AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Monsengwo: "Agreements must be respected"
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The victims of December 31 died because they reminded us that pacta sunt servanda" said Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Archbishop of Kinshasa during a mass celebrated in the cathedral of ...
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Small Christian orphans converted to Islam
Gode (Agenzia Fides) - About 30 Christian (Orthodox) children have already been forcibly converted to Islam. And the danger threatens about 120 children, adolescents and young Christians in 12 reception centers for orpha ...
4 January 2018
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Catholic laity promise new protests
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We can be proud for having participated in the protest on 31 December 2017. We can not backtrack anymore, our children look at us, the whole world looks at us, our conscience asks us", says in ...
AFRICA/GHANA - Stop Land Grabbing; Conference promoted by Caritas
Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Indeed, I share with Caritas the view that land plays a critical and fundamental role in the social-economic development of any country, hence our heavy dependency on it for our livelihood", said ...
AFRICA/MALI - "Mali is the epicenter of jihadist groups that rage in Sahel"
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The security situation in different areas of Mali has been a concern for several months", says Fr. Edmond Dembele, General Secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Mali, to Agenzia Fides, commen ...