6. "The Egyptian P ...
• 7 January 2015
  AFRICA/NIGER - The Archbishop of Niamey: "More and more young Nigeriens are being enlisted in the Boko Haram movement, especially in the region of Diffa" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - More and more young Nigeriens are being enlisted in the Boko Haram movement. The alarm was launched, in his message at the beginning of the year, by His Exc. Mgr. Michel Cartatéguy, Archbishop o ...
• 7 January 2015
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Archbishop of Bangui threatened with death while bringing assistance to the displaced Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, President of Central Africa Caritas, led a mission of support to the residents in the village of Gbangou, whose homes (275 in all) were ...
• 5 January 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Copts abducted in Libya. For Islamists they are "legitimate targets" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The armed gangs of the Libyan Islamist Ansar al-Sharia network consider the Egyptian Copts who are in Libya "legitimate targets", and hit them with violence and targeted kidnappings even for retal ...
• 5 January 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - An 'educational manual' on the internet for jihadist mothers Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - 'The role of women in the jihad' is the title of a book which was recently presented on the Internet compiled by the extremist group of the Islamic State that continues to train child soldiers. Th ...