Africa

• 24 October 2005
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Politicians offer words instead of food …in famine stricken Malawi Mission Sunday Mass collection offers four plates of mango Lilongwe (Fides Service)- “Yesterday 23 October we celebrated World Mission Sunday and collections in every parish will be sent directly to the Pope to help the universal Church ” said a Catholic missionary in famine ...
• 24 October 2005
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Serabu marks centenary of evangelisation. Many couples chose to get married on this important date Freetown (Fides Service) - Recently crowds of Catholics gathered at Sacred Heart parish church for the conclusion of celebrations to mark the centenary of evangelisation in Serabu, in town in the central southern part of ...
• 20 October 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - Mission: Bread Broken for the Life of the World Nairobi (Fides Service)- In preparation for Mission Sunday celebrations in Kenya the national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in that country, Italian Consolata missionary Fr. Eugenio Ferrari, addressed a s ...
• 20 October 2005
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Mission Week 16-23 October 2005: “We are close to all the travellers on all the roads of the world because mission is movement towards others” Paris (Fides Service) - Presenting activities for Mission Week 2005, 16-23 October Bishop Daniel Labille, president of the French Bishops’ Missions Commission and Rev. Jean-Marie Aubert, national director of the Pontif ...
• 20 October 2005
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Mission Month of October: holiness of life “fundamental presupposition and an irreplaceable condition” for any missionary animation. Lagos (Fides Service)- The Pontifical Mission Societies (Missio Nigeria) has just concluded its mission animation programme October 4 - 15, 2005. The programme started with a five-day Reflection/Workshop for all the PMS ...
• 19 October 2005
  AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Movement of Catholic Spouses: a lively reality in Congo Brazzaville (Fides Service)- “The Movement of Catholic Spouses is a form of apostolate which has attracted me since I was a novice” said Sr Rolande Milandou, a young Franciscan Missionary of Mary an animator of this ...
• 19 October 2005
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Catholic Archbishop of Algiers presents new pastoral year priroties Algiers (Fides Service)- The Catholic Archbishop of Algiers Henri Teissier has described pastoral work in Algeria as a common mission with Muslims. Presenting pastoral activity for the coming year in the local Church bul ...
• 18 October 2005
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The Year of the Eucharist in parishes in Arua diocese, northern Uganda Arua (Fides Service)- “The Year of the Eucharist has been lived intensely here in Arua” said Italian Comboni missionary Father Tonino Pasoline, director of Radio Pacis in the diocese of Arua, northern Uganda. “In f ...
• 18 October 2005
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Catholic schools in Ouahigouya diocese: a reality for the entire community Ouadougou (Fides Service)- Catholics schools in the diocese of Ouahigouya in Burkina Faso are an important reality offering education to over 1,000 pupils. Diocesan education officer Rev. Wenceslas Zoungrana said the dio ...
• 18 October 2005
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Conference on Comboni Missionaries activity for dialogue with the Muslim world in Africa Cairo (Fides Service) - A Conference on Comboni Missionaries’ activity to promote dialogue with Muslims in Africa opened yesterday, 17 October in Cairo capital of Egypt. The objective of the meeting which will conclude ...
• 17 October 2005
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Catholic school pupils of different faiths not separated by school prayers Dakar (Fides Service)- In Africa and elsewhere in the world, many of the pupils at Catholic schools are non Christians whose families appreciate the schools’ quality of education and the respect for the religious feeli ...
• 17 October 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - “In Nairobi prisons the miracle of the Eucharist reawakens the faith”. Consolata parish celebrates Week of the Eucharist of prayer and adoration Nairobi (Fides Service)- “In the prisons of Nairobi the miracle of the Eucharist reawakens the faith” said Italian Consolata missionary Fr Eugenio Ferrari, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Ken ...
• 17 October 2005
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The Year of the Eucharist and the Bible underlines that Christians are nourished by both the Word and the Eucharist Tsiroanomandidy (Fides Service) - “Last year in October we opened the Year of the Eucharist with a three day National Meeting on the theme “Adoration of the Eucharist in each of the six areas of Antananarivo diocese ...
• 15 October 2005
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Handmaids of Holy Child Jesus: English speaking West Africa’s first local Congregation of women religious Lagos (Fides Service) - Handmaids of Holy Child Jesus (H.H.C.J.) the first indigenous congregation of women religious in English-speaking Africa was founded in Nigeria in 1931 by Mother Mary Charles Walker, an English n ...
• 15 October 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Stop causing all this suffering to your brothers and sisters”: vicar general in Ubundu, east Congo pleads with militia Kinshasa (Fides Service) - A Catholic priest in Ubundu, archdiocese of Kisangani in east Democratic Congo has called on militia groups to stop violence against civilians. “Stop causing this suffering to your brothers a ...