Africa

• 6 June 2003
  AFRICA/RWANDA - GOSPEL CHARITY TO OVERCOME DIVISIONS AND CULTURE OF VIOLENCE IN ORDER TO BUILD A NEW SOCIETY Kigali (Fides Service) – “Charity is the means for overcoming the hatred and division which persist the country and we offer a small but significant contribution in this direction” says Marie Grace Mukabyagaju, pre ...
• 5 June 2003
  AFRICA/TOGO - EYADEMA RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT: TENSION FOLLOWS ACCUSATIONS OF ELECTORAL FRAUD Lome (Fides Service) – Gnassingbe Eyadema has been re-elected President of Togo for another five year term. This was confirmed on 4 June by the National Independent Electoral Commission, which announced that the Presid ...
• 5 June 2003
  AFRICA/CONGO - “EUROPEAN PEACE KEEPING FORCE IS WELCOME IN CONGO, BUT PERHAPS THE INTERVENTION COULD HAVE COME EARLIER” Kinshasa (Fides Service) – “The decision to send a European peacekeeping force to Ituri is a positive fact but we cannot overlook another fact that the international community did nothing two months ago when the civi ...
• 4 June 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - “THE BEAUTIFUL FACE OF A CHURCH ALIVE AND DYNAMIC” DESCRIBED BY CARD. CRESCENZIO SEPE WHEN HE MET UGANDAN BISHOPS Kampala (Fides Service) – At the end of his pastoral to Uganda, this morning, June 4, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, had a meeting with the Ugandan Bishops’ ...
• 4 June 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - GHANA HOSTS PEACE TALKS BETWEEN LIBERIAN GOVERNMENT AND REBEL GROUPS: US CATHOLIC BISHOPS VOICE SOLIDARITY WITH VICTIMS OF LIBERIA's CIVIL WAR Monrovia (Fides Service) – Peace talks between the Liberian government and rebel groups opened on June 4 at Akosombo (Ghana). The 2 rebel groups are: Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy, LURD and the Move ...
• 3 June 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - MAY THE EXAMPLE AND INTERCESSION OF THE MARTYRS OBTAIN FOR UGANDA AND THE WHOLE OF AFRICA THE GREAT GIFTS OF FAITH AND PEACE: CARDINAL SEPE CELEBRATES MASS AT THE SHRINE OF UGANDA’S MARTYRS Kampala (Fides Service) – “The martyrs of Uganda have in common the following of Christ as disciples modelling their life on the words of Jesus, as apostles they offered the gift of conversion to others by becoming m ...
• 3 June 2003
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - BISHOPS REFLECT ON FORMATION OF PRIESTS AND YOUTH IN GENERAL Maputo (Fides Service) - The formation of priests and commitment for the development of the country through the Catholic University of Mozambique was the main theme of a meeting of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of M ...
• 3 June 2003
  AFRICA/TOGO - TENSION IN TOGO AFTER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ON 1 JUNE. SOME PEOPLE KILLED IN CLASHES AROUND CAPITAL Lome (Fides Service) – There is calm charged with tension in Lome, the capital of Togo since presidential elections held on June 1. There are as yet no final results but outgoing president Gnassingbe Eyadema appears to ...
• 2 June 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - CARDINAL SEPE FOR CENTENARY OF EVANGELISATION OF MBARARA PROVINCE: “THE GOSPEL SEED HAS GROWN AND TODAY IT IS A LARGE TREE, BUT THE MISSIONARY TASK IS STILL GREAT” Mbarara (Fides Service) – “The seed of the Gospel, sown by missionaries in the heart of your fathers and forefathers has grown and produced many good ears of wheat. Your Christian community has grown like that of the ...
• 2 June 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - MISSIONARIES CONCERNED AFTER ATTACKS ON MISSION: “FOREIGN INTERVENTION NOW INDISPENSABLE” Kampala (Fides Service) – “We are truly deeply grieved, there seems to be no end to the violence” missionaries working in northern Uganda tell Fides Service after yet another attack on a mission in the region. On 3 ...
• 31 May 2003
  AFRICA RWANDA - CARDINAL SEPE CONSECRATES KIBEHO MARIAN SHRINE: “MAY KIBEHO SHRINE BECOME A PLACE FROM WHICH THERE WILL ARISE A PEOPLE OF RWANDA RENEWED IN FAITH, THIRSTING FOR LOVE FOR THEIR GOD, DETERMINED TO FORGET THE SAD PAST OF FRATRICIDAL WAR” Kibeho (Fides Service) – “I exhort you to prayer fervently that this Kibeho Shrine may become a place from which there will arise a people of Rwanda renewed in faith, thirsting for love for their God, determined to f ...
• 30 May 2003
  AFRICA/RWANDA - CARDINAL SEPE MEETS PASTORAL WORKERS AND SEMINARIANS: “CHURCH IN RWANDA YOU ARE CALLED TO SET OUT AGAIN ON MISSION!” A MESSAGE OF HOPE TO PRISONERS CALLED TO WORK FOR THE COMMON GOOD Kigali (Fides Service) – Continuing his pastoral visit in Rwanda, on 29 May Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, had a meeting with pastoral workers whom he encourage ...
• 30 May 2003
  AFRICA/TOGO - REV. PIERRE DOVI N’DANU-ALIPUI APPOINTED RECTOR OF THE JOHN PAUL II MAJOR INTER-DIOCESAN SEMINARY IN LOME Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has appointed, 15 May 2003, Rector of John Paul II Major inter-diocesan seminary in Lome, (Togo) Rev. ...
• 30 May 2003
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - REV. ALAIN THIERRY RAHARISON APPOINTED RECTOR OF PAUL VI UNIVERSITY SEMINARY IN ANTANANARIVO Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has appointed, 15 May 2003, Rector of Paul VI University Major Seminary in Antananarivo (Madagascar) ...
• 30 May 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC - CARITAS CONGO SENDS 8 TONNES OF MEDICINES TO BUNIA CITY TRAPPED IN TRIBAL FIGHTING Kinshasa (Fides Service) – On 29 May 8 tonnes of medicine sent by Caritas Congo arrived in Bunia city. Flying with the medical supplies, purchased with funds from Caritas Germany and Trocaire Ireland, was the director ...