Africa

• 24 November 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "The situation is calm but tomorrow will be a decisive day", says a missionary from Cairo Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "We have to wait until Friday, that is to say, tomorrow, to see how the situation develops", says to Fides Fr. Luciano Verdoscia, a Comboni missionary who lives and works in Cairo, where a calm at ...
• 24 November 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Defending creation fighting greenhouse gases": the request of the Bishops of Southern Africa on the eve of the UN Conference on climate change Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Our beloved world and the entire creation - that God has given us - are threatened by climate change", write the Bishops of Southern Africa in a Pastoral Letter published on the eve of the ...
• 23 November 2011
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Three Capuchin missionaries and a volunteer die in a car accident Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - Three Capuchin missionaries and a lay volunteer, all Italian, from Tuscany, died in a car accident yesterday in Dar es Salaam, while they were visiting the Capuchin missions in the African ...
• 23 November 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA-Rains bring relief but also damage: report of Caritas Somalia Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The rains that began to fall on Somalia are having positive and negative aspects. According to what is stated in the Situation Report sent to Agenzia Fides by Caritas Somalia, the rivers are i ...
• 23 November 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "Real bullets, plastic bullets in the face, people die for gases": a testimony from Tahrir Square Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "The battle is still continuing in Tahrir Square. It is a small civil war", a source of the Church of Cairo tells Fides, which for security reasons does not want to be mentioned. "The paradox is t ...
• 22 November 2011
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Thousands of faithful at the ordination of the Auxiliary Bishop of Bissau Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of faithful of the Diocese of Bissau and Bafata, in Guinea-Bissau, attended on Saturday morning, November 12, the Episcopal Ordination of Mgr. José Lampra Cá, elected Auxiliary Bishop ...
• 22 November 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA-"The revelations about the political ties of the Boko Haram sect are not a surprise", says the Bishop of Maiduguri Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "These revelations are not surprising. We have been saying for some time that there are politicians who, seeing that they were losing their importance, have chosen to support violent groups like B ...
• 22 November 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Appeal for the release of child soldiers enlisted in the country’s army Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The UN peacekeeping mission committed in southern Sudan (UNMISS) has appealed to the country’s army to ensure the release of all child soldiers used in their ranks. Recently more than 53 teenager ...
• 21 November 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "The young people are again at the center of the protest", says a missionary from Cairo, where in the clashes at least 20 people have died Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "The clashes continued even during the night", says to Fides Fr. Luciano Verdoscia, Comboni missionary who lives and works in Cairo, where in the last 3 days at least 20 people were killed and ab ...
• 21 November 2011
  AFRICA - A very difficult year for children: need for greater protection for children and young people in vulnerable situations Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – The situation of children around the world is alarming. About 100 million children still lack access to education, 50 million are not even recordedat he the registry office and, therefore, it ...
• 21 November 2011
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Tensions in Egypt: the supra-constitutional principles. Dossier Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - One of the causes of the strong tension in past days has resulted in clashes in Cairo, Alexandria and other centers of Egypt, is the document submitted on 1 November by the Supreme Military Counci ...
• 19 November 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "An inconsistent campaign, which could lead to riots after the election": the concern of the missionaries Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Taking a first assessment of the election campaign, it is clear that politicians are campaigning without consistency", says the "Peace Network for Congo" in a note sent to Fides on the preside ...
• 18 November 2011
  AFRICA/BENIN - 800 000 street children escaped from their families, abandoned because of poverty, victims of conflict and abuse Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - Benin is a country where more than 3 million people live below the poverty line. Half of the population of the country, about four million are less than 18 years old, and among these, 33% live o ...
• 17 November 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Killings, injuries, recruitment and rape on minors do not stop Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The lives of Somali children are increasingly at risk due to the ongoing conflict. In the course of the fighting taking place throughout South and Central Somalia, attacks and assaults on chil ...
• 17 November 2011
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "The Arab spring" at the center of meeting of the Bishops of North Africa Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - The social and political situation in North Africa was the focus of the meeting of the Conference of Bishops of North Africa Region (CERNA), which was held in Tunis from November 13 to 16. It was ...