Africa

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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 ...
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  29 January 2022
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Schools have been reopened, a missionary: "Eradicating poverty among children through education" Moroto (Agenzia Fides) - "In the last two years, in addition to government measures, which have not reached everyone, especially in rural schools, there have been some support projects for education financed from abroad. ...
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  28 January 2022
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The Bishops remind the coup leaders: "Governing is putting oneself at the service of the common good" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "We acknowledge the changes that have taken place", say the Bishops of Burkina Faso, where in the night between Sunday 23 and Monday 24 January, a military coup overthrew the civil governmen ...
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  28 January 2022
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - A future of hope for women who become protagonists of a society that ignores their rights Mwanza (Agenzia Fides) - Many girls between the ages of 9 and 20 who had dropped out of school are coming back to dream, make life plans, look to the future with hope and courage. All this is made possible thanks to the ...
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  27 January 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - 5,000-plus deaths under Ethiopia’s Tigray blockade Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly 5,000 people died of malnutrition in just part of Ethiopia’s blockaded Tigray region over a four-month period last year, including more than 350 young children, a new report by the ...