Africa
14 May 2020
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Covid-19: "There is a reawakening of faith even if churches are closed" says the PMS National Director
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Since 22 March, Malagasy people have been living in a state of health emergency. Since then churches have been closed, during the most important and central period of Christian faith; the l ...
14 May 2020
AFRICA - Covid-19 and Gospel of charity in Africa
Kara (Agenzia Fides) - "What will the poor become when the current extraordinary situation caused by the pandemic is over?" writes Father Donald Zagore, a priest of the Society for African Missions, to Agenzia Fides. "In ...
14 May 2020
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appointment of Bishop of Mpanda
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 13 May 2020, the Holy Father appointed Bishop Eusebius Alfred Nzigilwa, currently titular of Mozotcori and auxiliary of the archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam, as Bishop of the diocese of Mpan ...
14 May 2020
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of the Bishop of Bafia
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 13 May 2020, the Holy Father appointed Bishop Emmanuel Dassi Youfang, currently titular of Esco and auxiliary of Bafoussam, as Bishop of the diocese of Bafia, Cameroon. (SL) (Agenzia Fid ...
13 May 2020
AFRICA - Covid-19: the Church in Africa prepares for the safe resumption of celebrations
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Several Churches in Africa are resuming their activities after the lockdown imposed to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. According to what Fides has learned, liturgical celebrations in Burkina Faso wi ...
12 May 2020
AFRICA/MALAWI - Covid-19 imposes the need to enhance the e-learning offer
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - Educational institutions in Malawi are going through a difficult period, between strikes and closures linked to the containment measures of Covid-19. The Catholic University of Malawi Registrar ...
12 May 2020
AFRICA - Religious women during the time of COVID-19: close to those who suffer
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "In many Countries churches have been closed and all forms of social gathering have been prevented, therefore it is up to us religious women to find new ways to be even closer to children, women, ...
11 May 2020
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - "I hope we will emerge from the quarantine aware of the value of solidarity" hopes a priest
Harare (Agenzia Fides) - "The corona virus pandemic, to some extent has sent us into o ur own little exile, away from our friends and sometimes from our families", writes Fr. Keto Sithole, a priest from Zimbabwe, in a no ...
11 May 2020
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Missionaries in support of women, to remove them from a life of suffering and slavery
Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) - Guaranteeing small loans to remove women from a life of unheard suffering and hard work: this is the project launched by the White Fathers (also called Missionaries of Africa) in the Democratic R ...
11 May 2020
AFRICA/EGYPT - Pope Francis calls Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: let us together ask God to have mercy on the world
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 10 May Pope Francis called Coptic Patriarch Tawadros II to confirm his proximity to the Coptic Church and all the Egyptian people, and to renew the promise to pray for each other every d ...
9 May 2020
AFRICA - Covid 19: renew the mission in Africa, what remains is the Word of God
Kara (Agenzia Fides) - What future does the mission in Africa have after the pandemic? Will we have to go back to the missionary activities and projects carried out until the interruption caused by the global epidemic or ...
9 May 2020
AFRICA/TANZANIA - How PMS in Tanzania is working in order to face the COVID-19 emergency
Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - How is the Covid-19 pandemic influencing the life of the mission in Tanzania? To answer these and other questions, Fides asked the Office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Tanzania fo ...
8 May 2020
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "We need peace and not to fuel conflict" says the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio
Tombura-Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "Let's avoid clashes, fighting or violence, let's not get involved in any conflict because of the desire for power", says to Agenzia Fides the bishop of the diocese of Tombura Yambio, Mgr ...
8 May 2020
AFRICA/LIBERIA - Bishops denounce serious human rights violations in the application of measures to contain Covid-19
Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the beginning of the emergency phase, there have been gross violations and missteps in the enforcement of the state of emergency and the measures as announced by the President", denounce ...
7 May 2020
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - In times of pandemic crisis, a priest prays the Rosary on the streets of his parish territory
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "We have decided to pray the Rosary through the city, on the one hand to show the face of the Church, which is certainly confined (due to the Coronavirus) but whose voice is not silent, and on t ...
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