Africa

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  12 April 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Female genital mutilation: More than a thousand Sudanese communities abandon the cruel practice Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - In Sudan, almost nine out of ten women are subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM), despite the fact that a law penalizing this practice has been in force since July 2020. In the country, ...
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  5 April 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Pentecostal church attacked; new mass kidnapping of students Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In the early hours of April 2, Palm Sunday, the Pentecostal church in Akenawe, Tswarev, in the Benue State, in central northern Nigeria, was attacked. The assailants, suspected to be a band of Ful ...
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  5 April 2023
  AFRICA - Three Catholic nuns awarded for their development projects in Africa Santa Clara (Agenzia Fides) - "The future of Africa is in the hands of Africans. It is up to us to build our future; I will return home as an African to show concepts and African solutions for Africa", said Sister Juunza ...
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  4 April 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The artist who designed the statue for the Mass of Pope Francis in Juba has been killed Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The artist who designed the statue exhibited at the Mass presided over by Pope Francis during his pilgrimage to South Sudan from February 3 to 5, 2023 has been killed. According to the Catholic Rad ...
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  4 April 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - Via Crucis in Niger always with the hope of the resurrection: the hope of the missionary Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the 14 traditional Stations of the Cross at Easter, Father Rafael Casamayor shared the "Stations of the Cross" which, every Friday, symbolically celebrates the community of Dosso where ...
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  3 April 2023
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Apostolic Prefect of Robe: "Easter projects us forward to heaven and eternal glory" Robe (Agenzia Fides) - "Here we are in the year of grace 2014 that began in last year's Easter (Christians count the year from one Easter to another, for this reason we write the current year in the Easter candle!) and h ...
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  3 April 2023
  AFRICA/MALAWI - President of the Episcopal Conference: "Cyclone Freddy is a tragedy that has never happened in the history of the country" Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a huge tragedy that has never happened in the history of the country. The population is in a very difficult situation", says Msgr. George Desmond Tambala, Archbishop of Lilongwe and Pres ...
• 1 April 2023
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Resignation of Bishop of Bubanza Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Bubanza, Burundi, presented by Bishop Jean Ntagwarara. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 1/4/2023) ...
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  1 April 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - A religious of the Missionaries of Africa killed by mistake Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "It was a tragic accident", a person in charge of the General House of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) told Agenzia Fides, confirming the accidental murder of one of his community ...
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  31 March 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - Twenty missionary sisters at the service of evangelization among people in difficulty Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Famine, drought, early marriages, orphans, the elderly, human promotion, evangelization, these are some of the priorities of the sisters of the Congregation of the Social Missionaries of the Chu ...
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  31 March 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The peace process fails to advance after the change in the Ministry of Defense Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Immediately begin operations to disarm the civilian population, starting with the capital, Juba. This is the task assigned to the new Defense Minister of South Sudan, Chol Thon Balok, by President ...
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  30 March 2023
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - From Church founded by missionaries to missionary Church Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Out of a population of 19 million inhabitants, about 40% is Catholic, with variations from one diocese to another, according to the history of evangelization in each area", says to Fides Msgr. I ...
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  30 March 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - Drought emergency in Turkana County: the population is in danger of a serious humanitarian crisis Lodwar (Agenzia Fides) - While anti-government riots against the high cost of living continue throughout the country (see Fides, 28/3/2023), the population of northern Kenya, in addition to the consequences of the Covid- ...
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  29 March 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The scourge of the kidnappings of priests in Nigeria is part of a larger phenomenon Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - From 2006 to 2023, 53 priests in Nigeria have been kidnapped, 12 attacked and 16 killed. In seventeen years, 81 priests in Nigeria have been victims of attacks. These are the data reported to Fide ...
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  28 March 2023
  AFRICA/KENYA - Population exhausted: clashes against the government continue and drought does not stop Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The population is exhausted, the drought that has been going on for more than two years with serious repercussions on most Kenyans is compounded by anti-government protests organized by the oppo ...