Africa

• 31 July 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - World Soccer Cup: “let's use the same determination to tackle the country's social problems" Christian leaders say Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides)- After South Africa's success in hosting the first-ever soccer World Cup in Africa, the government needs to use the same determination to deal with the country's social problems, say church l ...
• 31 July 2010
  AFRICA/UGANDA - From kidnapped seminarian to priest; testimonial of Stefano, abducted in northern Uganda in 2003 Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- Stefano was 16 when he was abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in an attack the minor seminary in the diocese of Gulu in northern Uganda on 11 May, 2003 (see Fides 12/5/2003 and 19/5/200 ...
• 30 July 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - In view of constitutional referendum packed Ecumenical Prayer Service at Holy Family Basilica, Nairobi Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- The principal Churches in Kenya organised for today, 30 July, an ecumenical prayer service in view of a referendum on the country's Constitution to be held on 4 August. “Members of the most im ...
• 30 July 2010
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - Umpteenth River tragedy in Congo raises fluvial security issue once again Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- At least 140 people drowned in the waters of the River Kasai, a tributary of the Congo, when a ferry, on the way to the capital Kinshasa from Mushie, about 30km from the town of Bandundu, capsiz ...
• 29 July 2010
  AFRICA/UGANDA - A complex scenario appears behind the recent attacks in Kampala Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- Investigations into the double terrorist attack on 11 July in the Ugandan capital continue. Responsibility for the attacks, which left 76 persons dead and hundreds injured, was claimed by Shabab, ...
• 29 July 2010
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - Cardinal Joseph-Albert Malula (1917-1989) proclaimed “national hero ” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, the Catholic Archbishop of Kinshasa, has voiced the gratitude of the Catholic Church in Congo to the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph K ...
• 28 July 2010
  AFRICA/UGANDA - AU Summit focus on terrorists; children and mothers killed by disease and malnutrition forgotten Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- Every year in Africa 4.5 million children and 265,000 pregnant women die of disease and malnutrition. This drama was to be the focus of the African Union Summit in Kampala, in Uganda, which ende ...
• 28 July 2010
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Civilians suffer increasingly because of fighting in Mogadishu Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Fighting continues in the capital of Somalia, Mogadishu, where Shabab insurgents are in conflict with army soldiers loyal to the Transitional Federal Government backed by troops of AMISOM (Afr ...
• 27 July 2010
  AFRICA/REPUBLIC DEMOCRATIC OF CONGO - Poverty and illiteracy worsen living conditions pushing minors to prostitution Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A dramatic and concerning situation emerges from an inquiry carried out by a don Guanella Mobile Team, involving 315 young girls living on the streets in the district of Tshangu, a district wh ...
• 27 July 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - National Task Force to combat spread of illegal weapons Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- According to the United Nations Organisation about eight million illegal weapons circulate in West Africa, a consistent percentage of these in Nigeria. This was affirmed by Gen. Aliyu Gusau, Nation ...
• 27 July 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Insertion course for newly arrived missionaries Bissau (Agenzia Fides)- The dioceses of Guinea-Bissau are organising a course 2 - 27 August, for recently arrived missionaries, we read in a statement sent to Fides. The course provided for new missionaries includes basi ...
• 26 July 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “We have reached a time to move and prepare for change” Sudanese Bishops affirm Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- “ This is an historic moment. This is a moment of change. Sudan will never be the same again,” the Catholic Bishops of Sudan said in a message made public at the end of an Extraordinary Plen ...
• 26 July 2010
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Combating terrorism, the situation in Somalia and Sudan, focus of African Union Summit Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- “Let us now act in concert and sweep them (terrorists) out of Africa” the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said on Sunday 25 August at the opening ceremony of the 15th African Union Summit ...
• 23 July 2010
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Clean safe water for hill people in Jamba thanks to twelve new fountains Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - Also in the region of Byumba, northern Rwanda, difficult access to water renders life difficult for more than 65,000 people. Two years ago the Italian NGO Movimento Lotta Fame nel Mondo (MLFM) st ...
• 21 July 2010
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Formative project for “young talents” from poor families Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - Brilliant high school students in the upper classes living in isolated rural areas, or from poor families in urban districts, may have a chance to change their future through a 3 year 2010-2012 ...