Africa

• 24 July 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - Erection of the Diocese of Wote and appointment of first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father erected the Diocese of Wote (Kenya) with dismembered territories of the Diocese of Machakos, making it a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nairobi. The Holy Fathe ...
• 24 July 2023
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Resignation and appointment of Metropolitan Archbishop of Toliara Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 22, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Toliara (Madagascar) presented by His Exc. Msgr. Fulgence Rabeony, S.I. The Ho ...
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  24 July 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - New protests announced while Bishops call for the repeal of the finance law Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - New protests announced by the opposition in Kenya against the high cost of living and the government's economic policy, after those of recent days violently repressed in blood (see Fides, 20/7/2 ...
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  21 July 2023
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Bishop Rugambwa expresses his closeness to the Arusha community after the assassination of priest Pamphili Nada Arusha (Agenzia Fides) - "The priest died while being taken to hospital, and the suspect was killed by angry citizens who were waiting for him outside the scene of the incident". This is what the police commander in the ...
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  21 July 2023
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - First gathering of young people preparing for WYD in the Catholic community of Adaba Adaba (Agenzia Fides) – More than a hundred young people from the communities of the Apostolic Prefecture of Robe took part in the First Youth Festival organized at the Pastoral Centre of Adaba. In an interview with F ...
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  20 July 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - Country plagued by chaos: the bishops intervene to advocate dialogue and peace Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu, respectively the capital, second and third largest cities of Kenya are in the midst of large and violent protests against a series of taxes introduced by the governm ...
• 20 July 2023
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Appointment of the national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Father Jaime Coimbra Do Nascimento Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 24, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed Father Jaime Coimbra Do Nascimento, PIME, as National Director of the Pontifical ...
• 20 July 2023
  AFRICA/LAREUNION - Resignation and appointment of Bishop of Saint-Denis-de-la Réunion Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 19, the Holy Father accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Saint-Denis-de-la Réunion, in overseas France, presented by His Exc. Msgr. Gilbert Aubry. ...
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  18 July 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Food, medicine and safe shelter against bullets: missionaries at the disposal of those most in need Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The streets are deserted and inaccessible, there is no public transport and electricity and water is becoming scarce. The war that began on 15 April in Khartoum, capital of Sudan, between the S ...
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  17 July 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Despite the dangers and difficulties, three new SMA missionaries are ready to promote hope on the African continent Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Being a priest in a country where the kidnapping industry spares no one (see Fides, 25/5/2023) requires a lot of courage, as well as deep faith, love of neighbor and missionary zeal. These are jus ...
• 17 July 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of auxiliary bishops of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Father Edouard Tsimba Ngoma and Father Edouard Isango Nkoyo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 15, the Holy Father appointed the following as auxiliary bishops of the metropolitan archdiocese of Kinshasa: Reverend Fr. Edouard Tsimba Ngoma, C.I.C.M., until now missionary in Be ...
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  15 July 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Mission in the Pygmy village Monasao (Agenzia Fides) - "They know all the seasons well, and at every time of the year they know what the forest can give". "They" are the Bayaka Pygmies who live in the Monasao mission, in the Catholic diocese of Berb ...
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  14 July 2023
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Health and education to fight poverty: missionaries in a small village on the outskirts Daloa (Agenzia Fides) - "Improving people's health is a way of fighting poverty". Starting from this principle, Father Ysmael Herbin Gbagoué, a missionary in Daloa, spoke of the need to restructure a dispensary that th ...
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  14 July 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - "The Lord gives us priests from persecuted communities" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Father Laurent has only been a priest for a week. He is originally from Kankani, a village on the border with Burkina Faso where people are threatened by armed groups, who had to flee to Makalond ...
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  14 July 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Sister Elena and the boat on the Nile that rescues refugees fleeing the war in Sudan Malakal (Agenzia Fides) - Sudan is on the brink of the collapse. From a low-intensity conflict, hostilities are transitioning into open war three months after the outbreak. After the umpteenth ceasefire agreed and not re ...