Africa

• 8 March 2025
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Appointment of bishop of Bafatá Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Victor Luís Quematcha, O.F.M., until now definitor general of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor for Africa, as bishop of the diocese of Ba ...
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  7 March 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishop of Nakuru: "We do not know where the huge sum of money donated to churches by politicians comes from and we should be worried" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Let the church not be seen as a beneficiary while schools have no books, hospitals have no medicine and doctors and teachers have no pay," said the Bishop of Nakuru, Cleophas Oseso, in his homi ...
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  7 March 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The murder of Father Okechukwu is only the latest act in a chain of crimes arising from the insecurity that threatens all citizens Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "This is not only an attack on the Church, but above all a direct affront to the values of justice, peace and human dignity." This is how Julius Yakubu Kundi, Bishop of Kafanchan, described the mu ...
• 7 March 2025
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Erection of the diocese of Bagamoyo, Tanzania, and appointment of first bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has erected the new diocese of Bagamoyo, Tanzania, with territory taken from the metropolitan archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam and the diocese of Morogoro, making it a suffragan ...
• 7 March 2025
  AFRICA/COTE D’IVOIRE - Appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Korhogo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Armand Koné, until now delegate vicar of the archdiocese of Korhogo, Cote d’Ivoire, as metropolitan archbishop of the same see. Msgr. Armand ...
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  6 March 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “Insecurity prevails in Bukavu where not a night goes by without three or four bodies found on the street” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Not a night goes by in Bukavu without finding three or four bodies on the street. Bodies also emerge from the lake," report local church sources in Bukavu, the capital of the Congolese provinc ...
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  6 March 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Father Sylvester Okechukwu killed on Ash Wednesday, a few hours after his kidnapping Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – A Catholic priest was kidnapped and then killed in northern Nigeria. He is Father Sylvester Okechukwu, parish priest of the church of St Mary Tachira, Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State ...
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  5 March 2025
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Peace agreement at risk after arrest of two people linked to Vice President Machar Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The peace agreement in South Sudan is at risk following the arrest of Lieutenant General Gabriel Doup Lam, a senior military officer linked to First Vice President Riek Machar, whose home has been ...
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  5 March 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Killings, kidnappings and forced labor are taking place in the areas occupied by the M23 Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Killings, kidnappings and forced labor are taking place in Kamanyola, the village in the Ruzizi Plain (in the province of South Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo) that is on ...
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  4 March 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Dramatic kidnapping of a priest and a seminarian Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A dramatic kidnapping of a priest and a seminarian took place in Nigeria. Father Philip Ekeli and seminarian Peter Andrew were captured by armed men who entered the Catholic Church of St. Peter in ...
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  4 March 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - South Kivu: Front lines between the M23 and the "Wazalendo" militias run through the Ruzizi plain Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The front line between the M23 guerrillas and the "Wazalendo" militiamen runs through the Ruzizi plain (in the province of South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo). Accordin ...
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  4 March 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops: “Do not close schools for five weeks during the Ramadan period” Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria have expressed concern about the maintenance of the secular nature of the country in relation to the proposal of some northern states of the Federation ...
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  3 March 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Rebel movement M23 is said to be responsible for the attack in Bukavu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "According to credible witnesses, the two explosions that hit the crowd in Bukavu are attributable to the M23," a local source from the capital of the Congolese province of South Kivu tells Fid ...
• 28 February 2025
  ASIA/LESOTHO - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Leribe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Leribe, Lesotho, presented by Bishop Augustinus Tumaole Bane, O.M.I. The Holy Father has appointed the ...
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  28 February 2025
  AFRICA - Eight former African presidents launch initiative to tackle debt crisis that is strangling economies of poorer countries Cape Town (Agenzia Fides) – “The debt crisis has been aggravated by rising interest rates and the strength of the dollar, making it increasingly difficult for African countries to manage dollar-denominated debt. A gl ...