Africa

• 10 October 2020
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of the Rector of the "St. Pius X" interdiocesan major Seminary of Maputo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 10 August 2020 Card. Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr.José Pinto Tene Rabiana, of the clergy of Maputo as Rector of the ...
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  9 October 2020
  AFRICA/MALI - The story of Fr. Maccalli is an example of the instability affecting the Sahel Bamako (Agenzia Fides) – The kidnapping of Italian missionary Father Pierluigi Macalli (Sma) began in Niger and released in Mali. The case of Fr. Pier Luigi (Gigi) Maccalli illustrates the cross-border action of Islami ...
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  9 October 2020
  AFRICA - Father Pier Luigi Maccalli is free: "A gift for World Mission Sunday" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The release of Father Pier Luigi Maccalli is the most precious gift for World Mission Day which we will celebrate next Sunday, October 18". This is the first reaction of Fr. Antonio Porcellato, Su ...
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  8 October 2020
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - 25 people die in attack on humanitarian convoy: UNHCR is "shocked" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - On the night of October 4 and 5, at least 25 people were killed in an attack on a humanitarian convoy in Burkina Faso. "25 people - all men - died and another was seriously injured after a ...
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  8 October 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Ten years after the presentation of the UN Mapping Report, victims are still waiting for justice Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Ten years have passed since the United Nations' “Mapping” report was presented (see Fides, 7/5/2011), in which the human rights violations committed between March 1993 and June 2003 in the ...
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  7 October 2020
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The UN: 60% of the Central African population needs humanitarian protection Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Today, there are 2.8 million Central Africans in need of humanitarian assistance and protection – nearly 60% of the Country’s population... Increasing violations by armed groups are creating ...
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  7 October 2020
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - 28 years after the peace accords, several areas of Mozambique are living in the anxiety of war Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty-eight years after the historic signing of the peace accords that put an end to the civil war in Mozambique, fear of war has flared up again in various areas of the Country. This was stated ...
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  7 October 2020
  AFRICA/ESWATINI - World Mission Sunday 2020: Creative ways of Evangelization in times of pandemic Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - When Pope Francis invited the Church a year ago to celebrate an Extraordinary Missionary Month, we welcomed this invitation with joy: in the Kingdom of Eswatini we decided to extend it to the wh ...
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  6 October 2020
  AFRICA - The CRS: "Economic inequalities and not ethnic tensions are the causes of violence and instability in the Sahel" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Deeply rooted economic inequalities and not ethnic tensions are the causes of violence and instability in the Sahel. This is what the study, entitled "Steps Towards Peace" recently released by Cath ...
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  6 October 2020
  AFRICA - Covid-19: WHO explains the factors that have led to the low number of cases in Africa Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - "The spread of COVID-19 in Africa has been marked by a relatively low number of infections, which have decreased in the past two months due to various socio-ecological factors and early publ ...
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  5 October 2020
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - "The militarization of doctors will push them to flee abroad" says the Bishop of Chinhoyi Harare (Agenzia Fides) - "They bring bloodshed; they kill. Instead of freedom, they bring prison. They bring violence and imprison all those who oppose them. The only thing they know is violence". This is the harsh attac ...
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  5 October 2020
  AFRICA/GHANA - Archdiocese of Tamale encourages entrepreneurship among women in rural areas Accra (Agenzia Fides) – About 1000 women from the Kpandai district in northern Ghana are being supported as part of a project to improve their entrepreneurial skills, which is being carried out by the Catholic Archdioc ...
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  3 October 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Platform of religious leaders for peace and reconciliation launches a series of activities during the electoral period Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The platform of faithful politicians are campaigning for peace, reconciliation, social cohesion and development (PLCRD), a few days before the presidential elections at the end of October and in ...
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  3 October 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishop of Sokoto: "In a democracy, political leaders must reflect the diversity of the Country" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "I think even the most optimistic Nigerian must conceive that we are nowhere near coming to define the real sense of democracy", said His Exc. Mgr. Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop of Sokoto, in his s ...
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  2 October 2020
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Covid-19: an exponential increase in the number of infections; hospitals close to collapse Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - In Uganda the number of positive coronavirus cases is growing exponentially. On September 23rd, the total number of infections was 7,064 cases throughout the country with a daily increase in the ...