Africa

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  31 May 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “Continual bombing in Nuba Mountains area, a Catholic school damaged” Bishop Gassis reports Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - “The diocese denounces continual indiscriminate aerial bombing which kills and maims and instils a culture of fear and death among the people” says Bishop Macram Max Gassis, Emeritus bishop ...
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  30 May 2016
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Drought and precarious sanitation exacerbate child malnutrition Chiulo (Agenzia Fides) - The severe drought which last year hit southern Angola continues to threaten the health of mothers and children. In 2015 in the only hospital in Chiulo, 19% of pediatric hospitalizations regarded ...
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  30 May 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Religious leaders: "Urgent political solutions to avoid the country plunging into violence" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The leading role of the two major political parties, especially the dispute around the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), is a threat to national peace, cohesion and unity ...
• 30 May 2016
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Resignation of the Bishop of Mutare, appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 May 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Mutare (Zimbabwe), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Alexio Churu Muchabaiwa, in accordance w ...
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  30 May 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "More than 1.3 million Christians forced to flee from northern Nigeria", says a Bishop Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In northern Nigeria, between 2006 and 2014 an estimated 11,500 Christians were killed, over 1.3 million Christians displaced and 13,000 churches destroyed or abandoned. This assertion was made by ...
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  27 May 2016
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The Bishops have called for the release of political prisoners in order to achieve genuine reconciliation Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Reconciliation naturally demands the release of political prisoners mainly because no one (political party) can claim to have acted in complete innocence during the conflict", said Mgr. Ignace ...
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  27 May 2016
  AFRICA - A European-African project o recover 7 million weapons in circulation in West Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - There are 7 million small arms circulating in West Africa, one million in Nigeria alone. 77,000 of these are in the hands of guerrilla groups that fuel conflicts in the Ivory Coast, Guinea Bissau, ...
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  25 May 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The arrival of the rains exacerbates the situation of more than 700,000 refugees Yida (Agenzia Fides) - The emergency in the refugee camp in Yida, South Sudan continues. Strong winds and torrential rains have destroyed the tents and left thousands of people in dire straits. According to local source ...
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  25 May 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Constitutional Court’s decision paves the way for Kabila to stay in power for a third term Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Constitutional Court ruling of May 11 states that the constitution permits the president of the republic to remain in office until the installation of the new elected president. This is wh ...
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  25 May 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Release of Coptic monk kidnapped in Darfur Nyala (Agenzia Fides) – Coptic Orthodox monk Gabriel, kidnapped on Thursday, April 14 in the city of Nyala, Sudan's state capital of South Darfur (see Fides 16/04/2016) has been released. His confreres of the monaster ...
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  24 May 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "Killings of persons with albinism on the rise" denounces Justice and Peace Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Albinos are being abducted and killed for ritual purposes. Graves have been exhumed and some people have been caught by the police with bones and other albino body parts. We as a Justice and P ...
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  24 May 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Today the funeral of Sister Veronika Teresia Rackova Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Veronika Teresia Rackova of the Congregation of the Sisters Servant of the Holy Spirit and Medical Director of St Bakhita Health Centre will be buried today Tuesday, May 24 in Nairobi, Kenya ...
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  24 May 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Catholic Coptic Patriarch: the meeting between the Pope and al Tayyib is a 'new beginning' Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The return of the friendly relations between the Holy See and the Islamic University of al Azhar, sealed by the friendly encounter between Pope Francis and Imam Ahmed al Tayyib, "will give new vig ...
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  23 May 2016
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Mgr. Ndiaye warns: "National dialogue serves the interests of the nation and not those personalistic" Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "Do politicians really care to put themselves at the service of the city?" wonders His Exc. Mgr. Benjamin Ndiaye, Archbishop of Dakar and President of the Episcopal Conference of Senegal, in respo ...
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  23 May 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - 87-year-old Fr. Peter Meienberg, a Benedictine who helps the prisoners of Kenya Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "I realised that prisoners needed more than just spiritual nourishment; they were living in very bad environments, and so I set up Faraja Foundation, and through the help of friends and my famil ...