Africa

• 22 September 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Appeal for a peaceful campaign for next election in 2006 Luanda (Fides Service)- A National Peace-Builders meeting 12 - 16 September, groups promoted by Caritas Angola to help solve conflict in the country, has launched an appeal to avoid violence and guarantee a peaceful elec ...
• 21 September 2005
  AFRICA/NIGER - Caritas Development Volunteers in Niger assist victims of serious food crisis Niamey (Fides Service)- The food situation in Niger is still critical. According to a report from. Caritas Development Niger, abundant rains in recent months brought no improvement because it will be some months before n ...
• 21 September 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Malnourished children, medical care, AIDS, education: commitments for diocesan religious community Sister Servants of the Church of Christ Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Kole diocese in central Congo has an exceptionally high infant death rate over 70%. This led women religious of a local congregation the Sister Servants of the Church of Christ to start a a prog ...
• 20 September 2005
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Caritas activity for development in Africa Meeting: 45 African Caritas offices in Kampala 2 to 7 October Rome (Fides Service)- From 2 to 7 October in Kampala, capital Uganda, there will be a 2nd Forum for African Caritas organisations. “This second forum will bring together 45 delegates of national Caritas offices of Car ...
• 20 September 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - While waiting for electoral process to resume local Catholic Church continues efforts to provide civic education for voters: one example in Kabinda diocese Kinshasa (Fides Service) - Promote awareness of citizens’ rights and prevent a repeat of serious violation of rights in the recent past. This is the goal of an electoral awareness campaign launched in Democratic Congo ...
• 19 September 2005
  AFRICA/COTE D’ IVOIRE - After three years of crisis the people of Cote d’Ivoire still suffer deeply: testimony of missionaries sharing plight of displaced families Abidjan (Fides Service)- Working to promote reconciliation among hearts which three years of crisis have filled with hatred is the daily task of Catholic missionaries in Cote d’Ivoire plunged three years ago into the m ...
• 19 September 2005
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The role of the local Catholic community in Madagascar’s education system: capillary service of high quality instruction Antananarivo (Fides Service)- “If Catholic missionaries, sisters, priests and lay people were to suddenly pull out Madagascar’s healthcare and schoo systems would collapse immediately” said Italian Salelisan Fr Cos ...
• 17 September 2005
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Post synodal exhortation“Ecclesia in Africa” ten years on : Bishops from all over Africa attend meeting in Yaounde Yaounde (Fides Service)- A meeting in the capital of Cameroon Yaounde organised by a group of African Bishops Conferences to mark the 10th anniversaryof the post Synodal Ecclesia in Africa issued by Pope John Paul II, cl ...
• 16 September 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Church health structures at the service of all Congolese: Seminar in Kinshasa Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Caritas Congo has said it is ready to work together with the national health care system. This emerged from a meeting of diocesan offices of medical services BDOM part of the Congo Bishops’ Co ...
• 15 September 2005
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Great joy in Senegal: 7 new OMI Brothers take perpetual vows Dakar (Fides Service)- Sunday 4 September was a great day for the Catholic parish of Immaculate Mary in the Parcelles Assainies district of Dakar capital of Senegal. Seven Brothers of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immac ...
• 15 September 2005
  AFRICA - Three quarters of Africans surveyed in different countries place more trust in religious leaders. Experienced missionary in Sierra Leone says “this means we must be faithful to our mission” Rome (Fides Service)- “This is good news. It means we religious and Africans understand one another” said Italian Xaverian missionary Fr Giuseppe Berton, with years of experience in Sierra Leone, commenting the findi ...
• 15 September 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga denounces forgotten tragedy of south Katanga: please help us!” Kinshasa ( Fides Service)- “A human catastrophe” this is how Bishop Fulgence Muteba of Kilwa-Kasenga diocese describes the situation in the south east region of Democratic Congo southern Katanga in a recent press sta ...
• 14 September 2005
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Rising political tension as elections approach; Catholic bishops call on nation to unite to build peace and harmony Dar Es Salaam (Fides Service)- “As our Bishops said in a recent Pastoral Letter Tanzanians must work together to build harmony in view of elections on 30 October” said local sources in Dar Es Salaam, capital of Tanz ...
• 14 September 2005
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Maputo meeting photographs the Church in Portuguese speaking Africa Maputo (Fides Service)- “Portuguese is spoken by about 250 million people in many different countries and is one of the languages most used in the Catholic world. Common language enabled Bishops at the meeting to discu ...
• 13 September 2005
  AFRICA/CONGO - Profound grief for tragic deaths of Italian missionary Fr Angelo Redaelli and the little villlage girl killed hit by the vehicle he was driving Rome (Fides Service)- “Fr. Angelo had been on mission in Congo only two years but was already part of the community. His death was due to the tragic circumstances: in no way can his murder be taken for an act of hostil ...