Africa

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  28 April 2026
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishop of Tombura-Yambio: “The disappearance of Father Luke Yugue and his driver, Michael Gbeko, is a wound that refuses to heal” Juba (Agenzia Fides) – The “painful and unresolved disappearance of Father Luke Yugue and his driver, Michael Gbeko, on April 27, 2024, is a wound that refuses to heal.” This is how Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop ...
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  27 April 2026
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishop of Tombura Yambio: "Thank you, Pope Leo XIV! The true fruit of the visit will be seen in what we will become" Tombura Yambio (Fides News Agency) – From the heart of South Sudan, a nation still searching for the fullness of peace, the President of the Commission for the Promotion of Integral Human Development of the Catholic Bi ...
• 25 April 2026
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Appointment of coadjutor archbishop of Bangui Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Father Joseph Samedi, S.J., until now director of the Pope Francis School Complex and superior of the Society of Jesus in Bangui, as coadjutor ...
• 25 April 2026
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Erection of the ecclesiastical province of Berbérati and appointment of metropolitan archdiocese Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - The Holy Father has erected the ecclesiastical province of Berbérati, with the suffragan dioceses of Bouar, Mbaïki, and Bossangoa, and has appointed Bishop Dennis Kofi Agbenyadzi, S.M ...
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  24 April 2026
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Sister Idalina Mareco: Leo XIV's visit, a sign of God's closeness Luanda (Fides News Agency) – “These were intense days full of joy, faith, and enthusiasm for all of us,” writes Sister Idalina Mareco of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) to Fides from Luanda, at the e ...
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  23 April 2026
  LEO XIV IN AFRICA - The Pope at the end of his long African journey: carry on the mission of Jesus’ first disciples with joy Malabo (Fides News Agency) – “As in the early centuries of the Church, Africa today is called to make a decisive contribution to the holiness and the missionary character of the Christian people.” These final words ...
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  22 April 2026
  LEO XIV IN AFRICA - Salesian missionary Giusy Becchero: in the Pope's words, a delicate balance between prophecy and diplomacy, in closeness to the most vulnerable Malabo (Fides News Agency) – Yesterday, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, Pope Leo XIV began the final leg of his apostolic journey to Africa with his arrival in Equatorial Guinea. “After 44 years, the Successor of Peter is a ...
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  22 April 2026
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “True development is not based on GDP, but on the effective improvement of living conditions” Abuja (Fides News Agency) – “The incessant violent attacks and indiscriminate killings occurring throughout the country are inhumane and unjustifiable acts, and a grave affront to the sanctity of life,” stated the ...
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  21 April 2026
  LEO XIV IN AFRICA - Pope in Equatorial Guinea: “The Church’s social teaching offers guidance to all who seek peace and justice” Malabo (Fides News Agency) – “It is always a joy to see places around the world where the Church is growing,” said Pope Leo XIV at a press conference on the flight from Luanda to Malabo in Equatorial Guinea, the la ...
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  21 April 2026
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Fears of possible escalation of violence in Tigray Addis Ababa (Fides News Agency) – The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) has announced the restoration of a regional parliament, the election of which was one of the triggers for the war in northern Ethiopia. In a ...
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  21 April 2026
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Divisions within the Wazalendo self-defense movement exacerbate insecurity Kinshasa (Fides News Agency) – A population caught between a rock and a hard place. This is how the inhabitants of the Lemera highlands/ Ruzizi plain, in South Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, live, ...
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  20 April 2026
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Pope Leo XIV warns against syncretism and superstition Luanda (Fides News Agency) – "We must always be vigilant regarding those forms of traditional religiosity that certainly belong to the roots of your culture, but at the same time risk confusing and mixing magical and s ...
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  20 April 2026
  AFRICA/TOGO - The “Ahonhon Center,” an advanced center for the treatment of brain disorders, has been inaugurated by the Togolese Province of the Society of African Missions Yokoè (Fides News Agency) – In Togo, cognitive disorders continue to be treated somewhat superficially, despite their serious impact on the lives of patients and their families: loss of autonomy, social isolation, and ...
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  19 April 2026
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - “Being like children”: The Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood and its projects for an “Angolan and missionary” Church Luanda (Fides News Agency) – Benguela and Ndalatando. Two of the projects for children supported by the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood (POSI) are located in these dioceses. Father José Diego Jerónimo Zola, ...
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  19 April 2026
  LEO XIV IN AFRICA - The Pope to the Angolans: The Risen Jesus can also heal the wounds of your people Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - Even in Angola, a ‘beautiful yet wounded’ country, the encounter with the Risen Christ “who walks beside us” can grant us the grace to “afresh and rebuild the future”. In Kilamba, a s ...