Africa
12 June 2009
AFRICA/EGYPT - Tonight: Schubert's “Stabat Mater” at the Latin Basilica of Our Lady of Heliopolis, Cairo, for the first time outside of the Christmas Season
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Today, June 12, the Latin Basilica of Our Lady of Heliopolis will hold a free concert, open to the general public.
The “Celebration Choir and Orchestra” will perform Schubert's “Stabat Ma ...
10 June 2009
AFRICA/GABON - An uncertain future after Bongo
Libreville (Agenzia Fides) – The Leader of the Senate of Gabon, Rose Francine Rogombe, swore in as President ad interim, today June 10, following the June 8th death of President Omar Bongo. The ceremony took place in L ...
10 June 2009
AFRICA/CONGO - Bishops of East Congo show concern for continued violence, as plans are made for further military attacks on rebels
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – In response to the continual attacks on the civilian population being performed by Ugandan and Rwandan rebels, the Bishops of Kivu, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, ha ...
9 June 2009
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Evangelization and education are the two main priorities of the five Dehonian missions in Madagascar
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) – The Dehonian Missionaries reached Madagascar in 1976 (from Italy) and 1982 (from Portugal). Today, they are fully integrated into Madagascar's culture and in the local Church, which has 2 ...
8 June 2009
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Fighting continues claiming more victims, including journalists
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) – There is an ever more serious and chaotic situation in Somalia, where clashes continue between troops of the national transitional government and rebels linked to the fundamentalist branch o ...
8 June 2009
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Since 2007, one third of North Kivu's people have been evacuated and in neighboring South Kivu mass rapes continue. Who benefits from all this?
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – News continues regarding the serious violence being carried out against the people of North and South Kivu, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. As Agenzia Fides has repor ...
5 June 2009
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Coups attempt in Guinea Bissau: Overview
Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – On June 28, Guinea Bissau is scheduled to hold presidential elections, as a result of the death of President Joao Bernardo “Nino” Vieira, who was killed on March 2 by a group of soldiers th ...
5 June 2009
AFRICA/EGYPT - Apostolic Nuncio to celebrate feast of Saint Anthony in Cairo parish
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – On June 13, Feast of the Saint Anthony of Padua, Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, Apostolic Nuncio in Egypt, will celebrate a Mass in Saint Anthony of Padua Parish in Cairo.
Saint Anthony of Pad ...
5 June 2009
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - “He was planning a coups” says an official statement released on the death of presidential candidate for June 28 elections, killed this morning by soldiers
Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – Baciro Dabou, a candidate running for President in the elections scheduled for June 28 in Guinea Bissau, was killed this morning by a group of soldiers who entered his home. A statement from th ...
4 June 2009
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Fighting continues in the Niger Delta in spite of ceasefire and appeal to guerrillas to put down their arms
Lagos (Agenzia Fides) – Fighting continues in the Niger Delta (southern Nigeria) between the Joint Task Force of the Nigerian Armed Forces and rebels of the MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta).
Th ...
4 June 2009
AFRICA/KENYA - Kenya admits crimes committed by police, denounced in a UN report
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “The Government acknowledges there have been cases of unlawful killings within the police force, in respect of which investigations into 53 cases have been completed and 81 police officers pro ...
3 June 2009
AFRICA/CONGO DR - Insecurity on the rise in South and North Kivu, where civilians are subject to violence from rebels and soldiers
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – While the Congolese Army claims to have killed 11 guerrillas in a recent attack on North Kivu, local sources have informed Agenzia Fides that the situation remains one of great insecurity, in ...
3 June 2009
AFRICA/TOGO - National Plan for Social Communications for the Church in Togo approved: using the media for evangelization should be a priority
Lome (Agenzia Fides) - “Communications should be an essential dimension in all the activity of the Church and evangelication through the media should be a priority for the Church, Family of God, in Togo,” affirmed Ar ...
2 June 2009
AFRICA/MALAWI - “With the immense number voters, the people have called for an increase in democracy and respect from their representatives,” missionary says
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) – Just 10 days after the re-election of President Bingu wa Mutharika (see Fides 22/5/2009), Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, a Monfort Missionary who has lived in Malawi for years, sent a note to Fides o ...
2 June 2009
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Austrian Mariannhill Missionary killed
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Ernst Plöchl, a 78 year-old Austrian missionary from the Congregation of Mariannhill Missionaries was killed in the South African Cape Province.
Fr. Ploechl, who was a missionary i ...
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