Africa

• 25 October 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Fighting between the army and M23 have resumed Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Fighting between the Congolese army and the guerrillas of M23 after the suspension of talks in Kampala (see Fides 23/10/2013) have resumed. According to local sources of Fides clashes are conce ...
• 24 October 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Concern in eastern DRC for a resumption of hostilities Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Rumors are circulating that Rwanda will attack simultaneously Goma and Bukavu on Saturday, October 26": this is what is reported to Fides by a local source from Bukavu, the capital of South Ki ...
• 24 October 2013
  AFRICA/KENYA - Evangelical leaders in Mombasa: we will not be intimidated by the murder of two pastors" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders of some Christian churches have launched the alarm about religious freedom in Kenya after the killing of two evangelical pastors without reason in Kilifi and Mombasa, reports the Cat ...
• 23 October 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Famine and diseases afflicting the Sudanese refugees Bambari (Agenzia Fides) - For two months, the Sudanese refugees residing in the camp of Bambari, in the Central African Republic, have no access to food. The spokesperson of the field reported to Radio Dabanga that refug ...
• 23 October 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Suspension of talks in Kampala: the Congolese government denounces the tactic "talk and fight" of the M23 Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo rejects the responsibility for the suspension of peace talks in Kampala (Uganda ) on the M23 guerrilla movement. On October 21, Lambert Me ...
• 23 October 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Attacks against churches, Christians criticize the government and security forces Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - During the terrorist attack which last Sunday caused the death of four people - including a 9-year-old girl and a 12-year-old girl - and wounding 18 Coptic invited to a Coptic wedding, the police ...
• 22 October 2013
  AFRICA/CHAD – 75 years of the presence of the Capuchin Minor Friars in Chad and Central Africa N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - The Capuchin Minor Friars celebrated on Sunday, October 20, 75 years of their presence in Chad and the Central African Republic, with a Mass at the Cathedral of Moundou (southern Chad). Accor ...
• 21 October 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - There is still no news of the 3 Assumptionists kidnapped a year ago. In the area there are 800 abducted persons Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There is still no news of the 3 Assumptionists (Augustinians of the Assumption) kidnapped exactly a year ago of Congolese nationality, Jean -Pierre Ndulani, Anselme Wasikundi and Edmond Bamutut ...
• 21 October 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The Central African Republic is a powder keg", says the Archbishop of Bangui Bangui ( Agenzia Fides) - "The Central African Republic is a powder keg", warned Mgr. Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui and President of the Episcopal Conference of Central Africa, on the eve of his deposition ...
• 21 October 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Massacre in front of the church, the dead rise to four. Condolences from the Muslim Brotherhood Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt have defined the attack perpetrated last night against the Coptic Orthodox Church of Our Lady in the district of Uarak to Hadra, in the metropolitan area of Cairo " ...
• 17 October 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - A petition for the creation of the International Criminal Court for the DRC Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Network for Peace in Congo and the National Network of NGOs for Human Rights of the Democratic Republic of Congo (RENADHOC) have launched a petition for the establishment of an Internationa ...
• 16 October 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - North Kivu: Rwandan and Ugandan troops to strengthen the M23 rebels, civil society denounces Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Several battalions of the Rwandan (RDF) and Ugandan (UPDF) army have entered the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to strengthen the rebellion of the M23, in preparation for re ...
• 16 October 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The Church urged to reduce poverty", says the Director of Caritas Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Nigerian Bishops are concerned that economic growth is real and not just on paper. They want a real growth that creates jobs for our people, especially for young people", said Fr. Evaristus Basse ...
• 15 October 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Corruption is theft from the poor " denounce the Bishops of Southern Africa Johannesburg ( Agenzia Fides) - "Corruption is theft from the poor" warn the Bishops of the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference, SACBC (which brings together the Bishops of the South Africa, Swaziland and Botswan ...
• 15 October 2013
  AFRICA - The wishes of the Catholic Church in Africa to the Muslim faithful for the feast of Aid El Adha Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The common root in Abraham and the pain caused by the conflicts in some African countries are at the center of two messages sent by important representatives of the Catholic Church in Africa to the ...