Africa
12 May 2006
AFRICA -Desertification of the planet continues relentless, a problem affecting one third of humanity, Africa the continent most affected
Rome (Fides Service) - Desertification of the planet continues relentless and is considered a major threat to the lives and rights of millions of people mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa, Horn of Africa and Central Asia. A Un ...
11 May 2006
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Experience of Fr Jean Paul Kabore: from Christ the King parish at Baskouré, Burkina Faso to St. Francis of Assisi parish at Bordj El Kiffan (Algeria)
Algiers (Fides Service) - Fr Jean Paul Kabore from Christ the King parish at Baskouré in Burkina Faso, has been on mission for some months in Algeria. In Koupela diocesan ‘Bullettin d’information et de liaison’ he ...
10 May 2006
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - World Food Programme continues distribution of food airdrops to Katanga province but lacks funds necessary to reach other people in need
Kinshasa (Fides Service) - United Nations World Food Programme WFP has completed a first food airlift in Katanga province in south east Democratic Congo to about 34,700 refugees but warns that due to shortage of funds it ...
10 May 2006
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Pentecost Sunday Global Day of Prayer for peace and transformation on the African continent. The initiative will continue until 2010
Cape Town (Fides Service) - South African Christians will participate in a Global Day of repentance and prayer on Pentecost Sunday, June 4, along with others in Africa who will pray for peace and transformation on the co ...
5 May 2006
AFRICA/SUDAN - The main group of rebels in the Darfur signs the peace agreement presented by the international mediators
Khartoum (Fides Agency)- After a series of sudden surprises, a partial agreement was reached at Abuja (Nigeria) to bring back peace to the Darfur, the tormented region of western Sudan, the setting of a tragic civil conf ...
5 May 2006
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Draught alert for the “granary of Guinea Bissau"
Bissau (Fides Agency) - “A tragic crisis”: were the words the government of Guinea Bissau used to describe the food crisis in the south of the country. The local authorities launched a powerful appeal to the internat ...
28 April 2006
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “Go north young man!”: history of Jesuits in Southern Africa
Pretoria (Fides Service) - The Bishop of Grahamstown in the Cape Province, South Africa, in 1879 asked for Jesuits. He offered them a school in Grahamstown in the hope this would serve as a springboard for the missionary ...
27 April 2006
AFRICA/SENEGAL - The World Youth Day Cross in Senegal: “An event which gave new vitality to the Christian community ” National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies reports
Dakar (Fides Service)- “An exceptional event involving the whole Christian community ” said Fr. Giuseppe Giordano, OMI, National Director of the Pontifical Mission in Senegal, describing the arrival in Dakar in Holy ...
26 April 2006
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Caritas mobilised to assist at least 30,000 people trapped by fighting near the Senegal border
Bissau (Fides Service) - Caritas Guinea-Bissau is helping at least 30,000 people completely isolated because of fighting around the towns of Varela and Suzana in northern Guinea Bissau near the border with Senegal.
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26 April 2006
AFRICA - By 2015 sub-Saharan Africa will need 1.6 million teachers says UNESCO
Rome (Fides Service)- In sub-Saharan Africa teachers are ever scarcer and the number will drop further in the coming decade. This was said by the United Nations office for education, science and culture UNESCO in a repor ...
25 April 2006
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Alarm for increasing domestic violence
Dar Es Salaam (Fides Service)- Sofia Simba Tanzanian minister for Conditions of Women and Children has sounded the alarm over increasing domestic violence on women in the country.
Quoting a World Health Organisation re ...
25 April 2006
AFRICA/GUINEA - Jesuit Refugee Service concerned for women forced into prostitution because of cuts in international funds for refugee camps
Conakry (Fides Service)- The Jesuit Refugee Service in Guinea reports that cuts in funding to Liberian refugees has led many young women to turn to prostitution to pay for school fees.
At the end of the school year 200 ...
24 April 2006
AFRICA/UGANDA - Commission established for Catholic Education
Kampala (Fides Service- With a colourful and participated ceremony on 22 April at Cardinal Nsubuga Leadership Training Centre, the Church in Uganda established its own Commission for Catholic Education. Archbishop Paul B ...
24 April 2006
AFRICA/LIBERIA - Programme completed: 314,000 internally displaced Liberians return home
Monrovia (Fides Service)- The UN High Commission for Refugees UNHCR operation to help about 314,000 internally displaced Liberians return to their districts of origin was completed last week. During civil war in Liberia ...
21 April 2006
AFRICA/KENYA -President of Kenya announces national day of inter-religious prayer
Nairobi (Fides Service) - The President of Kenya Mwai Kibaki announced a national day of inter-religious prayer for today 21 April to commemorate the victims of the air crash last week (see Fides 12 April 2006). On 10 Ap ...
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