Africa
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24 November 2011
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Agricultural Training Centre in Kasisi helps farmers to improve their living conditions
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides ) - Located about 300 km northeast of the capital, Lusaka, the Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre (KATC), run by the Society of Jesus, has been concerned for decades to improving the living conditi ...
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24 November 2011
AFRICA/EGYPT - "The situation is calm but tomorrow will be a decisive day", says a missionary from Cairo
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "We have to wait until Friday, that is to say, tomorrow, to see how the situation develops", says to Fides Fr. Luciano Verdoscia, a Comboni missionary who lives and works in Cairo, where a calm at ...
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24 November 2011
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Defending creation fighting greenhouse gases": the request of the Bishops of Southern Africa on the eve of the UN Conference on climate change
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Our beloved world and the entire creation - that God has given us - are threatened by climate change", write the Bishops of Southern Africa in a Pastoral Letter published on the eve of the ...
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23 November 2011
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Three Capuchin missionaries and a volunteer die in a car accident
Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - Three Capuchin missionaries and a lay volunteer, all Italian, from Tuscany, died in a car accident yesterday in Dar es Salaam, while they were visiting the Capuchin missions in the African ...
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23 November 2011
AFRICA/SOMALIA-Rains bring relief but also damage: report of Caritas Somalia
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The rains that began to fall on Somalia are having positive and negative aspects. According to what is stated in the Situation Report sent to Agenzia Fides by Caritas Somalia, the rivers are i ...
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23 November 2011
AFRICA/EGYPT - "Real bullets, plastic bullets in the face, people die for gases": a testimony from Tahrir Square
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "The battle is still continuing in Tahrir Square. It is a small civil war", a source of the Church of Cairo tells Fides, which for security reasons does not want to be mentioned. "The paradox is t ...
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22 November 2011
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Thousands of faithful at the ordination of the Auxiliary Bishop of Bissau
Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of faithful of the Diocese of Bissau and Bafata, in Guinea-Bissau, attended on Saturday morning, November 12, the Episcopal Ordination of Mgr. José Lampra Cá, elected Auxiliary Bishop ...
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22 November 2011
AFRICA/NIGERIA-"The revelations about the political ties of the Boko Haram sect are not a surprise", says the Bishop of Maiduguri
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "These revelations are not surprising. We have been saying for some time that there are politicians who, seeing that they were losing their importance, have chosen to support violent groups like B ...
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22 November 2011
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Appeal for the release of child soldiers enlisted in the country’s army
Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The UN peacekeeping mission committed in southern Sudan (UNMISS) has appealed to the country’s army to ensure the release of all child soldiers used in their ranks. Recently more than 53 teenager ...
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21 November 2011
AFRICA/EGYPT - "The young people are again at the center of the protest", says a missionary from Cairo, where in the clashes at least 20 people have died
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "The clashes continued even during the night", says to Fides Fr. Luciano Verdoscia, Comboni missionary who lives and works in Cairo, where in the last 3 days at least 20 people were killed and ab ...
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21 November 2011
AFRICA - A very difficult year for children: need for greater protection for children and young people in vulnerable situations
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – The situation of children around the world is alarming. About 100 million children still lack access to education, 50 million are not even recordedat he the registry office and, therefore, it ...
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21 November 2011
AFRICA/EGYPT - Tensions in Egypt: the supra-constitutional principles. Dossier
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - One of the causes of the strong tension in past days has resulted in clashes in Cairo, Alexandria and other centers of Egypt, is the document submitted on 1 November by the Supreme Military Counci ...
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19 November 2011
AFRICA/CONGO DR - "An inconsistent campaign, which could lead to riots after the election": the concern of the missionaries
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Taking a first assessment of the election campaign, it is clear that politicians are campaigning without consistency", says the "Peace Network for Congo" in a note sent to Fides on the preside ...
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18 November 2011
AFRICA/BENIN - 800 000 street children escaped from their families, abandoned because of poverty, victims of conflict and abuse
Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - Benin is a country where more than 3 million people live below the poverty line. Half of the population of the country, about four million are less than 18 years old, and among these, 33% live o ...
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17 November 2011
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Killings, injuries, recruitment and rape on minors do not stop
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - The lives of Somali children are increasingly at risk due to the ongoing conflict. In the course of the fighting taking place throughout South and Central Somalia, attacks and assaults on chil ...
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