Africa
23 January 2012
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Archbishop of Jos, "they are destroying the hope of a united Nigeria and of the only Nigerian people"
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "They are destroying the hope of a united Nigeria and the only Nigerian people," said in an interview with Fides His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos, who launches an alarm on th ...
21 January 2012
AFRICA/MALAWI - The Catholic Church condemns the recent attacks on the stripping of women off their clothes
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "The stripping off of women’s clothes in Lilongwe and Mzuzu is unbecoming and unacceptable", is what is said in a statement sent to Fides by the Gender and Civic Education Desk in the Catholi ...
21 January 2012
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Attacks in Kano: even a Catholic church in the sights
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "I am trying to get in contact with Mgr. John Namanza Niyiring, Bishop of Kano but the lines do not work", says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos, in Central Nigeria. ...
20 January 2012
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "No to the new draft law on State security", says the Archbishop of Cape Town
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a bill that undermines the right to information which is of vital importance for the full exercise of other civil rights, and violates the constitutional commitment to create an open ...
20 January 2012
AFRICA/SUDAN - The kidnappers of the two priests have demanded a ransom for their release
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "The two priests are held near the town of Wadakona, on the border between Sudan and South Sudan. We asked the authorities in Juba (South Sudan) not to intervene, so as not to endanger the live ...
19 January 2012
AFRICA/SUDAN - The two priests kidnapped are well, negotiations are being held for their release
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "We know that the two priests are in good condition and are probably held in a place near the border between North and South Sudan", this is what sources of the Archbishopric in Khartoum told F ...
19 January 2012
AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Archbishop of Abuja denounces threats against Christians and calls for the protection of the State
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - His Excellency John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja (Federal Capital of Nigeria), denounced the sending of text messages (SMS) "that threaten the existence of plans by some Muslim groups ...
18 January 2012
AFRICA/SUDAN - The kidnappers had promised the release of the 2 priests, but so far they have not done it
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "The kidnappers had promised to release yesterday evening the two priests kidnapped on January 15, but so far they have not done it" say sources of the Archbishopric of Khartoum to Fides. The t ...
18 January 2012
AFRICA/TUNISIA - "If a strong signal on the economy is not given there is the risk of a new crisis", says the Archbishop of Tunis one year after the Revolution
Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "The average Tunisian wants two things: security and work. If the first is guaranteed, it is the second which is missing", says His Exc. Mgr. Maroun Elias Laham, Archbishop of Tunis, who in an int ...
17 January 2012
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The killing of the coordinator of AMREF in South Sudan is probably due to the consequence of a robbery which degenerated into murder
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "We have learnt that the local police have arrested a person found driving the car that AMREF had removed from our manager. We do not have information about its investigations and interrogations", ...
17 January 2012
AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Do not be afraid: another Nigeria is possible", says the Bishop of Sokoto
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not be afraid". This is the sense of Archbishop Matthew Hassah Kukah’s pastoral Letter, Bishop of Sokoto, the capital of the homonymous State in the north-west of Nigeria, of which a copy wa ...
16 January 2012
AFRICA/NIGERIA-The President cuts the price of petrol, but the protest continues; the Bishops: "we think of the nation’s welfare"
Abijah (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, announced today, January 16, the reduction of the price of petrol from 141 to 97 naira per litre, although it has not re-introduced the old price of 6 ...
16 January 2012
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Meeting between Sudan and South Sudan to resolve the issues of oil and citizenship
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The governments of Sudan and Southern Sudan will meet tomorrow, January 17, in Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia, for a new round of negotiations to resolve the issues left pending after the independence of ...
13 January 2012
AFRICA/ANGOLA - Floods block the repatriation of Angolans
Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - Several thousand Angolans repatriated from neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are stranded due to floods in northeast Angola. These are the first victims of what promises to be a very ...
11 January 2012
AFRICA/CONGO DR - The results of the legislative elections have been contested, while the battle concerning the presidential continues
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Democratic Republic of Congo continues to live in a rather complex political stalemate. While President Joseph Kabila swore in on December 20, his principle opposer, Etienne Tshisekedi (who ...
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