Africa
17 February 2022
AFRICA/MALAWI - Kuwala FM: Catholic radio station, an important instrument of evangelization
Limbe (Agenzia Fides) - "May this radio be an instrument of unity and help us to promote political and cultural tolerance in our country", said the Archbishop of Blantyre, Msgr. Thomas Msusa, on the occasion of the offic ...
16 February 2022
AFRICA/SOMALIA - Appeal by Trocaire and other humanitarian NGOs: "Act now to save millions of Somalis from hunger"
Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - In Somalia, one and a half million children, almost half of the population under five, are at risk of suffering from acute malnutrition due to the drought that has affected more than four mill ...
16 February 2022
AFRICA/ANGOLA - The synodal journey of small Christian communities that are open and welcoming
Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "After eight years of service in Italy, I am joining the parish of the Sagrada Família, recently born in the district of Desvio da Barra, one of the many new anonymous suburbs of Luanda", says F ...
15 February 2022
AFRICA/DR CONGO - A new rebellion is about to break out in South Kivu, according to local human rights activists
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A new rebellion is emerging in the plain of Ruzizi, in the province of South-Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. This was reported in a note sent to Fides by the local NGO AC ...
15 February 2022
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. - "Where nobody wants to go": Doctors with Africa CUAMM reaches more than 200,000 people
Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Finally the last mile! We left the capital of the Central African Republic four years ago, where the country's only pediatric hospital is located. Here we have been called to carry out hard and ...
14 February 2022
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Alarm on the increase in domestic homicides; the lack of religious sense and the detachment of children from their parents are among the possible causes
Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "We have given birth to children of dot.com and globalization. In our time we used to stay with parents, we spent time with them, talking to them, they tell you stories and you stay togeth ...
14 February 2022
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Resignation of Bishop of Yei and appointment
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 11, 2022 Tthe Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Yei (South Sudan), presented by His Exc. Msgr. Erkolano Lodu Tombe. The Holy Father ...
14 February 2022
AFRICA/BENIN - Appointment of Bishop of Djougou
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 12, 2022, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Fr. Bernard de Clairvaux Toha Wontacien, O.S.F.S., until now provincial superior of the Oblates of Saint Francis de Sales in Be ...
12 February 2022
AFRICA/ALGERIA - The new Archbishop Jean-Paul Vesco takes office in Algiers: "our Blessed are light on our path"
Algiers (Agenzia Fides) - An Algerian Church "allied without repentance", which shares all the joys and sorrows of the Algerian people without claiming privileges, and wants to imitate the "discretion" of Jesus at the we ...
12 February 2022
AFRICA/KENYA - A new Lasallian school: "The service of education is part of the evangelical mission"
Homa Bay (Agenzia Fides) - "Building a school in the awareness of the preciousness of the service of education is part of the evangelical mission to give dignity to people, to evangelize communities". This is what Brothe ...
10 February 2022
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Human trafficking, an ancient crime that makes use of modern social media
Pretoria (Agenzia Fides) - "Trafficking is not just being taken from one country to another country and then become a slave. Trafficking is when someone owns someone else’s life and exploiting it", said Jacqueline Four ...
10 February 2022
AFRICA/KENYA - Attention and respect: the health care of Camillian missionaries towards the most vulnerable sections of the population
Karungu (Agenzia Fides) - "All the sick have the right to care, adequate assistance and respect". This is the goal of the St. Camillus Mission Hospital in Karungu (see Fides, 26/11/2004). The hospital, founded and run by ...
9 February 2022
AFRICA/MALAWI - The contribution of the Catholic University Alumni geared to improve special needs education
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "We have resolved that this year, we should assist the project that the University embarked on in buying materials for the special needs laboratory at the main campus in Nguludi", said Nohara C ...
9 February 2022
AFRICA/EGYPT - For the first time a Coptic Christian becomes President of the Supreme Constitutional Court
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi has appointed Coptic Christian judge Boulos Fahmy, currently vice-President of the same institution, as President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egy ...
9 February 2022
AFRICA/RWANDA - We want children to go back to school and start living with their parents again
Butare (Agenzia Fides) - Child labor, disease, hunger, mistreatment are just some of the contexts in which street children are involved in Rwanda. "They do not go to school, they survive by offering their labor and dedic ...
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