Africa

• 24 September 2003
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - THE LOCAL CHURCH IS A PEACEMAKER Rome (Fides Service) – “My concern is the good of all the people entrusted to my care, Catholics and non” Bishop Matthew Ishaya Audu of Lafia in the Nigerian state of Nasarawa told Fides Service. The Bishop on a vi ...
• 24 September 2003
  AFRICA - DIFFICULT PATHS TO PEACE Rome (Fides Service) – Africa is known to the general public for its humanitarian emergencies, its wars, its calamities. For a moment media attention is riveted on the continent, humanitarian organisations go into acti ...
• 23 September 2003
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - BISHOPS NAME NEW CONFERENCE OFFICES AFTER JOHN PAUL II: BISHOPS’ MESSAGE FOR 25 YEARS OF PONTIFICATE AND 15th ANNIVERSARY OF PAPAL VISIT Maputo (Fides Service) – With a symposium on 17 October, a special mass of Thanksgiving on 19 October, and the assembly of the Bishops’ Conference 21-24 October the Catholic Church in Mozambique will mark two major a ...
• 23 September 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - FOLLOWING OPENING OF BORDERS IVORY COAST/BURKINA FASO TRAIN SERVICES RESUME. BUT MONTHS AFTER TREATY STOPPED YEAR LONG CIVIL WAR SITUATION STILL FAR FROM NORMAL Abidjan (Fides Service) – Railway services between Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso have been resumed. On Sunday 21 September the first train from Burkina Faso arrived in the Ivory Coast port city of Bobo Dioulasso. “I ...
• 23 September 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - LIBERIA’S DIFFICULT JOURNEY TO PEACE Monrovia (Fides Service) – “We are moving towards the installation of the transition government and the situation in Monrovia is gradually returning to normal” Father Mauro Armanino, in the Liberian capital tells F ...
• 19 September 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - 2003 INTERNATIONAL ICAS CONFERENCE ON AIDS: CHALLENGES Nairobi (Fides Service) – The 13th International Conference on AIDS will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, 21-27 September. Participants will discuss the Challenges to face in order to solve this serious problem, The first wi ...
• 19 September 2003
  AFRICA/KENYA - THANKS TO THE WORKING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WE HAVE A MATURE LAITY, A FORCE FOR EVANGELISATION” SAY CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF KENYA Rome (Fides Service) – “Our catechists sustain the Catholic communities in the diocese” . This is the opinion of Bishop Virgilio Pante of Maralal and Bishop Luigi Paiaro of Nyahururu who are attending a Seminar for ...
• 16 September 2003
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - PEACE TALKS COLLAPSE, WIDESPREAD BANDITRY STRIKES ALSO LOCAL CHURCH LAST OASIS OF ASSISTANCE FOR SUFFERING CIVILIANS Bujumbura (Fides Service) – “This is serious and could cause a new outbreak of civil war” a local source in Bujumbura, capital of Burundi, tells Fides Service after the collapse of peace talks between the Burundian ...
• 16 September 2003
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - AFTER SUNDAY’S COUP BISHOP OF BISSAU APPOINTED HEAD OF NATIONAL TRANSITION COUNCIL: COMMENT FROM BISHOP’S HOUSE Bissau (Fides Service) – “This is definitely recognition of the Church’s role in the past and in the present for peace in this country”, personnel at the Bishop’s Residence in Bissau say with regard to the appo ...
• 15 September 2003
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - COUP IN GUINEA-BISSAU: MILITARY PROMISE FREE ELECTIONS IMMEDIATELY Bissau (Fides Service) – There is relative calm in Guinea-Bissau after the army led coup on Sunday 14 September. The rebels arrested President Kimba Yalla and took control of strategic points, first of all national rad ...
• 15 September 2003
  AFRICA/RWANDA - CHOOSE LIFE NOT DEATH: CATHOLIC BISHOPS PASTORAL LETTER ON AIDS PANDEMIC WHICH HAS KILLED 40 MILLION, 30 MILLION OF THEM IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA Kigali (Fides Service) - AIDS is a disease that has invaded the whole world but it inflicts the greatest damage in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since its appearance around 1981, it has killed 40 million world wide. 75 of this 40 ...
• 15 September 2003
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - EYEWITNESS MISSIONARY RETURNED FROM GUINEA BISSAU (Rome) Fides Service) – “When I left Bissau on Saturday afternoon and there was no sign whatsoever of a coup” Father Agostino Martini head of the Venetian province of the Friars Minor told Fides. “Although, to te ...
• 15 September 2003
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - INFO: EVANGELISATION Rome (Fides Service) – Evangelisation in Guinea Bissau which in 1998 marked 500 years took place in four or five laps. The first began with the arrival in Guinea of Portuguese Europeans in 1446, and ended with the crea ...
• 12 September 2003
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE IS POSSIBLE: LEGACY OF D. ULISSE CAGLIONI FIRST FOCOLARE MEMBER WHO LIVED FOR THIRTY YEARS IN ALGERIA, EARNING LOVE AND RESPECT OF LOCAL MUSLIMS Algiers (Fides Service) – On 13 September Christians and Muslims will gather with the Catholic Archbishop of Algiers Henri Teissier, to commemorate Father Ulisse Caglione, a member of the Focolare Movement, who died on ...
• 12 September 2003
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - A FORGOTTEN CRISIS: THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Bangui (Fides Service) – Africa is known to the general public for its humanitarian emergencies, its wars, its calamities. For a moment media attention is riveted on the continent, humanitarian organisations go into ac ...