Africa

• 3 July 2006
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “To end the humanitarian tragedy in Northern Uganda the region’s political problems must be solved first” says Italian NGO AVSI launching a challenge to the international community Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- “The problem is not only humanitarian”. This is the challenge which AVSI (Associazione Volontari per lo Sviluppo Internazionale), Italian NGO connected with the Salesian Fathers intends to la ...
• 30 June 2006
  AFRICA/ CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Tension as Chad rebels cross into Central African territory Bangui (Agenzia Fides)- Concern is growing in Central African Republic where Central African army troops and CEMAC (Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa) peacekeepers have been involved in fierce clashes wit ...
• 30 June 2006
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - Catholic radio and newspaper to foster national reconciliation: Bishops announce at the end of recent Plenary Assembly Abidjan (Agenzia Fides)- The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Côte d'Ivoire is about to launch a Catholic daily newspaper La Nouvelle and a radio station La Voix de l’Evangile which will be heard all over the countr ...
• 26 June 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - More effort needed to see that Church teaching on AIDS reaches the people: in 25 years African Bishops issue some 80 pastoral letters and statements on the question Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- “There is still much hesitation in the church to offer pastoral care to those living and dying with HIV/Aids,” said Fr Robert Vitillo, special advisor on HIV/Aids to the Catholic charity, C ...
• 26 June 2006
  AFRICA - Sierra Leone and Burundi first countries to benefit from UN development programme to consolidate peace Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Civil war can be stopped. Burundi and Sierra Leone were the countries chosen to benefit from a development programme promoted by the United Nations newly formed Peacebuilding Commission charged wi ...
• 23 June 2006
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Ouagadougou Seminary celebrates ordination of 22 deacons, and institution of 36 readers and 26 acolytes from Burkina, Niger and Mali Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - On 21 June at St John Baptist Seminary in Ouagadougou, 22 young men, including two Camillians and two Redemptorists, were ordained deacons; another 36 seminarians including 6 Camillians were ...
• 23 June 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Agreement between Sudanese government and one guerrilla group to guarantee security in Darfur. With regard to the sending of an international peace force to the region talks continue. Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- An international peace force cannot be sent to the west Sudan region Darfur where civil war has raged for years without the consensus of the Sudanese government, said United Nations’ vice secr ...
• 23 June 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Basic education for all: UN World Food Programme to build 25 new schools in southern Sudan Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The UN World Food Programme plans to build 25 new schools in southern Sudan where the rate of primary school attendance is one of the lowest in the world. The schools are part of a project worth 3 ...
• 23 June 2006
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Reciprocal recognition between Somali government and Islamic Courts which control most of the country Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- An agreement reached between the Islamic Courts and the transition government of Somalia foresees a treaty and reciprocal recognition. The agreement - said agreement mediator Arab League gene ...
• 21 June 2006
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - From child soldiers to child prisoners: the plight of former child soldiers enlisted by National Liberation Forces now in prison Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - A recent Human Rights Watch report said that instead of rehabilitating child soldiers the Burundian government lets them languish in prison. These children were forcefully enlisted by the Nati ...
• 21 June 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - AIDS pandemic focus of two important meetings in Kenya Nairobi (Agenzia Fides)- A workshop on AIDS 21 - 24 June organised by the Symposium of the Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) opened today in Nairobi, capital of Kenya at Catholic Universit ...
• 20 June 2006
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Islamic Courts are a constitutive element of Somali society. Their power has still to be deciphered Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- “It is difficult to say whether interests connected with international fundamentalism are behind the Islamic Courts which have taken power in a greater part of Somalia” say local Church so ...
• 19 June 2006
  AFRICA/D. R. CONGO- Congo votes: commitment of Catholic Church in Butembo, east Democratic Republic of Congo Butembo (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the first free elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo one of the principal actions of diocesan co-ordination in Butembo (east Democratic Congo) on the part of CARTEC (Catholic ...
• 19 June 2006
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - “A partial agreement is better than no agreement” say local Church sources in Burundi after the settlement reached by government and rebels Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides)- “A partial agreement is better than no agreement” say local Catholic sources in Bujumbura, capital of Burundi, where there is some disappointment after the government and FNL rebels signed ...
• 17 June 2006
  AFRICA/BENIN - Pontifical Mission Societies ever better known in dioceses of Benin: annual meeting of PMS diocesan directors Dassa (Agenzia Fides) - From 30 May to June 2 diocesan directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Benin gathered near the Shrine of Our Lady of Peace at Arigbo of Dassa, for their annual meeting presided by the Nat ...