Africa

• 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 ...
• 17 December 2010
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “Dialogue is the only path to overcoming religious persecution”, Bishop of Luxor tells Fides Luxor (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church, since she was born, also and especially in the person of Jesus Christ, lives in the shadow of the Cross. But this is the strength of Christians, from the persecutions of the early m ...
• 17 December 2010
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - After the violence of yesterday new clashes feared Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - “Abidjan is completely paralysed: the movement of public and private transport is blocked; shops, schools and offices are closed, while there is a heavy presence of presidential security force ...
• 16 December 2010
  AFRICA - Malaria: significant steps forward in endemic countries but more work needed to defeat it Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Since the last Report on malaria by the World Health Organization (WHO), published on 13 December, it appears that, over the past decade, programs for disease control in Africa recorded 200,000 ...
• 16 December 2010
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Violent clashes in Abidjan between police and supporters of Ouattara Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - Violent clashes are underway in the administrative capital of Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, where supporters of Alassane Ouattara, the President recognized by the international community, have organi ...
• 16 December 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Kenyan politicians' names published, suspected by the ICC for the violence of 2008 Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “The publication of the politicians' names under investigation by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is a political earthquake, however for the moment it has not provoked ...