Africa

• 20 July 2005
  AFRICA/NIGER - “Hope is slowly returning in the hearts of the people and we thank the Holy Father for sending money to help feed the hungry here in Niger” the Archbishop of Niamey tells Fides Niamey (Fides)- "I wish to thank the Holy Father for sending through Cor Unum a considerable sum money to help our people suffering the consequences of severe drought here in Niger” said Archbishop Michel Christian Car ...
• 19 July 2005
  AFRICA - Crime and under-development in Africa. New report from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime presented in Rome Rome (Fides Service)- Crime is a component of Africa’s underdevelopment. This emerged during the presentation of a new report issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC. The report was presented yeste ...
• 19 July 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - Many local Muslims among the mourners for assassinated Bishop Locati. Funeral tomorrow Nairobi (Fides Service)- The funeral of Bishop Luigi Locati Vicar Apostolic of Isiolo, northern Kenya assassinated on 14 July will be held tomorrow Wednesday 20 June in Isiolo Cathedral. “The Bishop will be buried in ...
• 18 July 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - Kenya remembers Bishop Locati. Funeral in Isiolo Cathedral on Wednesday Nairobi (Fides Service)- “All Kenya is mourning the death of Italian born Bishop Locati. Yesterday at Sunday masses special prayers were offered for the bishop and for all the victims of violence in northern Kenya” s ...
• 18 July 2005
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - “We have allowed a culture of violence to persist among us since the time of the liberation war” say Christian leaders in a joint pastoral letter for the 25th anniversary of the country’s independence Harare (Fides Service)- “Violence has really made its home among us” Christian leaders in Zimbabwe said in a joint Letter issued to mark the 25th anniversary of the country’s independence. In the Letter “Call to ...
• 18 July 2005
  AFRICA/CHAD - Race against time in Chad to transfer 10,000 Central African refugees to safety before the rain season Rome (Agenzia Fides)- In a race against time before the rain season hampers the operation, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR and partner agencies have started the relocation of the first of 10,000 Cen ...
• 15 July 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - Italian missionary Bishop murdered in cold blood: “Bishop Locati was a man of uprightness and honesty, a promoter of justice”: National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Kenya told Fides Nairobi (Fides Service)- Yesterday evening in Isiolo in northern Kenya Italian born Bishop Luigi Locati, Vicar Apostolic of Isiolo, was brutally assassinated with two gun shots in the head as he was on his way home from ...
• 15 July 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - “Forty years devoted to nomad peoples in northern Kenya”: the Bishop of Marsabit remembers Bishop Luigi Locati, Vicar Apostolic of Isiolo, assassinated yesterday Nairobi (Fides Service)- “Bishop Locati was a Fidei Donum missionary and he devoted his life to Borana and Turkana nomads” said Bishop Ambrogio Ravasi of Marsabit, northern Kenya, referring to Bishop Luigi Locati, Vi ...
• 15 July 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - The murdered Bishop’s generosity may have been misunderstood. “Bishop Locati lived very simply giving everything he had to the needy Christians and Muslim alike Nairobi (Fides ) - “Bishop Locati lived very simply giving everything he had to the needy Christians and Muslim alike” said person who worked closely with Bishop Luigi Locati and asked not to be named. Bishop Locati ...
• 14 July 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - Marsabit massacres: Catholic Bishops condemn these babaric acts in the strongest terms Nairobi (Fides Service) - In a press statement dated 13 July issued after massacres at Turbi(Marsabit district) the Catholic Bishops of Kenya “condemn the barbaric acts of violence in the strongest terms” expressing ...
• 14 July 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - Retaliation after massacres in Turbi north west Kenya. 10 people killed and missionary driver inured in Catholic Mission Land Rover ambush Nairobi (Fides Service)- Following massacres in Turbi north west Kenya (see Fides 13 July 2005) there has been an act of retaliation on the part of the tribe whose members were massacred. At least 10 Gabra were killed w ...
• 14 July 2005
  World Food Programme triples aid for Niger where more and more people face serious food shortage Rome (Fides Service)- The United Nations World Food Programme WFP has launched a plan to almost triple the number of people receiving food aid in Niger with emergency programmes bringing the number of those assisted to m ...
• 13 July 2005
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - At Adwa first new Catholic church to be opened in 450 years Adwa (Fides Service)- The first Catholic church to be built in Adwa, Ethiopia in 450 years was opened recently. At the end of June the Salesians had the joy of blessing a church dedicated to Mary Auxiliatrix built as a r ...
• 13 July 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - “Who stands to gain from the massacre at Torbi?” asks a missionary commenting violence in north west Kenya where at least 500 armed men attacked and killed 100 innocent villagers Nairobi (Fides Service)- “An unprecedented massacre which poses disquieting queries on why it was organised and by whom” said Fr Eugenio Ferrari, Consolata missionary and National Director of the Pontifical Mission S ...
• 12 July 2005
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - South African ecumenical delegation in Zimbabwe to view conditions of people after the government’s ‘Restore Order’ operation Harare (Fides Service)- “Cruel and inuman” were the adjectives used by the South African Council of Churches to describe the present conditions of thousands of people in Zimbabwe who lost their homes in the governmen ...