Africa

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  25 March 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - After Father Joseph Akete Bako, another Priest Abducted in Kaduna State Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Another priest has been kidnapped in Nigeria. It is Father Felix Zakari Fidson, from the diocese of Zaria, in the state of Kaduna, in the north of the country. According to a statement sent to Age ...
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  25 March 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "Peace, not war, has always been our choice": hope for a humanitarian truce Mekelle (Agenzia Fides) - The Ethiopian government, led by Prime Minister Abiy Ali Ahmed, wants to take "extraordinary measures" "to save lives and reduce human suffering" and declares "an indefinite humanitarian ceasefi ...
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  25 March 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A new beginning for the Catholic Church: Father Christian Carlassare is ordained bishop in Rumbek Rumbek (Agenzia Fides) - Almost a year after the dramatic attack in which he suffered serious injuries (armed men broke into his bishop's house on the night of April 25-26, 2021), Bishop Christian Carlassare returns to R ...
• 25 March 2022
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Appointment of the Rector of the "Saint Curé d’Ars" Philosophical Seminary in Bujumbura Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On November 30, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rector of the "Saint Curé d'Ars" interdiocesan philosophical S ...
• 25 March 2022
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Belarmine Tchipundukwa, MS Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 13, 2022 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in A ...
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  25 March 2022
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The Archdiocese of Abidjan joins the Pope in the Act of consecration of humanity to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Abdjan (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Jean Pierre Kutwa, Metropolitan Archbishop of Abidjan, in a note sent to all the ecclesial realities of the Archdiocese, urges the faithful and all the parishes to unite spiritually in p ...
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  24 March 2022
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - "Wars play cynically with the fate of entire peoples": A vision from the south of the world of the war in Ukraine Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A vision from the South of the first great war on European soil since the Second World War (with the exception of the wars in the former Yugoslavia). This is what is reported in a note sent to ...
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  23 March 2022
  AFRICA/GHANA - "No ethnic group is too small to be unable to contribute to the growth of Ghana" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Tamale and President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Ghana, His Exc. Mgr. Philip Naameh, said that no ethnic group in Ghana should feel too small to contribute to the grow ...
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  23 March 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Raï reaffirms perspective of Lebanon's “neutrality” Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Only if Lebanon is neutral in relation to the global and regional balance of power confronting it in the Middle East will it be possible for Lebanon to "regain its position" and its positive role ...
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  23 March 2022
  AFRICA - "We have never stopped taking care of tuberculosis patients": March 24 world tuberculosis day Padua (Agenzia Fides) - "In all the hospitals where we operate, from Rumbek in South Sudan to Wolisso in Ethiopia, passing through Tosamaganga in Tanzania, patients with tuberculosis arrive. In some countries, such as A ...
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  22 March 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Be careful not to preach the Christianity of prosperity", warns the Bishop of Ekwuluobia Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Be careful not to preach the Christianity of prosperity", warned His Excellency Msgr. Peter Ebere Okpaleke, Bishop of Ekwuluobia, in Anambra State, southern Nigeria, during the 51st Assembly of B ...
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  22 March 2022
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "It was one of the best trips I've ever done": says a missionary from Monassao Monassao (Agenzia Fides) - "Singila mingi, Nzapa! (Many thanks to God). This is how my mission begins, remembering that it is never mine but God's, in this blessed land , but so wounded by poverty, war, instability. The ...
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  18 March 2022
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - The Pontiff will celebrate Mass near the site of the ambush on Ambassador Attanasio Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis will celebrate a Mass not far from the place where, on February 22, 2021, the Italian Ambassador in Kinshasa, Luca Attanasio, was killed. This was announced by sources from the gov ...
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  18 March 2022
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Adolescent Project: protecting the health of pregnant adolescents Aber (Agenzia Fides) - In Uganda, girls are forced to drop out of school due to early pregnancies, "a phenomenon that is still widespread in the country which has serious repercussions on the lives of young girls and is ...
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  17 March 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Orthodox Church commemorates Patriarch Shenuda III on the 10th anniversary of his death Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "He taught us not to complain, seeing that he never complained, despite the many difficult circumstances he went through". With these words, the Egyptian priest Antonios Thabet, of the Coptic Orth ...