Africa

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  17 January 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Tensions between Juba and Khartoum after the massacres of South Sudanese in Wad Madani Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, January 16, riots broke out in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, where demonstrators took to the streets to protest against the massacre of South Sudanese in neighboring Sudan. Some cr ...
• 16 January 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - Appointment of coadjutor bishop of Meru Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Jackson Murugara, I.M.C, until now parish priest and rector of the Consolata Shrine in the archdiocese of Nairobi, as coadjutor bishop of Meru ...
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  16 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - At least 600 militiamen lay down their arms in Ituri Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - In a significant step towards peace, at least 600 militiamen have decided to lay down their arms and join the Disarmament, Demobilization, Community Reintegration and Stabilization Program (P-D ...
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  16 January 2025
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Christmas in the Catholic community of Robe: “Recognizing the flesh of Christ in the most vulnerable brothers and sisters” Robe (Agenzia Fides) - “The Christmas season here in Ethiopia ends with the Feast of Timkat, the Ethiopian Orthodox Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, which in the theology and ecclesial practice of the Orthodox Church ...
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  15 January 2025
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Bishops: "The tax burden is strangling the citizens" Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "The tax burden is strangling the country," say the Bishops of Cameroon in the message published at the end of their Plenary Assembly in Buea, in the south-west of the country. "One of the ca ...
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  15 January 2025
  AFRICA/GHANA - Bishops call on new President to approve the Bill on family values Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "What we want is that it is made into a law," said the President of the Episcopal Conference of Ghana and Bishop of Sunyani, Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi, during his meeting yesterday (January 14) with Pr ...
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  14 January 2025
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Tensions remain high on the eve of the inauguration of the new President Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Today, January 14, the new Mozambican Parliament, which emerged from the general elections of October 9 (see Fides, 22/10/2024), was inaugurated. However, the opposition parties, which contest th ...
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  13 January 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Two nuns kidnapped in south-east Nigeria released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "I am happy to announce that our dear sisters Vincentia Maria Nwankwo and Grace Mariette Okoli, kidnapped on the evening of January 7, 2025, have been unconditionally released and in good health". ...
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  13 January 2025
  AFRICA/BENIN - Bishops express condolences for soldiers killed in recent jihadist assault Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - Condolences for the soldiers killed in the jihadist assault on January 8, an appeal to young people to avoid joining the ranks of cybercrime, and a wish for peaceful elections. These are the rel ...
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  13 January 2025
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Human wealth, hospitality, faith rooted in the life of the people of the village of Kom Ghareeb, told by a missionary Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "This year I have had the joy and grace to celebrate Christmas twice. On December 25, I celebrated the birth of Jesus like all Catholics in the parish of Shubra, in Cairo. Then, on January 7, I ce ...
• 11 January 2025
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appointment of bishop of Yokadouma Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Justin Georges Ebengue, of the clergy of Batouri, until now rector of the Notre Dame de l’Espérance Interdiocesan Major Seminary of Bertoua, as ...
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  10 January 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - In North Kivu: heavy fighting between the army and the M23 Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 290,000 people were forced to flee in December due to fighting in the Lubero region of North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is what the latest report of t ...
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  9 January 2025
  AFRICA/CHAD - Doubts and many questions after the mysterious attack on the presidential palace N'Djamena (Agenzia Fides) - "It is difficult to know exactly what happened last night," local sources in N'Djamena tell Fides. In the capital of Chad, an armed group attacked the presidential palace yesterday evening, Ja ...
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  9 January 2025
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Angolan faithful pray for the Mozambican population: "The true battlefield is the human heart, from which evil and peace arise" Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us pray for Mozambique caught in a spiral of violence that is not the remedy for our fractured world. Violence breeds more violence, causing suffering, anguish, and forced migration," Fr. C ...
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  9 January 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Two nuns kidnapped in southeastern Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Two members of the Sisters’ Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Mother of Christ (IHM) in Anambra State, southeastern Nigeria were abducted on the evening of Tuesday, January 7, 2025. ...