Africa

• 2 October 2012
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - October 13 - opening of the Year of Faith; "Maria, increase our faith" theme of the 8 December pilgrimage Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - The Year of Faith in Guinea-Bissau will officially begin on Saturday, October 13 in Bissau. The decision was taken during a meeting of the Diocesan Secretariat for the Pastoral care of the Dioces ...
• 2 October 2012
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Even for disabled children an opportunity to receive adequate education Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - In Madagascar there are about 200 000 children who are excluded from school because they are handicapped. In 2008, the Government had issued a decree with the introduction of a program prov ...
• 1 October 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - "This is not a war of religion, but Christians are exacerbated while cartoons against the Prophet harm us" say Church sources Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We do not want a war of religion, but Christians are fed up with the attacks against their places of worship" say to Fides Agency sources of the local Church in Nairobi. In the capital yesterda ...
• 1 October 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - "We appreciate the President's efforts for peace and national unity," write the Bishops Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "We pray, like all Malians, for the Country’s unity and for the return of peace," write the Bishops of Mali in a letter addressed to the President ad interim, Dioncounda Traoré. The document, ...
• 28 September 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - "I hope that Kismayo is not destroyed," says to Fides Mgr. Bertin Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "I hope that the Shabaab do as they have done elsewhere, they mingle among the civilian population and do not oppose strong resistance to the advance of the troops that are hunting them. If th ...
• 27 September 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic and Islamic scholars agree on the new Egyptian Constitution Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Towards an agreement to resolve disputes related to the new Egyptian Constitution. This is what is reported according to the newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm, Egyptian political parties, Al-Azhar and th ...
• 27 September 2012
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - New computer services and better training for young people in deprived areas Bevaneviky (Agenzia Fides) - Thanks to a charity initiative created in collaboration by "Computer scientists Without Borders" (CWB) an organization formed by professional volunteers of information technology, and "Moncli ...
• 27 September 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA-Islamic schools also targeted by Boko Haram Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Islamist sect Boko Haram target not only churches and schools, but also Islamic schools, as what happened on September 25 in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State (north-east Nigeria), where a gro ...
• 26 September 2012
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - "Friendship is the key to winning the mutual fears of Christians and Muslims," says to Fides the Bishop of Laghouat Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We need to inform ourselves, and not take everything that is proposed by the press and television as a true representation of the Muslim world. They show only the negative aspects, and instead it ...
• 26 September 2012
  AFRICA - HIV/AIDS is easily curable in developed Countries, this does not happen in Africa and Madagascar: A decade of the Jesuit network AJAN Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The African Jesuit network against AIDS (AJAN) has just celebrated its ten years of life. In fact the network was set up by the Conference of Major Superiors of Africa and Madagascar (JESAM) in ...
• 26 September 2012
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The Plenary Assembly of Bishops has begun: Year of Faith and Africae Munus are the focus of the Assembly Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The Year of Faith, which starts on 11 October, the diffusion and implementation of the directives of the Post Synodal Africae Munus Apostolic Exhortation, the preparation of the AMECEA (Associa ...
• 25 September 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - Bamako calls for a UN resolution that authorizes the deployment of ECOWAS troops Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - Mali has officially requested a UN Security Council resolution that authorizes the sending of an international force to put the north of the Country under control, for months in the hands of a nu ...
• 25 September 2012
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - Enhancing the Islam Maghreb to reject violence and intolerance Nouakchott (Agenzia Fides) - Facing violence and extremism by appealing to one’s cultural and religious values, based on dialogue and tolerance. This is what the Ministers of Religious Affairs of the Arab Maghreb Union ...
• 24 September 2012
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Bishop of Bissau's appeal: "we urgently need medicines for tuberculosis and AIDS" Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - A dramatic urgent appeal to send drugs for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in Guinea Bissau, but also to have skilled technical personnel that "contributes to the assessment of the current health situa ...
• 24 September 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Shocking attack, but we must not be intimidated," says to Fides the President of the Episcopal Conference Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "It is very sad and shocking that despite the security measures, a way was found to strike the faithful who go to Sunday Mass" says to Fides Agency, His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop ...