Africa
23 April 2008
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Nunciature also suffers damages from further attacks on Bujumbura
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - “No one has been injured or killed and the material damages have been fairly minor,” sources from the Nunciature in Bujumbura told Agenzia Fides, after it was hit by a mortar explosion tha ...
22 April 2008
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Veterans of the war for independence, a threat to Zimbabwe’s future
Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Are the veterans from the war for independence the President Robert Mugabe’s last card in the play for power versus the opposition? Judging by recent events, the answer would be “yes.” Firs ...
22 April 2008
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - “If nothing is done, we shall soon be witnessing genocide”: appeal from the Christian Churches of Zimbabwe to the international community
Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives from the Christian Churches in Zimbabwe have launched an appeal to the international community, asking that they intervene in their country’s crisis. In a statement sent to Agen ...
21 April 2008
AFRICA/BURUNDI - Peace returns to Bujumbura: “with their attack, the rebels have sent a sign; now they await a response”
Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - After three days of fighting between the army and rebel forces of the Forces for National Liberation (FNL), peace and calm have returned to Bujumbura, Burundi’s capital city. “Yesterday, A ...
21 April 2008
AFRICA/GHANA - “It is time for wealthier nations to rethink old-fashioned programmes of agricultural subsidies that penalize poorer nations,” says UN Secretary General
Accra (Agenzia Fides) - “It is time for wealthier nations to rethink old-fashioned programmes of agricultural subsidies. Economists agree that they inhibit trade and disproportionately penalize poorer nations, contribu ...
17 April 2008
AFRICA - Food emergency and hunger map
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - 36 countries have been heavily hit by the increase in the cost of food supplies. Of these 36, 21 are in Africa, 9 in Asia, 4 in Latin America, and 2 in Europe. A study performed by the FAO, the Foo ...
16 April 2008
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - “Make an effort in maintaining a clean and honest vote”: Ivory Coast’s Bishops speak out following the announcement of upcoming presidential elections
Abijan (Agenzia Fides) - “Now that the elections dates have been made public, we ask that the people of Ivory Coast begin working peacefully in preparation for the elections, that they may be clean and honest.” This ...
15 April 2008
AFRICA/KENYA - A new era in the evangelization of Africa with the publication of the new Catechism of the Catholic Church, edited by the Kenyan Bishops’ Conference
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Following the publication of “The Catechism of the Catholic Church” and the “Compendium to the Catechism of the Catholic Church,” in English and Swahili (the two official languages in Ke ...
15 April 2008
AFRICA - Faced with the “alimentary tsunami” that threatens the world, “handouts” are not enough - a worldwide plan is needed to give a boost to agriculture in Africa and other underprivileged areas
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - International economic institutions are all hearing the same alarming news: the world is facing a serious food crisis that threatens to destroy the progress made, in recent decades, among the world ...
15 April 2008
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Cardinal Barbarin, Archbishop of Lyons, in Madagascar for the 50th anniversary of the Cistercian monastery of Maromby
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Archbishop of Lyons, gladly responded to the invitation from the Cistercian monastery of Maromby, in Madagascar, to preside the 50th anniversary of its foundatio ...
14 April 2008
AFRICA/KENYA - New Kenyan government must face Mungiki violence in protest of the death of the leader’s wife
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - “A government for peace,” read the front page article in the periodical “The Nation,” on the many-times reformed national constitution. On April 13, President Mwai Kibaki appointed oppos ...
14 April 2008
AFRICA - Two missionaries killed in Kenya and Guinea remembered by the Holy Father
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The two missionaries remembered by Pope Benedict XVI in the recitation of the Regina Caeli on Sunday, April13 are Fr. Brian Thorp, Mill Hill missionary of 77 years of age, whose lifeless corpse was ...
11 April 2008
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - “We ask that a international mediator of the stature of Kofi Annan intervene in the Zimbabwean crisis”: appeal from Bishops of Southern Africa
Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Botswana, South Africa, and Swaziland (gathered at the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference), in a statement issued immediately prior to the Summit meeting of Southern A ...
11 April 2008
AFRICA/UGANDA - Peace signings adjourned in northern Uganda
Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - “We have returned to Uganda and we will stay here until the head of the negotiation tells us that the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is read to sign.” With these words Ruhakana Rugunda, Mini ...
10 April 2008
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Extraordinary Summit of 14 southern African nations for the crisis in Zimbabwe
Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The crisis in Zimbabwe worsens and the 14 countries that form part of the South African Development Community (SADC) are holding an extraordinary Summit meeting in Lusaka in order to find a commo ...
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