Africa

• 21 February 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - 520 women murdered in 2012 Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "According to a list based on news reported by the press some 417 women were murdered in Honduras in 2012, a figure that may be as much as 20 per cent too low, which would bring the actual ...
• 21 February 2013
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Clashes in the Blue Nile area continue Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- Clashes continue in Sudan’s Blue Nile state bordering on South Sudan, between Khartoum military and troops of SPLA-N (North-Sudan People’s Liberation Army). One SPLA-N spokesman told the Ca ...
• 21 February 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - " Free Central Africans from suffering": Bishops appeal Bangui (Agenzia Fides)- End the suffering of the Central African people by fully applying the Libreville Accord reached on 11 January. This appeal was launched by the Catholic Bishops of the Central African Republic CA ...
• 20 February 2013
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Today funeral of Catholic priest killed last Sunday Zanzibar (Agenzia Fides) – The funeral was held today of Fr. Evarist Mushi, the Catholic priest killed last Sunday 17 February, on the island of Zanzibar (see Fides 18/2/2013). "The funeral of Fr. Evarist was broadca ...
• 20 February 2013
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Caritas Sahel Meeting: focus Humanitarian Crisis in Mali Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - To unite Caritas Sahel efforts addressing socio-political and food crises in the region, is the aim of a meeting opened on 19 February in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, attended by ...
• 19 February 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Nigerian government ready to accept Boko Haram cease-fire Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- The Nigerian government is ready to accept the offer of a cease fire put forward by Boko Haram and to grant amnesty to members of the sect if the leader Sheikh Abubakar Shekau publicly renounces vi ...
• 19 February 2013
  AFRICA - Africa’s Catholic bishops confirm commitment to promoting human development Accra (Agenzia Fides)- "The Church cannot be indifferent or isolated in the face of present day socio-political and economic challenges facing Africa" says a report received by Fides regarding the presentation of Pastor ...
• 18 February 2013
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Are Islamists fleeing Mali finding refuge in Darfur? Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- Islamist militants, reportedly fleeing from Mali, may be finding refuge in the north of the west Sudan region of Darfur, since 2003 the scene of war between the Khartoum regime and several diff ...
• 18 February 2013
  ARICA/TANZANIA - Islamist extremist groups warn Christians: “The coming Easter will be one of disaster” Geita (Agenzia Fides) – “We thank our young men, trained in Somalia, for killing an infidel. Many more will die. We will burn homes and churches. We have not finished: at Easter, be prepared for disaster”; Signed � ...
• 18 February 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Insituted, National Council of Christian Churches Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Representatives of several different Christian denominations present in Egypt met this morning in St Mark’s Coptic Orthodox cathedral in the capital’s al-Abbasiy district, to sign the stat ...
• 18 February 2013
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Catholic priest killed; "this is the second of my priests to die" says Catholic Bishop of Zanzibar Zanzibar (Agenzia Fides)- "We have no idea why Fr. Evarist was killed, we are waiting to hear the results of the police enquiry", Fides learned from Bishop Augustine Shao, Catholic Bishop of Zanzibar, where, yesterday Su ...
• 15 February 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Contrasts between African countries and the UN on the neutral force in the Great Lakes Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Contrasts and controversies prevent the establishment of a neutral international force responsible for chasing the "negative forces" (the guerrillas) in the Great Lakes Region and particularly ...
• 15 February 2013
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Elections should not divide us anymore," said Archbishop Okoth Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The entire leadership of the Catholic Church shall remain non-partisan in the forthcoming general elections because as a church we are interested in the unity of all Kenyans." Said Archbishop Z ...
• 15 February 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Violence against street children, orphans, abandoned increase Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The scene that one sees walking the streets of Cairo is many homeless wandering victims of sexual violence and subjected to the use of drugs. They live in poverty and danger. Although there are no ...
• 14 February 2013
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Talks between Sudan and South Sudan have been postponed Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Talks between Sudan and South Sudan that were to open on February 13 in Addis Ababa have been posponed. The meeting was to reach an agreement for the creation of a demilitarized zone on the bor ...