Africa

• 7 February 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Christians and Muslims: the same blood, the same language, the same Country" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Christians and Muslims: the same blood, the same language, the same Country"; is the slogan that can be read in the parish of Fr. Dieudonné, a young priest of the Diocese of Alindao, in the Cen ...
• 7 February 2014
  AFRICA/UGANDA – Catholic Church launches Uganda Martyrs’ campaign Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, Archbishop of Kampala, has launched the campaign dubbed "Kikungo" started at the Holy Family Catholic Parish in Namayumba. The campaign will climax on Octobe ...
• 6 February 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al-Sisi to run for President. Bishop Fahim Hanna: he has the support of the people, but the Church does not take sides Minya (Agenzia Fides) - The head of the Egyptian armed forces Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has publicly confirmed his candidacy for the presidential elections to be held in Egypt next April. " I have to succumb to the people's d ...
• 6 February 2014
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Valentine's Day: occasion to raise funds for the 18th Plenary Assembly of AMECEA Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Malawi choose Valentine's Day to raise funds for the 18th Plenary Assembly of AMECEA (Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa), which will be held in Lilong ...
• 6 February 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The flow of Central Africans seeking refuge in the DRC does not stop Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The arrival of Central Africans fleeing their country in the Democratic Republic of Congo does not stop. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) only last week another 500 pe ...
• 5 February 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA – 80 people killed in the last 24 hours due to violence in four Nigerian states Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - At least 80 people have been killed in a series of attacks committed in the last 24 hours in 4 States of Nigeria, Plateau, Kaduna, Yobe and Katsina. In Plateau State 30 people, mostly women, chil ...
• 4 February 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The situation in Bouar is a bit calmer although there are reprisals against the Muslims" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We are finally breathing a bit of peace" says to Fides a missionary in Bouar, in the west of the Central African Republic. "Currently the situation is quite calm after last week’s problems, ca ...
• 4 February 2014
  AFRICA/GUINEA – Guinea: a new African hub for cocaine destined to Europe? Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - Last year, one or two airplanes loaded with cocaine landed in the Republic of Guinea (Guinea Conakry) from Latin America every month. The drug load was then extradited to Europe by criminal orga ...
• 3 February 2014
  AFRICA/RWANDA - An initiative to spread the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - "In order to offer a suitable tool to spread the knowledge of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church in the Christian community in Rwanda, the Kwizera Association has promoted the pu ...
• 3 February 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT – Assiut, police operation against the abduction of Copts Assiut (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian security forces in the first days of February carried out a huge operation in the city of Assiut to dismantle an organized crime network that for months organized kidnappings, robber ...
• 3 February 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR -"Humanitarian catastrophe" in Katanga, says the UN Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of local notables is on a visit in northern Katanga (in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo) to soothe the minds of the local population alarmed by the actions of the Bak ...
• 1 February 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishops: "Do not exclude the Church and civil society from peace talks" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Why has the Church been excluded from the peace talks in Addis Ababa? Ask the Bishops of Sudan and South Sudan in the Pastoral Exhortation published at the end of their Plenary Assembly held in Jub ...
• 1 February 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN - "Let us not forget the suffering of the peoples of Sudan", says the Church Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "As we focus on South Sudan, we remain painfully aware of the suffering of the peoples of the Nuba Mountains, Darfur and Blue Nile, and the contested area of Abyei", write the Bishops of Sudan and ...
• 31 January 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - New agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities, reached through the mediation of religious leaders Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Thanks to the efforts of the Church Leaders Mediation Initiative CLMI in Jonglei State, an agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities between the Government of South Sudan and the Cobra Faction of S ...
• 30 January 2014
  AFRICA/CHAD - Christians and Muslims pray together for peace in Chad and Central Africa N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "The closing of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity was celebrated in a very special way in Chad because it coincided with the third National Day of peaceful cohabitation", is what is said ...