Africa

• 5 June 2012
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Libya is free, but it is a freedom that must be conquered," said Bishop Martinelli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is calm again. When we left this morning at 7 am after Mass, we did not notice anything special " said His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli to F ...
• 5 June 2012
  AFRICA/MALI-The divisions of the North could favour a Pan-African military intervention Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - " Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra, is engaged in raising the morale of the army to prepare it for a possible intervention in the north. Last weekend he traveled to the Tibou region to meet mi ...
• 4 June 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Two statements of the responsible of Shabaab suggest a crisis in the fundamentalist movement Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The radical Somali Islamist group Shabaab seems to be weakened by recent military and diplomatic developments and are internally divided. On the military side, with the conquest of Afgoyee in ...
• 4 June 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops are devastated for the "Black Sunday" in Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are appalled and shocked by the two tragedies that hit Nigeria yesterday, the airplane crash in Lagos that killed 153 people, and the attack on a Christian church in Bauchi," says to Fides His ...
• 4 June 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO -Malnutrition and violence the innocent children and the population of Goma are having to face Goma (Agenzia Fides) - Today, June 4, is the "International Day of Innocent Children Victims of aggression" sponsored by the United Nations. The young ones and the entire population of North Kivu suffer the climate of te ...
• 2 June 2012
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - It is important to bring war criminals to justice, but we also need to improve the population's economic and social advancement Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Gerardo Caglioni, a Xaverian missionary with a long experience in Sierra Leone, sent his contribution to Fides Agency on the situation in Sierra Leone in the light of former Liberian Presid ...
• 31 May 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Fighting in North Kivu, causing 80,000 displaced people, the missionaries denounce the "lies of war" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - For two weeks the fighting between the national army of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and rebels of the Movement of March 23 (M23) have been concentrated on three hills: Mbuzi, Chanzu ...
• 31 May 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The Nigerian Bishops have played a role of which the universal Church should be proud," said the Bishop of Sokoto Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Nigeria has played a leading role in national peace efforts, but can do more, especially in promoting a political class inspired by Gospel values and the teaching of the Social Doctri ...
• 30 May 2012
  AFRICA - "We cannot afford to add terrorism to our long list of problems," says the Archbishop of Abuja Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - No African country is immune against the kind of terrorism that has invaded Nigeria and this is why religions in Africa must reject all forms of fanaticism that threatens to turn into violence. ...
• 30 May 2012
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Taylor sentenced to 50 years imprisonment, "but who will pay the victims of violence?" Asks a missionary Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a sign that men should remember to atone their sins, but it is not true justice, which we leave to the mercy of God," said Fr. Gerardo Caglioni, a Xaverian missionary with a long experie ...
• 29 May 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Presidentials: runoff between the candidates of the Muslim Brotherhood and the army Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "The two realities better organized won: the Muslim Brotherhood, thanks to their social networks spread throughout Egypt, the military and the great bureaucracy state " say to Fides local sources ...
• 29 May 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Rwanda denies supporting the Congolese guerrilla Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Rwanda has denied with a note from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo, the allegations contained in a confidential report of the United Nations on the recruit ...
• 28 May 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - Authority and population are contrary to an Islamic State in the north; all faiths pray for peace Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "Both the political authorities and the people have reaffirmed that Mali is one and indivisible. The same original inhabitants of the north that are located in Bamako, are contrary to the secessi ...
• 28 May 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Instability in the east, even Ituri in ferment: Gold and oil are at stake Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - After North Kivu, another area in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ituri district, is likely to burst out again. According to the press in fact 4 Congolese armed groups in the reg ...
• 25 May 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Only half of the electors voted in the first round of presidential elections, while one heads toward the second ballot Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "The results of the first round of presidential elections will probably only be tomorrow or Sunday, for now those that are announced are the result of rumors, more or less consistent" say local so ...