Africa
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5 April 2005
AFRICA/SENEGAL - “Young Catholics in Senegal promise to shoulder their responsibilities as baptised Christians following the example of John Paul II” said a missionary in Senegal
Abidjan (Fides Service)- “I am in the car travelling back from a visit to eastern Senegal 400 km from Abidjan where I met many young people deeply upset by the news of the death of the Pope” said Italian missionary F ...
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5 April 2005
AFRICA/LIBERIA - On Friday 8 April in Monrovia a requiem Mass for the Pope will coincide with the funeral Mass in St Peter’s in Rome
Monrovia (Fides Service)- “Yesterday in Monrovia we celebrated a solemn Mass for the Holy Father. It was an official service attended by representatives of the United Nations and other leading personalities, as well a ...
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5 April 2005
AFRICA/TOGO - Togo declares National Mourning for John Paul II: grieving Catholics fill churches
Lome (Fides Service)- “Our whole nation is mourning the passing of John Paul II” Father Carlos Olympio, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Togo told Fides. “Grieving Catholics attend the praye ...
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5 April 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Thousands expected to attend Requiem Mass for John Paul II in Bukavu at the same time as the Funeral Mass in Rome
Bukavu (Fides Service)- “We have organised a death watch for the Pope” said Xaverian Father Luigi Lo Stocco, Director of Radio Maria Queen of Peace in Bukavu, east Democratic Congo.
“We are in profound communion ...
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5 April 2005
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The bishops of southern Africa mourn the Pope who asked for forgiveness for the slave trade carried out in the name of Christianity
Pretoria (Fides Agency) - “His death, after he bore his sickness with dignity and faith, put an end to 26 years of pontificate. During these years he has guided the Church with extraordinary charisma”. In a message s ...
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5 April 2005
AFRICA/ALGERIA - “Your Father has died: we share your mourning”. Algerian Muslims offer their condolences to the local Catholics
Algiers (Fides Agency) - “Your Father has died: our condolences”. With these words the Algerian Muslims share the mourning of the small local Catholic Community for the death of Pope John Paul II. Sources of the Whit ...
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3 April 2005
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - A photograph of John Paul II hugging two little Malagasy children in his arms will remain forever in the hearts of the people of Madagascar
Antananarivo (Fides Service)- “Malagasy Catholics are stricken with grief for the death of John Paul II. People are flocking to churches to pray for him” said Reverend Luca Treglia, who works with Radio Don Bosco in ...
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3 April 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - The Pope is mourned in Congo particularly at the shrine of Isiro-Niangara the burial place of the country’s first martyr beatified by John Paul II twenty years ago
Isiro-Niangara (Fides Service)- “On behalf of the people of Isiro-Niangara diocese in north east Democratic Congo, the people of Congo in general and those in the town Isiro where there is the Bishop’s Residence, I ...
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3 April 2005
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - “A wonderful Pope” says Cardinal Armand Razafindratandra from Madagascar
Antananarivo (Fides Service)- “A wonderful Pope who will remain forever in the hearts of the people of Madagascar who remember with affection the visit Pope John Paul II made to Madagascar in 1989. The Malagasy are par ...
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3 April 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Young Catholics in Bukavu gather around their World Youth Day Cross to give their embrace to Pope John Paul II
Bukavu (Fides Service)- “People are crowding into parish churches across the country for special prayers for the Pope” said Fr Gianni Bretagnani, regional Superior of the Xaverian missionaries in Bukavu in the east o ...
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2 April 2005
AFRICA/SUDAN - Even in the poorest and remotest regions of Sudan people are praying for the Pope
Turalei (Fides Service)- Even in the remote region of the Nuba Mountains in the heart of Sudan people are praying for the Holy Father. “Bishop Macram Max Gassis of El Obeid, went to that area to preside Easter liturgie ...
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2 April 2005
AFRICA/EGYPT - Catholics in Egypt who share the later Season of Lent with Orthodox majority, offer Rosary, Stations of the Cross, Masses for the Pope and his intentions. Egyptian Muslims also pray for the Pontiff, a man of peace and unity says Chaldean Bishop Youssef Sarraf from Cairo
Cairo (Fides Service) - Catholics in Egypt are praying intensely for the Pope. The community has just entered the season of Lent in preparation for Easter which it celebrates in early May with the Copt Orthodox majority ...
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2 April 2005
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Catholics in Guinea Bissau shed tears as they pray for the Pope
Bissau (Fides Service)- “Yesterday the church was filled with people who had come to pray for the Pope and I saw many faces lined with tears” said Italian PIME missionary Father Dioniso Ferraro, parish priest at Our ...
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2 April 2005
AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “As soon as the news was given that the Pope’s condition had become critical the town ground to a halt” a missionary in Bukavu told Fides
Bukavu (Fides Service)- “The whole town has been praying for the Pope since yesterday. In church people recite the rosary and take part in Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Young members of movements, for example Cat ...
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1 April 2005
AFRICA/UGANDA - A ‘Hail Mary’ for the Pope on the lips of an Italian missionary working among 1.5 million refugees in northern Uganda
Kitgum (Fides Service)- “Pray for us now and at the hour of our death”, Father Tarcisio Pazzaglia, Italian missionary in northern Uganda prays instinctively as he learns from Fides the critical situation of the Pope ...
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