Africa

• 1 July 2004
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Italian movement to fight world hunger plans 20 km power line to supply electricity for 40,000 people in Muhura district Rome (Fides Service ) - The Italian Movimento per la Lotta contro la Fame nel Mondo in collaboration with Barnabite missionary Father Mario Falconi, has officially started a programme to supply electricity to the norther ...
• 30 June 2004
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - “Plan to destabilise the government behind attacks on national independence day” missionary with long experience in Madagascar tells Fides Antananarivo (Fides Service)-“There are political forces which want the situation in Madagascar to precipitate” Salesian Father Cosimo Alvati, director of Radio don Bosco in Antananarivo, told Fides with regard to at ...
• 28 June 2004
  AFRICA - More than 30 million small arms in 44 countries Sub-Saharan Africa: we are concerned experts say but “the problem can be solved” Rome (Fides Service)-According to an annual report issued by the independent organisation Small Arms Survey there at least 30 million small arms in Africa. The organisation, which studies the diffusion and impact of smal ...
• 26 June 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - From Congo swept once again by the winds of war the last tesimony of a Xaverian missionary Uvira (Fides Service)- “He wanted to die here among the people he served for more than 30 years” Italian Xaverian missionary, Father Luigi Lo Stocco, director of Radio Maria “Wa Amani” in Bukavu in the east of De ...
• 25 June 2004
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Radio Liseli new channel of hope opened by Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Lusaka (Fides Service)- A new Catholic radio station has been inaugurated in Zambia. Radio Liseli in an initiative of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. According to DIA a local news agency the radio has two obje ...
• 25 June 2004
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - “In Burundi all the warring parties are guilty of crimes against civilians” Human Rights Watch denounces Bujumbura (Fides Service)- “Everyone is pleased with the progress towards peace but they seem to forget that outside the capital for hundreds of thousands of people war continues ” Alison Des Forges, head of the Afri ...
• 25 June 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “Only justice brings real peace. I will tell this to the American Secretary of State when he comes to Sudan” said Bishop Macram Max Gassis, Catholic Bishop of El Obeid Khartoum (Fides Service)- “The fact that Mr Colin Powell is coming to Sudan is a positive sign. I want to meet him, to plead the cause of the weakest members of our country” Bishop Macram Max Gassis, Sudanese Catholi ...
• 24 June 2004
  AFRICA - From Africa to the Americas sects thrive on religious syncretism Rome (Fides Service)-It is not easy to free ourselves of false idols and false beliefs. We are surrounded by magic practices of various types…millions of people live on the borders between pseudo religious practices, s ...
• 23 June 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Ethnic violence in Congo can be stopped on the condition that foreign interference is stopped” says Enoch Ruberangabo Sebineza a member of the Banyamulege Tutsi people in east Congo Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “We Congolese will be able to settle our disputes peacefully on the condition that foreign interference stops” said Enoch Ruberangabo Sebineza, member of Democratic Congo’s National Assemb ...
• 23 June 2004
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Not everyone knows that according to tradition the Tables of the Law are kept in Ethiopia. Local people tell the story Rome (Fides Service)- According to popular tradition the Tables of the Law are preserved in Ethiopia. The Queen of Sheba stole the Tables from Solomon and kept them at Axum her palace, the remains of which were discovere ...
• 22 June 2004
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Disappointment in Malawi after last month’s elections. Disbanding of Opposition could cause precipitation of precarious balance of democracy Lilongwe (Fides Service)- Unfortunately growing confusion in the political situation is causing such a reaction among the people who can hardly believe what is happening and has to accept that it has been tricked” said ...
• 22 June 2004
  AFRICA/RWANDA - “ I have never known peace or justice, neither has my father nor has my son ”. Testimony from a displaced Rwandan refugee Kigali (Fides Service)- Testimony on the conditions of refugees and internally displaced persons is worth more than a thousand speeches. On the occasion of World Refugee Day, marked on June 20, we present the following t ...
• 21 June 2004
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Good chance for Burundian refugees in Tanzania to return home Bujumbura (Fides Service) - More than 300,000 Burundian refugees in Tanzania had good reason to celebrate yesterday 20 June, World Refugee Day, in fact they are preparing to return to their own country. The peace agreeme ...
• 21 June 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “How can it be that people asking for a school and a hospital get only bullets and bombs in reply?” asks Sudanese Catholic Bishop Macram Max Gassis with regard to the war in Darfur Rome (Fides Service)- “Peace must be built on reciprocal trust. This is why the Khartoum government should take concrete measures to show it sincerely wants peace” Sudanese Catholic Bishop Macram Max Gassis of El Obe ...
• 21 June 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Crisis in supplies heightens in Bukavu in eastern Congo. “ If this continues we will soon run out of fuel ” local sources told Fides Bukavu (Fides Service)- “The city is slowly being strangled. Supplies are ever fewer and far between. If this continues we will soon run out of fuel” said local sources in Bukavu, main town in south Kivu, in the east ...