Africa

• 20 March 2014
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Violence in the valley of M'Zab, Christians pray for peace Ghardaia (Agenzia Fides) - For three months, the M'Zab Valley in southern Algeria has been the scene of sectarian violence base on ethnic-religious conflict that the Algerian security apparatus cannot stop. The clashes r ...
• 20 March 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The rainy season is approaching, emergency aid for displaced people is urgently needed" say religious leaders Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We are here to get everybody to hear the cry that comes from deep in the heart of the Central African people, who are experiencing the most tragic moments of their history. We can no longer rema ...
• 18 March 2014
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "We are very concerned about the growing tensions" says local Church sources to Fides Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very concerned about the situation of the Country", say local Church sources of Burundi to Fides Agency, where political tension continues unabated since the police suppressed the demo ...
• 18 March 2014
  AFRICA/SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE - Conclusion of the First Plenary Assembly of CEAST in Sao Tome and Principe Sao Tome (Agenzia Fides) - On 15 March, the first Plenary Assembly of 2014 of CEAST concluded, the Episcopal Conference of Angola, Sao Tome and Principe, which for the first time was held in the equatorial archipelago. T ...
• 17 March 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The conflict is not about religion", said Ban Ki-moon during the meeting with religious leaders for peace Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We want to pass on an essential message: that the conflict in the Central African Republic is not about religion", said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during the meeting held in New York with ...
• 17 March 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "We are deeply worried" about the recent massacre, say the Bishops of Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The senseless massacre of innocent students in their schools in the north-eastern States of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, is deeply distressing" say the Catholic Bishops of Nigeria in a statement sent ...
• 14 March 2014
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The first Mass celebrated in Dallo Manna, in the house of a lay missionary Dallo Manna (Agenzia Fides) – Dallo Manna is a town of about 50 thousand inhabitants of Ethiopia at the foot of the forest, in the region of Bale, about 130 km south of the capital Robe. Here the Church is carrying out ...
• 12 March 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The situation has improved in Bozoum, but the situation remains precarious in the rest of the Country", says a missionary Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Safety conditions are improving in Bozoum, at least we managed to block the violence and theft that occurred in past days", says to Fides Agency Fr. Aurelio Gazzera, a Carmelite missionary in Bo ...
• 12 March 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN - 46 missing children in the desert after the latest attacks in South Darfur have been found Kalma (Agenzia Fides) - After the attack of local paramilitary forces Rapid Support Forces in dozens of villages in the area south-east of Nyala, in South Darfur, approximately 46 children were found wandering in the des ...
• 12 March 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Some Catholic and Anglican Bishops: "fight against corruption to defeat Boko Haram" Abuja (Agenzia Fides ) - "I have just returned from Europe. Anywhere I went, Nigerians in Europe were asking me the same question: why is Boko Haram killing innocent children?" said Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Ar ...
• 11 March 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Boko Haram: over 500 Catholics killed and 20 churches and priests houses destroyed since 2009 Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - More than 500 Catholics killed and 20 churches and priests houses destroyed. This is the death toll and damage carried out against the Catholic community in the north-east of Nigeria by the Islami ...
• 11 March 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - To improve road communications in view of the national pilgrimage for the 50th anniversary of the martyrdom of Blessed Anuarite Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Kisangani (Democratic Republic of Congo) have launched an appeal to the governor of the Eastern Province to continue the work of improving the line ...
• 11 March 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Inauguration of the pediatric wing of the hospital in Yirol Yirol (Agenzia Fides ) – Although the situation in the Country is unstable, on Saturday, March 8th the NGO Doctors with Africa Cuamm inaugurated a new pediatric ward of the hospital in Yirol which will accommodate abou ...
• 10 March 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The role of the General Secretaries of the Bishops' Conferences on the subject of reconciliation, good governance, the common good and democratic transition Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - A Seminar for General Secretaries of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa begins today in Johannesburg (South Africa). According to a statement sent to Fides Agency, the Seminar, organized b ...
• 10 March 2014
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Support to give strength to the women of Chisitu Chisitu (Agenzia Fides) - Malnourished children, raised by desperate women and at the end of their tether. Women who are abandoned, sick and jobless: this is what the Community Center in Chisitu, Zambia is committed to, ...