Africa

• 21 June 2013
  AFRICA/LIBERIA – A town has been granted to 300 Sierra Leonean refugees; "it is the sign of the regional integration process," says a missionary Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - Liberia has granted citizenship to 300 Sierra Leonean refugees living in the Country since the days of the civil war that ended in 2002. The ceremony for the conferral of citizenship took place ...
• 20 June 2013
  AFRICA/NIGER - "Refugees are the invisible of our time", says a missionary Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The refugees are the invisible of our time," says Fr. Mauro Armanino, SMA missionary from Niamey, the capital of Niger, who shares with Fides some reflections on World Refugee Day which is celeb ...
• 20 June 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A day of prayer for national reconciliation has been announced Juba (Agenzia Fides) - A day of prayer for national reconciliation on the occasion of the second anniversary of the independence of South Sudan was announced by His Exc Mgr. Paride Taban, Bishop Emeritus of Torit and Pre ...
• 19 June 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - Mixed reactions to the peace agreement for Kidal Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The agreement between the Malian authorities and the two groups of Tuareg rebels that control the city of Kidal in the north of the Country, the MNLA (National Movement for the Liberation of Azaw ...
• 19 June 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Appeal for peace in Katanga Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The civil society of Katanga, in the south-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has launched a new appeal so that the problems of security in the province resulting from the presence of th ...
• 18 June 2013
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Controversy on the dates of elections and in the meantime Christian churches organize the monitoring of the vote Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Over 200 Christian religious leaders, including priests and Bishops, have been trained to follow the upcoming presidential election in Zimbabwe. The program was sponsored by Southern Africa Crisi ...
• 18 June 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The Catholic Church at the center of dialogue among the faiths to ease the tension Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We have started dialogue between Muslims, Catholics and Protestants to calm the situation down, otherwise this Country is likely to explode," says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Juan José Aguirr ...
• 17 June 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Four churches burned by Boko Haram; Mgr. Kaigama: "regional approach to defeat them" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Four churches were burned in an attack probably committed by members of the jihadist group Boko Haram in Borno State, one of the three northern states of Nigeria where a state of emergency has bee ...
• 14 June 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Let us intervene immediately to prevent the Central African Republic to become the Somalia of Central Africa" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Summary executions, sexual violence, targeted attacks on the basis of religious or ethnic belonging, arrests of opposition supporters and their families, torture, disappearances, recruitment of c ...
• 13 June 2013
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "The Constitution cannot be eaten, but can ensure food on our tables" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Even though we cannot eat a Constitution, a good Constitution will ensure that there is food on our tables, medicine in our hospitals and that quality education is offered in our schools," Fr. C ...
• 13 June 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Mathias I’s visit postponed. No "Coptic mediation" on the Ethiopian dam Alexandria (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Mathias I has postponed his visit to Egypt which should have taken place on 17 June. The postponment of the visit belies the assumptions circula ...
• 13 June 2013
  AFRICA/NIGER - Gunfight in Niamey, maybe it was a false alarm Niamey (Agenzia Fides) – It seems that the shooting near the national gendarmerie school of Niamey, capital of Niger, on the night between 11 and 12 June is not as serious as one thought. A missionary source told Fides ...
• 12 June 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Rebels and regular army officers united in the illicit trade of Congolese minerals Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The lucrative trade in tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been controlled by violent armed groups and factions of the government army for 15 years," t ...
• 12 June 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Instability in southern Somalia Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of people have fled in recent days from the port city of Kismayo in southern Somalia, because of the fighting between the two "warlords", which are fighting for the control of Jubalan ...
• 12 June 2013
  AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Appointment of the Rector of the Major inter-diocesan Seminary "La Purisima" in Bata Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on March 8, 2013 appointed rev. Gervasio Riloha Bela, of the diocesan clergy of Ebebiyin as Rector o ...