Africa

• 14 January 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - MACHETE SLAUGHTER CONTINUES: AT LEAST 18 PEOPLE MURDERED IN RECENT WEEKS. 40-60,000 ARMED YOUNG MILITARY RUN WILD Abidjan (Fides Service)-“Violence in the north west of Ivory Coast will not stop the peace process between government and rebels” local Church sources in Abidjan told Fides Service. “Sad to say these episodes come ...
• 12 January 2004
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - ARCHBISHOP OF DAKAR THREATENED. ALL SENEGAL EXPRESSES SOLIDARITY. PRESIDENT WADE DEFENDS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ON TELEVISION Dakar (Fides Service)- In Dakar, in the news for the international car rally, signs of religious intolerance were immediately quashed by the majority of people. “Newspapers and political and religious leaders, Muslims ...
• 12 January 2004
  AFRICA/CONGO - DIOCESE REJOICES FOR RETURN OF SICK ARCHBISHOP OF BUKAVU ABSENT FOR THREE YEARS Bukavu (Agenzia Fides)- Four bishop concelebrated a special Mass for peace in Democratic Congo and for the health of Archbishop Charles Kambale Mbogha of Bukavu diocese who recently returned after two years of absence fo ...
• 12 January 2004
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - IN THE CABINDA ENCLAVE (700,000 DRUMS OF OIL A DAY), THE DRAMA OF WAR AND HUNGER. AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED DENOUNCES INJUSTICE Roma (Fides Service)- Fides has received a new complaint with regard violation of human rights in the Angolan enclave of Cabina separated from Angola by a strip of land belonging to Democratic Congo. According to Portugu ...
• 9 January 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - 6 NEW FORCES MINISTERS TAKE TIME TO THINK THROUGH DIFFICULT CITIZENSHIP DILEMMA Abidjan (Fides Service)- “This is an interval not a crisis” local Church sources in Abidjan assure Fides with regard to the abrupt curtailing of a national unity government cabinet meeting. The meeting was scheduled ...
• 9 January 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - SACRED HEART OF JESUS MISSIONARIES CELEBRATE 150TH ANNIVERSARY AND 80 YEARS IN CONGO DESPITE ENORMOUS DIFFICULTIES AND SACKING DURING FIVE YEARS OF CIVIL WAR Kinshasa (Fides Service)- The Sacred Heart Missionaries who this year celebrate ther150th anniversary of their foundation are working hard to resume their activity in the Democratic Republic of Congo where they first arr ...
• 8 January 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - OIL WEALTH SHARING AGREEMENT A STEP ON THE PATH TO PEACE: BUT ALL SIDES MUST WORK TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF RE-SETTLING REFUGEES Rome (Fides Service)- “This is a first substantial step” Rev. Tonio Dell’Olio, spokesman for the Sudan Campaign a network of Catholic and secular associations working to bring peace to the country, told Fides. The ...
• 8 January 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN - LANDMARK GOVERNMENT/REBEL AGREEMENT TO SHARE OIL WEALTH Rome (Fides Service) – A history making agreement between the government of Sudan and the rebels, Southern Peoples Liberation Army, SPLA was signed on 7 January in the Kenyan town of Naivasha by vice president Ali Osma ...
• 7 January 2004
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - IN BURUNDI PENDULUM OF WAR SWINGS DANGEROUSLY HIGH. NUNCIO’S KILLERS WERE PROFESSIONALS. TELLTALE SIGNS ON AMBUSHED CAR Bujumbura (Fides Service) - The situation in Burundi is still one of insecurity despite the announcement on 5 January that the FNL National Liberation Front rebels were ready to meet President Domitien Ndayizeye to start ...
• 7 January 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - REBEL MINISTERS AGREE TO SIT WITH GOVERNMENT DESPITE FEAR THAT REFERENDUM WILL ENABLE PRESIDENT TO QUASH NEW LAWS WITHOUT PARLIAMENT’S CONSENT. GROWING CONCERN AMONG DESCENDANTS OF NON NATIONALS Abidjan (Fides Service)- “The rebels decision to take their seats with other ministers of the national unity government is certainly a good sign and let’s hope it gives a push to the peace process which stalled some ...
• 2 January 2004
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - APOSTOLIC NUNCIO MURDERED BECAUSE HE WAS WORKING FOR PEACE IN BURUNDI Bujumbura (Fides Service )- New details have emerged with regard to the murder of Archbishop Michael Aidan Courtney, Apostolic Nuncio in Burundi, on 29 December in an ambush at 50 km from the capital, Bujumbura. “The A ...
• 29 December 2003
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - GERMAN CLARETIAN MISSIONARY FOUND MURDERED ON CHRISTMAS EVE Yaounde (Fides Service) – On Christmas Eve German Claretian missionary, Father Anton Probst, was found dead at the Claretian Novitiate at Akono about 60 kilometres south of the capital Yaounde. The body of the priest, ...
• 23 December 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - MISSIONARIES SPEND CHRISTMAS WITH REFUGEES, “THIS IS MORE LIKE THE LORD’S FIRST COMING IN HUMILITY AND POVERTY Monrovia (Fides Service)- “Sadly we will celebrate the coming of Holy Peace this year without peace” Consolata Missionary Sisters Harbel, 50 km south of Monrovia, capital of Liberia told Fides. “The disarmament pro ...
• 23 December 2003
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - MAY CHRISTMAS OPEN HEARTS AND EXTEND SCIENTIFIC HORIZONS TO EMBRACE AND CARE FOR ALL WHO SUFFER: CHAPLAIN OF YALGADO OUEDRAOGO HOSPITAL Ouagadougou (Fides Service) – Camillian Father Edgard Yameogo is chaplain at Yalgado Ouedraogo state hospital in Ouagadougou and director of the Camillian Centre for Health Care Pastoral in Burkina Faso. On the occasio ...
• 19 December 2003
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - SALESIANS ASSIST THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES: HUMANITARIAN AID DOES NOT CLASH WITH PASTORAL MINISTRY AND MANY LAPSE CATHOLICS RETURN TO THE FAITH AFTER YEARS OF Lwena (Fides Service/Ans) – Twenty years of civil war left Angola devastated, mourning its dead, wasting away from malnutrition, faced with destruction. It is estimated that at least 15 million anti-personnel mines sti ...