Africa

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  4 November 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - National Mission Congress; "A very successful event of great importance for the Church in Nigeria", says the Director of the PMS Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The Congress was a very successful one, in comparison to the third one, in terms of attendance and active participation by the cross section of the faithful of the Church in Nigeria", said Fr. Ge ...
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  29 October 2019
  AFRICA - Large areas of East Africa devastated by floods Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The violent floods that hit several areas of East Africa have caused death and destruction in South Sudan, Kenya and Somalia. In Kenya, at least 29 people died in the floods that hit 25 counties ...
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  29 October 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Closure of the Extraordinary Missionary Month: "Missionary awakening is part of our daily lives", says the Director of the PMS Yamoussoukro (Agenzia Fides) - "Missionary awakening must not be limited just to the month of October, decreed by Pope Francis, but must be part of our daily life", said the National Director of the Pontifical Mission So ...
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  28 October 2019
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "No to the attempt to provoke an ethnic and religious crisis", says the Premier, Nobel Peace Prize Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "An attempt to provoke an ethnic and religious crisis". Thus the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed Ali, described the violence that caused the death of 67 people last week in the great ...
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  28 October 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Archbishop Dal Toso closes the National Mission Congress: now may each one of us evangelize through words and with our lives Benin city (Agenzia Fides) - It is not enough to organize a Congress on the topic of evangelization if this does not have an impact on the life of all those who have participated, so that each one of us may evangelize th ...
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  26 October 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - President of the PMS to Bishops: from welcoming missionaries to becoming missionaries Benin city (Agenzia Fides) - After his speech at the National Missionary Congress of Nigeria, in Benin city, on the theme "The Church of Christ in Mission in Nigeria" (see Fides, 24/10/2019), Archbishop Giampietro Dal To ...
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  26 October 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Archbishop Dal Toso at the National Congress: "The extraordinary missionary Month is a starting point" Benin city (Agenzia Fides) - The Extraordinary Missionary Month that the Church is experiencing in this October 2019 is not only a celebration, but must a starting point, so that our Churches assume the missionary mandat ...
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  25 October 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "The Extraordinary Missionary Month is an opportunity to renew our personal relationship with Christ" Pretoria (Agenzia Fides) - "The Extraordinary Mission Month is meant for each person to renew one’s personal relationship with Christ", said Fr. Barney McAleer, who previously worked in the SACBC (Southern Africa Catho ...
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  24 October 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The visit of the President of the PMS makes us feel the embrace of the universal Church in this difficult time" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We are happy to welcome Mgr. Dal Toso as a sign of communion with the universal Church", says Fr. George Olusegun Ajana, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Nigeria, wh ...
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  24 October 2019
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Extraordinary Missionary Month: "The Lord asks you to be a gift wherever you are" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "We become missionaries living as witnesses of the Gospel of Christ, not with words, not with diplomas or certificates, but with life": this was underlined by Father Lucas Marabezé, interim cha ...
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  23 October 2019
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The Church in prayer to quell political tensions and promote reconciliation Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The results of the presidential elections held last May 21, 2019 (see Fides, 21/5/2019) are still being disputed and the issue has been brought to court. Mgr. Gianfranco Gallone, Apostolic Nunc ...
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  23 October 2019
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - A lay missionary, an apostle of lepers, towards beatification Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The cause for the beatification of British-born John Bradburne, a Franciscan secular missionary, has started in Zimbabwe. His life and his testimony of faith in the midst of the lepers will be ex ...
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  18 October 2019
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - The Bishop of Bissau proposes the creation of a national reconciliation commission Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "Many Countries in Africa have already given the example, having created reconciliation commissions and achieved important results. Why do some of our Guinean brothers do not want to believe in t ...
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  18 October 2019
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Extraordinary Missionary Month: lay people committed to evangelization Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - It will be the parish of St. Pius, in the archdiocese of Blantyre, to host the culminating event of the Extraordinary Missionary Month, that is, the Sunday Eucharistic Celebration in which the ...
• 17 October 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the auxiliary Bishop of Owerri Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis appointed the rev. Moses Chikwe of the clergy of Owerri, currently Director of Education of the Archdiocese of Owerri and collaborator of the parish of St. Thomas Mo ...