Africa

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  4 July 2024
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Not only cocaine: priests call for the fight against drug trafficking Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - "As a Church, we are concerned about the damage caused by drugs because they destabilize the country, ruin the economy and their trafficking is seen as an easy way to enrich themselves," say the ...
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  4 July 2024
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Protection of the dignity and sacredness of all human life: the diocese of Kasese against human trafficking Kasese (Agenzia Fides) - Each human being is precious and worth much more than any material good, and since each life is a gift from God and is sacred, it deserves to be protected and cared for; each of us has the respon ...
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  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Establishment of the Diocese of Bentiu and appointment of His Exc. Msgr Christian Carlassare as first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 3, the Holy Father established the Catholic Diocese of Bentiu (South Sudan), with territory dismembered from the Diocese of Malakal, making it a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdi ...
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  3 July 2024
  AFRICA/SUDAN - No glimmer of peace seems to be in sight while the humanitarian situation is increasingly dramatic Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "We are continuing in this battle until victory, and I repeat once again that we will not negotiate with an enemy who attacks us and occupies our lands." This is how General Abdel Fattah al-Bur ...
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  3 July 2024
  AFRICA/BENIN - A missionary from the Society of African Missions: “To proclaim the Gospel to the most abandoned peoples, especially in Africa” Calavi (Agenzia Fides) - "After ten months at the International Center for Spirituality in Calavi, together with 40 seminarians and five formators from fifteen different nations, we have reached the culmination of our pa ...
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  2 July 2024
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Turkey mediates between Somalia and Ethiopia over Somaliland naval deal crisis Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Turkey plays a mediating role in the crisis between Somalia and Ethiopia over the naval agreement that the latter signed at the beginning of the year with the breakaway region of Somaliland (s ...
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  2 July 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Suicide bombings in Gwoza: is it a rivalry between jihadists for control of the area? Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The number of victims of the quadruple bombings carried out on June 29 in Gwoza, in Borno state, in north-eastern Nigeria, has risen to 32. Some of the 50 or so wounded died in hospital, where the ...
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  1 July 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops address young protesters: "Your hopes are our hopes" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "This is an explicit recognition by the pastors of the Catholic Church of the goodness of the aspirations of the new generation of young people who want a change in society," said an observer fr ...
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  28 June 2024
  AFRICA - Illegal financial flows: African countries lose over 88 billion dollars every year Tunis (Fides Agency) - More than 88 billion dollars are lost illegally to African countries every year. This was denounced yesterday, June 27, by the Executive Chairman of the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commi ...
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  27 June 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Protests against the finance bill triggered something bigger" Nairobi (Fides Agency) - "The impression is that the withdrawal of the tax law is now totally insufficient to stop the anger of the people", says an observer from church circles in Nairobi, where yesterday, June 26, Pres ...
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  26 June 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - "People are taking to the streets because they are desperate" Nairobi ( Fides Agency) - "It was a real popular protest, initially peaceful, even if provocateurs and thugs mingled with the demonstrators", Father Alfonso Poppi, of the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St. Ch ...
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  25 June 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Further protests against the draft budget Nairobi (Fides Agency) - New protests are underway this morning, June 25, against the financial bill presented by the Kenyan government that includes the introduction of new taxes (see Fides 21/6/2024). In Nairobi, secu ...
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  24 June 2024
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Mikah Suleiman kidnapped Abuja (Fides Agency ) - The parish priest of St. Raymond's Church in Damba (Gusau) in Zamfara State in northwestern Nigeria, Mikah Suleiman, was abducted by armed men who broke into the rectory on Saturday, June 22, at a ...
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  24 June 2024
  AFRICA/KENYA - Some will be waiting for Sister Ida at the door of heaven by Pascale Rizk Nairobi (Fides Agency ) – "Sister Ida left us suddenly on Sunday, June 16 shortly before 7 p.m. After praying the vespers together with the community in Nairobi, she felt sick suddenly in the kitchen ...
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  22 June 2024
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Coadjutor Bishop of Bangassou: “Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you” Bangassou (Agenzia Fides) - From Bozoum to Bangassou. From "simple" missionary to coadjutor bishop. This is what happened to Aurelio Gazzera, who worked for 17 years as a Carmelite missionary in Bozoum, in the north-west ...