Africa
10 January 2011
AFRICA/SUDAN - "Vote calm, people participate en-masse,” says the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - “The people are voting en-masse and so far the voting procedures have taken place in calm,” Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambio told Fides, in southern Sudan, where yesterday, 9 ...
10 January 2011
Africa/Kenya - More than 150,000 people at risk of starvation in the north of Kenya
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- More than 150,000 people are at risk of starvation in the north of Kenya. According to the Kenyan daily, “The Nation”, “children under five years of age, pregnant women and elderly people a ...
8 January 2011
AFRICA/SUDAN - The independence of southern Sudan is at risk due to the tragedy of millions of displaced people from the north, denounces Sudanese Bishop
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - “Following the euphoria of independence now they must deal with the harsh reality of the thousands and thousands of southern Sudanese who have returned to the south and who have nothing. Ther ...
8 January 2011
AFRICA/CONGO - A new law to protect the rights of indigenous peoples
Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) – The Republic of Congo is destined to become the first country in Africa to provide special legal protection to its indigenous peoples. In a declaration by Jean Ganga, president of the Asso ...
4 January 2011
AFRICA/NIGERIA - “They want to destabilize Nigeria, with attacks on Christian places of symbolic importance,” says the Archbishop of Jos
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - “It was an attack on places symbolic of Christianity. Unlike other incidents in the past that had other causes, the attacks at Christmas have a clear religious motivation,” Fides was told by A ...
4 January 2011
AFRICA/SUDAN - The Church multiplies initiatives for the peaceful conduct of the referendum on 9 January
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – Even the Catholic Church is mobilizing to ensure that the referendum on the independence of South Sudan occurs peacefully. Archbishop Paolino Lukudu Loro of Juba, announced the extension to ...
3 January 2011
AFRICA/EGYPT - “Christians do not feel adequately protected, but they understand the difficulties in preventing acts of terrorism,” reveals Nuncio in Egypt to Fides
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “I have expressed to Pope Shenouda III my condolences and sorrow for the victims of the 31 December attack,” said Archbishop Michael Louis Fitzgerald, Apostolic Nuncio in Egypt, to Fides. “I ...
29 December 2010
AFRICA/NIGERIA - No priests killed during clashes at Christmas in Nigeria
Jos (Agenzia Fides) - “No priest in Jos or Maiduguri was killed during the Christmas attacks” in Nigeria, revealed Archbishop Ignatius A. Kaigama of Jos to Fides, regarding reports in the media which announced that a ...
29 December 2010
AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Situation still blocked, meanwhile Gbagbo plays the media card
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The delegation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met yesterday, 28 December, for three hours with the outgoing President of Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, to renew their ...
21 December 2010
AFRICA/SUDAN - “We fear LRA massacres at Christmas and during the referendum in January,” says the Bishop of Tombura-Yambo
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - “There are at least four villages in Western Equatoria where people live in real fear of new attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA),” Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambo, so ...
21 December 2010
AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Situation still blocked while the European Union adopted sanctions against Gbagbo
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “The political situation is blocked and the sanctions decided on by the European Union and the UN seem to have taken effect, at least for now, to strengthen the determination of Gbagbo's camp ...
20 December 2010
AFRICA/SENEGAL - Marian Sanctuary inaugurated in Ziguinchor, dedicated to Our Lady of the Mission
Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - “A historic day for the Diocese of Ziguinchor,” recounts Fr Bruno Favero to Fides, director of the Pontifical Mission for Senegal and Mauritania, who describes how on 12 December in Ziguinchor ...
20 December 2010
AFRICA/KENYA - post-election violence: Cardinal Njue invites politicians not to inflame minds
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - While the controversy continues in Kenya on the publication of the names of six politicians accused of organizing the violence that followed the 2007-2008 elections - who are being investigated ...
18 December 2010
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Catholic youth, ambassadors of peace and reconciliation
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The young people of Central Africa want to be “messengers of peace and reconciliation” in their land, marked by violence and conflict, is what the participants say at a meeting on the the ...
18 December 2010
AFRICA/KENYA - A radio station promotes AIDS initiative for young freelance journalists
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW), the global radio station, has just launched a new competition to Nairobi via the web to create greater awareness about the impact of HIV and AIDS on children i ...
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