Africa

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  25 October 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - School Children We Are for Peace: students celebrate the annual Day of Catholic schools Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - While the country continues to experience a very serious humanitarian crisis, the children of the diocese of Tombura Yambio do not give up celebrating the Day of Catholic schools with the ...
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  23 October 2021
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Social crisis, a coup is feared: for the Bishop of El Obeid, the "future is uncertain" El Obeid (Agenzia Fides) - "Life in Sudan is very hard at the moment, we miraculously survive. Everything is very expensive, transport, food and the people have no bread. This situation is intolerable for the population ...
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  23 October 2021
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Fire at the headquarters of the Catholic Secretariat of the Bishops' Conference: "I ask all of you to pray for us", says the National Director of the country's Pontifical Societies Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - On Tuesday, October 19, around 10.30 in the morning, a fire broke out in the National Catholic Secretariat of the Bishops' Conference of Liberia (CABICOL). This is how the General Secretary, ...
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  23 October 2021
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Scalabrinian: Missionary Day brings us back to our communities around the world and to the new mission of Cabo Delgado Pemba (Agenzia Fides) - 125 years have passed since the foundation of the Congregation of the Scalabrinian Missionary Sisters. The Scalabrinian Year will begin next November 9, on the 25th anniversary of the beatificatio ...
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  22 October 2021
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Interventions against child malnutrition and for the care of pregnant women Muyanza (Agenzia Fides) - Two years after the end of the project for nutritional and health support for women and children in Muyanza, in the Rulindo district, concluded in 2019, Omar Fiordalisio, cooperating representat ...
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  21 October 2021
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Preserving and increasing faith and traditions: the bishops inaugurate the works in view of the synod Kiyinda-Mityana (Agenzia Fides) - "In this synod on synodality Pope Francis has invited all of us bishops to be together as Christians and share the Gospel", said Msgr. Anthony Zziwa, bishop of the diocese of Kiyinda-Mit ...
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  20 October 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Politics is not war: this is the democracy we want Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The launch of the Party of African Peoples-Ivory Coast (Ppa-ci) promoted by former president of Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo can be considered both a masterful lesson in politics and the seed sow ...
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  19 October 2021
  AFRICA/eSWATINI - SACBC delegation visits the country and calls for dialogue Manzini (Agenzia Fides) - "We make this proposal for a dialogue that is considered useful by all, on the basis of the words of Pope Francis, who asks all components of society to work together for dialogue, reconciliatio ...
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  19 October 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Here being a priest counts, people welcome you with respect and offer to help you": missionaries ready to share the Gospel Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "It is still a bit early to express my assessments and impressions, because in reality, since I have been here, I have moved very little from our house of the Society for African Missions (SMA) i ...
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  18 October 2021
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Spiral of violence in the English-speaking regions, the Bishops: "Life does not seem to have any more value" Bamenda (Agenzia Fides) - "It is with the deepest dismay and great sorrow that we, the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bamenda, have received the terrifying news of the brutal killing of Enondiale Tehuengia Car ...
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  16 October 2021
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Bishop of Lira to priests: "Always stay focused and firm to overcome challenges" Lira (Agenzia Fides) - "The vocation to serve as a priest is a commitment that must be embraced with love and perseverance in the midst of challenges". This is what the Bishop of the diocese of Lira, Mgr. Sanctus Lino Wa ...
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  16 October 2021
  AFRICA/RWANDA - World Mission Sunday marks the start of a special jubilee Year Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - In Rwanda, the celebration of World Mission Sunday (October 24, 2021) will also mark the opening of a special Jubilee Year which, in full harmony and communion with the Holy See and the universal ...
• 15 October 2021
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Appointment of the Archbishop of Lilongwe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed His Exc. Mgr. George Desmond Tambala, O.C.D., currently Bishop of Zomba, as Metropolitan Archbishop of Lilongwe (Malawi). (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 15/10/20 ...
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  15 October 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Reconciliation with Boko Haram: for the Church a step in the right direction Maiduguri (Agenzia Fides) - It is called "sulhu" and in Arabic means "reconciliation". This is the secret program by which the Nigerian central government intends to convince the leaders of Boko Haram, the famous jihadis ...
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  15 October 2021
  AFRICA/KENYA - Fr. Kamemba: "We are following the malaria vaccination campaign with great interest" Kisumu (Agenzia Fides) - "In view of the many health facilities that are under the auspices of the Catholic Church, especially in malaria-prone areas, the new vaccine against this endemic disease will also be of great in ...