Africa

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  25 August 2022
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Bishops warn of increases in drug abuse in schools Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "We are concerned about the growing frequency of drug abuse and violence in our schools". This is the cry of alarm launched by the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bamenda, an Anglopho ...
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  24 August 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Resumption of fighting in Tigray: government and rebels accuse each other of having interrupted the truce Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - War resumes in Tigray, the region in northern Ethiopia, devastated by the conflict that broke out in November 2020. "The Ethiopian forces, together with the special forces and the Amhara mi ...
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  24 August 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Unconditional release" of the 4 Nigerian nuns kidnapped on Sunday Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "With hearts full of joy the sisters of Jesus the Saviour wish to announce the unconditional and safe release of four of our sisters, who were abducted around Okigwe-Umulolo axis on August 21, 202 ...
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  23 August 2022
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - President of CEAST: "May tomorrow's vote take place in a spirit of peace, reconciliation, unity and fraternity" Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "May the Angolan people show on August 24 the maturity that they have always shown at other times and may political leaders abandon all resentment, all hatred, and not seek power for power's sake ...
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  22 August 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Four nuns kidnapped in south-east Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Four nuns of the Sisters of Jesus the Savior have been kidnapped in Nigeria. Four nuns Johannes Nwodo, Christabel Echemazu, Liberata Mbamalu and Benita Agu were abducted while traveling on the Oki ...
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  20 August 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Violence in the east of the country: at least 21 dead in attack on gold mine in Bigaragara Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Various armed groups led by former leaders of the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) named Makanika, Sematama, Mitabu and their allies have carried out another massacre of civilians and miners in ...
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  19 August 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Confiscate the assets of human traffickers": the campaign also promoted by the Catholic Church is underway Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Confiscate the assets of human traffickers". This was stated by the Auxiliary Bishop of Abuja, Msgr. Anselm Umoren, who together with the president of the Justice, Peace and Development Commissio ...
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  18 August 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishop André-Giraud of Matadi: Women religious are messengers of happiness Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Msgr André-Giraud Pindi, Bishop of Matadi, celebrated a solemn Mass with the Sisters of Sainte Marie de Matadi on Sunday 14 August in the parish church of Our Lady of Fatima, in Matadi, a mass ...
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  17 August 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - Announcement of presidential election results: “Let's keep the peace” Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We would like to ask all religious leaders to pray for peace in our country", said Archbishop Anthony Muheria of Nyeri, just after the announcement of William Ruto's victory as President of Ken ...
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  13 August 2022
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Bishop Bertin: the Church is close to the people and takes steps forward in dialogue with the new government Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "At the moment the new Somali government is showing good will and it seems that the political process is beginning to work if we take into account that the lower house last Saturday, August 6, ...
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  12 August 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - Presidential elections: Bishops warn against unreliable projections Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The results of the presidential and parliamentary elections held in Kenya on August 9th have not yet been published. The Independent Electoral Commission (IEBC) has not yet announced when it wil ...
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  12 August 2022
  AFRICA/ESWATINI - The Bishop: “The road to dialogue is marked by uncertainty” Manzini (Agenzia Fides) - "If I had to summarize the situation eSwatini finds itself in, I would use the term 'uncertainty'. This is the state of mind that best represents and characterizes the situation for some time an ...
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  11 August 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Attacks on church in Owo: Suspected responsible arrested Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Two other people suspected of being responsible for the massacre on Pentecost Sunday (June 5) at the Catholic Church of St. Francis Xavier in Owo, state of Ondo (see Fides 6/6/2022) have now been ...
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  10 August 2022
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Barbarism in Kikwit: a priest murdered by armed bandits Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Bishop Timothée Bodika Mansiyai of Kikwit, is deeply saddened to announce to his faithful and to all people of good will the sad news of the death of Father Godefroid Pembele Mandon. We recom ...
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  10 August 2022
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The Archdiocese of Lilongwe begins the diocesan Synod Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - On July 30, in the Archdiocese of Lilongwe in Malawi, the 2022-2023 "Discerning with the Holy Spirit". It is the third diocesan synod after that of 1973-1975 convened by Bishop Patrick Kalilomb ...