Africa

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  3 August 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - He mocked Jesus. An Al Azhar professor will be tried for insulting Christianity and Islam Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - His name is Mabrouk Attia and he is a professor of Islamic Law at Al Azhar University, the Egyptian professor-preacher who has ended up at the center of controversy and criminal cases for irrevere ...
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  3 August 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Nobody is safe, the situation is getting out of hand Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "There is massive insecurity. People are being killed every day. The bandits and the terrorists seem to have a free hand. We don't know where the security forces are". This is the alarm launched b ...
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  2 August 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops after the serious incidents with the UN peacekeepers: "Anger is understandable, but violence is never tolerable" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Tensions continue in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo between the local population and the UN Blue Helmets of the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), after the assaults that began on J ...
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  2 August 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appeal to Catholic women: take a lead on assisting the Church in her noble pastoral mission Kiambu (Agenzia Fides) - "As part of the wider church congregation, you must not sit on the wall. On the contrary, you must participate in the Church’s ministry", said the Archbishop of Nairobi, Msgr. Philip Anyolo, ad ...
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  1 August 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Young Egyptians on pilgrimage to Mount Sinai for the 29th "Franciscan March" Quesna (Agenzia Fides) - A five-day pilgrimage, along paths traveled by saints, prophets and penitents since time immemorial, to ask for the gift of interior reconciliation and discover God's loving plan for one's life. ...
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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 ...