Africa

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  20 April 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Stop hunting Kony: Ugandan militants end the mission in Central Africa against the LRA Leader Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - The Ugandan army has put an end to the capture of Joseph Kony, leader of the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army), a guerrilla movement originally from north Uganda that has for years been raging in par ...
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  20 April 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Towards the first humanitarian corridor from Africa Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - A joint operational mission of Caritas Italiana and Sant'Egidio Community is being held in Addis Ababa these days to open the first humanitarian corridor from Africa, according to the protoc ...
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  19 April 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Terrorist attack against the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Gunmen opened fire on an Egyptian police checkpoint near Saint Catherine's Monastery in Sinai late on Tuesday, April 18, killing one policeman and wounding four officials. ISIS claimed responsibil ...
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  19 April 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Motion of no confidence against Zuma; "Vote according to conscience": appeal from Justice and Peace to parlamentarians Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – There is tension in South Africa where in recent days tens of thousands of people took to the streets to demand the resignation of South African President Jacob Zuma, involved in a series ...
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  12 April 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Following Palm Sunday massacre Easter for Coptic Christians in Egypt will be quiet prayer remembering the victims Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Easter for the Copt community here will be celebrated quietly in a spirit of prayer and in remembrance of those killed in the Palm Sunday attack last week. Traditional Copt meetings with state, ...
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  12 April 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Wau is calm again although thousands are still sheltering in a church AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Wau is calm again although thousands are still sheltering in a church Juba (Agenzia Fides) - South Sudan authorities have imposed a curfew throughout the State of Wau (north-west South Sudan) aft ...
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  12 April 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian Bishop Antonios Mina says Copts have no need of “defense” from abroad AFRICA/EGYPT – Egyptian Bishop Antonios Mina says Copts have no need of “defense” from abroad Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – After the massacres of Coptic Christians, disputes and arguments have resumed also in Egypt� ...
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  11 April 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Winner of the recent Rome female Marathon hails from Catholic Mission in Kofale Kofale (Agenzia Fides) – Rahma Chota Tusa has won the Rome female Marathon for two years running. Rahma was born in Kofale, Ethiopia, where she grew up and trained at the Catholic Mission Sports Centre in Kofale (see ...
• 11 April 2017
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - new Archbishop of Nampula and Apostolico Administrator of Tete appointed Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Francis, 11 April 2017 has appointed as Archbishop of Nampula (Mozambique) Bishop Inácio Saúre, I.M.C., until now Bishop of Tete. The Holy Father has appointed ...
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  11 April 2017
  AFRICA - “The problem of youth unemployment must be tackled”: Catholic Bishops of West Africa tell politicians in the region Abidjan (Agenzia Fides)-“Our youth accounts for 65% of the continent’s entire population. Unfortunately the majority are unemployed and exposed to trafficking of people and drugs, to violence and forced migration� ...
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  11 April 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Three thousand take refuge in church to escape violence after two SPLA generals were killed in an ambush Juba (Agenzia Fides)- Two generals of the Southern Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) were killed on Sunday 9 April near the city of Wau, in north western South Sudan on the western bank of the Jur River, in Wau County, Wa ...
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  11 April 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Copt Catholic Patriarch: let us look to the new martyrs and ask more insistently for Christ to protect us in hope Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The massacres on Palm Sunday “were a test for the faith of Egypt’s Christians. Pope Tawadros is sorrowful and deeply saddened, it is not easy to speak with him. We, seeing what is happening, ...
• 10 April 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Vicar apostolic of Hosanna resigns, successor appointed Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Francis, on 8 April 2017, accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the Apostolic Vicariate of Hosanna (Ethiopia), presented by Bishop Woldeghiorghis ...
• 10 April 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - New Bishop of Ogoja appointed Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Francis, on 9 April 2017, appointed Bishop of the diocese of Ogoja, in Nigeria, Rev. Donatus Edet Akpan of the clergy of Ikot Ekpene, presently parish priest in th ...
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  10 April 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - More than 2000 young Ghanaians send message of hope to their peers in difficulty Accra (Agenzia Fides)-The youth of Ghana must continue to hope despite the many present difficulties. This was the message sent out by two some thousand young Ghanaian Catholics who took part in a two day evangelisation ...