Africa

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  24 October 2016
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - After 50 years of presence in the Country, the newly Camillian Province has been established Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday 16 October in Ouagadougou the 50th anniversary of the presence of Camillians (M.I.) in Burkina Faso together with the canonical establishment of the New Camillian Province of the C ...
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  24 October 2016
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "Missionary market" of the small community of Adaba Adaba (Agenzia Fides) - "The 'missionary market' is becoming a tradition that Catholics of the small community of Adaba, Ethiopia, organize to collect offerings in favor of the missionaries on the occasion of World Missi ...
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  21 October 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - "Let us avoid post-election war, we do not want to be refugees" warn the Bishops Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "We should always remember that we have only one Country called Ghana and that, this Country is the only home that we have", said His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Osei-Bonsu, Bishop of Konongo-Mampong and Pre ...
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  21 October 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Justice and Peace: "the clash between the Minister of Finance and President causes damage to the poor" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "The poor must not become victims of battles within the ruling party". This is the meaning of the message signed by His Exc. Mgr. Abel Gabuza, Bishop of Kimberley and President of the Episc ...
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  20 October 2016
  AFRICA/CONGO - "Free political prisoners not regularly judged" ask the Bishops Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - "Free the political prisoners who have not been duly judged". Is the appeal that the Bishops of the Republic of Congo launched to the national authorities at the end of their 45th Plenary As ...
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  20 October 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Success of the "dead city" protest in Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The population of Kinshasa participated en mass to the opposition’s call for a ‘dead city day’ – a stay-at-home strike. The opposition did not sign the agreement with the presidential m ...
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  19 October 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Be honest and brave": religious leaders to the team that will select the Electoral Commission Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Kenyans expect that this team will be truthful honest and courageous to the course, we know that integrity comes from God and if they rely on the help of God, certainly they should be able to d ...
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  19 October 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A peace centre opened by the Church in Southern Sudan devastated by civil war Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Good Shepherd Peace Centre". A well-wishing name for a Country torn by civil war like South Sudan. The center was opened on October 15 in kit, in the Archdiocese of Juba, by the Apostolic Nuncio t ...
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  18 October 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The majority and a part of the opposition agree: presidential elections in April 2018 Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There is no date for the presidential and political elections, but some intermediate election dates for the start of the electoral process, in the meantime a government of national unity led by ...
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  18 October 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The President returns from America, but there remain doubts about his health Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "After so many broken promises on the return of the President, Sunday’s promise, October 16 was fulfilled", writes Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba from Malawi, where President Arthur Peter Mutharika fi ...
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  17 October 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Six people killed in clashes between the military and followers of a millenarian sect Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The error of a Congolese military caused the death of four people when the rocket fired by him hit the Mwamba institute, in the municipality of Bulengera, in the city of Butembo in North Kivu P ...
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  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Christian Churches launch a project of reconciliation among ethnic groups Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The main Christian denominations in South Sudan, gathered in the South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC), have launched a project of reconciliation and peace in Jonglei State to reduce tensions amon ...
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  14 October 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "Where is the President?" ask the citizens of Malawi Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - #BringbackMutharika, is the hashtag created by users of social media in Malawi to ask where their President is, Arthur Peter Mutharika. The President had left for New York to attend the UN Gene ...
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  14 October 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Thirty dead in the attack against the camp for displaced people near the Bishopric of Kaga-Bandoro Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - At least 30 people have died in the attack against the camp of displaced people in the Bishopric of Kaga Bandoro, in the central area of the Central African Republic. The attack dates back to 12 ...
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  13 October 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A power struggle around President Kiir? Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Yesterday, October 12, was a day of high tension in Juba" local sources told Agenzia Fides from the capital of South Sudan. "The rumors spread via social media on the death of President Salva Kiir ...