Africa

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  18 April 2023
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - The life of the Bayaka Pygmies in the Monasao mission: between the parish, school, forest Monasao (Agenzia Fides) - In Monasao, a small mission in the diocese of Berberati, the dry season has arrived, which for the Bayaka Pygmies is the most favorable time for hunting, staying in the forest and looking for fo ...
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  17 April 2023
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Coup in Khartoum: the situation continues to worsen in the country under armed attack for three days Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - After days of ever-increasing tensions between the Sudanese army and the paramilitaries of the Rapid Intervention Forces (RSF), the capital of Sudan is under siege amid bombs. Fighting broke ou ...
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  15 April 2023
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Father Lorenzo Snider: "Our mission in Foya together with you" Foya (Agenzia Fides) - "Since returning to Foya this year I have been able to personally meet almost all the children, as many as 102, who have been able to attend school thanks to the support of so many friends and bene ...
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  14 April 2023
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Political instability, poverty and expectations of the people in the story of a missionary Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "After the dissolution of parliament in May 2022, President Umaro Sissoco Embalò appointed ministers and in one way or another the situation continued", says Father Celso Corbioli, of the Missio ...
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  13 April 2023
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The Eparque of Adigrat: 15 parishes occupied by the armed forces Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - Again this year, in Tigray, the people are experiencing Easter in very critical conditions. Despite the signing of the peace agreement concluded in South Africa between the government of Addis A ...
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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 ...