Africa

• 14 March 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - “Light a lamp in Africa!”. The lamp of education, a school for everyone. Daughters of Mary Auxiliatrix open a new school in Luena Luena (Fides Service) - Just back from Angola, where she visited with the General Bursar Sr Candida Aspesi, Sr Rosangela Giorgi in charge of programmes for development and economy with solidarity, sent Fides a report on ...
• 11 March 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Consecrated brothers and sisters, wake up! Put out into the deep” Bishops say to religious in Congo Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “Consecrated life is a concrete reality in Congo today. According to statistics our country has an estimated 11,000 men and women religious among a population of 50 million, 50% Catholic. Thei ...
• 11 March 2005
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - “Bombers of peace” to carry real peace to the hearts of Angolans after 25 years of civil war. Head of “Pro Peace” speaks after the movement’s second congress Luanda (Fides Service)- “The goal is to build a climate of trust so elections will be transparent without protest or suspicion”, Angolan Catholic Bishop José Francisco Moreira dos Santo head of the Pro Peace Movemen ...
• 9 March 2005
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Women direct and indirect victims of 650 million small arms in the world Cape Town (Fides Service)- Women are the main victims of the proliferation of firearms in South Africa according to a report presented in South Africa on the occasion of International Women’s Day, yesterday. The report ...
• 9 March 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - For the first time in 9 years 50,000 mothers take to the streets to celebrate international Women’s Day in a city for years at the centre of a conflict whose principal victims were women of all ages Bukavu (Fides Service)- “At last after 9 years, yesterday 8 March, women were free to celebrate international Women’s Day in the streets” said Xaverian missionary Fr. Luigi Lo Stocco, director of Radio Maria Malia ...
• 8 March 2005
  VATICAN - The under-secretary for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, Rev. Sister Enrica Rosanna, shares with Fides her happy missionary experience among women in Congo. Religious Sisters help women of Africa to promote a culture of peace Vatican City (Fides Service) - Sr Enrica Rosanna a member of the congregation of the Daughters of Mary Auxiliatrix and Under-Secretary for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, shares with Fides ...
• 8 March 2005
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Madagascar prays for Pope John Paul II Antananarivo (Fides Service)- “Since his holiness was admitted to hospital special prayers for his intentions and speedy recovery are being offered in parishes throughout Antananarivo” Father Cosimo Alvati, head of ...
• 7 March 2005
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Catholic refugees from Sudan pray for Pope John Paul II with happy memories of his visit in 1993 Gambella (Fides Service)- “Catholics among the refugees from Sudan living in camps in Ethiopia around Gambella are praying intensely for the Pope” Archbishop Angelo Moreschi, Apostolic Prefect of Gambella, in west Et ...
• 7 March 2005
  AFRICA - 500,000 illegal arms in eastern Africa: Catholic Church commitment with regard to small arms misuse five years after Nairobi Declaration Nairobi (Fides Service )- “The proliferation of small arms is a serious problem which the Church cannot ignore” the Office for Justice and Peace of the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences of Eastern Africa AM ...
• 4 March 2005
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Pope: the prayer of the Church in Mozambique Maputo (Fides Service) - Also from distant Mozambique prayers for the Pope continue to arrive. “In every Mass we pray for the speedy recovery of John Paul II. All Mozambique has the Pope in its heart as it can be seen ...
• 4 March 2005
  AFRICA/BENIN - Radio which denounces trafficking of child slaves broadcasts prayers for John Paul II Cotonou (Fides Service)- Also in Benin Catholics pray incessantly for the health of John Paul II. “On Saturday 5 March 2005 at 11am a special Mass will be celebrated for the Roman Pontiff in every cathedral in the coun ...
• 4 March 2005
  AFRICA/RWANDA - “Community prayer is an important means to promote reconciliation in Rwanda” says Pallottine Father Filipeck Rome (Fides Service)- “I have been in Rwanda since 1980 and was here at the tragic time of the genocide. The mission where I was working was attacked and it is a miracle that I was not killed” Pallottine Father Stani ...
• 3 March 2005
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “Even here where the main preoccupation is how to stay alive and death is such a commonplace event that we are resigned to it, we find the strength to pray for the health of the Pope” a missionary in northern Uganda told Fides Kitgum (Fides Service)- “Even here where the main preoccupation is how to stay alive and death is such a commonplace event that we are resigned to it, we find the strength to pray for the health of the Holy Father” a ...
• 3 March 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - In remote areas of Ituri where the din of fighting is still heard Catholics pray for the Pope Bunia (Fides Service)- “Now calm has returned but yesterday we heard the noise of a fierce battle, only a few kilometres away with UN fighter helicopters flying back and forth over the town ” said a local Church sour ...
• 3 March 2005
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - “Since the Pope was admitted to hospital people all over the country are debating on the value of life and the role of the elderly” says a missionary in Sierra Leone, where in the 1960s children with polio were seen as “children of the devil” Freetown (Fides)- “The Pope’s stay in hospital is provoking reflection on the value of human life. This is particularly true in our youth groups because our children and young people are deeply saddened by the though ...