Africa
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28 July 2021
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - 'Father, we want a brick church': the millennial dreams of a believing and suffering people have come true
Naandi (Agenzia Fides) - "When I arrived in South Sudan, the Naandi mission in which I am located, near the border of South Sudan with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, had only a single brick church, totally ...
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27 July 2021
AFRICA/TUNISIA: The President suspends the government and takes all powers. Archbishop Antoniazzi: "the population supports him"
Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - The decision of Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed to suspend the legislature and assume full powers "was welcomed with relief by the majority of the population, exhausted by a situation that seemed ...
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27 July 2021
AFRICA/NIGER - "Women pray that the sun never goes down, because jihadists attack during the night"
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The women of the community pray that the sun, the light, remain as long as possible because now they are afraid of darkness", says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Mauro Armanino, missionary of the Society ...
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26 July 2021
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The Bishops. "It is never too late to stop the violence, the only way forward is peace and reconciliation"
Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "It saddens our hearts hearing about war while we all would like to hear about peace and reconciliation", said Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ethiopia (CBCE) in a statement published at t ...
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24 July 2021
AFRICA/NIGER - The religious of the Society of African Missions launch a new project to help children go back to school
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "We are in contact with the rural areas of the diocese of Niamey, in particular with the two areas most affected by terrorism: Makalondi, on the border with Burkina Faso and Dolbel, a region on t ...
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23 July 2021
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishop Carlassare: "There is great hope for 'my' South Sudan"
Vicenza (Agenzia Fides) - "I have no doubts about the desire to return to my South Sudan, people are waiting for me and, beyond the many problems, there is also great hope. And I want to be part of it". The violent attac ...
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23 July 2021
AFRICA/eSWATINI - The country remains calm, but the army is still present on the streets; the diocese reflects on "how to be a Church" amidst turmoil and Covid
Manzini (Agenzia Fides) - "As a diocese, on Monday 26 July we will be holding a diocesan presbyteral council meeting to reflect both on the present situation of unrest and on the constant impact of COVID19 has in our liv ...
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22 July 2021
AFRICA/EGYPT - Gestures of brotherhood between Christians and Muslims on the occasion of Eid al Adha, the Islamic Feast of Sacrifice
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Also this year, on the occasion of Eid al Adha, the Islamic Feast of Sacrifice celebrated on July 21, gestures and initiatives of fraternal solidarity between Christians and Muslims in Egypt were ...
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22 July 2021
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Meeting between Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara: an important step towards reconciliation
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The president of Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara will receive his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo on July 27 at the presidential palace", declared the spokesman of the Ivorian government Amadou Coulib ...
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21 July 2021
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Education is the key to development: the General States of National Education and Literacy inaugurated
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Rethinking the Ivorian school environment is necessary to offer the younger generations a quality education is the goal of the General States of National Education and Literacy inaugurated on M ...
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20 July 2021
AFRICA/EGYPT - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Andraws Fahmi Abdou
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 15, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr Andraws Fahmi Abdoua as National Director of the Pontifical Miss ...
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19 July 2021
AFRICA/UGANDA - 'Greening the School': the Bishops' project continues despite the pandemic
Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Preserving and safeguarding the environment is the objective of the "Greening the School" project that the Education Commission at the Catholic Secretariat of the Uganda Bishops' Conference (UEC ...
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19 July 2021
AFRICA/UGANDA - Covid spreads amid vaccine shortages and severe economic repercussions
Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Uganda is experiencing a second lockdown. After the first full closure in spring 2020, the government ordered a new quarantine. Officially, the health authorities of Kampala declare more than 88 ...
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17 July 2021
AFRICA/eSWATINI - The Bishop of Manzini: "it is the most serious crisis that can be remembered, no one should expect quick responses"
Manzini (Agenzia Fides) - The small African state of eSwatini, known until 2018 as Swaziland, is located in southern Africa, on the eastern flank of the Dragons Mountains, and borders Mozambique to the east and South Afr ...
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16 July 2021
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Stop the conflict and pave the way for dialogue and reconciliation: joint appeal by religious leaders
Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "It is urgent to bring to light what has happened over the years between the communities of Zande and Balanda which has created inequality, fear, interest, injustice and lack of the rule ...
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