Africa

• 17 March 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Another massacre in Nigeria; Archbishop of Jos tells Fides “this is just another retaliation over loss of livestock, not a religious conflict,” talk of interreligious violence ends up spreading it Jos (Agenzia Fides) – "This is a retaliation against the Fulani herders against the villagers, for an alleged theft of livestock. This is not a clash between Christians and Muslims," Fides was told by Archbishop Ignati ...
• 17 March 2010
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Mysterious fire destroys Kasubi Tombs of ancient Buganda Kingdom, tensions and conflict feared Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – On March 16, a fire destroyed the "Kasubi Tombs," the mausoleum near the capital Kampala, belonging to the Buganda Kings who ruled the traditional southern Ugandan kingdom. The causes of the f ...
• 17 March 2010
  AFRICA/UGANDA - 1 doctor:16,200 refugees, need for medical personnel at Kyaka Refugee Camp Kyaka (Agenzia Fides) – Inadequate health services is only one of many challenges faced by the 16,200 refugees in the settlement of the Kyaka II Refugee Camp in Western, where there is only one doctor. The lack of medi ...
• 16 March 2010
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Bishops' Message for Year for Priests: “The people of Angola, thirsting for God, fervently hope that their priests be 'men of God.'” Luanda (Agenzia Fides) – "It is an easily verifiable fact that most of the men of our time form an idea of Christ and His Church, first and foremost through His consecrated ministers. Therefore, this makes the need for ...
• 16 March 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Turkish President visits Kinshasa: Congolese diplomacy is “tous azimuts” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is developing diplomatic action across the board, emerging from the isolation of the war years 1998-2003. This action is developed along different lines ...
• 15 March 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - “Cardinal Malula's thought is relevant today and urges us to act,” affirms Archbishop of Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Celebrations are in full swing in Kinshasa, capital of Democratic Republic of the Congo, in honor of Cardinal Joseph Malula (1917-1989), considered the "father and founder of the Church of Ki ...
• 15 March 2010
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Marlene's Story: a 13-year-old girl spends 540 days as a slave of LRA guerrillas Bangassou (Agenzia Fides) – We often speak of children and child soldiers, abducted and enslaved by Ugandan rebels LRA (Lord's Resistance Army), a military group that is raging on the northeastern part of the Democrati ...
• 13 March 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Archbishop of Jose tells Fides: “It is time that political leaders do their part and address the root causes of violence,” Archbishop of Jos tells Fides Jos (Agenzia Fides) – "The politicians must take the bull by the horns and address the root causes of these cyclical episodes of violence. I will not tire of repeating: the real causes of violence are not religious, bu ...
• 12 March 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “We call on all students to be open and generous to the world-wide missionary apostolate of the Church”: Final Statement from Young Catholic Students of Nigeria (YCSN) Benin City (Agenzia Fides) – The Young Catholic Students of Nigeria (YCSN) have issued an explicit invitation calling Nigerian youth to be missionaries, at the end of their National Meeting held in Benin City, at Holy ...
• 10 March 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Nuncio Montemayor visiting Guinea Bissau Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – Archbishop Luis Mariano Montemayor, Apostolic Nuncio to Guinea-Bissau, is paying a visit to the local church, to the two dioceses of Guinea Bissau and Bafata (see Fides 25/2/2010). According to ...
• 10 March 2010
  AFRICA/RWANDA - “Bread, Life, Peace, and Freedom”: 4th continental meeting for Catholic Action Movements in East Africa in Kigali Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - “Bread, Life, Peace, and Freedom.” These are the issues at the heart of the Fourth Continental Meeting of Catholic Action movements in East Africa which opens today in Kigali, Rwanda, on the ...
• 10 March 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - “A New Journey with a New Spirit”: Consolata Missionaries highlight support for evangelization Muranga (Agenzia Fides) – Over 100 delegates of the lay movement of the Consolata Missionaries recently met for a three-day meeting at Sagana Retreat Center in Muranga (Kenya), with the aim of strengthening the movemen ...
• 10 March 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Acts of violence in recent days are setback to polio vaccinations for children Dakar (Agenzia Fides) – The vaccination campaign against polio, which had been planned in the city of Jos, involved in serious incidents of violence, has been postponed to March 13, due to conflict and a strike of heal ...
• 8 March 2010
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Measles continues to affect half of the districts in the country Harare (Agenzia Fides) – An outbreak of measles has hit 28 of the 62 districts of Zimbabwe and is still spreading. Efforts to vaccinate people are hampered by local religious beliefs. According to the latest Epidemiolo ...
• 6 March 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Lenten collections go to help seminaries Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – The offerings of the faithful of Bissau, collected during Lent 2010, will be sent to support the seminaries of the diocese. Until now, the seminaries have been supported by benefactors of siste ...