Africa
23 June 2005
AFRICA/MALAWI - Impeachment for President Bingu wa Mutharika. “Democracy is threatened” says a missionary in a country on the brink of famine,
Lilongwe ( Fides Service)- “After eleven years of democracy, following 30 years of dictatorship, we appear to be threatened with a return of the past” said a missionary in Malawi where today 23 June, a motion was pre ...
22 June 2005
AFRICA/TOGO - “We offer words of comfort to all. May Mary Queen of Peace protect the destiny of our country”: Catholic Bishops address the nation
Lome (Fides Service)- "The unprecedented and difficult situation before and during presidential elections on 24 April may have discouraged many. But to give way to discouragement would only make things worse. Help can on ...
22 June 2005
AFRICA/SUDAN - “Power sharing between people who live along the Nile and those who don’t is the reason for Sudan’s conflicts” a Comboni missionary tells Fides
Khartoum (Fides Service)- “I am sadly not surprised that after the western region of Darfur now also eastern Sudan threatens to explode” Italian Comboni missionary Fr Giovanbattista Antonini, with years of experience ...
22 June 2005
EUROPE/AFRICA - The Church in Togo wants to make the nation’s difficult situation known to public opinion, it calls for help for the people in danger of losing courage: final Message issued after Meeting between Italian missionaries and local Church in Togo
Lome (Fides Service) - “The Church in Togo would like to make a gift to the Church in Italy of its festive liturgy, the vitality of its communities which strive to become self supporting, the valorisation of the laity, ...
21 June 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Dramatic report from Luhwinja and Burinyi in south east Democratic Congo where war never stopped: although our country is rich we have to beg for clothes
Bukavu (Fides Service) - This is one of the many forgotten wars. Here in the south eastern Kivu region of Democratic Congo guerrilla groups continue to terrorise the people despite the official peace agreement. Fides rec ...
21 June 2005
AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - “Countless numbers of men, women with babies, children of school age, the old and the sick, continue to sleep in the open air at winter temperatures near to freezing” Catholic Bishops of Zimbabwe protest against government’s shanty town operation ‘clean up’
Harare (Fides Service)- The secretary general of the United Nations Organisation Kofi Annan has appointed Tanzanian Anna Kajumolo Tibaijuka UN special envoy to investigate alleged abuse by security forces during the Mura ...
20 June 2005
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - “Our country’s poverty is a result of widespread corruption” Archbishop Fulgence Rabeony of Toliara President of the Bishops’ Conference of Madagascar told Fides
Rome (Fides Service). “Poverty is the principle problem of our country and from it all the others are derived”. Archbishop Fulgence Rabeony of Toliara President of the Bishops’ Conference of Madagascar told Fides. ...
20 June 2005
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - “Compared to 30 years ago the regional and ethnical factor is much more keenly felt” local observer comments first round of presidential elections
Bissau (Fides Service)- “Yes the elections was peaceful and this is a positive fact in itself but the important thing will be the results to see if the electorate had the maturity to go beyond traditional ethnic divisi ...
20 June 2005
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Info:
Antananarivo (Fides Service)- Madagascar, called the “big island”, has an area of 617,249sq km and a population of more than 16 million people belonging to various ethnic groups each with different customs and tradit ...
17 June 2005
AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO - “Moral decadence in the West is starting to affect Africa” a mission in the Republic of Congo told Fides. “Therefore I welcome the pro-family demonstration in Madrid on June 18”
Brazzaville (Fides Service)- “Every day the family comes under attack, troops and militiamen engage in violence against poor, helpless women and mothers ” said a Holy Ghost Father on mission in the Pool region of the ...
17 June 2005
AFRICA/UGANDA - The Catholic Bishops of East Africa are convinced AIDS will be defeated, Africa must not lose hope
Kampala (Fides Service)- “We invite the Clergy, the Religious, the lay Faithful, governments and non-governmental agencies in Africa and beyond, and all people of good will, to join hands and work side by side with us ...
16 June 2005
AFRICA/EGYPT - “It is paradoxical that the tiny Christian community here which has to struggle every day to preserve its special identity should bear the consequences of moral relativism in Europe” a Catholic priest in Cairo told Fides commenting the June 18 pro-family demonstration in Spain
Cairo (Fides Service)- “As an Egyptian Christian I express solidarity with the organisers and participants at the pro-family demonstration in Madrid” Catholic Egyptian priest in Cairo Fr Samir told Fides with regard ...
16 June 2005
AFRICA/RWANDA - “As African Christians today we look with dismay at Europe for so many centuries the beacon of Christianity and now slipping ever further down the slope of de-Christianisation” Catholic Bishop of Gikongoro tells Fides
Kigali (Fides Service)- “We share the concern of the Church in Spain and indeed all over the world for this attack on the family which is an institution of natural law” Rwandan Bishop Augustin Misago of Gikongoro tol ...
16 June 2005
AFRICA/MOROCCO - “Difficulties we experience can help us discover God’s plan for us” Catholic Bishops of North Africa say at the end of a plenary meeting
Rabat (Fides Service)- The conditions of migrants and scarcity of jobs for local young people were among the main concerns discussed by the Catholic Bishops of North Africa meeting in Rabat Morocco 9-12 June for the Spri ...
15 June 2005
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - “The family, born of humanity’s God-given natural law must be supported always” says President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Madagascar
Rome (Fides Service)- “The natural institution of the family which has its origin in God must be supported always and every initiative to this purpose is very welcome” said Archbishop Fulgence Rabeony, S.I., of Tolia ...
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