Africa

• 19 May 2023
  AFRICA/MAURITIUS - Resignation and appointment of Bishop of Port-Louis Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Port-Louis (Mauritius) presented by His Eminence Cardinal Maurice Piat, C.S.Sp. The Holy Father ...
• 19 May 2023
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of Morondava Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed the Reverand Jean Nicolas Rakotojaona, of the clergy of Antananarivo, currently Rector of the Major Seminary of Philosophy Saint Paul Apôtre in Antsir ...
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  19 May 2023
  AFRICA/MALI - Arthur Kenneth Elliott freed after seven years of imprisonment Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The news of the release of Arthur Kenneth Elliott, the Australian doctor kidnapped in Burkina Faso seven years ago, arrived a few hours ago. It was exactly on January 15, 2016 when Dr. Elliot, no ...
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  17 May 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Massacre in Darfur and camps ready to welcome refugees in South Sudan Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - While the fighting continues to intensify in Khartoum, the most serious situation in terms of human casualties is in the province of Darfur. In the past week, clashes have claimed more than 350 ...
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  16 May 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - After the conflicts in the east of the country, instability in the west which is approaching the capital Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The latent conflict in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo is worsening, reaching areas not far from the capital, Kinshasa. Between May 11 and 13, the "Mobondo" militia of the Yaka co ...
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  16 May 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - A month of war: the population is at the end of their tether and the country in chaos Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Fighting and looting continue to hinder humanitarian groups from working to help the Sudanese population whom are exhausted after a month of armed conflict. The situation in the country does no ...
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  15 May 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - President William Ruto has apologised to Kenya over the Shakohola massacre Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – In the country which is shocked by the massacre in the Shakahola forest (see Fides, 3/5/2023), requests are multiplying to regulate not so much freedom of worship as the compliance with the la ...
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  15 May 2023
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Acts of vandalism in the St. Carol Lwanga cathedral Kahama (Agenzia Fides) - In these days the bishops of Tanzania are scheduled to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican to discuss, among other things, alarming issues such as the desecration of several buildings of the Ca ...
• 15 May 2023
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of auxiliary bishop of Kisangani Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 13, 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed the Reverend Fr. Lénard Ndjate, M.C.C.I., until now provincial of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus in the Democratic Republ ...
• 15 May 2023
  AFRICA/COTE D’IVOIRE - Appointment of bishop of Katiola Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 13, 2023, the Holy Father Francis appointed the Reverend Honoré Beugré Dakpa, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Gagnoa, until now secretary general of the Catholic University of ...
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  12 May 2023
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The Eparch of Adigrat: the impact of the crisis in Tigray also affects pastoral service programs Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - Famine, cities and homes looted, hospitals destroyed, businesses razed to the ground, sacred places desecrated, rapes. The people of Tigray have been suffering unimaginable suffering for almost ...
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  12 May 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The President criticizes the military for the death of the Minister of Labour killed by his bodyguard Kampala (Agenzia Fides). "It is a matter of great embarrassment for the army that a soldier assigned as a bodyguard ends up killing those he was supposed to protect", Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said at the funeral ...
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  11 May 2023
  AFRICA/GHANA - Interreligious dialogue, education, evangelization in the Kingdom of Ashanti Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Evangelization, formation, health care and interreligious dialogue are at the heart of the activities of the priests of the Society for African Missions in the ancient kingdom of Ashanti. The miss ...
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  11 May 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Church structures mobilized to welcome people fleeing fighting in Sudan Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Mobilize religious congregations present in the Archdiocese of Juba, capital of South Sudan, to welcome people fleeing the war between the army and paramilitaries in Sudan. This is what Msgr. Steph ...
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  10 May 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - Number of bodies found in the Shakahola forest rises to 133; the President creates a task force to review the law that regulates worship Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Another twenty bodies have been recovered in the Shakahola forest, in south-eastern Kenya, bringing to 133 the number of followers killed in collective suicide by forced fasting (but some of th ...