Africa

• 21 September 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Two grenades found in the cathedral of Bossangoa Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Two unexploded grenades were discovered in the cathedral of Bossangoa, the Central African town 300 km north-west from Bangui, the center of fighting between members of the coalition Seleka and a ...
• 21 September 2013
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - "The Catholic Church will not sit in the Senate" say the Catholic Bishops Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church will not sit in the Senate, according to a statement from the Episcopal Conference of Burkina Faso, rejecting the rule introduced in the law passed in May, which plans to ...
• 20 September 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Copts, study seminars on the constitutional reform are about to begin Cairo ( Agenzia Fides) – The first study seminars organized by the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center on the constitutional review process launched to reform the Constitution approved during Morsi’s government is schedu ...
• 20 September 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Boko Haram has no qualms in killing innocent people", said Mgr. Kaigama Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Undoubtedly Boko Haram is still well organized and well armed despite the military offensive that has been going on for three months in the northern states of Nigeria", says to Fides Agency His E ...
• 20 September 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "I am happy to be a Catholic" Holy Childhood celebrates the Year of Faith Makurdi ( Agenzia Fides) - "I am happy to be a Catholic" was the theme chosen by Holy Childhood Association of Nigeria for the celebration of the Year of Faith, which was held at the "St. Thomas Aquinas" Major Seminary i ...
• 19 September 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Pope Francis’ letter to the Imam of al-Azhar Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis sent a message to Ahmed al-Tayyeb, the great Imam of the Islamic University al-Azhar, the main cultural institution of Sunni Islam. The news was given in a statement by the same Unive ...
• 19 September 2013
  AFRICA/DR CONGO – Everything is ready for the resumption of hostilities in North Kivu, denounces the local civil society Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A guerrilla commander accused of committing war crimes, is ready to lead the offensive of the M23 against the Congolese army in the territory of Rutshuru, North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republi ...
• 19 September 2013
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The plight of child soldiers of the Lord's Resistance Army Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Known for the kidnappings of children that are exploited as soldiers, the Lord's Resistance Army, since 1986, has maintained a war of opposition against the Government of Uganda. The rebels ente ...
• 18 September 2013
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - The conditions of the priest attacked with acid remain serious. "Why is the Church attacked?" asks the Bishop Dar es Salaam ( Agenzia Fides) - "The conditions of Fr. Anselmo unfortunately remain very serious, because the acid continues to penetrate beneath the surface layers of the skin", says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Augus ...
• 18 September 2013
  AFRICA/UGANDA - New intervention to fight AIDS in the region of Karamoja Moroto (Agenzia Fides) – In Morilinga, in the district of Moroto, region of Karamoja, international agencies, NGOs and local associations have come together to share strategies and commitments for the elimination of HI ...
• 18 September 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The rebels continue to harass the population despite the dissolution of Seleka Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "What can you do, these things happen!". In an interview with Fides Agency Fr. Aurelio Gazzera, a missionary talks about what happened to him on September 16 when he went to negotiate with the re ...
• 18 September 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The U.S. Pentagon to General al-Sissi: Protect the Copts Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The U.S. defense secretary Chuck Hagel, in a telephone conversation on Tuesday, September 17 with General Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, rebuked the strong man of the Egyptian army to make every effort to ...
• 17 September 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR – A Congolese nun wins the 2013 Nansen Refugee Award Kinshasa ( Agenzia Fides) - "She is a true heroine", said António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, in announcing the Nansen Refugee Award to Sister Angélique Namaika, a Congolese nun who works in the nort-e ...
• 17 September 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "Your Holiness, pray for peace in the DRC": letter from "Première Dame" to Pope Francis Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "On behalf of the Congolese people, who I humbly represent, I would like to ask His Holiness for the intercession of prayer for lasting peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo", asks Ms. Mari ...
• 16 September 2013
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - The priest attacked with acid in Zanzibar transferred to Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam ( Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest, Fr. Anselmo Mwanga'mba, was attacked with acid by unknown assailants which caused him serious injury, on the island of Zanzibar (Tanzania), on September 13. "The acid ...