AFRICA/KENYA - Classical music to help street children
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Nairobi Classics association has organized a series of concerts regarding the best musicians around the world in Nairobi whose fundraising will be destined to Ghetto Classics, a group that c ...
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - How to encourage girls to study and avoid early marriages
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Zambia has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. More than 4 out of 10 women, aged between 20 and 24, get married when they are only 16. A destiny "already decided" for many yo ...
AFRICA/SUDAN - New air raids on the Nuba Mountains
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Local Church sources confirmed to Agenzia Fides what the rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement - North (SPLM-N) denounced, according to which the Sudanese air force has carried out a ...
AFRICA/CONGO - Calm has returned in Brazzaville
Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - Calm is slowly returning in Brazzaville after yesterday's clashes. This was reported to Agenzia Fides by local Church sources from the capital of the Republic of Congo, where in the early mo ...
5 April 2016
AFRICA/GABON - Appointment of the Apostolic Administrator of Franceville
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 4, 2016, the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Basile Mvé Engone S.D.B., Archbishop of Libreville as Apostolic Administrator for the vacant et nutum Sanctae Sedis of the Diocese ...
4 April 2016
AFRICA/LIBYA - In Tripoli "we live waiting, praying for peace"
Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "We live waiting, like the rest of the city's population, as always praying for peace. This is our task at the moment", say Church sources to Agenzia Fides from Tripoli, Libya's capital, where f ...
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Missionary children explain the Gospel to their peers
Adaba (Agenzia Fides) - It is still Lent in Ethiopia. Preparations for Easter continue, as well as the activities of the small Catholic communities of Oromia. Among these, Fides received the story of a group of children ...
4 April 2016
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appointment of the Bishop of Isangi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 2 April 2016 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Dieudonné Madrapile Tanzi, of the clergy of Isiro-Niangara, professor at the Pontifical Urbaniana University as Bishop of the Diocese of Isan ...