Africa

• 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 ...
• 17 November 2011
  AFRICA/BENIN - "On arriving in Benin, the Holy Father pays tribute also to the work of missionaries and the local hierarchy": the testimony of a missionary of the SAM Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Holy Father's trip to Benin for the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation publication dedicated to Africa will also be a tribute to the work of missionaries who 150 years ago not only began the e ...
• 17 November 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The flight of the Somali people to Kenya continues, the assistance of the Camillian Task Force Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of the Somali population does not improve and the inexorable flight to Kenya in search of food and water continues. In the area of Wajir, one of the most affected by drought, mo ...
• 16 November 2011
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - A Catholic nun at the head of the Commission of Inquiry on electoral violence Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - The re-elected President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has appointed a religious Catholic, Sister Mary Laurene Browne, OSF, at the head of a commission of inquiry into the violence on Novem ...
• 16 November 2011
  AFRICA/BENIN - History, Economy and the presence of the Church Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Benin, where the Holy Father Benedict XVI will make his apostolic 22nd journey, from18 to 20 November, on the occasion of the signing and publication of the Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of th ...
• 15 November 2011
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Millions of children still without basic education Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Access to primary education in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is still very precarious, with more than 7 million children across the country who do not attend school despite a governmen ...