Africa

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  1 August 2022
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Ready, set, go! The missionaries create the Grest in Monassao: a small ray of sunshine in this endless poverty Monassao (Agenzia Fides) - "Ready, set, go! This adventure begins and on the first day there are more than 200 children with 600 spectators. And to think we only told two children". Thus begins the story of Anselmo Fabia ...
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  1 August 2022
  AFRICA/GHANA - Bishops' appeal: "Do your utmost to end insecurity on the African continent" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Do your utmost to end insecurity on the African continent", is the appeal launched by the African Bishops at the end of the 19th Plenary Assembly of the Symposium of the Bishops' Conferences of A ...
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  30 July 2022
  AFRICA/TOGO - Comboni Missionaries: support for young people to live "a Christian and missionary dimension" Lome (Agenzia Fides) - "The goal is to create a farm for the production of corn, cassava and the processing of peanuts. The idea arises from the need to create a source of livelihood for our community and to introduce un ...
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  29 July 2022
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - "No place is accessible, the roads are impassable due to the terrorists" Djibo (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in the country continues to worsen. No place is accessible. It is no longer possible to go to the villages to celebrate the Eucharist and the other sacraments: the roads are impassa ...
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  27 July 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - New terrorist attacks: Al Shabab tries to open new fronts in the country Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "A united people and a functional State can never be intimidated by groups like Al Shabab", declared the president of the Somali region Mustafe Omer in relation to the clashes recorded yeste ...
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  26 July 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The siege in Tigray continues, the heparch of Adigrat calls for immediate action Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - "Understand that this continuous situation of silent genocide is consuming every day, minute and hour, an immense number of innocent lives of children, women and men of all ages; stop supporting ...
• 25 July 2022
  AFRICA/GABON - Appointment of Bishop of Franceville, Msgr. Ephrem Ndjoni Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Ephrem Ndjoni of the clergy of Franceville, Gabon, until now parish priest of the Cathedral of Saint Hilaire, as bishop of the same diocese. Msgr ...
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  25 July 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - Desolation is one of the new names for many areas of the Sahel: space between two shores Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "July 2019 to July 2022 is three full years of absence. This is the time that has passed, also of sand, since my last stay in Italy, mother and country according to the best traditions of the pas ...
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  23 July 2022
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Conclusion of the national consultations for the Synod on synodality wanted by Pope Francis Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - Last May the national phase of consultations on the Synod of "walking together" ended in the Church of Ivory Coast, the process of which was initiated by Pope Francis at the universal Church lev ...
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  22 July 2022
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - The Imam of Bamenda: "God is never on the side of those who kill; it is urgent to open a path of dialogue" Bamenda (Agenzia Fides) - "At the beginning we had a body made up of the leaders of all the religions present in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon, created to find a solution to what we have always defined as a 'sensele ...
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  21 July 2022
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - A Baptist Pastor: "religious ommunities are more united than ever" Bamenda (Agenzia Fides) - "If there is a positive aspect in this terrible crisis, it is the fact that the Christian Churches and other confessions, in particular I am thinking of Islam, are now more united than ever. The ...
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  21 July 2022
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - The Bishop of Boma invites prayers for newly ordained deacons and priests to be "good Samaritans" Boma (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church with which you are committed, and which you want to serve, is like an inn of Christ; a place of hospitality, healing and communion. Be careful not to turn it into an inn for bandits or ...
• 20 July 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Maralal Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Maralal, Kenya, presented by Bishop Virgilio Pante, I.M.C. The Holy Father has appointed the Reveren ...
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  20 July 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - One of the two priests kidnapped has been murdered Kafanchan (Agenzia Fides) - "It is with a deep sense of sorrow and pains that the Bishop, Clergy, Religious and Laity of the Diocese of Kafanchan announce the gruesome murder of Very Rev. Fr. John Mark Cheitnum. Fr. Joh ...
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  20 July 2022
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Water supply: Access to clean water for 50,000 people Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - "How can you wash your hands in a context of health emergency without water?" asks Omar Fiordalisio, head of the office in Rwanda of the Italian charity Movimento Lotta Fame nel Mondo (MLFM), bas ...