Africa

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  26 September 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Refugees: "Staying or emigrating is no longer a choice" says the Bishop of Koudougou Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we see that staying or emigrating is often no longer a choice, especially leaving has become a necessity," says Msgr. Joachim Hermenegilde Ouédraogo, Bishop of Koudougou, President o ...
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  26 September 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - "It is God who sends you to us": grassroots communities help families in need Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite the uncertainty in which the country lives after the coup of July 26, we continue to work. Harvests throughout the Sahel are poor and the closure of the borders, especially those of Benin ...
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  25 September 2023
  AFRICA/BENIN - The death of 35 people in a fire due to a fuel depot blast raises the issue of fuel smuggling Porto-Novo (Agenzia Fides) - At least 35 people (including two children) died in the explosion of a clandestine fuel smuggling depot, which occurred on September 23 in Sèmè-Kraké, a town located on the border between ...
• 22 September 2023
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Maputo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Osório Citora Afonso, I.M.C., until now official at the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for first evangelization and the new particular ...
• 22 September 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of bishop of Zaria Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Habila Tyiakwonaboi Daboh, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Kaduna, until now rector of the Good Shepherd Major Seminary in Kaduna, as bishop o ...
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  22 September 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Kidnapped Catholic priest regains freedom Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Last Sunday, September 17, Father Marcellinus Obioma Okide, who serves as a parish priest at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Amofia-Agu Affa, Udi Local Government Area, was abducted alongside six ...
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  21 September 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - New measures against criminal sects that threaten Ogun State in the south-west of the country Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Ogun State, in the south-west of Nigeria, will set up a special court to judge cases related to so-called confraternities or sects. A joint anti-cult security task force will als ...
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  20 September 2023
  AFRICA/MALI - Second Forum for Catholic Education: “We want to improve the quality of education” Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The first challenge is to improve the training of our teachers and then to review our teaching programs so that the education offered to students is adapted to the reality of our country", says ...
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  20 September 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - 'Never again' in the Sahara desert by Mauro Armanino Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - On September 24, 2023, the 109th World Day of Migrants and Refugees will be celebrated. World Migrant and Refugee Day was established by the Catholic Church in 1914 and tak ...
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  19 September 2023
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - “ALHAMDULILLAH”: Christians and Muslims work side by side, together for the same cause” Marrakech (Agenzia Fides) - "On Sunday, September 10, in the parish of the Holy Martyrs in Marrakech, during the Mass celebrated by Archbishop Cristobal Lopez Romero, the Lord's Prayer was recited in Arabic as a sign of ...
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  19 September 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A priest kidnapped along with six other people Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic priest Marcellinus Obioma Okide was kidnapped in Udi (Enugu State), in the southeast of Nigeria. The kidnapping occurred last Sunday, September 17, at 5pm along Eke-Affa-Egede Road in ...
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  18 September 2023
  AFRICA/CONGO - "The alleged coup is fake news" confirm Fides sources Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - "This is unfounded news". This i show local sources heard by Fides in Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo, deny rumors of an alleged military coup that deposed President Denis Sass ...
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  18 September 2023
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Ten days after the earthquake: rescue and search operations continue Marrakech (Agenzia Fides) - Ten days after the earthquake that devastated the province of Al Haouz, southwest of Marrakech, there are villages in the mountainous areas that have been completely razed to the ground. Th ...
• 15 September 2023
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Appointment of the Bishop of Masvingo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Raymond Tapiwa Mupa, C.Ss.R., hitherto of Chinhoyi, as bishop of the diocese of Masvingo, Zimbabwe. (EG) (Agenzia Fides, 15/9/2023) ...
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  15 September 2023
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Archbishop of Bamenda and President of the Bishops' Conference: "Despite the violence, I did not close any parish and I stayed on site" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Cameroon, Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Bamenda, spoke in an interview with Fides about the situation of the Church in Cameroon. How is ...