Africa

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  27 March 2023
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Father Konteh (Caritas): the electoral process must be more inclusive and accessible to all Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - The electoral period promises to be particularly hot for the 8.6 million Sierra Leoneans who will be called to vote on June 24th. "As our country prepares itself, it is important to recognize t ...
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  25 March 2023
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Laid the first foundations of the health center in Yoro for thousands of refugees: a work illuminated by the hope that comes from the Cross Yoro (Agenzia Fides) - "We finally have the foundations of the new health center in Yoro in which we are involved in assisting refugees in this northwestern part of the country", reports to Fides Sister Laura Gemignani, ...
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  24 March 2023
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - 100 years of the parish of Pabré, a sign of grace and hope in a country plagued by insecurity Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "All believers must unite for a world more worthy of God, a world where everyone is happy", urged Cardinal Philippe Ouédraogo, Archbishop of Ouagadougou, in his homily delivered during of t ...
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  23 March 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Father Norberto, a Carmelite missionary injured by a mine, had already escaped three road ambushes Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Father Norberto Pozzi, born in 1952, Discalced Carmelite missionary from Lecco, injured in the north-west of Central Africa by a landmine on February 10 (see Fides, 13/2/2023), was the victim of ...
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  22 March 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - "We have joy in our hearts despite the violence" write the catechists from the Niger-Burkina Faso border area Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "We have come to tell you that we have joy in our hearts despite the prevailing security situation in the area; we always have faith in Jesus Christ", write the catechists from Makalondi, Bomoang ...
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  22 March 2023
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Luisa Guidotti Mistrali: "I want to go on mission as a doctor, leave forever, remaining lay among the laity" by Stefano Lodigiani Mutoko (Agenzia Fides) - "An Italian lay missionary, Dr. Luisa Guidotti, 47 years old, originally from Modena, who for more than ten years had been directing the medical center of the mission, abo ...
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  21 March 2023
  AFRICA/NIGER - Release of two Western hostages kidnapped in the Sahel Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The two hostages were recovered safe and sound by the Nigerien authorities before being handed over to the French and American authorities", said the Minister of Interior of Niger Hamadou Souley ...
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  20 March 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Awaiting the results of Saturday's poll. Reported intimidation and violence Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The counting of the local elections of March 18 (see Fides, 18/3/2023) is underway. According to Festus Okoye, spokesman for the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria, these electio ...
• 20 March 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Appointment of vicar apostolic of Ingwavuma, Father Vusumuzi Francis Mazibuko, OMI Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Vusumuzi Francis Mazibuko, O.M.I., hitertho parish priest of Saint Mary’s in Pietermaritzburg, archdiocese of Durban, as vicar apostolic of ...
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  20 March 2023
  MOZAMBIQUE - "They remained in their place, close to the persecuted people, until their bloodshed". The story of the Jesuit martyrs of Chapotera by Stefano Lodigiani In view of the thirty-first "Day of Missionary Martyrs" on March 24, promoted by the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fides presents some profiles of missionary martyrs for whom the Cause of Canoniza ...
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  18 March 2023
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Elections to change governors are underway; uncertainty about turnout Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nigerians return to the polls today, March 18, to elect the governors of 28 of the 36 states of the Federation and more than 900 representatives to the state assemblies. After the presidential an ...
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  18 March 2023
  AFRICA/MALAWI - More than 400 dead and 200 thousand displaced: the situation continues to worsen in the area of the Archdiocese of Blantyre Blantyre (Agenzia Fides) - Roads and bridges swept away, entire communities isolated, unable to receive aid. Houses and infrastructures, thousands of families are without shelter, exposed to bad weather. These are the fi ...
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  17 March 2023
  AFRICA/BENIN - The Mission is an adventure worth living Calavì (Agenzia Fides) - "At the beginning of January 2022, I moved to Calavì, Benin, to the 'Brésillac' Center where the seminarians of the Society for African Missions attend the International Year of Spirituality ( ...
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  17 March 2023
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - The fruits, failures, wounds, the new beginnings. Archbishop Nahimana recounts 125 years of the Gospel in Burundi. by Luca Mainoldi Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the beginning of our evangelization, the family has been the first cell of the Burundian Church", says Msgr. Bonaventure Nahimana, Archbishop of Gitega and President of the ...
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  15 March 2023
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “Protests over the just demands of healthcare workers must not harm patients,” says Bishop of Mthatha Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The South African Labor Court of Appeal has ordered public health workers to end a week-long strike that has affected some of the country's main hospitals. Members of the National Educatio ...