Africa
1 July 2021
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Bishop Bertin: towards the elections, the population aspires to security and stability
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "Following the political agreement reached in Somalia at the end of May, there is an air of cautious optimism in preparing for the upcoming elections. I would like to insist more on the adject ...
1 July 2021
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Third wave of Coronavirus: the President of the Republic urges the Bishops to support the Country
Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Catholic Church has played a very important role in the fight against this disease", said the President of the Republic of Tanzanian, Sam ...
30 June 2021
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Archbishop of Lagos: "state of emergency" to guarantee security for citizens
Lagos (Agenzi Fides) - "Insecurity is now a widespread phenomenon in our country: kidnappings take place directly in homes as well as in churches, or in mosques, everywhere; bandits attack villages and kill, rob, loot an ...
26 June 2021
NEWS ANALYSIS - Among poverty and instability, the prophetic voice of the Church in Congo
Uvira (Agenzia Fides) - "Whether it is foreign powers (France, Belgium, USA, or others), neighboring countries (Uganda, Rwanda, etc.) or some Congolese leaders, warlords, multinationals, NGOs, or even some members of the ...
26 June 2021
AFRICA/CAMEROON - "Alongside displaced people and children, in the name of the Gospel": the commitment of the Capuchin friars in times of crisis
Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "The great crisis in which Cameroon is currently involved, relating to the tensions in the English-speaking regions of the country, generates heavy effects in various sectors from school to th ...
25 June 2021
AFRICA/MALI - "We are sure of the release of the 4 lay people, but Fr. Léon is still missing", says the parish priest of Mopti
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The 4 parishioners have returned to Ségué, but we have not yet seen Fr. Léon Dougnon", says to Fides Fr. Amoudou Kizito Togo, parish priest of Mopti, specifying the circumstances of the relea ...
25 June 2021
AFRICA - "We must save children from violence and moral depravity": alarm in West Africa
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - In the West African area, the situation of children is increasingly worrying. Child soldiers who took part in riots and civil wars, children exploited in cocoa and cotton plantations or who work ...
24 June 2021
AFRICA/GHANA - Appointment of Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed as bishop of the diocese of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana, the Reverend John Baptist Attakruh, of the clergy of Sekondi-Takoradi, until now apostolic administrator s ...
24 June 2021
AFRICA/MALI - Hostages of Ségué parish released, including parish priest Fr. Dougnon
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Léon Dougnon, parish priest of Our Lady of Lourdes in Ségué, kidnapped on June 21 on the road that connects Ségué to San, in the Mopti region, in central Mali (see Fides, 23/6/2021) ha ...
24 June 2021
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Violence and destruction in Tombura County: : the local Church's call for peace
Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "Nobody knows what the real reasons are for the clashes that are taking place in our County of Tombura and Ri-Yubu", reports to Agenzia Fides Mgr. Eduardo Hijboro Kussala, bishop of the d ...
23 June 2021
AFRICA/MALI - "The parish priest and the faithful perhaps kidnapped to be used as human shields"
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "Perhaps the priest and the faithful who accompanied him were kidnapped, at least initially, to serve as human shields by an armed group chased by the army and fleeing towards the border with Bur ...
22 June 2021
AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Churches participate in the subscriptions for the celebrations of Eid al Adha, the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Daily coexistence between Muslim and Christian communities in Countries with an Islamic majority is often marked by problems and accidents, but it is also strewn with gestures of mutual generosity ...
22 June 2021
AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Let us strengthen national unity by fighting against the negative values that threaten it", exhort the Bishops
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are positive signs of strengthening national unity, but alongside these there are others that threaten the cohesion of the Country, say the Bishops in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in ...
22 June 2021
AFRICA/LIBERIA - A missionary: "Alongside the people in a local Church that is taking its first steps"
Foya (Agenzia Fides) - In many countries of the African continent young people have few prospects and often live by expedients. In Foya, in a remote corner of Liberia, the situation is no different. "The environment is d ...
21 June 2021
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Do not leave refugees behind in Covid-19 vaccinations, none of us are safe until we are all safe"
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - Exclusion of refugees from COVID-19 responses and vaccinations, show that we still have not fully appreciated or understood the wisdom in the saying "none of us are safe until we are all sa ...
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