Africa
22 August 2022
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Four nuns kidnapped in south-east Nigeria
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Four nuns of the Sisters of Jesus the Savior have been kidnapped in Nigeria. Four nuns Johannes Nwodo, Christabel Echemazu, Liberata Mbamalu and Benita Agu were abducted while traveling on the Oki ...
20 August 2022
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Violence in the east of the country: at least 21 dead in attack on gold mine in Bigaragara
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Various armed groups led by former leaders of the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) named Makanika, Sematama, Mitabu and their allies have carried out another massacre of civilians and miners in ...
19 August 2022
AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Confiscate the assets of human traffickers": the campaign also promoted by the Catholic Church is underway
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Confiscate the assets of human traffickers". This was stated by the Auxiliary Bishop of Abuja, Msgr. Anselm Umoren, who together with the president of the Justice, Peace and Development Commissio ...
18 August 2022
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishop André-Giraud of Matadi: Women religious are messengers of happiness
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Msgr André-Giraud Pindi, Bishop of Matadi, celebrated a solemn Mass with the Sisters of Sainte Marie de Matadi on Sunday 14 August in the parish church of Our Lady of Fatima, in Matadi, a mass ...
17 August 2022
AFRICA/KENYA - Announcement of presidential election results: “Let's keep the peace”
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We would like to ask all religious leaders to pray for peace in our country", said Archbishop Anthony Muheria of Nyeri, just after the announcement of William Ruto's victory as President of Ken ...
13 August 2022
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Bishop Bertin: the Church is close to the people and takes steps forward in dialogue with the new government
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - "At the moment the new Somali government is showing good will and it seems that the political process is beginning to work if we take into account that the lower house last Saturday, August 6, ...
12 August 2022
AFRICA/KENYA - Presidential elections: Bishops warn against unreliable projections
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The results of the presidential and parliamentary elections held in Kenya on August 9th have not yet been published. The Independent Electoral Commission (IEBC) has not yet announced when it wil ...
12 August 2022
AFRICA/ESWATINI - The Bishop: “The road to dialogue is marked by uncertainty”
Manzini (Agenzia Fides) - "If I had to summarize the situation eSwatini finds itself in, I would use the term 'uncertainty'. This is the state of mind that best represents and characterizes the situation for some time an ...
11 August 2022
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Attacks on church in Owo: Suspected responsible arrested
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Two other people suspected of being responsible for the massacre on Pentecost Sunday (June 5) at the Catholic Church of St. Francis Xavier in Owo, state of Ondo (see Fides 6/6/2022) have now been ...
10 August 2022
AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Barbarism in Kikwit: a priest murdered by armed bandits
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Bishop Timothée Bodika Mansiyai of Kikwit, is deeply saddened to announce to his faithful and to all people of good will the sad news of the death of Father Godefroid Pembele Mandon. We recom ...
10 August 2022
AFRICA/MALAWI - The Archdiocese of Lilongwe begins the diocesan Synod
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - On July 30, in the Archdiocese of Lilongwe in Malawi, the 2022-2023 "Discerning with the Holy Spirit". It is the third diocesan synod after that of 1973-1975 convened by Bishop Patrick Kalilomb ...
9 August 2022
AFRICA/MALAWI - Jubilee year of the Pontifical Mission Societies: conveying the message through music
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - In view of missionary October and the Sunday dedicated to the missions, the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Malawi presented two songs last Sunday, one in English and one in the local Chi ...
8 August 2022
AFRICA/KENYA - A peace caravan of Franciscan nuns, ahead of the elections
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We wanted to find a simple and direct way to send everyone a message of peace and calm on the eve of the elections (scheduled for next August 9th, ed) and so we have decided to organize a carav ...
6 August 2022
AFRICA/KENYA - "We are each other's guardians", the expectation of the next elections increases in the country
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us share with our neighbours, wherever we are, in villages, towns or cities, the identity of who we are: citizens of our beloved nation, Kenya". Appeals and exhortations from the Kenyan Bis ...
5 August 2022
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - More than 600 hostages of the Islamic State freed in northern Mozambique but attacks continue
Maputo (Agenzia Fides) – More than 600 hostages have been freed by the Rwandan military contingent together with their Mozambican counterparts and the forces of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in the ...
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