Africa

• 25 November 2009
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "The UN report is fine, but we have to take steps in stopping illegal trafficking that finances the war," two missionaries with long experience in the Congo tell Fides Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We urge the international community to create a system of tracing illegally extracted minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is good that the UN has issued a report denouncing ...
• 24 November 2009
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - “We have seen unimaginable suffering,” two representatives from Aid to the Church in Need say, after visiting Angolans expelled from Congo Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - “We saw unimaginable suffering and appalling conditions.” This is how Fr. Andrzej Halemba and Fr. Ulrich Kny of the Association of Pontifical Right Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) describe th ...
• 24 November 2009
  AFRICA/KENYA - Kenyan Bishops examine new Constitution draft: “The current Constitution should be amended because it is not serving the common good.” Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “The current Constitution should be amended because it is not serving the common good and thus, a new one urgently needs to be presented,” says a note from the Bishops of Kenya who met in Na ...
• 24 November 2009
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Adopt a well in Ethiopia: an initiative of National Institute for Health, Migration and Poverty Mekellè (Agenzia Fides) - "The privatization of water is already a tragedy for Italy, imagine if we talk about Africa or Ethiopia, where there is a lack of drinking water.” These were the words of Professor Aldo Morro ...
• 23 November 2009
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - “Africa Cup 2010 should be an opportunity for dialogue and friendship,” Bishops of Angola say Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - “The Africa Cup for soccer is an opportunity to strengthen dialogue between people of different cultures, to increase esteem and respect for each other and build a friendship that goes beyond a ...
• 23 November 2009
  AFRICA/GHANA - “With missionary vocations...Africa can become a continent of hope,” National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Kenya tells Fides Accra (Agenzia Fides) - “We thank God for the gift of the missionaries, men and women who moved by love, left their country, came to minister in our midst bearing much bodily suffering, cultural challenges, climatic di ...
• 21 November 2009
  AFRICA/GUINEA - “If talks between the military regime and the opposition fail, ethnic card may be played,” a local Church source tells Fides Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - “The two sides have started talks, but they are ready to play the ethnic card if negotiations fail,” say Fides sources from the Church (who requested anonymity for security reasons) in Conak ...
• 20 November 2009
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Central government and South Sudan respect 2005 peace accord, Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako, Archbishop of Khartoum, tells Fides Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church will continue its work of evangelization and Christian witness as well as human development. As for the rest, it is difficult to predict," Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako, Archbishop of Kh ...
• 20 November 2009
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, visits Cairo Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – On November 18, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, arrived for a visit to Cairo, the capital of Egypt, upon the invitation of His Beatitude Antonious Nag ...
• 19 November 2009
  AFRICA/MALAWI - “We are working alongside doctors from Malawi every day on the Internet,” says Fr. Alfonso Raimo, head of “Denied Childhood,” collaborating with health center in Diocese of Dedza Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The few doctors who decide to remain in Malawi make heroic efforts, but that alone is not sufficient to cope with diseases such as AIDS. So, we started a project to help them," Fides was told by F ...
• 18 November 2009
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Resurgence of xenophobic violence feared; spokesman from Bishops' Conference tells Fides: “We are in contact with the Internal Affairs Minister and we continue to observe how the situation evolves.” Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - “We are in contact with the Internal Affairs Minister and we continue to observe how the situation evolves, to see what exactly is taking place. When we have a clear picture of what is ha ...
• 18 November 2009
  AFRICA - Western Africa likely to be an area of confrontation between Colombian and Nigerian drug traffickers: UN expert warns Rome (Agenzia Fides) – A Boeing flight hired by South American traffickers crashed on takeoff in northern Mali. Alexandre Schmidt, an official of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has commented on th ...
• 18 November 2009
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Spiritans celebrate their General Chapter in Africa, for the first time Rome (Agenzia Fides) – For the first time in the history of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, founded in 1703, a General Chapter be held in Africa. The Superior General of the Spiritans, with the consent of its boar ...
• 17 November 2009
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - “We have made substantial progress towards democracy, but more must be done," say Mozambican Bishops Maputo (Agenzia Fides) – In reply to the message that the Synod Fathers addressed to Africa, the primary need is to make recourse to the Sacrament of Reconciliation. This is what the Bishops of Mozambique said in their ...
• 16 November 2009
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “Africa needs water, not GMOs,” Cardinal Napier, Archbishop of Durban, tells Fides Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "From the first information that I have read this morning on the FAO Summit, I have the impression that this organization does not know what the real problems of nutrition in Africa are. Africans d ...