Africa

• 23 August 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Two religious women seriously injured in an assault due to street gangs were transported to Germany for treatment Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - On August 20, Catholic Relief Services in Bujumbura organized the emergency evacuation of two nuns belonging to the Congregation Bene-Umukama. The nuns, in serious condition, were transported ...
• 22 August 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Fighting still continues", say local sources from Tripoli to Fides Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "Fighting and gun firing still continue. It is a disaster", say local sources from Tripoli to Fides, who have requested anonymity for security reasons. "We do not know how the situation is evol ...
• 22 August 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Conclusion of the Burundians youth Forum in communion with the 26th World Youth Day Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - In communion with the young people in the world gathered around the Pope in Madrid to celebrate the 26th World Youth Day, the Episcopal Commission for the Apostolate of the Laity organized t ...
• 20 August 2011
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "The rebels intend to celebrate the end of Ramadan in Tripoli," say sources of Fides Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - The situation is calm but we know that the rebel forces are located 50 km to the east and west of Tripoli " local sources from Tripoli tell Fides, who have requested anonymity for security reaso ...
• 20 August 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - "Every 11 weeks, ten percent of the under-5 population in Somalia is dying" says the Situation Report" of Caritas Somalia Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "Health facilities in Somalia are trying to cope with the mass influx of internally displaced persons flocking to urban areas to seek assistance", says the "Situation Report" of Caritas Somali ...
• 19 August 2011
  AFRICA/BENIN - The letters of the first missionaries (SAM) who arrived in Dahomey in 1861 Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The current April 21, which fell on the first Sunday after our arrival, a hundred people or more, between blacks and whites attended the first Mass that we publicly celebrated in the chapel of the ...
• 19 August 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - The Bishops of Burundi express their concerns to the Head of State about the insecurity that plague some areas of the country Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Burundi expressed their appreciation for the good relations between State and Church to the head of State, but at the same time said they were concerned about the insecurity di ...
• 19 August 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA - Death of Father Tony Bellagamba, a Consolata missionary, postulator for the cause of beatification of the Servant of God, Cardinal Maurice Otunga Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Father Tony was a great missionary and a dedicated servant of the Catholic Church. May he rest in peace. He now makes his final journey to God our Father to meet the Servant of God Cardinal Ot ...
• 18 August 2011
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "You cannot suffocate civil society and democracy", warns the President of the Episcopal Conference Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The police have intensified controls in the major cities in Malawi although the protest planned for yesterday, August 17 was postponed (see Fides 17/8/2011). Opposition parties have given the g ...
• 17 August 2011
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The national demonstration of protest planned for today has been called off Lilongwe (Fides Service) - The demonstrations planned for today, August 17, in Malawi have been called off. The organizers have announced that "demonstrations have been postponed and not canceled to allow the High Court ...
• 17 August 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - The Golden Jubilee of the Shrine of Mugera and the consecration of Burundi to the Virgin Mary Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - The celebration of the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Burundi coincided with the celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the Marian Shrine of Mugera, located in the Arc ...
• 13 August 2011
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Five southern African countries create a common area of sustainable development Luanda (Fides Service) – The creation of an ecologically protected area in the Kavango Zambezi Transfontier region (Kaza-ATFC) is becoming more and more concrete. As reported in the Angolan newspaper "Apostolado", thi ...
• 13 August 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - In the State of Kogi sermons are under the control of the security forces Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In the Nigerian State of Kogi (north-central Nigeria), the agents of the State Security Service (SSS) have begun to monitor sermons in mosques and churches, to prevent the spread of speeches that ...
• 12 August 2011
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Caritas provides its network to pay Catholic school teachers’ salaries Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church and the Congolese State have reached an agreement to facilitate the payment of Catholic school teachers’ salaries in the vast territory of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
• 12 August 2011
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - New interventions on behalf of the international community regarding the somali drama Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The Guinean general Sékouba Konate, High Representative of the African Union at the African Force in standby, went to Somalia to inspect the troops of the African Union Mission in Somalia. ...