Africa
22 June 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Kidnappings: Police free Catholic priest and Muslim believers collect donations to free Christian citizens
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The scourge of kidnappings in Nigeria does not stop, but there are also cases that are resolved positively with the intervention of the police or that show that there are forms of solidarity that ...
21 June 2023
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Child marriage: 4 million girls forced into marriage in 2022
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The practice of early marriages is tragically widespread in South Sudan. A recent study published by the organization Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) reports that more t ...
21 June 2023
AFRICA/UGANDA - Three students from the attacked school manage to escape; questions remain as to the motivation for the massacre
Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Three students captured in the attack on Lhubiriha secondary school (Kasese district, western Uganda) on the night of June 17 to 18 managed to escape from the hands of their kidnappers (see Fide ...
20 June 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Missionary priest abducted on June 17 has been released
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Father Marcellus Nwaohuocha, a member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), kidnapped on June 17 after gunmen attacked the parish he serves, St. Paul Bomo Parish in the Archdiocese o ...
19 June 2023
AFRICA/UGANDA - Pain and questions after the massacre at the Lhubiriha school
Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - The group that committed the massacre at the Lhubiriha secondary school (Kasese district, western Uganda) on the night of June 17-18 had been in the area for at least two days. This was stated b ...
19 June 2023
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The new "last mile" of Doctors with Africa Cuamm in favor of the population of Bossongoa
Bossongoa (Agenzia Fides) - A new 'last mile' where some 180,000 people live, a single 130-bed hospital with two general practitioners, without specialists, who do a little of everything. This is Bossongoa, a remote and ...
17 June 2023
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - "Antiquum ministerium" and the dream come true of the Uncanha Catechetical Center, the "citadel of catechists"
by Stefano Lodigiani
Tete (Agenzia Fides) - "In 2017, when I arrived in Uncanha, the dream of a formation center for catechists began to take shape, a 'Catequistado', which would include the whole family, and not just ...
16 June 2023
AFRICA/SUDAN - Governor of West Darfur State assassinated after asking for international protection
Geneima (Agenzia Fides) - The governor of West Darfur state and head of the Sudanese Alliance, Khamis Abdallah Abkar, was killed on Wednesday, 14 June, two months after the start of the armed conflict between the Sudanes ...
15 June 2023
AFRICA/SOMALIA - People flee Las Anod: "We have nothing to eat, the only thing we get is water"
Las Anod (Agenzia Fides) - The clashes between the security forces of separatist Somaliland, who have been occupying the city of Las Anod in the north of the country since 2007, and the militias of the local clans, who a ...
14 June 2023
AFRICA/SUDAN - The war in Sudan worsens: ethnic violence reported in Darfur
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – The situation in West Darfur, the western region of Sudan which, together with the capital Khartoum (see Fides, 13/6/2023), the epicenter of the fighting between soldiers of the Sudanese reg ...
13 June 2023
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Tagle to the Church of Goma: you are in the heart of Pope Francis
Goma (Agenzia Fides) - Even in the martyred region of North Kivu, the disciples of Jesus are called above all to offer to all the "wonderful flavor" and light of Jesus and his gospel. Flavor and light that "do not come f ...
13 June 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - In the north of the country: Another Catholic priest kidnapped and released
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic priest Jeremiah Yakubu was the victim of another kidnapping in Nigeria, late on Sunday evening, June 11, by gunmen from the rectory of the Holy Trinity Parish in Karku, Kauru Local G ...
13 June 2023
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Resignation of Bishop of Miarinarivo
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 12, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Miarinarivo, Madagascar, presented by the Bishop Jean Claude Randrianarisoa. (EG) (Agenzia Fid ...
13 June 2023
AFRICA/SUDAN - RSF militiamen are consolidating positions on the Central African border
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - As fighting continues in the Sudanese capital Khartoum (see Fides, 12/6/2023), in Darfur, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militiamen, led by Mohamad Hamdan Dagalo (known as "Hemedti") consolidat ...
12 June 2023
AFRICA/SUDAN - Violent fighting in Khartoum after the end of the 24-hour truce
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Fighting in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, resumed immediately after the end of the 24-hour ceasefire at 6 am on Sunday morning, June 11th.
Clashes between Sudanese Army soldiers (SAF) and th ...
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