Africa

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  16 December 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The end of Kabila's mandate is approaching Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - While the mediation of the Catholic Bishops aimed at finding a political solution to the impasse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues (see Fides 12/12/2016), the authorities in Kin ...
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  15 December 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Attack in Cairo: prayer and solidarity of the South African Catholic Church Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We as the Church in Southern Africa are in solidarity with the Coptic Orthodox Church in mourning the death of our beloved brothers and sisters", says His Exc. Mgr. Victor Phalana, Bishop ...
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  15 December 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Imam of al Azhar visits Patriarch Tawadros after the massacre in the church: "foreign hands behind terrorism" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Sheikh Ahmed al Tayyib, Grand Imam of al-Azhar, led the high-level delegation of the largest Sunni theological center, who yesterday paid a visit at the headquarters of the Coptic Orthodox Patriar ...
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  15 December 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The UN denounces: "Alarming increase of human rights violations" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Since August 2016 we have noted an alarming increase in human rights violations", said a statement from the UN Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) presenting a report on the situat ...
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  14 December 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - "More controls and better road signs" ask the Bishops after 40 people died following the road accident in Naivasha Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Be committed to saving lives and not to see an opportunity to make quick money through bribery and extortion". This is the appeal launched by the Bishops of Kenya to the officials responsible ...
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  13 December 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: "our martyrs bind us to Heaven" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "Our martyrs, and the act of martyrdom in itself, bind us to heaven, and make our hearts rise up to those who are already there, and from there they intercede for us". This is how Coptic Orthodo ...
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  13 December 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The prison, from death trap to a place of hope, thanks to a missionary initiative Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Prison in Zomba, a death trap", is the headline in the Sunday Times on December 4, 2016. "For years this prison is part of the history of Malawi. Built in 1937 in what was a kind of refugee ca ...
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  12 December 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church celebrates its new martyrs; Also the President at the commemoration for the victims Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi is also present at the commemorations which take place this morning to honor the victims of the attack perpetrated yesterday, Sunday, December 11, during the M ...
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  12 December 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The opposition: "the mediation of Bishops proceeds well" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The negotiations under the auspices of the Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) "proceed well" says the ''Union of the political and social forces for change", better known as "le Rassemblemen ...
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  12 December 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Diocese of Maiduguri: "We fear new attacks during the Christmas period" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "There are fears that this attack might mark the beginning of a series of Boko Haram attacks during the Christmas period" says Fr. Gideon Obasogie, Director of Social Communications of the Diocese ...
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  9 December 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - Presidential elections: towards the victory of opponent Nana Akufo-Addo Accra (Agenzia Fides) - The victory of the opposition candidate Nana Akufo-Addo in the first round of the presidential and parliamentary elections that were held in Ghana on December 7 seems certain (see Fides 07/12/2016 ...
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  9 December 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops denounce: "Doctors strike causes Kenyan citizens pain, misery and suffering of unimaginable proportions" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We express our deep concern over the ongoing Doctors and Nurses strike that has caused the Kenyan citizens pain, misery and suffering of unimaginable proportions", say the Catholic Bishops of K ...
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  7 December 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Lack of food: nutritional emergency Maiduguri (Agenzia Fides) - The crisis in the state of Borno has reached alarming levels, with at least 500,000 people displaced or isolated in enclaves outside the capital, Maiduguri. They are deprived of means of survi ...
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  7 December 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - First round of presidential elections: "No to elections that divide us", say the Bishops Accra (Agenzia Fides) - There are 15 million voters who are called today, December 7, to the polls for the first round of presidential elections in Ghana. There are 7 nominated candidates, but the real battle is between ...
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  6 December 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "Only small steps towards reconciliation" Bishops complain Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We appreciate the steps taken and we thank those who have contributed" say the Bishops of Burundi in their Pastoral Letter published for the closing of the Holy Year of Mercy. "At the opening ...