Africa
2 February 2022
AFRICA/MALI - "The trust of the people in the military who have taken power is almost total
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "Our country is going through a delicate and complicated political situation, in terms of relations with neighboring countries and with France, and from a geopolitical point of view; It is not ea ...
1 February 2022
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Food, not weapons. Humiliation and trauma: the greatest tragedy of the witnesses of massacres in Tigray
Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the beginning of the conflict in the Ethiopian region of Tigray, nothing is known about some parishes of the Eparchy of Adigrat. We know that foreign soldiers attacked several of them. Pe ...
1 February 2022
AFRICA/DR CONGO - North Kivu: Congolese forces arrest Islamist terrorist from Kenya
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We hear with great interest the news of the arrest of the Islamist terrorist Salim Mohamed by the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on January 29 in the Batangi-Balilaye reg ...
31 January 2022
AFRICA/EGYPT - Qualified presence of Christian publishers at the 53rd International Book Fair in Cairo
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Also this year the International Book Fair hosted in Cairo, now in its 53rd edition in 2022, has registered a substantial number of publishing houses linked to Churches and ecclesial institutions ...
31 January 2022
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Resignation of the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Kinshasa
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 30, 2022, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral government of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), presented by His Exc. ...
31 January 2022
AFRICA/NIGER - The hopes and energy of the little 'kings of darkness', the blind children of Gaya
Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - King of darkness, blind, danawo, koubey koy, in the Djerma language of the peoples who live in the westernmost part of Niger, are some of the insults that young blind students in the inclusive Cat ...
29 January 2022
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Inculturation and evangelization, priorities for future priests
Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "When a priest is rooted in culture, he finds an adequate language for proclaiming the Gospel, as close as possible to the daily reality of the faithful to whom he is addressing", said father Je ...
29 January 2022
AFRICA/UGANDA - Schools have been reopened, a missionary: "Eradicating poverty among children through education"
Moroto (Agenzia Fides) - "In the last two years, in addition to government measures, which have not reached everyone, especially in rural schools, there have been some support projects for education financed from abroad. ...
28 January 2022
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The Bishops remind the coup leaders: "Governing is putting oneself at the service of the common good"
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "We acknowledge the changes that have taken place", say the Bishops of Burkina Faso, where in the night between Sunday 23 and Monday 24 January, a military coup overthrew the civil governmen ...
28 January 2022
AFRICA/TANZANIA - A future of hope for women who become protagonists of a society that ignores their rights
Mwanza (Agenzia Fides) - Many girls between the ages of 9 and 20 who had dropped out of school are coming back to dream, make life plans, look to the future with hope and courage. All this is made possible thanks to the ...
27 January 2022
AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - 5,000-plus deaths under Ethiopia’s Tigray blockade
Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly 5,000 people died of malnutrition in just part of Ethiopia’s blockaded Tigray region over a four-month period last year, including more than 350 young children, a new report by the ...
27 January 2022
AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The contribution of the Church to the formation of new generations through education
Gagnoa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Ivory Coast, gathered at the 120th Plenary Assembly, are debating these days on the centrality of the new generations and on a global educational project that looks at the inte ...
27 January 2022
AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Poverty, disorganization and music: the mission among the Pygmies is beautiful and full of stimuli
Monassao (Agenzia Fides) - "The work of the missionaries here does not consist only in pastoral care strictly understood, such as catechesis and liturgy, but also in helping people to stand up, to invest in the future", ...
26 January 2022
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Calm situation, demonstrations in favor of the military who took power
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - “The situation in Ouagadougou is calm. People move freely without any problems. In the aftermath of the coup, several groups of young people took to the streets to show their support for t ...
25 January 2022
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The military junta introduces itself: the UN condemns the coup
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - The soldiers who overthrew the government of Burkina Faso were seen on national television yesterday, January 24, as they had previously announced (see Fides, 24/1/2022). The spokesperson ...
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