Africa

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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 ...
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  9 August 2022
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Jubilee year of the Pontifical Mission Societies: conveying the message through music Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - In view of missionary October and the Sunday dedicated to the missions, the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Malawi presented two songs last Sunday, one in English and one in the local Chi ...
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  8 August 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - A peace caravan of Franciscan nuns, ahead of the elections Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We wanted to find a simple and direct way to send everyone a message of peace and calm on the eve of the elections (scheduled for next August 9th, ed) and so we have decided to organize a carav ...
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  6 August 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - "We are each other's guardians", the expectation of the next elections increases in the country Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us share with our neighbours, wherever we are, in villages, towns or cities, the identity of who we are: citizens of our beloved nation, Kenya". Appeals and exhortations from the Kenyan Bis ...
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  5 August 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - More than 600 hostages of the Islamic State freed in northern Mozambique but attacks continue Maputo (Agenzia Fides) – More than 600 hostages have been freed by the Rwandan military contingent together with their Mozambican counterparts and the forces of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in the ...
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  5 August 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appeal of the Auxiliary Bishop of Minna: "Jungle justice". The country is on the path of disintegration Minna (Agenzia Fides) - Violence continues to spread across the country, as well as kidnappings, killings, attacks on churches, clashes, and now even death threats against President Muhammadu Buhari. This is how Msgr. ...
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  4 August 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops' appeal to young people. "Go and vote and do not get carried away by violence" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Young people, this is your future! Go and vote", exhorts His Exc. Msgr. Antony Muheria, Archbishop of Nyeri, in one of the videos published by the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) ah ...
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  4 August 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Christians prepare for the "Fasting of the Virgin Mary" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Orthodox Copts around the world are preparing to live the time of penance known as "fasting of the Holy Virgin Mary", praying with special intentions for Patriarch Tawadros II. The time of prayer ...
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  4 August 2022
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The United Nations intervenes: crisis, drought and terrorist attacks Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "The recent attack by Al Shabab in Ethiopia is another demonstration of the will of the terrorist group to become an international structure and not just Somali". This is reported by sources f ...
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  3 August 2022
  AFRICA/CONGO RD- Tensions with the blue helmets continue; Kinshasa expels UN mission spokesperson Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The government of Kinshasa has asked the UN Mission in Congo (MONUSCO) to remove its spokesman Mathias Gillmann. "In relation to the recent escalation of tensions between MONUSCO and the popula ...