Africa

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  27 March 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Churches, schools and a new village open to host families fleeing Boko Haram Yola (Agenzia Fides) - "Since 2014 we have welcomed in our diocese thousands of people fleeing from neighboring areas occupied or destroyed by Boko Haram, we have welcomed in the spaces of our Cathedral of Saint Teresa, ...
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  27 March 2021
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - At least 180 people took refuge in a hotel besieged by jihadists Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - About 180 people, including several foreigners, took refuge in a hotel in Palma, where they have been besieged since the night of March 24 by a jihadist group that has attacked the city in the pr ...
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  27 March 2021
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Catholic Care for Children: protecting children and safeguarding their capacities Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "Due to the challenges that our religious have had to face in the past, we are looking for a safe and formal way to carry out the apostolate, especially in the field of pastoral care for childre ...
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  26 March 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Fr. Harrison Egwuenu released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Harrison Egwuenu, dean of St. George's College in Obinomba, is free again. According to Fr. Benedict Okutegbe, administrator of Sacred Heart Cathedral in the city of Warri, the priest was r ...
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  26 March 2021
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Thousands homeless after massive fire in capital's slum Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - At least 5,000 people are now homeless due to the large-scale fire that devastated the slum of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, on March 24 in the late afternoon. "The whole community ha ...
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  25 March 2021
  AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Testimonies from missionaries on the front line in caring for the population after the explosions in Bata Bata (Agenzia Fides) - "On Sunday 7 March, around 1 pm, we heard a loud noise, as if the house was shaking. A few minutes later, another noise was heard which caused the destruction of the doors and windows of the hotel ...
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  25 March 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Christ at the center and the relaunch of Evangelization in the declarations of the new Bishop of Rumbek Rumbek (Agenzia Fides) - "I was working as Vicar General in the diocese of Malakal and I was - and am - very satisfied with my vocation and with my life as a missionary. I believe that the Pope chose me because there was ...
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  24 March 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Pilgrimage of Catholic journalists and communicators inspired by the Pope's message for the 55th World Day of Social Communications Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Come and see: Communicate by meeting people where and how they are" is the theme of Pope Francis' message for the 55th World Day of Social Communication, which was celebrated on Saturday, March ...
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  24 March 2021
  AFRICA/UGANDA - World Day against Tuberculosis: Covid-19 slows down the fight against the 'disease of poverty' but there are messages of hope Moroto (Agenzia Fides) - In the year of Covid-19 in Uganda there are often problems related to the fight against viruses and infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, which is still one of the deadliest in the world toda ...
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  23 March 2021
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Prayer, the key to discerning God's will and his own vocation according to the Bishop of Dedza Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Young people in the Church and the country should choose a life of prayer. It is only through prayer that they will be able to listen attentively where God is calling them to despite many dis ...
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  23 March 2021
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Exhortation of the Bishop of Solwezi in favor of a positive use of social networks by young people Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "The social media are for you to be knowledgeable and to be connected with others; to do something productive and progressive, not to use it as a way of downsizing, traumatising or destroying oth ...
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  22 March 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Solidarity of Bishops, encouragement and support for internally displaced people within the Eparchy of Bahir Dar-Dessie Hosanna (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation from the Ethiopian episcopate visited internally displaced people in the Eparchy of Bahir Dar-Dessie, one of the 13 ecclesiastical jurisdictions under the local Catholic Church. Ac ...
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  22 March 2021
  AFRICA/NIGER - Testimony of a missionary from the Society of African Missions on the situation in Bomoanga Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - A real psychological war is waged against civilians in the Bomoanga area on the border between Niger and Burkina Faso where, in the night between 17 and 18 September 2018, Fr. Pierluigi Maccalli, ...
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  20 March 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Seminarian Michael Nnadi, killed because he invited his kidnappers to conversion, in view of the Day of Missionary Martyrs Sokoto (Agenzia Fides) - On February 1, 2020, His Exc. Mgr. Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop of Sokoto, Nigeria, announced the discovery of the body of 18-year-old Michael Nnadi, the youngest of the four seminarians who, on ...
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  20 March 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Abduction of a priest in Delta State, southern Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Another priest has been kidnapped in Nigeria: Fr. Harrison Egwuenu, dean of St. George's college in Obinomba, was kidnapped around 8 p.m. local time on March 15 in Abraka, in the local government ...