Africa
29 March 2004
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “Get up, pick up your mat, and walk forward. Get up and vote. Get up, take an interest in your country” Southern African Bishops Conference urge people in view of elections next month
Pretoria (Fides Service) - “ Get up, roll up your mats of tiredness and disappointment. Get up and walk forward. Get up and vote. Get up, take an interest in your country.”. This was the call launched by the Southern ...
29 March 2004
AFRICA/CONGO RD - Calm returns to Kinshasa after violence on Sunday night in which two government soldiers were killed and several injured
Kinshasa (Fides Service)- Calm has returned to Kinshasa after episodes of fighting in the early hours of Sunday March 28. “City traffic is back to normal and people have gone to work ” a local church source in Kinsha ...
29 March 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Opposition to hold another demonstration today. “Situation calm for the moment” local sources tell Fides
Abidjan (Fides Service)- “People want a return to normality, they want peace, no more violence, dead and wounded” a local Church source in Abidjan economic capital of Ivory Coast told Fides after disorder, on March 2 ...
27 March 2004
DOSSIER - AFRICA/UGANDA - “I was a girl soldier”: the story of Paska
Rome (Fides Service) - Paska was only 14 when she was recruited to fight in the civil war in Uganda. Today she is a woman and she is still fighting, but she is fighting for peace in her country. Paska found the way out o ...
27 March 2004
DOSSIER - AFRICA/UGANDA - In 18 years of civil war rebels have enlisted 35,000 children. AVSI Association of Volunteers for International Development assists children who escaped their captors
Kampala (Fides Service) - In 18 years of civil war in northern Uganda, more than 35,000 children have been abducted and forced to right by the Lord’s Resistance Army LRA. “The figure is realistic although precise fig ...
27 March 2004
DOSSIER - AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - “The most difficult thing is to help the youngsters forced to kill to find their identity again” says Xaverian missionary in Sierra Leone who helps rehabilitation of child soldiers in Sierra Leone
Freetown (Fides Service) - “The most difficult thing is to help the youngsters find their identity again” Father Giuseppe Berton, Xaverian missionary in Sierra Leone told Fides. For years Father Berton has worked to ...
26 March 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Ivory Coast is ever more divided after clashes with police and demonstrators yesterday in which 25 people were killed and many injured. The saddest thing is that no one thinks of the good of the nation
Abidjan (Fides Service)- At least 25 people were killed and many more injured during clashes between the police and demonstrators yesterday 25 March in Abidjan, economic capital of Ivory Coast where a planned Opposition ...
26 March 2004
EUROPE/ITALY - Four hundred thousand people in flight in northern Uganda: “Africa Mission - Cooperation and Development” provides emergency humanitarian aid.
Rome (Fides Service) - With each passing day, the tragedy of civilians in northern Uganda assumes ever more serious dimensions. The central government in Kampala would appear to be unable to counter effectively the inten ...
25 March 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - At least 11 people killed Opposition demonstration interrupted: crucial hour for Ivory Coast
Abidjan (Fides Service)- “The city is holding its breath, all strategic points are heavily manned ” local Church sources in Abidjan told Fides. Today, March 25, Ivory Coast Opposition parties had staged a demonstrati ...
25 March 2004
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Bishops concerned about tension, call for cancellation of Opposition demonstration scheduled for today March 25
Abidjan (Fides Service)- “It is very sad to see that most of the words about peace are anything but peaceful!”. This was affirmed by the Catholic Bishops of Ivory Coast with regard to the climate of tension in the co ...
25 March 2004
AFRICA/ CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Crowds gather for the conclusion of the diocesan Year of the Rosary in Berberati: four days of prayer and catechesis on Mary and the Eucharist
Bangui (Fides Service) - Crowds of faithful gathered for the conclusion of the diocesan Year of the Rosary in the diocese of Berberati Central African Republic. Bishop Agostino Delfino, Bishop di Berberati, presided four ...
24 March 2004
AFRICA/CONGO - Archdiocese of Brazzaville commemorates Cardinal Emile Biayenda abducted and murdered 27 years ago
Brazzaville (Fides Service)- On Monday March 22, the Church in Congo marked the 27th anniversary of the death Cardinal Emile Biayenda, Archbishop of Brazzaville abducted and murdered on 22 March 1977. Requiem Masses were ...
24 March 2004
AFRICA/CONGO - “I cannot be silent before the tragedy of my people ” says Catholic Bishop of Nkayi
Brazzaville (Fides Service)- “The people are hungry, they are suffering and poverty affects every sector of society and the Church cannot remain silent in the face of this tragedy” Bishop Daniel Mizonzo, Bishop of N ...
23 March 2004
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate start new mission in Guinea Bissau geared for dialogue with Muslims and Animists
Bissau (Fides Service)-The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate open a new mission in Guinea Bissau at Farim on the border with Senegal. The mission is run by two priests, Father Celso Corbioli and Father Carlo Andolfi ...
22 March 2004
AFRICA/CHAD -100,000 Sudanese refugees in Chad receive concrete international solidarity. Jesuit Refugee Service and UNHCR provide assistance and safety
N’Djamena (Fides Service) - There are still 100,000 Sudanese refugees in Chad. Various international agencies are intervening to provide assistance.
“We are working with the N’Djamena diocesan Caritas office” F ...
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