Africa

• 27 November 2009
  AFRICA/NAMIBIA - Brief Overview of the Country Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Namibia was one of the last African countries to become independent. It was a German colony until the First World War and in 1915 was occupied by South Africa as a territory administered under a ...
• 26 November 2009
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Jesuit Refugee Services administering to refugees in Uganda: 20 refugee leaders coming from the DRC, Burundi, Eritrea, and Ethiopia reflect on their rights and duties Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "If the refugee leaders share what they have learned in the workshop on their rights and obligations with just 20 members of their communities, JRS will have offered more than 600 refugees and a ...
• 26 November 2009
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Newly-elected President of Angolan Bishops' Conference says “politicians are ignoring the Church's appeals” Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "Our calls are not always welcome. When we make a complaint ... we do not always receive a satisfactory response," says Archbishop Gabriel Mbilingue, Archbishop of Lubango and newly elected Presi ...
• 26 November 2009
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - “ Learning to Face AIDS as a Family" - Message from the Moderator of the Conference of Major Superiors of Africa and Madagascar to all Jesuits of the continent, for the next World AIDS Day Karen (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the upcoming World AIDS Day, which will be celebrated throughout the world on December 1, Father Fratern Masawe, Jesuit and moderator of JESAM, the Conference of Major Superio ...
• 25 November 2009
  AFRICA/BENIN - In response to declining socio-political situation, Bishops launch “prayer chain” for the nation Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Benin have sounded the alarm for the "continued decay" of political and social life in the country, in a statement issued at the conclusion of the Plenary Assembly, held Novembe ...
• 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 ...