Africa
23 March 2017
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Are the massacres in North Kivu carried out by true jihadists?
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Since the beginning of October 2014, the population of the territory Beni (North Kivu - DRC) has been the victim of a series of kidnappings and massacres, where more than a thousand people have ...
23 March 2017
AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Our politicians are corrupt and often aid does not go to those who need it", denounces a Bishop
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Most of the donations from the western world do not get directly to the targeted people. Whenever interventions come, they always insist it must go through the government agencies and through thi ...
23 March 2017
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - People are dying of hunger in Unity State, those who can, flee in search of safety
Yirol (Agenzia Fides) - "The last time an African country experienced such a dramatic 'state of famine' was 6 years ago, in Somalia. The tragedy of famine has been hitting South Sudan, Unity State for over a month, where ...
22 March 2017
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Eight dead in an attack against a refugee camp in the north-east of the Country
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - At least eight people died in a suicide attack on the night of March 22, in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State in northeastern Nigeria. According to preliminary information five suicide bombers ble ...
22 March 2017
AFRICA/DR CONGO - The President of CENCO to the UN: "The New Year's Eve agreement is the only way out of the crisis"
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The Democratic Republic of Congo is now without any legitimate institution. It is the first time that this has happened in our Country since independence. Therefore, the agreement of December ...
21 March 2017
AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian Tour operators: let us take the opportunity of the Pope’s visit to revive the "Way of the Holy Family"
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis’ visit is a propitious occasion to promote Egypt as a destination for Christian pilgrimages and religious tourism, allowing the world to know the initiatives and measures put in pla ...
21 March 2017
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Anniversary of the killing of Fr. Machozi; light on the three Assumptionists kidnapped?
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Dead City" in Butembo on the first anniversary of the assassination of Fr. Vincent Machozi, Assumptionist priest, who denounced the illegal exploitation of coltan in the region (see Fides 22/0 ...
21 March 2017
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Mgr. Ambongo: "On March 27 the signing of the agreement to give a start to the new government"
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – On Monday, March 27 the agreement for the implementation of the San Silvestro agreements will be signed to give the DRC a national unity government to prepare legislative and presidential ele ...
21 March 2017
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Sharing means evangelizing: a rosary for the mission in the Somali Region
Gode (Agenzia Fides) - More than a year without water, dead livestock along the dirt roads, deaths due to cholera every day, without medicine and medical personnel, and without even a thermometer to measure body temperat ...
20 March 2017
AFRICA/KENYA - The guardian of Nyalenda parish in Kisumu killed in a robbery
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The guardian of Nyalenda parish, a slum in the city of Kisumu, in the center-west of Kenya, on Lake Victoria, was killed in a robbery in the night between 18 and 19 March.
George Omondi, 47, fa ...
20 March 2017
AFRICA/DR CONGO - A health center for street children in the city of diamonds
Mbuji-Mayi (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish NGO Manos Unidas will build a health center in order to assist street children in the Salesian Muetu Don Bosco complex in the city of Mbuji-Mayi, in the south-central Democratic ...
18 March 2017
AFRICA/MALI - Mali, Colombia and the Catholic Church are doing everything possible to find Sister Gloria
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - A Colombian nun, Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez Argoti, was kidnapped by armed men in the south of Mali, in a Catholic church in Sikasso (see Fides 08/02/2017).
Neither Islamists nor jihadists g ...
17 March 2017
AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops: "It is unacceptable that one thinks of ministerial positions and not the interest of the Congolese"
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "It is strange and unacceptable to see that the work for the agreement takes more time than the drafting and approval of the agreement as such", said His Exc. Mgr. Marcel Utembi Tapa, Archbisho ...
17 March 2017
AFRICA/GHANA - Appointment of the Bishop of Keta-Akatsi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 16 March 2017 the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Gabriel Edoe Kumordji, S.V.D., Vicar Apostolic of Donkorkrom, as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Keta-Akatsi, (Ghana). (SL) ...
17 March 2017
AFRICA/ALGERIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Laghouat, appointment of successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 16 March 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Laghouat (Algeria), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Claude Rault, M. Afr. The Holy Father appoi ...
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