Africa

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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 ...
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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 ...