Africa
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28 August 2006
AFRICA/UGANDA - Government and rebels agree on a cease fire. “A definite step towards peace but more effort is needed to obtain a lasting result”
Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- “This is a step in the right direction for peace, but prudence is necessary because the path to a lasting agreement is still long” a local Church source in Kampala, capital of Uganda, told Fi ...
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28 August 2006
AFRICA/D. R. CONGO - Elections in Congo. “Voters pass maturity test. Now it is up to politicians to demonstrate their sense of responsibility” says local Catholic priest
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- “The result might be a surprise for the international community but not for us here in Congo” a Catholic priest in Kinshasa Fr Valer Shango told Fides with regard to the outcome of elections ...
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26 July 2006
AFRICA/ D. R. CONGO - Urgent appeal for humanitarian aid as thousands fleeing from east Congo: food supplies running out, malnutrition spreads
Bunia (Agenzia Fides) - Repeated violence in east Congo is causing tens of thousands to abandon homes and fields. Warned that food supplies will soon run out the United Nations World Food Programme has launched an urgent ...
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25 July 2006
AFRICA/UGANDA - First round of talks between Government and Lord’s Resistance Army militias. “a first important towards peace” says Rome based Community of S. Egidio
Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- The first week of peace talks between the Ugandan government and the LRA Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group ended yesterday 24 July.
The delegations met in Juba, government the capital of Sout ...
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25 July 2006
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - “Vote for a better future!” Catholic Bishops lengthy Pastoral Letter in view of end of year elections
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides)- In a pastoral Letter on elections to be held at the end of this year, dated July 14 and entitled “The Truth Shall set you Free” the Catholic Bishops of Zambia say “The coming elections offer ...
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25 July 2006
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - After 13 years Unione Medico Missionaria Italiana concludes longest service of the poor in a third world country
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - After 13 years of mission among the poor people of Mishikishi, in Zambia, the Unione Medico Missionaria Italiana UMMI has concluded its activity and withdrawn.
Since 1993 UMMI has worked in Zambi ...
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22 July 2006
AFRICA/TUNISIA - "Prayer is indispensable for fostering in hearts a desire for justice and reconciliation, the condition for finding solutions for conflict": Day of Pope’s Prayer for Peace, a missionary reports
Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in Tunisia will join Pope’s Benedict XVI initiative for a Day of Prayer and Penance on Sunday 23 July to obtain from God the gift of peace in the Middle East, Fides was informed by Fr ...
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20 July 2006
AFRICA - African Communities in Rome and the pastoral support of the Church (3) - Mauritius, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Not only Catholics frequent the Mauritius community which meets every second Sunday of the month at the Convent of the Sisters of Perpetual Succour in via Merulana 170. "This is an opportunity - c ...
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19 July 2006
AFRICA - African communities in Rome and the pastoral care of the local Church (2) - Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Eritrea
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Ghanaian community is one of the smallest African communities in Rome: in the beginning in 2001 it was formed of only ten Catholics. Today there are 50 and a chaplain Fr Joseph Blay. "We only m ...
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18 July 2006
AFRICA - African communities in Rome and the pastoral support of the local Church (1) - (Comboni Association for Service of Emigrants and Refugees) D. Congo, Cape Verde
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - No less than 29 African countries have a significant presence in Rome, not to mention personnel at African embassies and Africans working with UN organisations such as FAO and IFAD. This has encour ...
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14 July 2006
AFRICA/SOMALIA - “Outside interventions can be counter productive unless there is precise knowledge of the situation” says Bishop Bertin Apostolic Administrator di Mogadishu
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- “For about a century the Catholic Church has dedicated her service-witness to the poor in Somalia. She did this under colonialism, then with the first Republic, the regime of Siad Barre and i ...
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14 July 2006
AFRICA/EGYPT - Children from Mansheya garbage collectors district in Cairo make progress at school run by Italian Comboni missionary
Cairo (Agenzia Fides)- “In June last year our work had been in a situation of stall for several months. We wanted to start a course of adult primary education but the prospects were not very hopeful” says Italian Com ...
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13 July 2006
AFRICA/SUDAN - 18 months on from the peace agreement southern Sudan begins to live again and hope for the future
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- “There are numerous signs of general increase of movement and trade in southern Sudan” said Noelle Fitzpatrick, regional head of Jesuit Refugee Service for East Africa. During a recent visit ...
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13 July 2006
AFRICA/D. CONGO - Kinshasa Hospital patients benefit from local Church’s civic education programme. Electoral campaign underway, candidates concerned for 5 million extra ballot papers
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- Even hospital patients in Kinshasa, capital of Democratic Congo are benefiting from the programme of civic education offered by the Catholic archdiocese, thanks to Sr. Francine Buys, a Francisc ...
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12 July 2006
AFRICA/UGANDA - Annual Holy Childhood Celebration in Uganda. “Peace cannot wait” says Catholic Archbishop of Gulu in northern Uganda where children are the principal victims in 20 years of civil war
Gulu - Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu in northern Uganda launched a call to the Ugandan government and the rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army to reach a peace agreement. The Catholic archbishop made the appeal ...
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