Africa

• 17 July 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of auxiliary bishops of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Father Edouard Tsimba Ngoma and Father Edouard Isango Nkoyo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 15, the Holy Father appointed the following as auxiliary bishops of the metropolitan archdiocese of Kinshasa: Reverend Fr. Edouard Tsimba Ngoma, C.I.C.M., until now missionary in Be ...
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  15 July 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Mission in the Pygmy village Monasao (Agenzia Fides) - "They know all the seasons well, and at every time of the year they know what the forest can give". "They" are the Bayaka Pygmies who live in the Monasao mission, in the Catholic diocese of Berb ...
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  14 July 2023
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Health and education to fight poverty: missionaries in a small village on the outskirts Daloa (Agenzia Fides) - "Improving people's health is a way of fighting poverty". Starting from this principle, Father Ysmael Herbin Gbagoué, a missionary in Daloa, spoke of the need to restructure a dispensary that th ...
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  14 July 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - "The Lord gives us priests from persecuted communities" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Father Laurent has only been a priest for a week. He is originally from Kankani, a village on the border with Burkina Faso where people are threatened by armed groups, who had to flee to Makalond ...
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  14 July 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Sister Elena and the boat on the Nile that rescues refugees fleeing the war in Sudan Malakal (Agenzia Fides) - Sudan is on the brink of the collapse. From a low-intensity conflict, hostilities are transitioning into open war three months after the outbreak. After the umpteenth ceasefire agreed and not re ...
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  13 July 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Human rights activists receive death threats from Burundian rebels Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Three human rights activists have received death threats in South Kivu, eastern DRC, by a Burundian rebel group active in that part of the country. According to a communiqué from the "Lutte Po ...
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  13 July 2023
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - President Bio confirmed in office: Second term marked by numerous challenges and protests from the opposition Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - Among the 13 candidates, 12 men and 1 woman, who presented themselves for the presidential elections held on June 24, Julius Maada Bio was re-elected and confirmed in office by the People's Par ...
• 13 July 2023
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of the Rector of the "Saint Augustine" Interdiocesan Philosophical Major Seminary in Matola Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 24, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed Father Nito Chatulica, C.S.Sp. as Rector of the "Saint Augustine" Interdiocesan ...
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  12 July 2023
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Al Shabaab continues to claim victims among civilians: yet another attack in the north of the capital Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Attacks on civilians continue in Somalia against a background of political instability, famine and floods. Another group of civilians lost their lives when they were blown up by a landmine ope ...
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  12 July 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic priest kidnapped on Monday released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic priest Joseph Azubuike, kidnapped in Nigeria on July 10, is free again. The priest and three other people were abducted by unidentified gunmen in Isu, in Onicha Local Government Area ...
• 12 July 2023
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of the Rector of Mary Queen of the Apostles Seminary in the Archdiocese of Yaoundé Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 4, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed the Rev. Gaetan Bissa of the clergy in Ebolowa, as Rector of Mary Queen of the Apo ...
• 12 July 2023
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Father Marco Pagani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 2, 2023, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed Father Marco Pagani, of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), Nati ...
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  11 July 2023
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - "Let us remain united: the elections are not a fight between friends and enemies" Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The forthcoming elections, described as "critical, decisive and decisive", "must not divide us as a nation", write the bishops of Zimbabwe in their pastoral letter dedicated to the elections of A ...
• 10 July 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Resignation of Auxiliary Bishop of Fort Portal Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 8, 2023, the Holy Father Francis accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Fort Portal, Uganda, presented by Bishop Joseph Mugenyi Sabiiti. (Age ...
• 10 July 2023
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of Bishop of Antsirabé Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Jean Pascal Andriantsoavina, until now titular bishop of Zallata and auxiliary of the archdiocese of Antananarivo, as bishop of the diocese of Antsirab� ...