Africa
2 June 2023
AFRICA/SUDAN - Resumption of clashes: Missionaries remain on site
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The fighting in Khartoum has intensified and 18 people have died and 106 civilians have been wounded in clashes between air raids and heavy artillery in the middle of residential areas. This is ...
2 June 2023
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Saint Scalabrini shows us the way of welcoming migrants and refugees"
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Saint John the Baptist Scalabrini is a great model to whom we can turn in prayer, because he lived what we live as Church with migrants and refugees in South Africa", said Msgr. Joseph Mar ...
1 June 2023
AFRICA/GHANA - Resolve local conflicts to eliminate fertile ground for jihadist groups present on the borders
Accra (Agenzia Fides) - Attention must be paid to terrorist threats from neighboring states such as Burkina Faso, Togo and the Ivory Coast, as requested by the Ghana Bishops' Conference (GCBC).
The appeal was launched o ...
1 June 2023
AFRICA/SUDAN - No "truce" really stops weapons. Bombings also block humanitarian aid
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The Sudanese army has suspended negotiations, under the aegis of the United States and Saudi Arabia, aimed at guaranteeing a truce that should have allowed the delivery of humanitarian aid in t ...
31 May 2023
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - "Peace is a gift from God, but it is also the fruit of human effort", recalls Cardinal Ouédraogo, in the country devastated by violence
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - At least 40 people died last weekend in jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso. This was announced by the local authorities, according to which 20 members of the voluntary militias supporting the ...
30 May 2023
AFRICA/SUDAN - Ceasefire extended for another five days: Numerous violations across the country
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The ceasefire between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which came into force on May 22nd and was scheduled to last for seven days, has been extended for anoth ...
30 May 2023
AFRICA/CHAD - The Episcopal Conference: "Enough of the blood and tears of Chadians"
N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "The blood and tears of Chadians have shed enough and must stop" warn the Bishops of Chad in a memorandum addressed to the President of the Transition, Acting Head of State, Mahamat Idriss Dé ...
29 May 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Precarious security situation: Another Catholic priest kidnapped in Imo State
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A week after the kidnapping of Father Kingsley Maduka and his subsequent release (see Fides, 22/5/2023), the kidnapping of another Catholic priest in Imo State (south-eastern Nigeria) is causing c ...
27 May 2023
AFRICA/GUINEA - Bishop Balla: "Christian and Muslim religious representatives are involved in the discussion about the country's growth"
Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - Between Mali, Sierra Leone and the Atlantic Ocean lies Guinea with its capital city of Conakry, the northern part of the country bordering equally on one corner of Guinea Bissau and one of Seneg ...
26 May 2023
AFRICA/KENYA - "The Shakahola massacre is a well organized, well planned and perfectly executed crime" says Interior Minister
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - There are 241 bodies found so far of followers of a Kenyan sect, buried in mass graves in the Shakahola forest, in eastern Kenya, on a ranch in Kilifi county, near the city of Malindi (see Fides ...
26 May 2023
AFRICA - 'Women Beyond Borders': to give voice to women working in the existential peripheries around the world
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Comboni Sisters have launched “Comboni Sisters – Women Beyond Borders,” a new digital media aimed at sharing the stories of missionary women working in existential peripheries around the ...
25 May 2023
AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The kidnapping industry" in Nigeria spares no one
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – While Father Kingsley Maduka, the parish priest of the Catholic parish of Christ the King, Ezinnachi-Ugwaku, Okigwe L.G.A., in the State of Imo, in south-eastern Nigeria, is finding his freedom, ...
24 May 2023
AFRICA/GHANA - Evangelization, peace and care for Creation: the challenges of the Church in Ghana according to the President of the Episcopal Conference
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Ghana has constantly grown in number, but this poses a challenge because we do not have enough evangelization agents", says Msgr. Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi, Bishop of Sunyani and President ...
23 May 2023
AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Bloody invisible hands fuel the conflict between Teke and Yaka"
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The bloodthirsty invisible hands of Kinshasa" are at the origin of the conflict in the region of Kwamouth, in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This was affirmed by the Bisho ...
23 May 2023
AFRICA/SUDAN - There is no respite for the Sudanese people: even the latest ceasefire attempt has failed
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - This morning, May 23, 2023, the truce between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which came into effect last night, was broken (see Fides, 22/5/2023). Army heli ...
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