Africa

• 15 March 2010
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Marlene's Story: a 13-year-old girl spends 540 days as a slave of LRA guerrillas Bangassou (Agenzia Fides) – We often speak of children and child soldiers, abducted and enslaved by Ugandan rebels LRA (Lord's Resistance Army), a military group that is raging on the northeastern part of the Democrati ...
• 13 March 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Archbishop of Jose tells Fides: “It is time that political leaders do their part and address the root causes of violence,” Archbishop of Jos tells Fides Jos (Agenzia Fides) – "The politicians must take the bull by the horns and address the root causes of these cyclical episodes of violence. I will not tire of repeating: the real causes of violence are not religious, bu ...
• 12 March 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “We call on all students to be open and generous to the world-wide missionary apostolate of the Church”: Final Statement from Young Catholic Students of Nigeria (YCSN) Benin City (Agenzia Fides) – The Young Catholic Students of Nigeria (YCSN) have issued an explicit invitation calling Nigerian youth to be missionaries, at the end of their National Meeting held in Benin City, at Holy ...
• 10 March 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Nuncio Montemayor visiting Guinea Bissau Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – Archbishop Luis Mariano Montemayor, Apostolic Nuncio to Guinea-Bissau, is paying a visit to the local church, to the two dioceses of Guinea Bissau and Bafata (see Fides 25/2/2010). According to ...
• 10 March 2010
  AFRICA/RWANDA - “Bread, Life, Peace, and Freedom”: 4th continental meeting for Catholic Action Movements in East Africa in Kigali Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - “Bread, Life, Peace, and Freedom.” These are the issues at the heart of the Fourth Continental Meeting of Catholic Action movements in East Africa which opens today in Kigali, Rwanda, on the ...
• 10 March 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - “A New Journey with a New Spirit”: Consolata Missionaries highlight support for evangelization Muranga (Agenzia Fides) – Over 100 delegates of the lay movement of the Consolata Missionaries recently met for a three-day meeting at Sagana Retreat Center in Muranga (Kenya), with the aim of strengthening the movemen ...
• 10 March 2010
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Acts of violence in recent days are setback to polio vaccinations for children Dakar (Agenzia Fides) – The vaccination campaign against polio, which had been planned in the city of Jos, involved in serious incidents of violence, has been postponed to March 13, due to conflict and a strike of heal ...
• 8 March 2010
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Measles continues to affect half of the districts in the country Harare (Agenzia Fides) – An outbreak of measles has hit 28 of the 62 districts of Zimbabwe and is still spreading. Efforts to vaccinate people are hampered by local religious beliefs. According to the latest Epidemiolo ...
• 6 March 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Lenten collections go to help seminaries Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – The offerings of the faithful of Bissau, collected during Lent 2010, will be sent to support the seminaries of the diocese. Until now, the seminaries have been supported by benefactors of siste ...
• 4 March 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Five-year campaign to fight violence against women launched Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the World Cup 2010, which will be held in South Africa from June 11 to July 11, a five-year campaign to stop violence against women (VAW) and girls will be launched. Or ...
• 4 March 2010
  AFRICA/TOGO - Presidential elections begin Lome (Agenzia Fides) – Seven candidates are running for Head of State in the elections that open today, March 4, in Togo. There are little more than 3 million voters called to the polls. The strongest candidates are th ...
• 4 March 2010
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Violence of Ugandan LRA guerillas: Bishop of Bangassou tells Fides his experience Rome (Agenzia Fides) – “The LRA rebels have caused serious damage but it is mainly the psychological and human losses that sadden me most," Fides was told by Bishop Juan Jose Aguirre Munos, Bishop of Bangassou, whose ...
• 3 March 2010
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Over 80 dead and 400 missing following landslide on Mount Elgon; missionary station destroyed Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – More than 80 are dead and 400 are missing according to an initial report on the landslide caused by heavy rains that fell in Uganda, in the District of Bududa, on the slopes of Mount Elgon loc ...
• 3 March 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Recent violence is no threat to peace talks between government and main rebel group in Darfur Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – “The news from Darfur on new fighting comes as no surprise. It was sadly predictable that groups excluded from the agreement under Doha would try to be make their presence known in this way ...
• 3 March 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - New manual to enhance mother and child health in sub-Saharan Africa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Sub-Saharan Africa will soon have a manual on mother/child healthcare, that will help reduce deaths of these two groups and enhance healthcare for mothers, infants, and children in general. T ...