Africa

• 23 July 2025
  AFRICA/SENEGAL AND MAURITANIA - Appointment of new Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On June 23, 2025, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Fr. Raphaël Nd ...
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  23 July 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A church desecrated by an armed group allied with the army Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church of Saint John of Capistrano, in Lopa, Ituri province, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was desecrated in a new episode of violence affecting the region. ...
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  22 July 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Afina, kidnapped on June 1, has been released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Father Alphonsus Afina, who was kidnapped on June 1 (see Fides, 5/6/2025), has been released thanks to an operation by security forces. The priest was rescued yesterday, July 21, along with te ...
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  21 July 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A declaration of principles was signed in Doha between the Congolese government and the M23 to end the war Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the M23/Congo River Alliance (AFC) guerrillas signed a declaration of principles on July 19 in Doha, Qatar, to end the war in the ea ...
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  21 July 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Gaza: Southern African bishops reaffirm their support for the South African government's genocide complaint Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – The Southern African bishops re-affirmed their full support of South Africa’s legal case against Israel at the International Criminal Court (ICJ), which accuses Israel of genocide again ...
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  19 July 2025
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - School, vegetable gardens, and livestock farming: the Consolata Missionaries teach a trade to young girls in difficult situations Iringa (Agenzia Fides) - Learning to care for animals on a farm to create a livestock farm and cultivate vegetable gardens to sell the produce at the market. This is the new objective of the "House of Joy," a facility ru ...
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  18 July 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The fires of war will not kill learning for young Sudanese Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Prolonged conflict and mass displacement have denied young Sudanese even the most basic tools for self-development. The criticality also emerged on the occasion of the recently celebrated W ...
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  15 July 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Kidnapped seminarians: Bishop of Auchi confirms contact from kidnappers Auchi (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after the armed attack on the "Immaculate Conception" diocesan minor seminary in Ivhianokpodi, in Edo State, Nigeria (see Fides, 12/7/2025), the attackers who kidnapped three young semi ...
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  15 July 2025
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - In the footsteps of Bishop Brésillac Monasao (Agenzia Fides) - "When I was preparing to go to Africa, I was warned of the difficulties I would encounter… Not only due to the problems of adaptation: climate, food, or other minor issues, but also due to ...
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  12 July 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Armed attack on the Seminary in Ivhianokpodi: three young seminarians kidnapped Auchi (Agenzia Fides) – An armed attack took place at the "Immaculate Conception" diocesan minor seminary in Ivhianokpodi, Edo State, Nigeria. Three young seminarians were kidnapped by an armed group. A security office ...
• 10 July 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - Erection of the diocese of Kapsabet, Kenya and appointment of the first bishop Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has created the new diocese of Kapsabet, Kenya, with territory taken from the diocese of Eldoret, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan archdiocese of Kisumu, Kenya. The Hol ...
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  10 July 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Goma: Relics of Blessed Floribert transferred to the Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament Goma (Agenzia Fides) - Less than a month after the beatification ceremony at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, the mortal remains of Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi were transferred from the city cemete ...
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  10 July 2025
  AFRICA - "Neocolonialism in fishing": The fishing industry in West African countries is in crisis by Cosimo Graziani Banjul (Agenzia Fides) - In West African countries, the local fishing industry is in crisis. European countries are also to blame for this. Gambian activist Mustapha Manneh also spoke out at the Un ...
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  9 July 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishop Hiboro Kussala: Happy birthday to You, Republic of South Sudan! Tombura-Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - " Empowered by Grace, Equipped for Mission, United in Hope," thus begins the message from the bishop of the diocese of Tombura Yambio, Eduardo Hiboro Kussala, on the occasion of the 14th ...
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  9 July 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - 'Saba Saba Day': Violence, destruction, corruption, death toll increase Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Tuesday, July 8, the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) recorded a total of 31 deaths and 107 injuries in the demonstrations that took place on July 7 on the anniversary of "Saba Sa ...