Africa

• 7 January 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "We are tired of war, we need peace"; Christian leaders’ appeal Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "We condemn the senseless killing of civilians and we call on President Salva Kiir Mayardit and former Vice President Riek Machar to stop the fighting and negotiate peacefully instead of resorting ...
• 7 January 2014
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Much is being done to fight malnutrition and give health care assistance to babies of HIV women and AIDS patients Marrere (Agenzia Fides) - The General Hospital of Marrere assists a population of approximately 300 thousand inhabitants, especially people living in the slums of the big city of Nampula, 14 km away from the hospital. Du ...
• 7 January 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - Food, clothing, shelter, water: emergency for Sudanese refugees Kakuma (Agenzia Fides) - Until January 3, 2273 Sudanese refugees arrived in the Kakuma camp, at the Holy Cross parish in Kenya, where there are over 130 thousand people of different African nationalities. A note by ANS, ...
• 7 January 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Christmas: Egyptian President visits Patriarch Tawadros Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - After the concerns of the vigil, the Coptic Christians of Egypt are celebrating Christmas marked by the consistent deployment of means of protection put in place by the army and police forces. In ...
• 7 January 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "In Malakal , the situation is desperate", says a local source to Fides Juba (Agenzia Fides ) - "There has been fighting in Malakal since December 24. The faithful were not able to celebrate Christmas Mass" refers a source of the local Church to Fides. Malakal is the capital of the Upper Nil ...
• 3 January 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Internally displaced persons and Sudanese refugees are the first victims of three weeks of clashes Juba ( Agenzia Fides) - The clashes between soldiers loyal to President Salva Kiir and those affiliated to former Vice President Riek Machar, have created a serious humanitarian emergency in several areas of South Sudan. ...
• 3 January 2014
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Fr. Georges Vandenbeusch welcomed in France by his parishioners Yaounde ( Agenzia Fides) – Great joy in Sceaux in the Department of Hauts-de-Seine (France) for the release of Fr. Georges Vandenbeusch, the French Fidei Donum priest kidnapped in Cameroon in mid-November and released ...
• 2 January 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros cancels catechesis in program on the day of the Constitutional Referendum Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - As the people of Egypt are preparing for a referendum to express their degree of agreement on the text of the new Constitution, the Patriarch of Alexandria of the Coptic Orthodox Tawadros II decid ...
• 2 January 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Joint appeal of the Archbishop of Bangui and the Imam "for a UN force" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Despite the intervention of French and African troops, the situation in the Central African Republic, remains precarious. "The Central African Republic remains on the verge of a war with religiou ...
• 21 December 2013
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - 5 million people exposed to plague Antandrohomby (Agenzia Fides) - This year's season of bubonic plague in Madagascar has arrived earlier than expected, and with an apparent prevalence of a more deadly strain of the disease. Between the months of Septembe ...
• 21 December 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - 5,000 refugees welcomed in the Cathedral of Juba Juba (Agenzia Fides) - About 5,000 people have taken refuge in the cathedral in Juba, capital of South Sudan, for days in the grip of violent clashes between rival factions of the army, respectively loyal to President Sa ...
• 20 December 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "We are neither Dinka nor Nuer, but representatives of one church and one body of Christ", write the Christian leaders, denouncing the exploitation of tribalism Juba (Agenzia Fides) - There are growing appeals on behalf of Christian church leaders so that peace and reconciliation prevail in South Sudan while the UN and several foreign Countries proceed with evacuating their staf ...
• 19 December 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The rebels have conquered the capital of Jonglei State; "Very dangerous situation" say Church sources Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The Country is going in a really dangerous direction, toward a kind of ethnic conflict although it should be pointed out that the ethnic issue is exploited for the purpose of power" say local chur ...
• 19 December 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "More than a religious clash it is a fratricidal struggle among Central Africans", says the Bishop of Bossangoa Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – Religion is manipulated for political ends, denounces Mgr. Nestor Désiré Nongo -Aziagba, Bishop of Bossangoa, the town in the west of the Central African Republic, where despite the presence ...
• 18 December 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - 20 Cuamm health operators continue to provide assistance Yirol (Agenzia Fides) - In spite of the tensions following the attempted coup in South Sudan, the NGO Doctors with Africa Cuamm, present in the Country with 20 expatriated operators, are following with concern the evolut ...