Africa

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  20 February 2021
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - The prophetic voice of the Bishops, a warning for the population affected by the Coronavirus pandemic Mbeya (Agenzia Fides) - "It is important that all of us accept the reality of Covid-19 and live by following the indications provided by the experts and by those who know how to contain the disease". This is the appeal m ...
• 20 February 2021
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Donation from the Montfort Missionaries for the benefit of patients affected by Covid-19 in Malawi Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "As Church, we could not leave government alone but join hands to help especially those suffering from Covid-19", he says. Mgr. Boniface Tamanimì, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Blantyre, ...
• 19 February 2021
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The Bishops: "We need to tackle the issue of internally displaced people to avoid new tensions" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "The security situation remains worrying in various areas, despite a relative calm" the Bishops of Burkina Faso and Niger affirm in the final communiqué of their second Plenary Assembly for ...
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  19 February 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Not only anti Covid-19 prevention: polio vaccination campaigns launched for over 29,000 children Juba (Agenzia Fides) - A few days ago, the South Sudanese Ministry of Health confirmed the increase in corona infections (see Fides 17/2/2021) in various states of the country. But the country's health sector is also fac ...
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  18 February 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros's "family catechesis": let's free sons and daughters from false needs Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - In Egypt too, the Covid-19 pandemic makes it impossible to participate in person in important gatherings and pushes many families to spend more time together at their homes. This de facto situatio ...
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  18 February 2021
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Violence and protests: seven countries declare a state of emergency El Geneina (Agenzia Fides) - Seven Sudanese states have declared a state of emergency. They are Sennar, South Darfur, West Darfur, North Darfur and East Darfur, as well as the states of North Kordofan and West Kordofan, ...
• 18 February 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - 29 years ago: commemoration of the March of Hope Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We did not understand that the blood of so many victims which impregnates the Congolese soil is a seed that will one day bear fruit for a better Congo", said Mgr. Vincent Tshomba, one of the a ...
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  17 February 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Ban on gatherings after the rise in new infections: "We also clarify the hygiene rules at church services" Bor (Agenzia Fides) - The ongoing public gatherings, including Sunday services, required the intervention of the police in Bor, the capital of Jonglei state in eastern South Sudan. Due to non-compliance with preventive m ...
• 17 February 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Covid-19 pandemic: Burundian migrants blocked in South Kivu after border closure Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Due to the restriction in the fight against Covid-19, the borders are currently closed in the village of Katogota. Therefore, it is impossible for Burundian immigrants who live in our village ...
• 16 February 2021
  AFRICA/GUINEA - New Ebola infections in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - On February 14, the government of the Republic of Guinea officially confirmed a new Ebola epidemic, while some cases of hemorrhagic fever were also reported from the Democratic Republic of the C ...
• 16 February 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - 425 health facilities made available by the Church as part of the fight against Covid-19 unused Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - 425 hospitals and clinics made available last year by the Nigerian Episcopal Conference as isolation centers in the fight against Covid-19 have not been used by the government, denounces a note fr ...
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  15 February 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Despite the coronavirus pandemic: Copts celebrate the sixth anniversary of the massacre of Coptic martyrs in Libya Samalut (Agenzia Fides) - The social distancing measures also planned in Egypt to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic did not prevent celebrating, even if in a sober and limited way, the 6th anniversary of the massacre o ...
• 15 February 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of bishop of Lisala Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father has appointed the Revered Joseph-Bernard Likolo Bokal'Etumba, of the clergy of Kinshasa, until now secretary of the Episcopal Commission for Divine Worship and the Discipl ...
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  15 February 2021
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - African catechists, teachers of the Catholic faith Foya (Agenzia Fides) - "I feel the responsibility of evangelization and I like to consider myself a 'teacher of the Catholic faith'. In all my action, I feel sent for this mission". Buster Bockarie Junior is a young cate ...
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  13 February 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - GRAIL project for the care of children with HIV/AIDS begins Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The care of children affected by HIV/AIDS will soon become a reality in Ivory Coast through the GRAIL (Galvanizing Religious Actors for better Identification and Linkage to pediatric HIV) projec ...