Africa

• 12 November 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN – Alarm: haemorrhagic fever in Southern Kordofan Kadugli (Agenzia Fides) - The inhabitants of the town of Kadugli, Abu Jubaiha and Habila, Southern Kordofan, have complained about the appearance of a fever unknown to them. Meanwhile, the local Ministry of Health has be ...
• 12 November 2014
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Mgr. Ouedraogo confident about the return of power to civilians on behalf of the military Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "The military is certainly willing to give power to a transitional civilian government. It is therefore a good thing that there is a Charter governing the transitional period", said His Exc. ...
• 12 November 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The government expels Islamist militants from educational institutions Minya (Agenzia Fides) – On Tuesday, November 11, the Egyptian Minister of Education, Mahmoud Abo El-Nasr paid a visit to the city of Minya in Upper Egypt, in order to see that the management functions in local administ ...
• 11 November 2014
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - A Bishop President of the Transition? The official position of the Church Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Burkina Faso is honored by the fact that a Catholic Bishop was suggested to take on the position of "President of the transition," but in accordance with the Canon Law, an eccl ...
• 11 November 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - The government presents a commission of inquiry on the tetanus vaccination after the protests of the Church Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Ministry of Health of Kenya established a Commission of Inquiry into the controversial campaign of vaccination against tetanus, which the Catholic Church affirms hides a program of forced st ...
• 10 November 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox: may the Churches unify the dates for the Easter celebration Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - A new appeal to all Christian Churches so that they celebrate the solemnity of Easter on the same date has been launched by the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch, Tawadros II. According to what Agenzia F ...
• 10 November 2014
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "Without outside help the Country is collapsing", says a missionary Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Malawi is experiencing an uncertain period with regards to its democratic experience", says Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, a Monfortan missionary, in a note sent to Agenzia Fides, while the local Bish ...
• 10 November 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Archbishop Kaigama: "Politicians must abandon the electoral struggle and unite to fight Boko Haram" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "It is time for our politicians to put aside the election campaign and unite to fight Boko Haram", said His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos and President of the Episcopal Confer ...
• 7 November 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "We want thorough investigation into the violence against the clergy in Lodja" asks civil society Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - After more than 20 days since the violent act against two priests and a nun, which took place on 12 and 13 October in Lodja in Kasai Oriental Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (s ...
• 7 November 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops reaffirm: "tetanus vaccination is a program of population control in disguise" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Kenya reiterate their accusations on the campaign of vaccination against tetanus which, they say, hides a program of population control (see Fides 17/10/2014); they also denounce ...
• 6 November 2014
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - An agreement for the transition has been reached; for the Bishops: a "historic turning point, now let us work for peace" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Presidential elections in Burkina Faso will be held in November 2015. It is one of the main points of the agreement reached yesterday, November 5, between the military that took power after ...
• 6 November 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - National Prayer Vigil for peace in the nation Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops and the faithful of about 55 archdioceses, dioceses and apostolic vicariates of Nigeria, are invited to a national prayer vigil which will be held at the National Ecumenical Centre in ...
• 5 November 2014
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Cardinal Ouédraogo: "There is a desire for dialogue to end the crisis" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a desire for dialogue to lead the Country out of the crisis", said Cardinal Philippe Nakellentuba Ouédraogo, Archbishop of Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, in an interview wi ...
• 5 November 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - For the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch extremist groups are a product of the West Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - Extremist groups, with their large-scale offensive are upsetting the geopolitical scenarios in the Middle East, and are also a product of wrong strategies pursued in the West. This was denounced ...
• 5 November 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - New massacres in Beni, the people are exasperated and protest in the streets Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Massacres in Beni, North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo continue, despite the visit of President Joseph Kabila in the city in order to reassure the people, terrified by the violence ...