Africa

• 31 August 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Calm situation, but we are waiting for the conclusion of the Friday prayers," said the Archbishop of Mombasa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is calm, at least for now. We have to wait the end of the Friday prayers in the mosques of the city to see if there are any new demonstrations" says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Bonifac ...
• 31 August 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - 270 miners have been incriminated in the deaths on August 16, "there is a risk of new protests," said the local Bishop Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "It is very strange that miners are incriminated in the deaths on 16 August and not the police officers who fired real bullets against demonstrators" said to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Kevin Dowli ...
• 30 August 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Marikana mine: "The first goal is to make peace among the members," says the Bishop of Rustenburg Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "I am not aware of the progress concerning the trade union negotiations, I just know that yesterday government authorities held a meeting with the unions to find a peace agreement in order ...
• 30 August 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Diseases and malnutrition in refugee camps continue to increase in South Sudan Yida (Agenzia Fides) - Since last April the refugees in the refugee camp in Yida, in the south Sudanese State of Upper Nile, have doubled because of scarce food resources and the ongoing conflict since June 2011 in the s ...
• 30 August 2012
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - General election: "No to abstention," say the Bishops, the Church participates with its observers Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - There will be observers of the Catholic Church to ensure the proper conduct of the general elections on August 31 in Angola. The observer team is coordinated by Fr. Belmiro Tchissengueti, Executi ...
• 29 August 2012
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Church’s appeal to help the victims of the torrential rains Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church is mobilizing to bring material and moral support to the victims of the floods that for days have been scourging Senegal and at the same time launches an appeal to the universa ...
• 29 August 2012
  AFRICA/BENIN - Inauguaration of the first "mini-village of the Child", dedicated to St. Massimiliano M. Kolbe Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - After the apostolic visit of Pope Benedict XVI in Benin last November, one of the concrete answers to the special attention addressed by the Holy Father to the children, as the hope of the entir ...
• 28 August 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Maybe tomorrow the agreement for the Marikana mine " says to Fides the Bishop of Rustenburg Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – Maybe tomorrow, August 29th, there will be the signing of an agreement between the unions and the managers of the platinum mine in Marikana (North West Province, in South Africa). This wa ...
• 28 August 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - Four Christian places of worship attacked in the clashes in Mombasa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The second day of clashes in Mombasa, Kenya, between police and protesters demanding the killing of an Islamic preacher, Aboud Rogo Mohammed, accused of recruiting young people to be sent to fig ...
• 27 August 2012
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - State of national emergency for the worst cholera outbreak in recent years Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - West Africa is experiencing the worst cholera outbreak in recent years. In Sierra Leone, home to six million people assisted by one of the worst health care systems in the world, with only one ...
• 27 August 2012
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Missionary experience of the Youth Movement to Build Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary journey in Guinea Bissau has just concluded, attended by 12 young Italians belonging to the Youth Movement to Build accompanied by three assistants, two Missionary Oblates of Mary ...
• 27 August 2012
  AFRICA - The African Catholics worried due to fundamentalist violence, they do not want to respond with violence Iaşi (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics of African Countries where the threat of Islamic fundamentalism is stronger, live this phenomenon with apprehension, but do not intend to surrender to violence. This is what is reported ...
• 21 August 2012
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - A difficult phase for the succession of Premier Zenawi begins Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "After the death of the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Abuna Paulos (on 16August), the death of the Premier is a new shock to the Country," say local sources to Fides from Addis ...
• 21 August 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - "Decisive moment to rebuild the Somali State," says the Bishop of Djibouti Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "In these 21 years (since the fall of Siad Barre, ed.) it seems that this is the best time for the rebirth of the Somali State. Certainly we are facing a critical phase in the history of Somal ...
• 20 August 2012
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The bishops contrary to defining Zambia in the constitutional preamble as a "Christian nation" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides)-The Bishops of Zambia hope that the current process of constitutional revision is successful after the previous three unsuccessful attempts to write a new Constitution. In a document sent to the t ...