Africa

• 17 May 2006
  AFRICA - 24 projects in 14 different countries in Africa funded by Harambee 2002 solidarity initiative started on the occasion of canonisation of Opus Dei founder Rome (Fides Service) - In Sierra Leone a programme to rehabilitate with school and social re-insertion former child soldiers, in Uganda a library for a school, in Rwanda a farm for families who give a home to orphans. Fr ...
• 16 May 2006
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Diocesan Synod priority pastoral commitment this year: Archbishop of Gitega says there is work for everyone in the Church to announce the Gospel of life and peace Gitega (Fides Service) - Archbishop Simon Ntanwana of Gitega has said every Catholic in the diocese has a contribution to make to the major pastoral priority this year, the Diocesan Synod. “The year 2006 will be marke ...
• 15 May 2006
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Almost half a century of Christian formation and information ‘Vida Nova’ most widely read by Catholics and non Nampula (Fides Service) - “Vida Nova”, the magazine of Christian formation and information most read by Catholics and non was published for the first time in 1960 as the monthly bulletin of the diocese of Nampula, m ...
• 12 May 2006
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Le Figuier Centre for Research and Encounter inaugurated at Tizi Ouzu capital of Algeria’s Berber region Tizi Ouzu (Fides Service) - The inauguration of the new Le Figuier Catholic Centre for Research and Encounter at Tizi Ouzu capital of Algeria’s Cabilia Berbar region drew a good number of people. According to the bulle ...
• 12 May 2006
  AFRICA -Desertification of the planet continues relentless, a problem affecting one third of humanity, Africa the continent most affected Rome (Fides Service) - Desertification of the planet continues relentless and is considered a major threat to the lives and rights of millions of people mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa, Horn of Africa and Central Asia. A Un ...
• 11 May 2006
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Experience of Fr Jean Paul Kabore: from Christ the King parish at Baskouré, Burkina Faso to St. Francis of Assisi parish at Bordj El Kiffan (Algeria) Algiers (Fides Service) - Fr Jean Paul Kabore from Christ the King parish at Baskouré in Burkina Faso, has been on mission for some months in Algeria. In Koupela diocesan ‘Bullettin d’information et de liaison’ he ...
• 10 May 2006
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - World Food Programme continues distribution of food airdrops to Katanga province but lacks funds necessary to reach other people in need Kinshasa (Fides Service) - United Nations World Food Programme WFP has completed a first food airlift in Katanga province in south east Democratic Congo to about 34,700 refugees but warns that due to shortage of funds it ...
• 10 May 2006
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Pentecost Sunday Global Day of Prayer for peace and transformation on the African continent. The initiative will continue until 2010 Cape Town (Fides Service) - South African Christians will participate in a Global Day of repentance and prayer on Pentecost Sunday, June 4, along with others in Africa who will pray for peace and transformation on the co ...
• 5 May 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The main group of rebels in the Darfur signs the peace agreement presented by the international mediators Khartoum (Fides Agency)- After a series of sudden surprises, a partial agreement was reached at Abuja (Nigeria) to bring back peace to the Darfur, the tormented region of western Sudan, the setting of a tragic civil conf ...
• 5 May 2006
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Draught alert for the “granary of Guinea Bissau" Bissau (Fides Agency) - “A tragic crisis”: were the words the government of Guinea Bissau used to describe the food crisis in the south of the country. The local authorities launched a powerful appeal to the internat ...
• 28 April 2006
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “Go north young man!”: history of Jesuits in Southern Africa Pretoria (Fides Service) - The Bishop of Grahamstown in the Cape Province, South Africa, in 1879 asked for Jesuits. He offered them a school in Grahamstown in the hope this would serve as a springboard for the missionary ...
• 27 April 2006
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - The World Youth Day Cross in Senegal: “An event which gave new vitality to the Christian community ” National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies reports Dakar (Fides Service)- “An exceptional event involving the whole Christian community ” said Fr. Giuseppe Giordano, OMI, National Director of the Pontifical Mission in Senegal, describing the arrival in Dakar in Holy ...
• 26 April 2006
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Caritas mobilised to assist at least 30,000 people trapped by fighting near the Senegal border Bissau (Fides Service) - Caritas Guinea-Bissau is helping at least 30,000 people completely isolated because of fighting around the towns of Varela and Suzana in northern Guinea Bissau near the border with Senegal. I ...
• 26 April 2006
  AFRICA - By 2015 sub-Saharan Africa will need 1.6 million teachers says UNESCO Rome (Fides Service)- In sub-Saharan Africa teachers are ever scarcer and the number will drop further in the coming decade. This was said by the United Nations office for education, science and culture UNESCO in a repor ...
• 25 April 2006
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Alarm for increasing domestic violence Dar Es Salaam (Fides Service)- Sofia Simba Tanzanian minister for Conditions of Women and Children has sounded the alarm over increasing domestic violence on women in the country. Quoting a World Health Organisation re ...