Africa

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  8 May 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - In 3 years Boko Haram has killed over 4,000 children Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The terrorist attacks of Boko Haram has since 2014 affected mainly children. Many of them are used for suicide attacks. The first study carried out by the United Nations Secretary-General on Child ...
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  8 May 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Chibok Girls: "Why have we waited three years to negotiate their release?" asks Cardinal Onaiyekan Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We thank God that these girls have re-embraced their families, but I wonder why they had to wait three years for this to happen", says Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja to A ...
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  6 May 2017
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Bishops denounce: "African resources plundered by foreigners; the needs of local peoples are ignored" Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "Governments of industrialized Countries seek to find a solution to the world's energy and food crisis in Africa without trying to meet the problems of Africans", denounce the Bishops' Conference ...
• 5 May 2017
  AFRICA/D.R CONGO - Confirmation of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Godefroid Manunga-Lukokisa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On October 7, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed the appointment of Fr. Godefroid Manunga-Lukokisa, SVD as National Dire ...
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  5 May 2017
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - The number of malnourished children increases: almost a million and a half Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Since the beginning of the year, the number of children affected by malnutrition in Somalia has increased by 50%: one million and 400 thousand. These numbers were released by Unicef, that also ...
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  5 May 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Dangerous levels of unemployed youth but there is no political culture to tackle the problem" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "There is not much to celebrate when millions of young people in the country remain unemployed and desperate", denounces His Exc. Mgr. Abel Gabuza, Bishop of Kimberly and chair person of SA ...
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  4 May 2017
  AFRICA/TOGO - The Bishops: "The frustration of civil society is a bomb that may explode" Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - "The frustration of Togolese civil society is a bomb ready to explode on the first occasion", say the Bishops of Togo in their Paschal message. "Let us recognize that behind the appearance of peac ...
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  3 May 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops denounce: "Politicians waste the scarce resources available to buy votes while drought kills" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The inability by most of these political parties to conduct clean and transparent elections demonstrates the fragility of the Kenyan political system on the eve of the general elections in Augu ...
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  2 May 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Controversy on the Joint Declaration of Pope Francis and Pope Tawadros. Coptic Catholic Bishop: predictable criticism, let us move on Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Joint Declaration signed on Friday 28 April in Cairo by Pope Francis and Catholic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros is causing various kinds of reactions within the Orthodox Coptic Church. In paragr ...
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  28 April 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Wolisso Hospital Auditorium named in memory of Fr Luigi Mazzucato Wolisso (Agenzia Fides) – A ceremony has just ended to name the Aula Magna/Auditorium at Wolisso Hospital after Fr Luigi Mazzucato, Italian director for many years of CUAMM Medici with Africa. “He loved this ho ...
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  28 April 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Copt Orthodox sources: the Pope and the Patriarch could sign a joint declaration with reference to the practice of re-baptism Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Copt Orthodox Bishop Raphael, Secretary of the Holy Synod of the Copt Orthodox Church, denied and rejected as misleading, certain rumours circulated on Egyptian media on the eve of Pope Francis� ...
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  27 April 2017
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Serious scarcity of clean water in Port Sudan aggravates plight of displaced persons Port Sudan (Agenzia Fides) – Displaced persons in Nyala, capital of South Darfur, have very little water to drink because of faulty wells and pumps. The tanks that supply Port Sudan do not have enough water for the ...
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  27 April 2017
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Bishops criticise brutal arrest of the country’s main Opposition leader Lusaka (Agenzia Fides)- The Police Service may not be used “to settle political scores”. This warning was issued by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Zambia (ZCCB) following the brutal arrest of Opposition leader ...
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  27 April 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT- Bishop Kyrillos: al Azhar Conference is preparing a statement on "a renewal of the religious approach" Assiut (Agenzia Fides) – The International Conference for Peace hosted by al Azhar Sunni University, in Cairo which will have its climax in the afternoon of Friday 28 April with a speech by Pope Francis, “will issu ...
• 26 April 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Bishop of Yokadouma resigns, successor appointed AFRICA/CAMEROON – Bishop of Yokadouma resigns, successor appointed Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Francis, on 25 April 2017, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the dioce ...