Africa
18 May 2021
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Free access to secondary education: the doors of the Seminary open to all children of the local community
Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic diocese of Tombura-Yambio has opened the doors of the major Seminary of St. Joseph to the public. In a note sent to Agenzia Fides, Bishop Eduardo Hijboro Kussala informs that ...
18 May 2021
AFRICA/NIGER - A missionary denounces: "The Catholic heart of Niger is on the run"
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The number of Catholics who have fled the Dolbel area, the heart of the Catholic Church in Niger, are about a hundred. The number is expected to increase in these days due to the massacre of som ...
17 May 2021
AFRICA/NIGERIA - New cry of alarm from the Bishops on the serious insecurity in the Country
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The state of Nigeria in different parts of our country with so much violence, insecurity and anxiety is a source of major concern to us Bishops. We are speaking to you, our people at various leve ...
17 May 2021
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Communion and Islamic-Christian dialogue for the feast of the end of Ramadan
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Spiritual communion and collaboration between Christians and Muslims is very important for the future of society: with this spirit the Archdiocese of Ouagadougou opened its doors to the memb ...
17 May 2021
AFRICA/KENYA - The Apostolic Nuncio urges Christians to keep away from tribalism and to embrace unity
Bungoma (Agenzia Fides) - Christians must keep away from tribalism which leads to the division of God's people and embrace unity to bring about peace. This is how Bishop Bert van Megen, Apostolic Nuncio in Kenya, address ...
15 May 2021
AFRICA - The Church in Africa wants to get out of its precariousness and achieve financial self-sufficiency
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - Concrete actions, fundraising, setting up of income-generating activities, large-scale projects, are all actions resulting from the will of the churches in Africa to achieve financial self-suffi ...
15 May 2021
AFRICA/D.R.CONGO - Augustinian missionaries promote the reintegration of child soldiers
Dungu (Agenzia Fides) - "The problem of child soldiers is very complex and, in particular, in the Haut Uele region, in the north east of the country, a devastating conflict lasting many years devastated society in this p ...
14 May 2021
AFRICA/NIGER - Assault on the village where the first local Catholic communities were born: at least 5 dead and the desecration of the church
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "In Niger, the celebration of the conclusion of Ramadan, Aid el Fitr, was celebrated yesterday. In the capital, Niamey, everything took place in the calm and serenity of this day of prayer and fa ...
14 May 2021
AFRICA/LIBERIA - Covid-19, ebola and typhoid fever: the mission of Foya becomes a church-field hospital
Foya (Agenzia Fides) - "The mission of Foya is always at the forefront", writes Fr. Lorenzo Snider, priest of the Society for African Missions (SMA) in the north-west of Liberia. The missionary talks about the activities ...
12 May 2021
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Child abuse: the Church's initiative to combat the phenomenon
Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - Government, civil society organizations, schools, public institutions have launched initiatives for the protection of minors in Tanzania, given the high rate of child abuse that has drawn ...
12 May 2021
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Being a catechist is "an inspiration from God", says Guillaume Gnagne, a catechist for more than 50 years
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "If the Pope cares about catechists today, it is a joy for me", says Guillaume Gnagne, catechist since 1966 in the local Adjoukrou language (a population of the south of the country) on the occ ...
12 May 2021
AFRICA/SUDAN - Doctors and hospitals on strike: imminent health disaster
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Doctors raise alarm over medicine shortages, lack of funding, insecurity, and an impending health disaster. Yesterday, the Sudanese Ministry of Health reported 138 new COVID-19 cases and five d ...
12 May 2021
AFRICA/GABON - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Hajjar Mangomo Nanga
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 19, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Hajjar Mangomo Nanga, of the clergy of the diocese of Francevi ...
11 May 2021
AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - State of emergency in the east: doubts and perplexities of academics and representatives of civil society
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Doubts and perplexities have been expressed by representatives of civil society on the application of the state of siege in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri in the east of the Democratic R ...
11 May 2021
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Catechists: main actors of evangelization in Africa
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Catechists in Africa have been the cornerstones of evangelization, they have carried out an extraordinary job. They were not mere collaborators of the missionary fathers, but important actors i ...
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