Africa

• 17 March 2007
  AFRICA/CONGO - International speculation assaults Congo Brazzaville Brazzaville (Fides Service) - “Vulture funds” are assaulting the resources of Congo Brazzaville. Reportedly speculative funds are buying poor countries’ foreign debts for next to nothing (ten cents per dollar) beca ...
• 17 March 2007
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - “Dialogue is the only way to end this crisis”: joint statement from the country’s Christian leaders Harare (Agenzia Fides)- The leaders of Christian Churches in Zimbabwe have appealed to the nation to dialogue as a means of resolving the current crisis. An Ecumenical Peace Initiative statement sent to Fides reads “Ou ...
• 16 March 2007
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Lenten Collection in aid of the poor and the Church’s education programmes: continuing Jesus’ mission includes proclaiming the Good News more effectively Pretoria (Fides Service) - “Continuing Jesus’ total mission” is the theme of the Lenten Appeal launched by the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference SACBC. Recalling the Gospel of Luke “You sent me to bri ...
• 15 March 2007
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Reconciliation and good government”: local Catholic Church adopts education plan to restore authentic peace all over the country Kinshasa (Fides Service)- The local Catholic Church is launching second stage of its programme of education to peace which successfully prepared the people to play their rightful role in the recent elections last year (s ...
• 14 March 2007
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “A land blessed by God ruined by human greed”: a Congolese miner tells how his country is robbed of its mineral resources Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “When He created the earth, the Lord gave Congo a large quality of different minerals, diamonds, copper, gold, uranium, coltan, cassiterite, as well as others still to be extracted like gas an ...
• 13 March 2007
  AFRICA/KENYA - Ghanean White Father killed on mission Nairobi (Fides Service)- A White Father, a member of the Congregation of the Missionaries of Africa, was shot dead on Saturday 10 March in Nairobi, Kenya. Fr. Martin Addai was in his car on the Mombasa Road in the South ...
• 12 March 2007
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Hundreds of families will have new homes at Cardinal Etsou Peace City in memory of the late Cardinal Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Over 900 families displaced by civil war in Congo will soon move into brand new homes in Cardinal Etsou Peace City in an advanced stage of construction in the Mokali district, in east Kinshasa c ...
• 10 March 2007
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Meeting the challenges in our province: security and economic development with respect for human rights and the environment” Catholic Bishops of Katanga Kinshasa (Fides Service)- In a message bearing the title “May our hope not be disappointed” the Catholic Bishops of the province of Lubumbashi, Katanga southern Congo, encourage the people and rally the national lead ...
• 8 March 2007
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “A good law, but the people must be properly informed about it”: Catholic archdiocese of Bukavu intends to publicise new law on sexual abuse Bukavu (Fides Service) - The Justice and Peace Commission of the Catholic archdiocese of Bukavu in Democratic Congo has undertaken to promote information with regard to a new law on sexual abuse. The initiative announ ...
• 7 March 2007
  AFRICA/GHANA - Act of re-consecration of the country to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on Golden Jubilee Accra (Agenzia Fides)- “On the eve of Ghana’s independence in 1957, the then Bishops consecrated Ghana to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference deemed it appropriate to renew this consecration ...
• 6 March 2007
  AFRICA/GHANA - Celebrations for fifty years of independence: Catholic Bishops entrust the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Accra (Fides Service)- Ghana celebrates today 6 March 50th anniversary of independence. This country was to first shake off the yoke of colonial to be ruled by black Africans. The people of Ghana, just over 22 million, a ...
• 5 March 2007
  AFRICA/BENIN - “Work is a Blessing” Bishop of Natitingou Lenten Message Natitingou (Fides Service)- “Material difficulties assail us on every side. But God has given us hands with which to work and share in His creative work. Our hands are tools to build our dignity. The virtue of fortitud ...
• 3 March 2007
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Two Congolese members of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Scheut Missionaries, on mission in South Africa Johannesburg (Fides Service)- In 2006 Fr Manu Tsasa and Fr Léopold Kalubende of Kasai in central Democratic Congo, Scheut Missionaries, members of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary left for mission Klerks ...
• 3 March 2007
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Pressure increases to bring government and rebels back to the negotiating table Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- There is increasing pressure to convince the Ugandan government and the Lord’s resistance Army rebels LRA to resume peace talks since the recent expiry of a cease fire agreed in August 2006 (s ...
• 2 March 2007
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA -Passionist missionary who volunteered in 2003 to test AIDS vaccine, seriously wounded in robbery at his home yesterday Pretoria (Agenzia Fides)- Passionist Father Kieran Creagh, for years involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS was seriously wounded yesterday at his home in Pretoria in South Africa. “The conditions of Fr. Kieran Creagh ...