Africa
27 July 2010
AFRICA/NIGERIA - National Task Force to combat spread of illegal weapons
Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- According to the United Nations Organisation about eight million illegal weapons circulate in West Africa, a consistent percentage of these in Nigeria. This was affirmed by Gen. Aliyu Gusau, Nation ...
27 July 2010
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Insertion course for newly arrived missionaries
Bissau (Agenzia Fides)- The dioceses of Guinea-Bissau are organising a course 2 - 27 August, for recently arrived missionaries, we read in a statement sent to Fides. The course provided for new missionaries includes basi ...
26 July 2010
AFRICA/SUDAN - “We have reached a time to move and prepare for change” Sudanese Bishops affirm
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- “ This is an historic moment. This is a moment of change. Sudan will never be the same again,” the Catholic Bishops of Sudan said in a message made public at the end of an Extraordinary Plen ...
26 July 2010
AFRICA/UGANDA - Combating terrorism, the situation in Somalia and Sudan, focus of African Union Summit
Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- “Let us now act in concert and sweep them (terrorists) out of Africa” the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said on Sunday 25 August at the opening ceremony of the 15th African Union Summit ...
23 July 2010
AFRICA/RWANDA - Clean safe water for hill people in Jamba thanks to twelve new fountains
Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - Also in the region of Byumba, northern Rwanda, difficult access to water renders life difficult for more than 65,000 people. Two years ago the Italian NGO Movimento Lotta Fame nel Mondo (MLFM) st ...
21 July 2010
AFRICA/CAMEROON - Formative project for “young talents” from poor families
Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - Brilliant high school students in the upper classes living in isolated rural areas, or from poor families in urban districts, may have a chance to change their future through a 3 year 2010-2012 ...
21 July 2010
AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Xaverian missionaries and the building up the local Church, today “dynamic and resourceful”
Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - July 8 marked the 60th anniversary of the arrival of the first Xaverian Missionaries in Sierra Leone (see Fides 7/7/2010). In all these years they contributed considerably to building up the ...
21 July 2010
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - As many as 95% of children with a right to vaccination against measles, are not vaccinated; 758 registered deaths in 2009
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – Since 2009 southern Africa is tackling a serious epidemic of measles which has already taken 758 lives, mainly in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, Lesotho and South Africa. According to ...
20 July 2010
AFRICA/SÃO TOMÉ - Less poverty, more development: “the Church must never be afraid to evangelise ”
São Tomé (Agenzia Fides) – “ While not overlooking the role of governments and various institutions active in the social field, with freedom and courage the Church must assume her prophetic role to proclaim the Gos ...
19 July 2010
AFRICA - Peace, respect for human life and human rights, intercultural and interreligious dialogue: agreement between African Union and Community of S. Egidio
Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - A Protocol of agreement for cooperation between the Community of S. Egidio and the Commission of the African Union was signed on Thursday 15 July at the African Union head offices in Addis ...
19 July 2010
AFRICA/TOGO - New paediatrics and neonatology departments in the poorest part of the country at Afagnan Hospital
Afagnan (Agenzia Fides) - Two new departments, paediatrics and neonatology, complete with the modern equipment will soon be opened at Saint John of God Hospital at Afagnan in Togo. A hospital recently nominated Ambassado ...
17 July 2010
AFRICA - Mobility of Africans must be an opportunity for human promotion rather than exploitation
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Africa today is home to almost one billion people, (14.8% of the entire world population). According to the United Nations, by 2050 Africans will number almost 2 billion, a little less than one qua ...
16 July 2010
AFRICA/UGANDA - This coming Sunday, in churches across the country, special prayers will be said for the victims of the July 11 bomb blasts
Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – “ We appeal to all aggrieved parties in our society to renounce violence as a means of solving conflicts and whenever there are misunderstandings, let people embrace dialogue in the resoluti ...
15 July 2010
AFRICA/R. D. CONGO - “ Without peace, it is impossible to see the way forward ”: Congress on Peace in Uvira
Uvira (Agenzia Fides) - In the diocese of Uvira in the Democratic Republic of Congo there has been no peace for over seven years and “without peace, it is impossible to see the way forward, or even rebuild the region ...
13 July 2010
AFRICA/UGANDA - Who will help children victims of guerrilla warfare?
Lira (Agenzia Fides) – Hundreds of children, victims of years of war in northern Uganda are denied urgent assistance because of lack of funds and adequate medical service, according to the Northern Uganda Transitional ...
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