Africa

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  10 June 2020
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Did Covid-19, whose incidence is minimized by the authorities, cause the President to die? Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - The sudden death of outgoing President Pierre Nkurunziza is raising questions in Burundi about the real causes of death. The Burundian Head of State passed away on June 8 at Cinusi's Karusi ho ...
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  10 June 2020
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Chikungunya alert: precautions against Covid-19 increase Kassala (Agenzia Fides) - The spreading of Chikungunya, the pandemic fever that caused the death of so many people in the country just a couple of years ago (see Fides, 15/11/2015) is causing concern in the State of Kass ...
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  9 June 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Covid-19, Archbishop Kaigama greets the reopening of churches: "Never forget the spiritual aspect in crisis like this" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The spiritual life is a central element of humanity, it cannot be excluded from people's lives", said His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Abuja, greeting the lifting of the ban on ...
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  9 June 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Stop of the Coptic Church to those who distribuite "thaumaturgical" products against the pandemic Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic Orthodox Church has made known the name of the first monk who died from coronavirus: Father Sawiris, of the Monastery dedicated to St Paul the Hermit, not far from the Red Sea. Born in ...
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  9 June 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Malaria drugs have run out, patients forced to buy them from private clinics Maridi (Agenzia Fides) - In the states of Mundri and Maridi, western Equatoria, the door-to-door information campaign on Covid and the distribution of hygiene materials continues, through the local non-governmental body ...
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  8 June 2020
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - "We need to clarify the recent gas attacks, before the worse happens", says the Bishop of Chipita Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "We cannot wait any longer, in silence, for explanations and appropriate action. If we are to prevent something worse to happen other than the gassing, it is now we have to do something", said Hi ...
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  8 June 2020
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Presidential vote; the Bishops: "We have not appealed to the Constitutional Court" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "The Bishops’ Conference has never appealed to the Constitutional Court, all it did was report its observation work to the public for which it had received accreditation", says a statement f ...
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  6 June 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - The economic damage of Covid-19 is only the last of the plagues that hit a country already devastated by floods and locusts Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - 52 people have died in Kenya since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. A beginning that overlapped with the first rains of a long and violent season: floods, landslides that have caused over 200 ...
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  6 June 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Personal protective equipment to mission hospitals Madisi (Agenzia Fides) - "Most of the population of Malawi is engaged in informal work, and is the most exposed sector to contracting Covid 19", says to Agenzia Fides the national coordinator of the Catholic development ...
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  5 June 2020
  AFRICA - Love for the Gospel heals racism: healing man's heart to build a civilization of love Kara (Agenzia Fides) - "Only love for the Gospel can cure the disease of racism. The challenge today is to work to build a civilization of love. To carry out such a project, it will obviously be necessary to heal, with t ...
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  5 June 2020
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - "Hunger and fear viruses do more damage than COVID-19" Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "We were in the middle of Lent, a strong moment, a moment of preparation for the Easter of the Lord, when the state of emergency was decreed, while the news that came from other parts of the plan ...
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  4 June 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The "White Masks" movement, born to support emeritus bishops, retired priests, pastors and elderly imams, in times of pandemic Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "We must not and cannot abandon old priests who gave a lot, emeritus Bishops who did a lot", said Fr. Eric Norbert Abekan, parish priest of the Holy Family parish of Riviera in Abidjan, in expla ...
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  4 June 2020
  AFRICA - COVID-19 - The appeal of African Bishops "we call upon large companies which exploit African resources to make significant contributions in this tragic moment" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The pandemic caused by COVID-19 is without doubt is having devastating effects with tragic consequences for the poorest populations", say the African Bishops in a SECAM (Symposium of the Episcopal ...
• 4 June 2020
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Sister Ines Paulo Albinom, ASC Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 5, 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Sister Ines Paulo Albino, ASC (Adorers of the Blood of Christ) as N ...
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  3 June 2020
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - PMS Solidarity Fund: "In this period people need the Word, but also bread to survive" Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "Angola registered two first cases of COVID-19 in March, and as a result, civil and religious authorities took appropriate measures to avoid the risk of community infection, since the registered ...