Africa

• 14 February 2022
  AFRICA/BENIN - Appointment of Bishop of Djougou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 12, 2022, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Fr. Bernard de Clairvaux Toha Wontacien, O.S.F.S., until now provincial superior of the Oblates of Saint Francis de Sales in Be ...
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  12 February 2022
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - The new Archbishop Jean-Paul Vesco takes office in Algiers: "our Blessed are light on our path" Algiers (Agenzia Fides) - An Algerian Church "allied without repentance", which shares all the joys and sorrows of the Algerian people without claiming privileges, and wants to imitate the "discretion" of Jesus at the we ...
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  12 February 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - A new Lasallian school: "The service of education is part of the evangelical mission" Homa Bay (Agenzia Fides) - "Building a school in the awareness of the preciousness of the service of education is part of the evangelical mission to give dignity to people, to evangelize communities". This is what Brothe ...
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  10 February 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Human trafficking, an ancient crime that makes use of modern social media Pretoria (Agenzia Fides) - "Trafficking is not just being taken from one country to another country and then become a slave. Trafficking is when someone owns someone else’s life and exploiting it", said Jacqueline Four ...
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  10 February 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - Attention and respect: the health care of Camillian missionaries towards the most vulnerable sections of the population Karungu (Agenzia Fides) - "All the sick have the right to care, adequate assistance and respect". This is the goal of the St. Camillus Mission Hospital in Karungu (see Fides, 26/11/2004). The hospital, founded and run by ...
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  9 February 2022
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The contribution of the Catholic University Alumni geared to improve special needs education Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "We have resolved that this year, we should assist the project that the University embarked on in buying materials for the special needs laboratory at the main campus in Nguludi", said Nohara C ...
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  9 February 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - For the first time a Coptic Christian becomes President of the Supreme Constitutional Court Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi has appointed Coptic Christian judge Boulos Fahmy, currently vice-President of the same institution, as President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egy ...
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  9 February 2022
  AFRICA/RWANDA - We want children to go back to school and start living with their parents again Butare (Agenzia Fides) - Child labor, disease, hunger, mistreatment are just some of the contexts in which street children are involved in Rwanda. "They do not go to school, they survive by offering their labor and dedic ...
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  8 February 2022
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Human rights and basic needs: it is an emergency for the most destitute populations hit by tropical storms Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply concerned about the people of the southern and central districts devastated by the recent tropical storm Ana", said the President of the Bishops' Conference of Malawi (ECM), Mgr. ...
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  8 February 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - "We will stay as long as we have food" say villagers subjected to violence by jihadists Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "We will stay as long as we have something to eat", with these words the Italian missionary Father Mauro Armanino of the Society for Africa Missions quotes farmers from the area of Bomoanga, on t ...
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  8 February 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The parish priest kidnapped on Sunday, February 6 released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Joseph Danjuma Shekari, Nigerian priest kidnapped on the night of Sunday, February 6, has regained his freedom (see Fides, 7/2/2022). According to a statement from the diocese of Kafanchan ...
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  7 February 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic priest kidnapped in Kaduna Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Another Catholic priest has been kidnapped in Nigeria: Fr. Joseph Shekari, parish priest in Ikulu Fari (Chawai, Kauru) in Kaduna State in northern Nigeria. According to initial reports, armed men ...
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  7 February 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros praises the directive of President al Sisi: to erect a church in every new urban settlement Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - In the intense urban development program launched in Egypt, each new urban district built in compliance with the guidelines established by the civil authorities will also have its own church, in a ...
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  7 February 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - Education is the key to the development of a society: the emerging role of Catholic schools Mombasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The greatest gift we can give to any person is not a big house or a piece of land, but rather education" declared the Archbishop of Mombasa, Msgr. Martin Kivuva, addressing the Sisters of the C ...
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  5 February 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Today the funeral of Fr. Richard Masivi Kasereka, murdered in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The funeral of Fr. Richard Masivi Kasereka, a Congolese religious of the Order of the Clerics Regular Minor (Adorno Fathers), assassinated on February 2 in a town in the east of the Democratic ...