Africa
9 November 2018
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Two ex presidents neck and neck in Madagascar elections
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Madagascar is waiting for the final results of the first round of the presidential elections held on 7 November. According to a first partial count, announced yesterday, by the Independent ...
8 November 2018
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Elections: a delegation of the Southern African Community pays tribute to the positive role of the Bishops
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The date of the presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, scheduled for December 23rd, is approaching, and national and international initiatives are multiplying to ensure tha ...
7 November 2018
AFRICA/SUDAN - Torture, ill-treatment against Christians, forced to renounce their faith
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) calls upon the Sudanese government to urgently investigate the reported torture and ill-treatment of 9 Christian citizens who were detai ...
7 November 2018
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Anglophone crisis: the students of the school released
Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - The 79 students of the Presbyterian Secondary School in Bamenda, the capital of one of the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon, were kidnapped on 5 November (see Fides 6/11/2018).
Accordi ...
7 November 2018
AFRICA/MALAWI - New Media Center of Montfort Missionaries, at the service of evangelization
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) – Montfort missionaries inaugurate a new multimedia center in Malawi. On Saturday 10 November, with a ceremony presided over by Mgr. Tarcisius Ziyaye Archbishop of Lilongwe, the activities of a ...
6 November 2018
AFRICA/TOGO - A new secondary school in the former "village of lepers"
Kolowaré (Agenzia Fides) - "We have officially begun the construction of a secondary school in Kolowaré. In 2007 we had already built a structure for junior school. Now the construction of the new institute begins": sa ...
6 November 2018
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Anglophone crisis: 79 students kidnapped in Bamenda; the Church organizes a fundraiser in Douala for displaced persons
Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - The crisis is worsening in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon, where yesterday, 5 November in Bamenda in the north-west of the country, 79 students and three heads of the local Presbyteri ...
5 November 2018
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Monsengwo, symbol of a committed African Church
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Cardinal Monsengwo has been until today the voice of an African Church that refuses to lose hope that the African people will not be sacrificed by politics; an African Church that does not rem ...
5 November 2018
AFRICA/EGYPT - After the massacre of pilgrims, the Copts will not cancel the November liturgies: "the new martyrs must be celebrated"
Minya (Agenzia Fides) - After yet another massacre of Christian pilgrims by jihadist terrorism, the Copts will not close churches and will not follow the calls of those who invite to suspend ordinary liturgical and pasto ...
5 November 2018
AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Resignation of the Archbishop of Kinshasa and appointment of successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 1 November 2018 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Archdiocese of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), presented by Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pas ...
31 October 2018
AFRICA/DR CONGO - The diocesan phase of the beatification cause of Mgr. Munzihirwa, killed in Bukavu in 1996, has concluded
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The diocesan phase of the beatification cause of His Exc. Mgr. Christophe Munzihirwa Mwene Ngabo, Archbishop of Bukavu, assassinated in 1996, has concluded. The announcement was made during a p ...
30 October 2018
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Five nuns kidnapped in south-eastern Nigeria, another two injured
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Five nuns of the Order of the Missionary of Martha and Mary of the diocese of Issele-Uku, were kidnapped, in the State of Delta in the south-east of Nigeria.
According to news sent to Agenzia Fid ...
30 October 2018
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "80% of youth migration remains in Africa" says Cardinal Souraphiel
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - H.E. Berhaneyesus Cardinal Souraphiel, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Addis Ababa said that the international media portrayal of "youth migrating to different areas of the Middle East and Europe on ...
29 October 2018
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Presidential vote: the doubts of members of the Church
Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "I question myself on the conduct of the vote", said His Exc. Mgr. Samuel Kleda, Archbishop of Douala, the day after the re-election of Paul Biya as President of Cameroon for the seventh time. ...
27 October 2018
AFRICA/MALAWI - Mgr. Mtumbuka visits one of Malawi's most neglected communities as as part of the celebration of Mission Month
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Jesus was incarnated in human condition to save us and died on the cross out of love; it is this love that we must take to others as well. Those who have received the faith are obliged by the ...
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