Africa

• 11 June 2005
  AFRICA/LESOTHO - “The Catholic Church is the country’s first institution for education” Bishops from Lesotho on ad limina visit to Rome told Fides Rome (Fides Service)- “Catholic schools are the most numerous” a group of Catholic Bishops from Lesotho told Fides in an interview on June 10 in the Vatican. Bishop Bitsoane Evaristus Thatho Bitsoane of Qacha’s Nek ...
• 11 June 2005
  AFRICA/LESOTHO - Info: Rome (Fides Service) - Lesotho is a constitutional parliamentary monarchy styled after the British system. It has an area of 30,355 sq. km and a population of 2,100,000: 32.50% Catholic; 35% Anglican and Lutheran; 29.77% ...
• 10 June 2005
  AFRICA/NAMIBIA - “The local Church contributes towards national development in Namibia, oasis of stability in southern Africa” Catholic Bishops tell Fides Rome (Fides Service)- “Namibia is an example of stability for the whole of Africa” a group of Namibian Catholic Bishops told Fides yesterday in an interview in the Vatican. Archbishop Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda of ...
• 7 June 2005
  AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - Dramatic telephone call from Duékoué: “How long can the miracle last? More than 15,000 people now sheltering at our mission” Duekoue (Fides Service)- The number of refugees being sheltered at the Salesian mission in the western Côte d'Ivoire town of Duékoué has risen to 15,000 (see Fides 2 and 3 June 2005), a Salesian priest told Fides ov ...
• 7 June 2005
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - National Mission Office of the Italian Bishops’ Conference meets Italian Missionaries operating in Burkina Faso Ouagadougou (Fides Service) - On June 3 at the St Camillo Centre in Ouagadougou run by the Camillians there was a meeting between the National Mission Office of the Italian Bishops’ Conference and Italian missionaries ...
• 7 June 2005
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - The tragic situation in Madagascar prisons. Trinitarian Father Angelo Buccarello former prison chaplain in Antananarivo Rome (Fides Service)-“This is a story which is not new and which keeps on repeating itself” said Trinitarian Father Angelo Buccarello former prison chaplain in Antananarivo capital of Madagascar, with regard to worse ...
• 6 June 2005
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “We are still a young democracy which must give more attention to moral values and social justice”: Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier Archbishop of Durban told Fides Rome (Fides Service)- “South Africa is still a young democracy which must learn to find rapid solutions to urgent problems such as how to achieve greater social justice and give more attention to moral values” Cardi ...
• 6 June 2005
  AFRICA/TOGO - Increasing number of Togolese seek safety in other countries, says UN High Commission for Refugees Rome (Fides Service)- The number of people fleeing from Togo to Benin continues to rise. Over 1,000 new arrivals were registered last week the United Nations High Commission UNHCR for refugees said in a report sent to Fi ...
• 6 June 2005
  AFRICA/CHAD - Chadians called to the polls to amend the country's Constitution N’Djamena (Fides Service)- Not many people are expected to vote in the constitutional referendum today 6 June, in Chad in which citizens are called to approve amendments to the constitution which if passed will allow P ...
• 3 June 2005
  AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - Land dispute sets fire to west Côte d'Ivoire. Christian forgiveness is the only path to peace Abidjan (Fides Service)- “This is a tribal conflict triggered by land claims” said a local source in Côte d'Ivoire where the death toll resulting from violence in the western region of Duékoué, continues to rise ( ...
• 3 June 2005
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Local elections: “An important test for the future of our democracy”. Tension, shooting and possible intimidation, hand grenade explosion kills voter at polling station Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “These local elections are a fundamental test for the electoral process which will culminate with presidential elections at the end of the Summer” a local source told Fides with regard to ...
• 2 June 2005
  AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - Fides hears missionary’s tragic story of massacres in western Côte d'Ivoire: “We have opened our mission to shelter some 12,000 men, women and children running for their lives” Duekoue (Fides Service)- “I witnessed terrible scenes, at least 41 poor bodies abandoned in the middle of the road and no one to bury them” said a Catholic missionary in Duekoue western Côte d'Ivoire where during th ...
• 2 June 2005
  AFRICA/BENIN - Four wards, two rooms for medical staff, two store rooms for medicines and food: Camillians hope to open new hospital for people suffering from AIDS Davougon (Fides Service) - The Camillan community in Davougon, Benin, said that if the promised funds arrive it hopes to open a new hospital for people with AIDS before the end of the year. The new Centre will have four ...
• 2 June 2005
  AFRICA/SUDAN - After last year’s severe drought now heavy rains threaten people in southern Sudan with serious food shortage Catholic Bishop of El Obeid told Fides Khartoum (Fides Service)- “Water is not lacking. On the contrary we have had too much and too fast. The soil has no time to absorb it all and remains paradoxically dry” Bishop Macram Max Gassis of El Obeid told Fides ...
• 1 June 2005
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The tragedy of AIDS central theme at 15th Plenary assembly of the Catholic Bishops of Eastern Africa opening today in Uganda Kampala ( Fides Service)- The 15th plenary assembly of the Association of Member Bishops Conferences of Eastern Africa AMECEA opens today at Mukono, near Kampala, capital of Uganda. The theme of the meeting is “Meeting ...