Africa

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  30 May 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Ceasefire extended for another five days: Numerous violations across the country Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The ceasefire between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which came into force on May 22nd and was scheduled to last for seven days, has been extended for anoth ...
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  30 May 2023
  AFRICA/CHAD - The Episcopal Conference: "Enough of the blood and tears of Chadians" N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "The blood and tears of Chadians have shed enough and must stop" warn the Bishops of Chad in a memorandum addressed to the President of the Transition, Acting Head of State, Mahamat Idriss Dé ...
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  29 May 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Precarious security situation: Another Catholic priest kidnapped in Imo State Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A week after the kidnapping of Father Kingsley Maduka and his subsequent release (see Fides, 22/5/2023), the kidnapping of another Catholic priest in Imo State (south-eastern Nigeria) is causing c ...
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  27 May 2023
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Bishop Balla: "Christian and Muslim religious representatives are involved in the discussion about the country's growth" Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - Between Mali, Sierra Leone and the Atlantic Ocean lies Guinea with its capital city of Conakry, the northern part of the country bordering equally on one corner of Guinea Bissau and one of Seneg ...
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  26 May 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - "The Shakahola massacre is a well organized, well planned and perfectly executed crime" says Interior Minister Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - There are 241 bodies found so far of followers of a Kenyan sect, buried in mass graves in the Shakahola forest, in eastern Kenya, on a ranch in Kilifi county, near the city of Malindi (see Fides ...
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  26 May 2023
  AFRICA - 'Women Beyond Borders': to give voice to women working in the existential peripheries around the world Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Comboni Sisters have launched “Comboni Sisters – Women Beyond Borders,” a new digital media aimed at sharing the stories of missionary women working in existential peripheries around the ...
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  25 May 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The kidnapping industry" in Nigeria spares no one Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – While Father Kingsley Maduka, the parish priest of the Catholic parish of Christ the King, Ezinnachi-Ugwaku, Okigwe L.G.A., in the State of Imo, in south-eastern Nigeria, is finding his freedom, ...
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  24 May 2023
  AFRICA/GHANA - Evangelization, peace and care for Creation: the challenges of the Church in Ghana according to the President of the Episcopal Conference Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Ghana has constantly grown in number, but this poses a challenge because we do not have enough evangelization agents", says Msgr. Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi, Bishop of Sunyani and President ...
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  23 May 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Bloody invisible hands fuel the conflict between Teke and Yaka" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The bloodthirsty invisible hands of Kinshasa" are at the origin of the conflict in the region of Kwamouth, in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This was affirmed by the Bisho ...
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  23 May 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - There is no respite for the Sudanese people: even the latest ceasefire attempt has failed Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - This morning, May 23, 2023, the truce between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which came into effect last night, was broken (see Fides, 22/5/2023). Army heli ...
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  22 May 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The kidnapping of a priest of the diocese of Okigwe is just the latest in a long line Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - On May 19, Father Kingsley Maduka, parish priest of the Catholic parish of Christ the King, Ezinnachi-Ugwaku, Okigwe L.G.A., in Imo State, southeast Nigeria, was kidnapped. According to the chance ...
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  22 May 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - New ceasefire in the country, but the population is in desperate need of humanitarian aid Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The heavy air raids that have hit the city of Omdurman and the northern part of Khartoum, which are located on the other side of the Nile from Khartoum, have further accelerated the need for a ...
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  20 May 2023
  AFRICA/CHAD - "Where do the weapons come from?". The unsettling questions of Catholic associations and movements on the recent massacres in southern Chad Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We demand an immediate end to the massacres and greater security for the populations of the whole country", says the Union of Catholic Lay Movements and Associations of Chad (Umalect, which b ...
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  20 May 2023
  AFRICA/TOGO - Catholics and Muslims together inaugurate the 'Msgr. Marion De Brésillac' medical and social center in the suburbs of Lomé Apessito (Agenzia Fides) - "A few days ago we inaugurated the Msgr. Marion De Brésillac Medical and Social Center in Apessito in the large suburb of Lomé. The Muslim village chief, the Iman, and the chief of the loca ...
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  19 May 2023
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Called to bear witness to Christ in an increasingly complex society: interview with the President of the Episcopal Conference of Tanzania Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "We are grateful to God for this young Church with strong roots and growing" says in an interview with Agenzia Fides the Archbishop of Mbeya and President of the Episcopal Conference of Ta ...