Africa

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  5 February 2022
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Infants and children in dire need exacerbated by cyclones and tropical Chikwawa (Agenzia Fides) - Basic necessities, essential goods for people who have lost their homes, survival kits for babies and children, are some of the priorities urgently needed by the thousands of people affected by ...
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  5 February 2022
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - A missionary: "There is no clarity on the failed coup: a destabilizing act" Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "At the moment the situation is calm, I would say that we are back to normal, if it were not only for the signs left around the place where the strange coup attempt took place. Yesterday, Februar ...
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  4 February 2022
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - The shadow of drug trafficking in the attempt to attack the top management of Bissau? Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - An attempted coup by South American drug traffickers or is there more in the failed coup d'état in Guinea Bissau on February 1? Three days after the events that shocked the capital Bissau, it is ...
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  4 February 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Reduce the risk of maternal-infant mortality on the rise due to the indirect effects of Covid-19 Sofala (Agenzia Fides) - Beira, Dondo and Nhamatanda are the districts of the province of Sofala where the Healthy Newborn project aimed at reducing the risk of maternal-infant mortality was completed. "The work of these ...
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  3 February 2022
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - "Angolan democracy will be consolidated with this year's vote", hope the Bishops Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "2022 is the year of elections for the consolidation of our still young and weak democracy", said His Exc. Mgr. José Manuel Imbamba, Archbishop of Saurimo and President of the Bishops' Conferenc ...
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  3 February 2022
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Education, pastoral care, liturgical and spiritual assistance for refugees in the north of the country Palabek (Agenzia Fides) - The Don Bosco Professional Center in the Palabek refugee camp trains students who would not be able to complete their education due to their status. Girls often become pregnant at a very young a ...
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  2 February 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Archbishop Kaigama: "Insecurity threatens the existence of universities" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The attacks by bandits and other criminal elements on the education sector do not only affect the safety of students and staff in schools but also directly or indirectly affect the survival of pr ...
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  2 February 2022
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Promoting and strengthening small Christian communities, true centers of Christian witness Dodoma (Agenzia Fides) - "Even the Apostles of Jesus used their Small Christian Communities (SCC) where the members lived in love and harmony to preach the Gospel. So, we as a Church need to uphold this principle of fami ...
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  2 February 2022
  AFRICA/MALI - "The trust of the people in the military who have taken power is almost total Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "Our country is going through a delicate and complicated political situation, in terms of relations with neighboring countries and with France, and from a geopolitical point of view; It is not ea ...
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  1 February 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Food, not weapons. Humiliation and trauma: the greatest tragedy of the witnesses of massacres in Tigray Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the beginning of the conflict in the Ethiopian region of Tigray, nothing is known about some parishes of the Eparchy of Adigrat. We know that foreign soldiers attacked several of them. Pe ...
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  1 February 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - North Kivu: Congolese forces arrest Islamist terrorist from Kenya Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We hear with great interest the news of the arrest of the Islamist terrorist Salim Mohamed by the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on January 29 in the Batangi-Balilaye reg ...
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  31 January 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Qualified presence of Christian publishers at the 53rd International Book Fair in Cairo Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Also this year the International Book Fair hosted in Cairo, now in its 53rd edition in 2022, has registered a substantial number of publishing houses linked to Churches and ecclesial institutions ...
• 31 January 2022
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Resignation of the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Kinshasa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 30, 2022, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral government of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), presented by His Exc. ...
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  31 January 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - The hopes and energy of the little 'kings of darkness', the blind children of Gaya Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - King of darkness, blind, danawo, koubey koy, in the Djerma language of the peoples who live in the westernmost part of Niger, are some of the insults that young blind students in the inclusive Cat ...
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  29 January 2022
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Inculturation and evangelization, priorities for future priests Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "When a priest is rooted in culture, he finds an adequate language for proclaiming the Gospel, as close as possible to the daily reality of the faithful to whom he is addressing", said father Je ...