Africa

• 19 August 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 58 churches destroyed. "But it is not a war between Christians and Muslims", says the spokesperson of the Catholic Bishops Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - 58 churches and Christian institutions were attacked and set on fire in Egypt in past days. This was reported to Fides Agency by Fr. Rafic Greiche, spokesman of the Catholic Bishops of Egypt. "Out ...
• 13 August 2013
  AFRICA/MALAWI - AMECEA: Plenary Assembly 2014 in Lilongwe Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The 18th AMECEA Plenary Assembly will take place in Malawi, Lilongwe from 16 to 26 July 2014. The theme of the Plenary Assembly is "New Evangelization through true conversion and witnessing to ...
• 9 August 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Violence of the Seleka rebels continues against civilians, a missionary denounces Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – Violence against civilians committed by the rebel coalition Seleka continues in the Central African Republic. As reported to Fides Agency by Fr. Aurelio Gazzera, more than a thousand people hav ...
• 9 August 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Threats to marriage and family", warn the Bishops of the Province of Ibadan Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The Year of Faith, which began in October 2012, has witnessed a new zeal and energy and zeal in the laity’s outreach in evangelization" say the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ibadan, ...
• 8 August 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO - The trial for the explosions of 2012 has begun; several victims still homeless Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - On August 6, the trial of a dozen soldiers accused of causing a series of explosions in the barracks of Mpila situated in a suburban area of the capital of the Republic of Congo began in Bra ...
• 8 August 2013
  AFRICA/NIGER – To safeguard Creation at the center of the Bishops’ message for the end of Ramadan Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "Muslims, Christians and believers of other faiths, all have a duty to work as servants of the Almighty, the Lord of earth and Heaven, in favor of Creation which is a wonderful and generous gift ...
• 7 August 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The rule of law almost non-existent, abuses are the norm", says a UN report Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We are extremely concerned about reports of killings, torture, arbitrary detention, violence against women, forced disappearances, acts of popular justice, as well as the general climate of inse ...
• 7 August 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Even the name of Patriarch Tawadros II in a list of people to kill Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - There is also the name of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II at the top of a list of the dozens of people to be eliminated, found in an unonymous envelope in a mosque in Cairo. The list inc ...
• 6 August 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Copts targeted by Islamists, incited by al-Zawahiri Minya (Agenzia Fides) - There are growing attacks and violence against Christians in Egypt when on Saturday Islamist sites and blogs began to re-launch the video message of Ayman al-Zawahiri in which the current leader o ...
• 6 August 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - North Kivu: "the Church replaces the State in failure", says the President of Secours Catholique Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A million refugees distributed in thirty tents are welcomed in Goma, the capital of North Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), where fighting between the Congolese army and various rebe ...
• 6 August 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Emergency cases of measles complicated in addition to 1,500 of malaria Yirol (Agenzia Fides) - The risk of the spread of the measles epidemic recorded in the county of Yirol West, in South Sudan (see Fides 01/07/2013) continues. After the appeal launched by the NGO Doctors with Africa Cuamm ...
• 6 August 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Boko Haram liable to prosecution by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has released a preliminary report on the Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram, according to which it can be assumed that the acts attributed t ...
• 5 August 2013
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Thousands of children fleeing to Uganda Kamango (Agenzia Fides) - Following the recent outbreak of violence on 11 July near the town of Kamango, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), between the Ugandan rebel group of the Allied Democratic For ...
• 5 August 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - In view of the run-off Caritas Mali proposes some measures to improve the electoral process Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The second round of presidential elections in Mali will be held on August 11. None of the candidates of the first round on July 28 obtained an absolute majority (50% plus one) of votes to be elec ...
• 5 August 2013
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE – The re-election of Mugabe, who has also the majority to change the Constitution, has been contested Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Robert Mugabe was re-elected President of Zimbabwe with 61% of the votes cast in the first round of the presidential and parliamentary elections on July 31. This was proclaimed by the Electoral C ...