Africa

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  8 January 2018
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - SOS Children's Villages reaffirms its commitment to children at risk Paris (Agenzia Fides) - SOS Children's Villages is a secular and apolitical organization. When asked about the reception of Christian children at the SOS Children's Village of Gode, Ethiopia (see Fides 4/1/2017), the NGO ...
• 8 January 2018
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Appointment of the Bishop of Chinhoyi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 30, 2017 the Holy Father appointed as bishop of Chinhoyi, (Zimbabwe), Rev. Fr. Raymond Tapiwa Mupa, C.Ss.R., currently regional Superior of the Redemptorist Fathers in Harare. ...
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  5 January 2018
  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 ...
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  5 January 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - 5 dead, 134 churches surrounded, 6 priests arrested; is the provisional report of the 31 December repression Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nunciature in the Democratic Republic of Congo has published a first, yet provisional, report of the violence suffered by the Church following the brutal repression of the march o ...
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  4 January 2018
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Islamic University of al Azhar convenes Muslims and Christians to discuss the "Jerusalem issue" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The University of Al Azhar, the main academic-theological center of Sunni Islam, is preparing to host an international conference on Jerusalem, to confront "institutions and important bodies" arou ...
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  4 January 2018
  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  29 December 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Massacre in front of a Coptic church. Bishop Antonios Mina: "they want to eliminate our smiles during the Christmas holidays" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - An armed assault on the church of Mar Mina, carried out in the Helwan City district on the capital’s southern outskirts, by at least two terrorists on the morning of Friday 29 December, caused s ...
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  29 December 2017
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - "I hope President Weah inspires young people to commit themselves to changing the situation" Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - "Young people wanted a change and that is why they voted Weah, but the hope for a short-term improvement is scarce because the national economy is in pieces", says to Agenzia Fides Sister Barba ...
• 29 December 2017
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Resignation of the Archbishop of Rabat and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 29, 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Archdiocese of Rabat (Morocco), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Vincent Landel, S.C.I. The Pope appoin ...
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  28 December 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic politicians reject, as "political operation", the US Congress resolution in defense of Egyptian Christians Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The draft resolution on the alarm "for attacks against Coptic Christians in Egypt", submitted to the US Congress by six US parliamentarians on December 21, is causing controversy in Egypt, also on ...
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  28 December 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Protest of bells: justice calls its initiator, Fr. Tshomba Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Senior priest of Kinshasa Father Vincent Tshomba appeared before a court on December 27 in the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over charges relating to a call he made to ring th ...
• 28 December 2017
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Arusha and appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 27, 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Arusha (Tanzania), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Josaphat Louis Lebulu. ...
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  22 December 2017
  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 ...
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  15 December 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The sums paid to traffickers, to end up becoming slaves in Libya, could have created jobs in Nigeria" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - It is necessary to invest in Nigeria to create jobs, as well as to start effective campaigns to discourage Nigerians to try their luck in Europe by putting themselves in the hands of unscrupulous ...