Africa

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  5 May 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Seven Capuchin Friars die in a tragic road accident Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Seven Capuchin Friars, members of the Custody of St. Francis and St. Clare of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin in Nigeria, lost their lives in a serious traffic accident that occurred on May 3, ...
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  5 May 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The serious security situation in Imo State also affects priests and religious Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - “The situation is dire. Kidnappings for ransom, abductions for organ harvesting, and violent invasions of people’s lands and farms are now commonplace across Imo State and Igbo land”, said F ...
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  5 May 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - One year after the disappearance, there is no news of Father Lukas and his companion Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "One year has passed, and their silence haunts us. The disappearance of Fr. Luke and Michael is not just a personal loss - it is a wound to the heart of our society," said the Bishop of Tambura-Yam ...
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  3 May 2025
  AFRICA/SUD SUDAN - Until the very end, Pope Francis sent letters to South Sudanese leaders urging them to work for peace Juba (Fides Agency ) - “Pope Francis worked until the very end for peace in South Sudan,” Sister Elena Balatti, a Comboni missionary in South Sudan, told Fides Agency. “Unfortunately, South Sudan is once again on ...
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  2 May 2025
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Coadjutor of the Bishop of Bangassou: “With Pope Francis' visit, a positive change has been felt” Bangui (Fides Agency) - “Pope Francis has always been very important for the Central African Republic,” Aurelio Gazzera, who has lived and worked as a Carmelite missionary in the Central African Republic for 34 years ...
• 30 April 2025
  AFRICA/TOGO: New Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies appointed Vatican City (Fides Agency) - Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Churches), appointed, on March 25, 2025, Father Anawia Bédilana Jon ...
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  30 April 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Ibrahim Amos, kidnapped from his home on April 24, is free Abuja (Fides Agency) - Father Ibrahim Amos, parish priest of St. Gerald Quasi Church in Kurmin Risga, a village in the Kauru district of Kaduna state in northwestern Nigeria, has been released. This was announced by the ...
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  28 April 2025
  AFRICA - Pope Francis and his tireless pursuit of peace in the face of African conflicts by Luca Mainoldi Rome (Fides Agency) - Two images capture more than any others the relentless efforts of Pope Francis to put an end to the wars that are tearing African peoples apart. The first image shows Pope Fran ...
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  25 April 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Priest kidnapped in northwestern Nigeria Abuja (Fides Agency) - Another Catholic priest has been kidnapped in Nigeria. The victim is Fr. Ibrahim Amos, pastor of St. Gerald Quasi Parish in Kurmin Risga, in the local government area of Kauru, Kaduna State, in nor ...
• 17 April 2025
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of Bishop of Fenoarivo Atsinanana Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis has appointed the Rev. Fr. Marek Ochlak, O.M.I., currently Provincial Superior of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Poland, as Bishop of the Diocese of Fenoarivo Ats ...
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  16 April 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The London conference ends without a final declaration; the RSF proclaim the formation of an alternative government Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The London conference organized exactly two years after the outbreak of the Sudanese civil war on 15 April 2023, to try to put an end to the conflict, ended without a final declaration. The c ...
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  16 April 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishop of Eldoret: "We are completely destroying our country through corruption" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We are left wondering where will the poor go and who will stand for them. What we are doing is wrong and we are completely destroying our country through corruption", Msgr. Dominic Kimengich, B ...
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  15 April 2025
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The Sudanese conflict enters its third year Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – With tens of thousands of dead, 14 million internally displaced people, and more than three and a half million refugees in neighboring countries, Sudan is entering the third year of a devasta ...
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  15 April 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Maniema province is also suffering the consequences of the war in neighboring North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Calm has returned to Lubutu, in Maniema province, following clashes between two factions of Wazalendo militiamen sparked by a leadership dispute. Reconciliation was achieved last weekend duri ...
• 15 April 2025
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Appointment of bishop of Molegbe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Joseph Mopepe Ngongo, doctoral candidate in theology at the Université Catholique du Congo, as bishop of the diocese of Molegbe, Democratic Repu ...