Africa

• 21 June 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Dramatic report from Luhwinja and Burinyi in south east Democratic Congo where war never stopped: although our country is rich we have to beg for clothes Bukavu (Fides Service) - This is one of the many forgotten wars. Here in the south eastern Kivu region of Democratic Congo guerrilla groups continue to terrorise the people despite the official peace agreement. Fides rec ...
• 21 June 2005
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - “Countless numbers of men, women with babies, children of school age, the old and the sick, continue to sleep in the open air at winter temperatures near to freezing” Catholic Bishops of Zimbabwe protest against government’s shanty town operation ‘clean up’ Harare (Fides Service)- The secretary general of the United Nations Organisation Kofi Annan has appointed Tanzanian Anna Kajumolo Tibaijuka UN special envoy to investigate alleged abuse by security forces during the Mura ...
• 20 June 2005
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - “Our country’s poverty is a result of widespread corruption” Archbishop Fulgence Rabeony of Toliara President of the Bishops’ Conference of Madagascar told Fides Rome (Fides Service). “Poverty is the principle problem of our country and from it all the others are derived”. Archbishop Fulgence Rabeony of Toliara President of the Bishops’ Conference of Madagascar told Fides. ...
• 20 June 2005
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - “Compared to 30 years ago the regional and ethnical factor is much more keenly felt” local observer comments first round of presidential elections Bissau (Fides Service)- “Yes the elections was peaceful and this is a positive fact in itself but the important thing will be the results to see if the electorate had the maturity to go beyond traditional ethnic divisi ...
• 20 June 2005
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Info: Antananarivo (Fides Service)- Madagascar, called the “big island”, has an area of 617,249sq km and a population of more than 16 million people belonging to various ethnic groups each with different customs and tradit ...
• 17 June 2005
  AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO - “Moral decadence in the West is starting to affect Africa” a mission in the Republic of Congo told Fides. “Therefore I welcome the pro-family demonstration in Madrid on June 18” Brazzaville (Fides Service)- “Every day the family comes under attack, troops and militiamen engage in violence against poor, helpless women and mothers ” said a Holy Ghost Father on mission in the Pool region of the ...
• 17 June 2005
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The Catholic Bishops of East Africa are convinced AIDS will be defeated, Africa must not lose hope Kampala (Fides Service)- “We invite the Clergy, the Religious, the lay Faithful, governments and non-governmental agencies in Africa and beyond, and all people of good will, to join hands and work side by side with us ...
• 16 June 2005
  AFRICA/EGYPT - “It is paradoxical that the tiny Christian community here which has to struggle every day to preserve its special identity should bear the consequences of moral relativism in Europe” a Catholic priest in Cairo told Fides commenting the June 18 pro-family demonstration in Spain Cairo (Fides Service)- “As an Egyptian Christian I express solidarity with the organisers and participants at the pro-family demonstration in Madrid” Catholic Egyptian priest in Cairo Fr Samir told Fides with regard ...
• 16 June 2005
  AFRICA/RWANDA - “As African Christians today we look with dismay at Europe for so many centuries the beacon of Christianity and now slipping ever further down the slope of de-Christianisation” Catholic Bishop of Gikongoro tells Fides Kigali (Fides Service)- “We share the concern of the Church in Spain and indeed all over the world for this attack on the family which is an institution of natural law” Rwandan Bishop Augustin Misago of Gikongoro tol ...
• 16 June 2005
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - “Difficulties we experience can help us discover God’s plan for us” Catholic Bishops of North Africa say at the end of a plenary meeting Rabat (Fides Service)- The conditions of migrants and scarcity of jobs for local young people were among the main concerns discussed by the Catholic Bishops of North Africa meeting in Rabat Morocco 9-12 June for the Spri ...
• 15 June 2005
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - “The family, born of humanity’s God-given natural law must be supported always” says President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Madagascar Rome (Fides Service)- “The natural institution of the family which has its origin in God must be supported always and every initiative to this purpose is very welcome” said Archbishop Fulgence Rabeony, S.I., of Tolia ...
• 15 June 2005
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - “You must be mad in Europe, how can two men get married?” parishioners in Bissau ask Italian missionary Fr Dioniso Ferraro. Africans support Spanish demonstration pro-family and pro real-marriage Bissau (Fides Service)- “We fully support the pro-family demonstration taking place on June 18 in Madrid” said Italian missionary Fr. Dioniso Ferraro parish priest at Our Lady of Fatima church in Bissau, capital of ...
• 14 June 2005
  AFRICA/CÔTE D' IVOIRE - Dramatic testimony from Fides Cesco at Salesian mission in Duékoué west Cote d'Ivoire where 15,000 people are sheltering Rome (Fides Service)- The International Volunteers for Development (VIS) association belonging to the Salesian Fathers sent the following message to Fides. “Dear Friends at Fides we forward to you an appeal received ...
• 14 June 2005
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The weight of the clan still makes itself felt: Somali President barred from landing in Somalia’s “temporary” capital Mogadishu (Fides Service)- The president of Somalia Abdullahi Yusuf who left Nairobi capital of Kenya yesterday directed to Qatar and other Persian Gulf countries for a pan-Arab consultation has yet to return to his coun ...
• 13 June 2005
  AFRICA/CÔTE D'IVOIRE - St. Thérèse Salesian mission makes another pressing appeal: urgent aid needed in the Duékoué area for over 15,000 civilians who have lost everything Duekoue (Fides Service) - Since the beginning of June in the area of Duekoue, diocese of Man, there have been clashes between Dioula and Guere people in which at least 69 people have been killed and thousands forced to a ...