Africa

• 1 July 2011
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Cardinal Okogie: "No to Islamic Banking, because it is a plan to subjugate Christians" AFRICA/NIGERIA - Cardinal Okogie: "No to Islamic Banking, because it is a plan to subjugate Christians" Lagos (Fides) - Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, Archbishop of Lagos, has expressed his opposition to the proposal ...
• 1 July 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Mothers forced to give birth on the roadside: "the situation of displaced people of Abyei is still dramatic," says the Apostolic Administrator of Malakal Juba (Fides Service) - "The situation of displaced people of Abyei remains dramatic, despite the arrival of some humanitarian aid", said Mgr.Roko Taban Mousa to Fides, Apostolic Administrator of Malakal in southern Sud ...
• 28 June 2011
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The refugees learn how to make hand-crafted products with the help of JRS Kampala (Fides Service) - As part of an initiative to help the urban refugees to achieve greater self-sufficiency, JRS (Jesuit Refugee Service) has launched in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, a new training course for re ...
• 27 June 2011
  AFRICA-Projects and centers for boys and girls in difficulty Rome (Fides Service) – For decades in many African countries, village communities have provided aid and protection to children, especially in rural areas, where children, in the absence of parents, were entrusted to el ...
• 27 June 2011
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU-Pastoral workers from Bissau at a conference: verification and programming of the pastoral year Bissau (Fides Service) - The pastoral year in the diocese of Bissau officially closed yesterday, Sunday, June 26 and the diocesan pastoral workers are now called to verify what has been done over the past year and plan ...
• 25 June 2011
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR-Poverty and malnutrition for 2 Malagasy children out of 3 South Amboasary (Fides Service) - Two out of three Malagasy children live in poverty and 50% of children under five years of age has growth problems because of malnutrition. The situation is particularly serious in the c ...
• 24 June 2011
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA-The Vicar general of the Diocese of Mansa asks the authorities greater transparency Ndola (Agenzia Fides) - The Vicar general of the Diocese of Mansa, Zambia, father Mambwe Mpas, said that failure to adhere to the present race in the country regarding the contract for road projects, could create a favor ...
• 24 June 2011
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Progress to unify the training of women's religious institutes Bissau (Fides Service) – To unify the formation of women's religious institutes present in Guinea Bissau: The proposal was made by Sister Laura Aguiar, Coordinator of the inter-diocesan Commission for Consecrated Life. ...
• 22 June 2011
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Drug dealers organizations in West Africa are becoming more and more autonomous from the Colombian "narcos" Dakar (Fides Service) - The drug trade that passes through West Africa is undergoing an evolution that could have very serious consequences for the region. This is what emerged from the meeting on the West Coast of Afric ...
• 22 June 2011
  AFRICA/CONGO-Measles outbreak: 32 deaths and hundreds of people infected Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - At least 32 people have died and 800 have been infected following a measles epidemic that has struck the southern regions of Pointe Noire and Kouilou, in the Republic of Congo. In a previous ...
• 22 June 2011
  AFRICA/MALI - 9 deacons ordained from the major Seminary of Samaya Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The major Seminary "Saint Augustine" of Samaya, in Bamako (Mali), closed yesterday, June 21, the academic year 2010-2011. As Don Edmond Dembele, Secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Mali repo ...
• 22 June 2011
  AFRICA/BURUNDI-Seminar on human rights as the basis for peace: the Church's commitment Bujumbura (Fides Service) - A seminar on international law on human rights began in Bujumbura, capital of Burundi on June, 20 . The seminar is sponsored by the Episcopal Commission for the Apostolate of the Laity in Buru ...
• 21 June 2011
  AFRICA /LIBYA - "I went several times to the house that was hit and it did not look like a military command center", says Bishop Martinelli Tripoli (Fides Service) - "I am surprised Khouildi Hamidi's house was hit, I do not think his house was a military center", says His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocent Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli. According to Libya ...
• 21 June 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN- An agreement has been reached for the demilitarization of Abyei, but concern remains for Southern Kordofan Khartoum (Fides Service) - North and South Sudan have reached an agreement on the disputed region of Abyei, on the border between the two areas, which was occupied by the military in Khartoum on 21 May (see Fides 25/5/20 ...
• 21 June 2011
  AFRICA/TOGO - Four new wells to provide drinking water and irrigate the land during periods of drought Kong (Agenzia Fides) - In the city of Kong, in Togo, with the help of missionaries and farmers, in a short space of time 4 new wells were built to provide drinking water to residents and to irrigate the land in times of ...