Africa
22 May 2020
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - After the epidemic, we must think of "re-evangelization"
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The United Nations has launched the appeal: 'We are on the verge of a global famine of biblical proportions, with over 250 million people at risk'. The African continent has been preserved from ...
22 May 2020
AFRICA/KENYA - Street children during the times of COVID-19
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The life of the street children of Nairobi has never been easy since they appeared on the streets. They started calling them chokora (garbage). Over the years they have received a lot of media h ...
20 May 2020
AFRICA/GHANA - "Covid-19 is bringing out the image of the Church as a family of God", says the PMS National Director
Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Covid-19 has encouraged families to pray together and to stay together, bringing out the image of the Church as a family in Africa", says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Isaac Ebo-Blay, National Director of ...
20 May 2020
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Life after Covid-19 will never be the same: hunger and poverty are on the rise
Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - The first cases of coronavirus in the country were registered by the authorities in late March. A few weeks later, the government decreed a state of emergency, but "during the crisis, the constan ...
19 May 2020
AFRICA/BOTSWANA - The "Sisters of Calvary" committed to helping the population: from face masks to spiritual support
Gabarone (Agenzia Fides) - "The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a drastic change in the life of the local Church of Botswana. Amidst the crisis, most parishes have adjusted to the cultural change" say, in a reflection ...
19 May 2020
AFRICA/KENYA - Covid-19: poverty bites in slums, but "the social and pastoral lifeline of small communities is extraordinary"
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Social distancing remains a difficult goal to achieve, in some cases absolutely unrealistic. We just have to hope that the contagion does not progress", says Father Andrew Bwalya, director of t ...
19 May 2020
AFRICA - Covid-19 and the re-opening of churches in Africa: hope at the center of the mission
Kara (Agenzia Fides) - "The reality of closed churches has immersed many African Christians in the sad and painful experience of the sealed tomb, a symbol of despair and failure", writes Fr. Donald Zagore, SMA to Agenzia ...
18 May 2020
AFRICA/MALAWI - "No to political violence": religious leaders condemn the massacre in Lilongwe
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Every human life is sacred", said the Public Affairs Committee (PAC), a mother body of all religions in Malawi in a statement, after an alleged report on petrol bombing of a family in Lilongwe ...
18 May 2020
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The commitment of the PMS in the time of Covid-19: the means of social communication, a missionary resource
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The period we are going through is a difficult period in all aspects of human life and the Church also pays the consequences; but the mission continues to be carried out", says Fr. Jean Noel Go ...
16 May 2020
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Covid-19: the Bishops invite the faithful to return to mass on Sunday 17 May, after two months of confinement
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - Two months after the closure of churches throughout the country due to the health crisis caused by Covid-19, the Conference of Catholic Bishops of the Ivory Coast (CECI) has ordered the "resumpt ...
16 May 2020
AFRICA/CONGO - Covid-19 special fund: "Despite the crisis there is a huge wave of solidarity", says PMS National Director
Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - The outbreak of the global health crisis caused by Covid-19 has profoundly changed the life and mission of the Church in Congo-Brazzaville", says Fr. Gélase Armel Kema, National Director of ...
16 May 2020
AFRICA/NIGER - Prayer and hope for the release of Father Maccalli, still in the hands of his kidnappers
Bomoanga (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty months have passed since the kidnapping of Father Gigi Maccalli, priest of the Society for African Missions in Niger (see Fides, 18/9/2018). The memory, prayer and hope of many are alway ...
15 May 2020
AFRICA/BURUNDI - "There is still time for the May 20 vote to take place in peace and security" say the Bishops
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We appreciate the fact that, in general, the current election campaign has so far continued peacefully and safely. However, we cannot fail to deplore some shortcomings and the non-reassuring ...
15 May 2020
AFRICA/CHAD - COVID-19, the Bishops: "Food security must be guaranteed"
N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "We appreciate the prompt reaction of the State to deal with the pandemic through the Alert and Health Security Cell", write the Bishops of Chad in their message sent to Agenzia Fides, on the ...
14 May 2020
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A missionary: "The pandemic must not stop the peace process"
Juba (Agenzia FIdes) - South Sudan responded immediately and seriously to the threat of the coronavirus, by adopting containment measures, but the pandemic must not slow down the peace process: this is what Sister Elena ...
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