Africa

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  28 November 2022
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Catholic journalists must only give the truth Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Communicators have a powerful and mysterious mission, and Catholic journalists are called to report the facts and try to act as "evangelists of our times", said the Secretary General of the Ugan ...
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  28 November 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A march for peace: two women kidnapped by an armed group in the east of the Country Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Two peace-seeking activists in South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, were abducted by an armed group led by a deserting Congolese army officer (FARDC). Sarah Atosha and ...
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  25 November 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - New kidnapping of a priest together with a group of faithful; released another priest kidnapped last week Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Father Peter Abang Ochang, parish priest of the St. Stephen Roman Catholic Mission (RCM) church in the diocese of Ogoja, in the state of Cross River, has been kidnapped in a still undefined area o ...
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  25 November 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Peace talks raise hope: 'But people are exhausted and need help' Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite the enormous difficulties caused by the crisis, the effects of the conflicts, climate change and the severe drought that are afflicting our country, the population at least finds relief in ...
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  24 November 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Promote reconciliation between communities for sustainable peace Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The civil war that has lasted for years continues to cause the death of thousands of people, the displacement of different areas and the destruction of infrastructures. Failure to comply with the 2 ...
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  24 November 2022
  AFRICA/MALI - The Episcopal Conference: "We have no news of the fate of Fr. Hans-Joachim Lohre" Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "At the moment we have no further news or contacts with the kidnappers of Fr. Hans-Joachim Lohre" sources from the Mali Bishops' Conference told Agenzia Fides regarding the kidnapping of Fr. Hans ...
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  23 November 2022
  AFRICA/ESWATINI - Bishop of Manzini: “Media are used as weapons. Who fuels the violence?” Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - "Fear seems to be another element that has become part of our daily lives", writes to Agenzia Fides Msgr. José Luis Ponce de León, IMC Bishop of Manzini, in the kingdom of eSwatini (formerly S ...
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  22 November 2022
  AFRICA/MALI - A White Father of German nationality has disappeared, there are fears of a kidnapping Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "We know that the police have started looking for Fr. Hans-Joachim, but at the moment it is not yet known whether and which group may have kidnapped him", the Missionaries of Africa (White Father ...
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  21 November 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Immediate action to respond to the suffering of displaced persons El Obeid (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of the internally displaced continues to worsen due to the ongoing conflicts between the Ngok and Twiic Dinka ethnic groups in one of the four counties called Aneet Romamer in the ...
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  21 November 2022
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - 400 years of Propaganda Fide: "let us ask God for the gift of a strong faith, following the example of the first missionaries Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "Do we still have that strong faith of the early missionaries or not?" asked Moons. Damian Denis Dallu, Archbishop of Songea and President of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Tanz ...
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  19 November 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The President of Rwanda in favor of a ceasefire in eastern DRC Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Rwandan President Paul Kagame has agreed to assist the EAC facilitator to encourage the M23 to cease fire and withdraw from the conquered territories", reads a statement from former Kenyan Pre ...
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  19 November 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Umueri's Vigilante Group frees Catholic priest abducted 24 hours earlier Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The kidnapping of a Catholic priest in the state of Anambra, in Anambra State, south-eastern Nigeria, ended in 24 hours. Father Cyril Okafor was abducted on November 15, 2022 from the Holy Ghost A ...
• 19 November 2022
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of bishop of Mahajanga Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Zygmunt Robaszkiewicz, M.S.F., of Morombe, as bishop of Mahajanga, Madagascar. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 19/11/2022) ...
• 18 November 2022
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Appointment of the Rector of the Libermann Major Seminary, in Dakar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 1, 2022, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Alphonse Diomaye Niane, of the clergy of the archdiocese of D ...
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  18 November 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Gas exports begin, but will this resource be used to lift the country out of poverty? Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Mozambique welcomes its first export of liquefied natural gas (LNG) with the departure on November 13 of a first supply of gas from the Coral Sul offshore plant, while "social and economic inequa ...