Africa
18 July 2020
AFRICA/EGYPT - Grand Mufti Shawki Allam: "There is no objection to building churches with Muslim money"
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Islamic law does not contain any legal objection to the possibility of building churches using money belonging to Muslims. This relevant observation, full of possible applications with respect to ...
17 July 2020
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Covid-19: concern over the increase in cases; for the Bishops "the health crisis reveals the importance of an efficient health structure"
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - In Antananarivo the number of coronavirus-related deaths is increasing with eight of the ten victims reported by the operational command center for the fight against coronavirus. Another ca ...
17 July 2020
AFRICA/MALI - Religious leaders launch an appeal for peace after last week's violent demonstrations
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very concerned about the resumption of violence in Bamako. We take this opportunity to launch an appeal for peace, in light of all the damage caused. Mali does not deserve what is happeni ...
16 July 2020
AFRICA/GHANA - Covid-19: the Archbishop of Accra asks to suspend students' exams
Accra (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal to suspend the students' final exams was launched by His Exc. Mgr. John Bonaventure Kwofie, Archbishop of Accra, at the head of the educational sector of the local Bishops' Conference. T ...
16 July 2020
AFRICA/MALAWI - President asks citizens to join him in prayer and fasting to ask for God's help to defeat Covid-19
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera, urged his compatriots to join him in fasting and prayer against the spread of coronavirus in the country. The President urged "all citizens and reside ...
16 July 2020
AFRICA/EGYPT - Alarm of the Coptic Churches: there are those who give "false Bibles" and "false Gospels" contrary to the Christian faith
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Spokespersons of the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Coptic Catholic Church have both expressed concern about the growing spread of volumes distributed free of charge among the population, characte ...
16 July 2020
AFRICA/NIGER - 22 months after the kidnapping of Fr. Gigi Maccalli, man who used "the weapon of peace"
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "It is blindly believed that only through the use of weapons and spilled blood one can achieve peace: what happens in the Sahel, with the dead, injured, displaced, refugees or kidnapped, is a tan ...
15 July 2020
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The faithful pray for the prompt release of Fr. Amadasun Idahosa, victim of kidnapping for extortion
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of Catholic faithful yesterday trooped down to churches across Edo State to offer special prayers for the release of Rev. Amadasun Idahosa who was kidnapped a few days ago along the Beni ...
15 July 2020
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - "Thanks for the good seeds that you have sown during your life": the Church remembers the late Prime Minister Coulibaly
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Brothers and sisters, when we are no longer in this world, what we will leave are the seeds that we have sown in the hearts of men. All the rest is vanity", said His Exc. Mgr. Alexis Touably Yo ...
15 July 2020
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The drama of children left without school, between violence and poverty
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "In the regions of Burkina Faso on the border with Mali and Niger there is no more school, several school buildings have been set on fire, and many teachers murdered. The devastation is the ...
14 July 2020
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Appointment of the Rector of the St. Paul Inter-diocesan Major Seminary of Juba
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 12 May 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Baptist Karim Bazawi Michel Moura, of the diocesan clergy of Tomb ...
14 July 2020
AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Sisi starts development projects in the area of St. Catherine's Monastery
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - While Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reopens the former Byzantine basilica of Hagia Sophia for Islamic worship, in Egypt President Abdel Fattah al Sisi launches development projects aimed ...
14 July 2020
AFRICA/KENYA - Covid-19: churches re-open for worship next Sunday
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic Churches in Nairobi are set to reopen on July 19 in strict adherence to COVID-19 protocols from the Government.. "I urge you to take these guidelines seriously so that we may adequately ...
14 July 2020
AFRICA/SENEGAL - Covid-19; The Bishops of Senegal postpone the opening of the churches
Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite our common thirst to find our way back to our churches, we, your Bishops, urge you to be patient in faith and in Hope", say the Bishops of Senegal in announcing the decision to keep churc ...
13 July 2020
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Tensions over the postponement of the parliamentary vote; for the Bishops "the Country's political and institutional stability is at stake"
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Tensions continue in Burkina Faso, where yesterday, July 12, the president of the Supreme Communications Council (CSC), Mathias Tankoano, and his escort managed to escape unscathed from an a ...
Total articles: 10626 - Page 143 of 143