Africa

• 31 January 2006
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “Lay Catholics must unite if they are to have an impact on the life of the country” say delegates at National Forum of Lay Catholics Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “To evangelise society the Church must act at the level of culture and at the level of the institutions. The actors in this field are the laity called to be ‘salt of the earth’ and ‘ligh ...
• 30 January 2006
  AFRICA/CHAD - Chad land of refugees: first refugees from Darfur, now women and children refugees from Central African Republic N’Djamena (Fides Service)- Since the end of December 2005 about 1,000 refugees from the Central African Republic CAR, mostly women and children reached southern Chad fleeing what they described as rebel attacks in the ...
• 30 January 2006
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “We can be more and better present among our people, Good Shepherds as the Church and the world expects” says Vice president of the Congolese Bishops’ Conference at Mass at the Tomb of St Peter Rome (Fides Service)- On Friday 27 January at the end of their ad limina visit to Rome a group of Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo, celebrated Mass at the Tomb of St Peter before returning to their country and ...
• 28 January 2006
  AFRICA/ DR CONGO - “Integral and ongoing formation of all Catholics and the example of a life of holiness are the best ways to meet the challenge of evangelisation” says Bishop Tshishiku Vice president of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Congo Kinshasa Rome (Fides Service)- “Ongoing formation of clergy, religious and laity is the main road for the Church in Congo to face present-day challenges” says Bishop Tharcisse Tshibangu Tshishiku of Mbujmayi Vice president of ...
• 27 January 2006
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Blessed Clementina Anuarite Nengapeta Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Clementina Anuarite Nengapeta was born in 1939 in Wamba, in what was Belgian Congo at the time. Her parents were followers of traditional African religions. She was baptised with her mother and ...
• 26 January 2006
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “No to legalised abortion with the ratification of Maputo protocol” say Catholic Bishops of Uganda Kampala (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Uganda have expressed firm opposition to the introduction in national law of the right to abortion contained in the “Protocol to the African charter on Human and People ...
• 25 January 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “Darfur risks the greatest calamity ever seen”. United Nations High Commission for Refugees Khartoum (Fides Service)- “Unless we guarantee security for those in need of aid we may see the greatest ever calamity”, said UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR Antonio Guterres who launched the alarm for the hu ...
• 24 January 2006
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “I firmly condemn the killing of UN peacekeepers and call for an international intervention to end the violence” says Cardinal Etsou, Archbishop of Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- “I firmly condemn the killing of United Nations peacekeeping troops by Ugandan rebels who have already caused the death of so many innocent civilians. I call for a decisive intervention on the ...
• 24 January 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - Sr Lucy’s mission experience at Kakuma Refugee Camp north western Kenya Nairobi (Fides Service)- “Generally I am happy and used to working with and for people on the margins of society. However when I learned that I was missioned to Kakuma to work with the people living in the camp I was t ...
• 23 January 2006
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Triple jubilee for archdiocese of Koupela: foundation, anniversary ordination first bishop and twinning with archdiocese of Lyons Koupela (Fides Service) - The archdiocese of Koupela in Burkina Faso celebrated 21 and 22 January a triple 50th jubilee: foundation, anniversary of the ordination of the first bishop and twinning with the French archdioc ...
• 23 January 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Freeing captives of modern slavery: Trinitarians assist Khartoum street children and free child soldiers Khartoum (Fides Service)- The Trinitarians in Sudan who work to free child soldiers, and retrieve children from the streets of Khartoum, are planning to open Home in the capital in collaboration with the Order of Merceda ...
• 23 January 2006
  AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - “We are grateful for the Holy Father’s call to pray for peace in Côte d'Ivoire” says a missionary Abidjan (Fides Service)- “The Holy Father’s call comes at the right moment because the situation here is explosive” says a Catholic missionary in Côte d'Ivoire referring to a call for peace and national harmony ma ...
• 21 January 2006
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Catholic Bishops express appreciation for certain points of the new draft electoral Bill Kinshasa (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo have welcomed the adoption of proportional representation in the draft electoral law. “The Bishops’ Conference of Congo CENCO hav ...
• 21 January 2006
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Famine in southern Africa makes tragedy of Congolese and Angolan refugees even worse Lusaka (Fides Service)- According to IRIN, the United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks a humanitarian news agency covering sub-Saharan Africa, eight countries in central Asia and Iraq, unless more emergen ...
• 20 January 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Difficult African Union summit starts Monday 23 January Khartoum (Fides Service)- A summit meeting of heads of state and government of African Union countries will start on Monday 23 January in Khartoum, capital of Sudan. The meeting will discuss certain questions which are c ...