Africa

• 25 April 2006
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Jesuit Refugee Service concerned for women forced into prostitution because of cuts in international funds for refugee camps Conakry (Fides Service)- The Jesuit Refugee Service in Guinea reports that cuts in funding to Liberian refugees has led many young women to turn to prostitution to pay for school fees. At the end of the school year 200 ...
• 24 April 2006
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Commission established for Catholic Education Kampala (Fides Service- With a colourful and participated ceremony on 22 April at Cardinal Nsubuga Leadership Training Centre, the Church in Uganda established its own Commission for Catholic Education. Archbishop Paul B ...
• 24 April 2006
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Programme completed: 314,000 internally displaced Liberians return home Monrovia (Fides Service)- The UN High Commission for Refugees UNHCR operation to help about 314,000 internally displaced Liberians return to their districts of origin was completed last week. During civil war in Liberia ...
• 21 April 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA -President of Kenya announces national day of inter-religious prayer Nairobi (Fides Service) - The President of Kenya Mwai Kibaki announced a national day of inter-religious prayer for today 21 April to commemorate the victims of the air crash last week (see Fides 12 April 2006). On 10 Ap ...
• 21 April 2006
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Also in Burkina Faso the Lord is Risen! During the Easter Vigil 470 catechumens receive the Sacraments of Christian Initiation Ouagadougou (Fides Service) - Yes the Lord is truly risen also for the patients at Camillian Homes which care for the poor, the abandoned, the terminally ill and even people abandoned by their own family. The Lord is r ...
• 20 April 2006
  AFRICA/CHAD - Tension in Chad still high: fear for presidential elections in May N’Djamena (Fides Service)- “Despite the present situation of calm, civilians fear fighting may start again at any time” say local Church sources in N’Djamena capital of Chad. On 13 April in N'Djamena and in Adré ...
• 20 April 2006
  AFRICA/TOGO - Great Celebrations for diocesan World Youth Day in Lome archdiocese Lome (Fides Service)- Over 8,000 priests, religious and lay people took part in celebrations for diocesan World Youth Day in the archdiocese of Lome capital of Togo, held for the first time at Tsévié, 8 and 9 April. ...
• 20 April 2006
  AFRICA - First meeting of directors of Catholic cultural centres in Africa Vatican City (Fides Service) - The first meeting for directors of Catholic Cultural centres in Africa is taking place in Lusaka, Zambia 18- 22 April. Thirty four directors from different parts of Africa are reflecting on ...
• 12 April 2006
  AFRICA - Africa’s Catholics start Holy Week Services with Palm Sunday Rome (Fides Service) - Millions of African Catholics prepare to take part in Holy Week services. On Palm Sunday Catholics all over Africa went to Mass with the traditional palm for blessing . In Gabon the mass in the c ...
• 12 April 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Church in Kenya recalls “peace builders” killed in Marsabit air crash Nairobi (Fides Service)- “At this time of deep grief we wish to express our sympathy with the families of those killed, to the chairman and members of the national assembly, the Anglican Church of Kenya, the head of st ...
• 11 April 2006
  AFRICA - January 2007 Congress will assess evangelisation in the past ten years Rome (Fides Service)- The Catholic Bishops of Africa have decided to hold an all African Congress to assess evangelisation efforts in the past ten years. The Symposium of Bishops’ Conferences of Africa and Madagascar S ...
• 7 April 2006
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Radio AVEC fundamental channel for evangelisation in one of the most isolated areas of Madagascar Antananarivo (Fides Service) - Radio AVEC of the diocese of Ihosy in Madagascar, broadcasts 14 hours a day, soon 16, for a 270km radius. The Radio started in 1999 is affiliated with Don Bosco Radio in Antananarivo, the c ...
• 6 April 2006
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Seminar highlights urgency of Interreligious Dialogue between Catholics and followers of Traditional African Religions for a society at peace and in solidarity Lagos (Fides Service)- Dialogue between people of different faiths for building a society of peace and solidarity was the central theme of a Seminar on Relations between Christianity and Traditional African Religion held ...
• 6 April 2006
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Provisional list of presidency candidates: 32 out of 73 candidatures accepted as valid Kinshasa (Fides Service) - A provisional list has been announced of candidates in presidential elections in Democratic Congo in June: 73 people presented their candidature and the Independent Electoral Commission accepte ...
• 6 April 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - After 20 years of exile first 500 refugees return to Southern Sudan from Ethiopia Khartoum (Fides Service) - About 500 Sudanese refugees have returned home as part of repatriation operations from Ethiopia to Blue Nile State in Southern Sudan promoted by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees ...