Africa

• 25 March 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Seleka conquers the capital Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The rebel coalition Seleka entered Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. The advance of the rebels toward the capital began on March 22 (see Fides 22/03/2013) and ended yesterday, ...
• 25 March 2013
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A secessionist group sows terror in Lubumbashi Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Several hundred armed men sowed terror in Lubumbashi, capital of Katanga in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo, before laying down their weapons in the local base of MONUSCO (UN Miss ...
• 22 March 2013
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Conflicts, floods, migration leading causes of early school drop-out Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - The ongoing conflict between the two ethnic Oromo and Somali are also severely impacting on the education of children. There are thousands of those living in agricultural regions of Ethiopia ...
• 22 March 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Continuous attacks on the Church must not cancel the work of many who work generously for evangelization" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The continuous attack on the Catholic Church by some academics and media of the Western world cannot obliterate the good works of the Church in all parts of the world since it was founded by Jesu ...
• 22 March 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Fighting between the army and rebels restart Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Hostilities between the forces of President François Bozizé and the rebels of the coalition Seleka have restarted. The rebels of Seleka are already 80 km from Bangui, according to what local ...
• 21 March 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - "I am the first on the rebels’ list of people to be hit" denounces the Bishop of Bangassou Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Juan José Aguirre Muños, Bishop of Bangassou, sent to Fides Agency the following testimony on the conquest of the Central African city on behalf of a faction of the rebel coalition Selek ...
• 21 March 2013
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - The Bishops criticize the words of the leader of UNITA Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "Inappropriate, defamatory and offensive" – this is how the Episcopal Conference of Angola and Sao Tome (CEAST) qualifies the words of the President of UNITA (Total Union for the Independence o ...
• 20 March 2013
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - More than 3,000 children forced to work in caves to pay for college and help families Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of children in Sierra Leone are forced to break rocks with a hammer to pay for their studies and to help their families make ends meet. It is the sad reality, quite usual in the count ...
• 20 March 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Hopes and interrogatives after the surrender of Bosco Ntaganda, Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The surrender of Bosco Ntaganda, leader of a faction of the M23, who on March 18 surrendered to the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda, asking to be transferred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) is ...
• 20 March 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishop of Kano, " persecutions and martyrdom are concrete realities for many Christians in Nigeria " Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The Boko Haram religious sect forms the most comprehensive and extensive challenge to our national life and religious freedom in Nigeria." This was stated by Mgr. John Niyiring, Bishop of Kano, a ...
• 18 March 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - New violence against religious while the rebels threaten to march on the capital Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - A religious was assaulted last week in the village of Bangao (80 km from Bambari in the Central African Republic) from the rebel coalition Seleka. According to testimonies collected by the Rése ...
• 18 March 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Death of Bishop of Torit Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Akio Johnson Mutek, Bishop of Torit (South Sudan) died at the Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi on Sunday night, March 17. According to the Catholic Radio Network Mgr. Mutek was rushed to the ho ...
• 15 March 2013
  AFRICA/LIBYA - The Coptic church in Benghazi set on fire Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic church in Benghazi was set on fire by unknown persons. The event took place yesterday, March 14. According to reports from the site of the "The Libya Herald" newspaper, unknown assail ...
• 15 March 2013
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "Why do so many by-elections deprive hospitals of the funds they need?" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) – A new appeal on behalf of religious leaders of Zambia to stop political violence linked to the partial renewal of the Parliament. Like the previous one on 27 February (see Fides 28/02/2013), e ...
• 14 March 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - "We look forward to having Pope Francis in Africa," says the Bishop of Bangassou Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We are trying to open a humanitarian corridor to get aid to the population and evacuate people in need of treatment" says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Juan José Aguirre Munos, Bishop of Bangas ...