Africa

• 28 March 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Cardinal Onaiyekan: "Boko Haram insurgency is an anomaly in the socio-religious environment of the Nigerian nation which does not truly reflect the Country’s Muslim/Christian relationship" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nigeria is "the greatest Islamo-Christian nation in the world" where the two major religions in the Country live in harmony with each other and with the faithful of other religions. This was state ...
• 27 March 2014
  AFRICA/CHAD - "We must choose between corruption and the generosity of the Christian faith": Message for the 50th anniversary of the Diocese of Pala N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides ) - "Our Church must choose between mediocrity and corruption which are becoming more and more popular in the Country and the generosity the Christian faith asks for". This is the strong appeal l ...
• 27 March 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - Christian and Muslim religious leaders condemn the attack on the Evangelical Church Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Kenyan religious leaders have strongly condemned the attack on the Evangelical Church in Likoni on March 23 (see Fides 24/03/2014), in which six people were killed and dozens of others were ...
• 26 March 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT – Board of inquiry: violence against Copts continues Cairo (Agenzia Fides ) - The Board of Inquiry concerning the accidents on 30 June, in charge of monitoring sectarian violence that continues to cross Egypt after the overthrow of President Morsi, has documented in a repo ...
• 25 March 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Catholic Bishop on the sentences regarding the Muslim Brotherhood: the Church is always against the death penalty Assiut (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is complex. There is the hardness of a judgment that is not final, and we have to wait. In any case, the Church is against the death penalty. From a Christian conscience point of v ...
• 25 March 2014
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Parliament rejects the Constitutional Revision Bujumbura ( Agenzia Fides) - The National Assembly of Burundi has rejected the constitutional amendment that would have allowed President Pierre Nkurunziza to run for re-election in 2015 for a third term (see Fides 18/03 ...
• 24 March 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros: the so-called "Arab Spring" was actually a winter Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The so-called Arab Spring in reality "was not a spring or even an autumn, it was a winter". With this judgment without appeal Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II rejected any globally positive i ...
• 24 March 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - "The fundamentalists that strike Christians also threaten the local Imam", said the apostolic administrator of Mombasa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "I do not know who committed the attack against the Evangelical church, but most probably it was committed by a group of fundamentalists", says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Emanuel Barbara, Bis ...
• 24 March 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More than 250 Congolese refugees drown while trying to return home from Uganda Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 250 Congolese refugees were killed during the overturning of a boat that was bringing them back to the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to a note sent to Fides Agency by the Co ...
• 21 March 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The government announces the "carrot and stick" approach to defeat Boko Haram: "it should have been used before", said Mgr. Kaigama Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are tired of theories, we want concrete results", says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos and President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria, afte ...
• 21 March 2014
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Emergency in Ethiopia for tens of thousands of South Sudanese refugees Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - There are between 72,000 and 100,000 South Sudanese refugees who have fled to the western Ethiopian region of Gambella, according to estimates by some humanitarian organizations operating in ...
• 20 March 2014
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Violence in the valley of M'Zab, Christians pray for peace Ghardaia (Agenzia Fides) - For three months, the M'Zab Valley in southern Algeria has been the scene of sectarian violence base on ethnic-religious conflict that the Algerian security apparatus cannot stop. The clashes r ...
• 20 March 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The rainy season is approaching, emergency aid for displaced people is urgently needed" say religious leaders Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We are here to get everybody to hear the cry that comes from deep in the heart of the Central African people, who are experiencing the most tragic moments of their history. We can no longer rema ...
• 18 March 2014
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "We are very concerned about the growing tensions" says local Church sources to Fides Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very concerned about the situation of the Country", say local Church sources of Burundi to Fides Agency, where political tension continues unabated since the police suppressed the demo ...
• 18 March 2014
  AFRICA/SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE - Conclusion of the First Plenary Assembly of CEAST in Sao Tome and Principe Sao Tome (Agenzia Fides) - On 15 March, the first Plenary Assembly of 2014 of CEAST concluded, the Episcopal Conference of Angola, Sao Tome and Principe, which for the first time was held in the equatorial archipelago. T ...