Africa

• 23 September 2014
  AFRICA/MALAWI - A "creative" finance act, while 640,000 people are at risk of hunger Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Restoration of Fiscal Discipline as a Foundation for Poverty Reduction" is the title of the Finance Act of Malawi currently being discussed in the local parliament. "Like every year, poverty- ...
• 23 September 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Religious leaders committed to calm tensions on the border with Uganda Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The local religious leaders are at the forefront to calm tensions in the border area between South Sudan and Uganda, among residents of Kajo-Keji (South Sudan) and those of Moyo (in Uganda). The tw ...
• 22 September 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More than 70,000 children accused of witchcraft and persecuted Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 70,000 Congolese children were tortured, abandoned, killed, because accused of witchcraft. Only in the region of Kinsasha 30,000 street children were removed from their families for t ...
• 22 September 2014
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - Refugees in Liberia blocked due to Ebola Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) -The voluntary repatriation of Ivorian refugees in Liberia should have taken place in July. The Ebola outbreak in the neighboring Country has instead led the Ivorian authorities to close the borde ...
• 19 September 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - There are 25 cities in the hands of Boko Haram: the complaint of the Bishop of Maiduguri Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Boko Haram has taken control of 25 cities in the north-eastern part of Nigeria: said His Exc. Mgr. Oliver Dashe Doeme, Bishop of Maiduguri, Borno State capital. Msg. Doeme, who was forced to flee ...
• 19 September 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The army rebuilds a Catholic school devastated by Islamists in Beni Suef Beni Suef (Agenzia Fides) – The primary school of Beni Suef, run by the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which was burned and destroyed during the Islamist assaults suffered by churches and Christian ...
• 19 September 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - South Sudan's Bakhita Radio can resume broadcasts, but without political issues Juba (Agenzia Fides) - South Sudan's Bakhita Radio, sponsored by the Archdiocese of Juba, capital of South Sudan, can resume broadcasts. This was reported to CISA Agency in Nairobi by the radio director, Albino Tokwaro, ...
• 19 September 2014
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU – Bishops’ statement: Ebola virus - awareness and prevention Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "Worried about the real threat of the virus, we invite all our communities to seek more information on the evolution of the situation and to continue to implement all necessary measures to preven ...
• 18 September 2014
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - "The Church has to monitor society so that it does not go adrift", says the President of the Episcopal Conference Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The Ivory Coast is still suffering the consequences of the political and institutional crisis that lasted more than 10 years, which ended in 2011 with the intervention of the UN and French troop ...
• 18 September 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "He protected the Muslims": the Alison Des Forges Award to a Central African camillian Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Bernard Kinvi, camillian, was honoured with the Alison Des Forges award, because he distinguished himself in defending the rights of man. Fr.Bernard offered protection and assistance to h ...
• 17 September 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "No to the revision of the Constitution, because it puts at risk the stability of the Country", say the Bishops Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The peaceful future of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) resides unquestionably in compliance with the Constitution", say the Bishops of the DRC in a Pastoral Letter which reiterates thei ...
• 17 September 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Malakal destroyed by the war - testimony of a nun Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "There is instability and a large part of the population live in extremely precarious conditions", says Sister Elena Balatti, contacted by Fides Agency in Malakal, capital of Upper Nile State, whic ...
• 16 September 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA – Death sentence for military: insecurity symptom among troops combatting Boko Haram Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - “The death penalty given to mutineer soldiers is a symptom of insecurity in the Nigerian army. For some time soldiers have said they cannot go to fight Boko Haram with weapons inferior to tho ...
• 16 September 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - “Central African crisis not insuperable” says Archbishop of Bangui Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - “What is happening in Central Africa is not insuperable. If we help one another, listen to one another and respect one another the crisis can be overcome” this was said by Archbishop Dieudon ...
• 15 September 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA – At least 2,500 Catholics killed in violence by Boko Haram, Bishop of Maiduguri reports Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- Some 2,500 Catholics of the Nigerian diocese of Maiduguri have been violently killed in Boko Haram violence, local Catholic Bishop Mgr Oliver Dashe Doeme told THISDAY a local newspaper. The Bishop ...