Africa

• 7 May 2014
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - Twelve thousand children work as slaves on cocoa farms Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - According to the International Labour Office (ILO), 1 million 800 thousand children are engaged in cocoa plantations in West Africa, among these only 284 thousand are considered workers. The stu ...
• 7 May 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros II writes to Pope Francis: let us unify the dates for the Easter celebration Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Tawadros II sent a letter to Pope Francis, on the occasion of the first anniversary of their meeting at the Vatican, in which among other things invites ...
• 7 May 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - " Be careful not to go back to new forms of racial discrimination" says Cardinal Napier to voters Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - More than 25.3 million South Africans are called today, May 7, to the polls to elect a new Parliament. In turn, the MPs will elect the Head of State on May 21. It seems that outgoing Presid ...
• 5 May 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: the presidential elections, the Church does not take sides with any candidate Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II has explicitly excluded any choice of the Coptic Orthodox Church in favor of one of the two candidates in the Egyptian presidential elections to be held next ...
• 5 May 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Untold suffering of more than five thousand Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs" denounces the Assistant Parish Priest in Abyei Juba (Agenzia Fides) - More than 5,000 Displaced Persons are in serious condition in the area of Agok, near Abyei, on the border between South Sudan and Sudan. These people, from Unity State of Upper Nile region, are lac ...
• 5 May 2014
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - The Bishops of Cameroon : "We pray for the speedy and unconditional release of the kidnapped missionaries" Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Cameroon condemn the kidnapping of the two Italian Fidei Donum priests, Don Gianantonio Allegri and Don Giampaolo Marta, and a Canadian religious, Sister Gilberte Bussier of the C ...
• 2 May 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Enormous progress on integration, but we need to fight corruption", says Cardinal Napier Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "20 years since the end of apartheid, South Africa has made enormous progress in terms of integration among different racial and cultural components of the Country, but we must do more to f ...
• 2 May 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Caritas after the attack in Abuja: perhaps foreign countries want to dismember Nigeria? Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - At least 19 people have died and 80 injured. This is the provisional toll regarding the bombing which took place yesterday, May 1st, at the station in Nyanya, in the capital of Nigeria, Abuja. The ...
• 30 April 2014
  AFRICA/NIGER - Bishops alarm: "The political situation is serious; the democratic climate is deteriorating day by day" Niamey (Agenzia Fides ) - "The current political situation is serious and the democratic climate that seemed clear after the success of the last election, is deteriorating day by day", say the Bishops of Niger in a messa ...
• 30 April 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Child soldiers leave school to "avenge" their parents' death Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Oil interests and the politics of the area, in force since the colonial era, have generated great division and hatred among the people of Sudan. In an endless cycle of violence and thousands of dis ...
• 30 April 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Sectarian clashes in Assiut. Two Christians killed Assiut (Agenzia Fides) - Two Egyptian Coptic Christians were killed on Tuesday, April 29th due to sectarian clashes which broke out in villages in the area of the city of Assiut, Upper Egypt, due to the contrasts between ...
• 29 April 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL ARICAN REPUBLIC - Sixteen unarmed civilians, including three local health workers for Doctors Without Borders, killed at Boguila Hospital Boguila (Agenzia Fides) - On April 26, dozens of heavily armed Muslim rebels opened fire in a hospital in Central African Republic, killing at least 16 people, including three local health workers for Doctors Without Bor ...
• 29 April 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "Human trafficking, especially children, in Goma", denounces the local civil society Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A network of human traffickers, most of whom are children, work in Goma, capital of North Kivu (in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo). The complaint, in a note sent to Fides Agency, is b ...
• 28 April 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA – The Bishop of Bossangoa: "The Muslim population of Bangui is held hostage by jihadists " Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The Muslim population of "Km 5" in Bangui is taken hostage by jihadist members that have infiltrated the capital of the Republic of Central Africa: this was reported to Fides Agency by His Exc. M ...
• 28 April 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - A reception center for the Congolese expelled from Brazzaville has been created in Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo have created a reception center to assist its citizens who have been expelled from the neighboring Republic of Congo. The center, located in ...