Africa

• 10 September 2010
  AFRICA - African bishops delegation in Europe to discuss Millenium Development Goals Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the Summit for review of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be held in New York, September 20 to 22, a delegation of SECAM (Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa ...
• 8 September 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - UN reports 500 rapes in Kivu in 1 month; a missionary comments Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “The UN has finally become aware of a situation that we as missionaries and as the Church have been denouncing for some time now. However, I often wonder whether there are strategic and pol ...
• 7 September 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Public workers strike ends after keeping the nation on hold 3 weeks Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – After 21 days of strike, hundreds of thousands of South African public sector workers have returned to work. However, this is only a suspension of the strike, civil servants' unions said, ...
• 7 September 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Catholic Continental News Agency for Africa to form within coming year Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Church in Africa will provide a single, large, news agency for the entire continent. This is what was decided at the meeting in Nairobi, which opened August 31 (see Fides 01/09/20 ...
• 6 September 2010
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Maputo: calm, although protests threaten to return Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - “It is a situation that is evolving day by day and, therefore, it is impossible to offer any assessments at the moment," Fides has been told by a Church source from Maputo, the capital of Mozam ...
• 6 September 2010
  AFRICA/BOTSWANA - Providing ARVs to refugees Gaborone (Agenzia Fides) - Botswana was the first country in southern Africa to roll out an antiretroviral (ARV) treatment programme, which now has almost universal coverage, but is among the last to include its relative ...
• 4 September 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Missionaries and concerns for Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa Cape Town (Agenzia Fides) – "The Zimbabwean refugees with whom I have spoken are very concerned about the regularization measure decided on by the South African government, as the situation in their country has not cha ...
• 4 September 2010
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Discrimination in aid: incidents and testimonies Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – There have been a long list of cases reported to Fides on discrimination against Christians, religious minorities, Dalits, the poorest of the poor in humanitarian aid distribution. "The gene ...
• 3 September 2010
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Calm follows 2-day clashes in Maputo; Archbishop Chimoio encourages faithful to pray for the nation Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is slowly returning to calm, although there is less traffic on the streets of the capital because of the transport strike," Fides has been told by a local Church source in Maputo, ...
• 2 September 2010
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Local Church source in Maputo tells Fides about the “spontaneous uprising that took everyone by surprise” Maputo (Agenzia Fides) – "This has been a spontaneous uprising that took everyone by surprise - the government, the opposition parties, and the trade unions. The protest seems to have evolved 'from the bottom up'. SMS ...
• 2 September 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Catholic NGO working against trafficking in human persons Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Between 600,000 and 2,000,000 people each year are victims of human trafficking. Among the countries affected by this crime in Africa is Kenya. According to the Trafficking in Persons Report ( ...
• 2 September 2010
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Raising a child with disabilities, without suitable aid or facilities Dakar (Agenzia Fides) – In Senegal many women refuse to take mentally disabled children on public transport; families hide children with mental or neurological disorders, and some parents disown them outright. Accordin ...
• 1 September 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishops: No to the law on the media, as it “violates the spirit of openness and accountability” of government officials Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of South Africa have “serious concerns about the wisdom and the constitutionality of the Protection of Information Bill currently before Parliament, as well as about the nee ...
• 1 September 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Nairobi seminar on establishing a Catholic information agency for all Africa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “Today communications is taken as the first aeropagus of the modern world, which is unifying humanity and turning it into a global village. Thus, we as Catholic Communicators we expect and wan ...
• 31 August 2010
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Local Fides sources tell of a new rebel group in Central Africa Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – A newly formed rebel group has appeared in the southeastern Central African Republic, according to a report in the international press. Bishop Juan Jose Aguirre Muños, Bishop of Bangassou, sen ...