Africa

• 25 July 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - Chapter of Mill Hill Missionaries reflects on diminution of missionaries, vocations and formation and elects new leadership Nairobi (Fides Service) - The Chapter of St Joseph’s Missionary Society (also known as Mill Hill Missionaries) held for the first time in Nairobi, Kenya, took place from 22 June to the 22 July. The main themes/issues w ...
• 22 July 2005
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Operation Restore Order: German Bishops express solidarity with the poor of Zimbabwe in a letter addressed to the Catholic Bishops Conference of Zimbawe Harare (Fides Service) - The Catholic Bishops of Germany have written to the Bishops of Zimbabwe expressing deep concern for the plight of the people affected by the recent Operation Restore Order (see Fides May 30, 2005 ...
• 22 July 2005
  AFRICA/TOGO - President of Togo and main Opposition leader reach agreement in Rome Rome (Fides Service)- Thanks to the intervention of the social activist S. Egidio Community based in Rome, the President of Togo and the main oppostion leader have agreed to work together to further to process of the cou ...
• 21 July 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Undeterred by an attack in the sacresty Bishop Eugenio Dal Corso new Administrator Apostolic of Cabinda assures Fides: “I will stay and carry on the task entrusted to me by the Church” Cabinda (Fides Service)- “I am still alive although I was struck violently on the head several times but without serious consequences thank God” Bishop Eugenio Dal Corso of Saurimo in northern Angola, who is also Adm ...
• 21 July 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - Clashes over draft Constitution : “This is the start of the fight for 2007 elections” Nairobi (Fides Service)- “The unrest over the past few days are connected with the electoral campaign for 2007 which has already opened” said local sources with regard to clashes between police and demonstrators in N ...
• 20 July 2005
  AFRICA/KENYA - Thousands attend funeral of assassinated Italian missionary Bishop. “There is no need to preach because the life of Bishop Locati speaks for itself ” says apostolic administrator at the funeral homily Nairobi (Fides Service)- “There is no need to preach because the life of Bishop Locati speaks for itself” said Mgr John Ngue, Amministratore Apostolic administrator of Isiolo (north-east Kenya) in his homily during t ...
• 20 July 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Centre of missionary documentation and training for all Africa one important fruit of last year’s Missiology Congress” Bishop of Mbujimaiyi tells Fides Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “One of the most important indications which emerged from last year’s Missiology Congress was decision to build in Kinshasa an all Africa Centre for Missionary Documentation and Training Kin ...
• 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 ...