Africa
9 February 2010
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - World Day of the Sick: experience of sickness and suffering can become a school of hope
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - On February 11, the Catholic Church celebrates the World Day of the Sick. This celebration is a special moment in Bolivia, which invites all men of good will to turn our attention and prayer towa ...
9 February 2010
AFRICA/KENYA - 3-year campaign for the fight against mother-child AIDS transmission
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Kenya has just recently launched a 3-year campaign for the fight against mother-child AIDS transmission. The “Campaign to End Child HIV/AIDS” aims at increasing coverage rates in the preve ...
9 February 2010
AFRICA/SUDAN - President of Chad visits Sudan, marks turning point in relations between countries
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – A turning point has come in relations between Chad and Sudan. The Chadian President Idriss Déby arrived yesterday, Feb. 8, in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, for his first visit to Sudan aft ...
9 February 2010
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Senate votes to transfer presidential powers to Vice-President
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – The Nigerian Senate voted today, February 9, in favor of a motion to declare Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan president ad interim. The motion, voted by a majority of Senators, contends that the ...
8 February 2010
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Local Catholic Church running international program for AIDS patients
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - “This event honors the commitment and success of the Catholic Church in caring for the world’s largest population of people with HIV,” said CRS (Catholic Relief Services) South Africa ...
8 February 2010
AFRICA/GUINEA - “Tensions caused by underdevelopment in the area at the root of clashes in N'Zerekore,” local source tells Fides
Conakry (Agenzia Fides) – "A simple traffic accident that has caused an explosion of violence reveals a worsening of Guinean society and, in particular, of that area of the country," a source from the Church in Guinea ...
6 February 2010
AFRICA/MALAWI - Malawi President's election as President of African Union, inspires hopes and fears
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) – On January 31, the 14th African Union Summit elected the Head of State of Malawi, Bingu wa Mutharika, President of the Union. In his acceptance speech for such a highly pursued office, Muthar ...
6 February 2010
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Yet another military operation in east Congo causes concern among missionaries
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The launch of a new military offensive in North and South Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo) against the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda raises several questions ...
5 February 2010
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Religious leaders from 4 Central African nations willing to mediate negotiations with LRA rebels
Kisangani (Agenzia Fides) – "Peace has no political or religious color. In order for our peace efforts to succeed, we must support them with prayer. Let us pray together for peace in our hearts, pray for the victims, p ...
5 February 2010
AFRICA/KENYA - Proposal to insert Constitutional clause denying that changes definition of initiation of life from conception to birth is inspired by an “anti-life mentality”
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Strong opposition has arisen from the Church of Kenya in regards to the proposal of the Parliamentary Commission for the Revision of the Constitution to amend the clause that defines the beginni ...
4 February 2010
AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We are all concerned about the power vacuum created by the absence of the President," Archbishop of Jos tells Fides
Jos (Agenzia Fides) – "Nigerians are very worried and confused about the risk created by a serious power vacuum," Agenzia Fides was told by Archbishop Ignatius A. Kaigama of Jos (Nigeria), where there are growing press ...
3 February 2010
AFRICA/KENYA - Kenya celebrates 100th anniversary of Consolata Missionaries
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "It is true that as Consolata Missionaries you have lived the desire of your Founder: To make people know God's love," said Archbishop Peter Kairo of Nyeri (Kenya), at the celebration marking th ...
3 February 2010
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - AU Summit concludes, focus on crises in Somalia and Madagascar and peace-keeping in Sudan
Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) – The conflict in Somalia, the peacekeeping operation in Sudan, and the political crisis in Madagascar were the main themes of the African Union Summit which ended yesterday, February 2, in ...
2 February 2010
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Meeting on the Jos crisis: "a fruitful meeting which concluded that religion is not the cause of the clashes," city's Archbishop tells Fides
Jos (Agenzia Fides) – "It was a positive and fruitful meeting," Archbishop Ignatius A. Kaigama of Jos told Agenzia Fides, after attending a meeting at the Presidential Residence in Abuja, with the Vice-President of Nig ...
2 February 2010
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Solidarity of the Church in Isiro with LRA guerrilla war victims
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic community in Isiro, in the Equator Province in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Sunday, January 31, held a procession and a Mass to remember and pray for the vi ...
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