Africa

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  29 May 2019
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishop of Kakamega's alarm: Abuse and violence against children are increasing Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Child abuse and violence have increased within families, institutions and society". This is the alarm launched by His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Obanyi, Bishop of Kakamega and Apostolic Administrator of ...
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  29 May 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Petition launched by religious confessions for local elections begin Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Local elections are the foundation for the exercise of basic democracy and decentralization sanctioned by the Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo", states the joint declaratio ...
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  28 May 2019
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The growing economic disparity puts the nation at risk" warns Cardinal Onaiyekan Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "In order for a change to take place, we must all be ready for a sincere change of heart, from the lowest level to the highest, but above all at the highest levels", said Cardinal John Onaiyekan, ...
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  27 May 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Another attack on a Catholic church: 4 faithful killed during Sunday mass Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Four people were killed in an attack on a Catholic church in northern Burkina Faso, perpetrated on Sunday 26 May, in Toulfé, a village about twenty kilometers from Titao, the capital of the ...
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  27 May 2019
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Conference: to prevent sexual abuse on minors in the Church Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - A formation meeting was held on 21 May in Bissau for the men and women religious of the diocese of Bissau and Bafatá, organized by the Conference for Consecrated Life and Society of Apostolic Li ...
• 24 May 2019
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Resignation of the Archbishop of Tanger Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Archdiocese of Tanger (Morocco), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Santiago Agrelo Martínez, O.F.M. (SL) (Agenzi ...
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  24 May 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - "Remain in Africa to transform it into a prosperous land": Bishops' appeal to young people Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - Giving concreteness to evangelical hope, watching over young people. This is the commitment undertaken by the Bishops who participated in the third Plenary Assembly of Bishops of West Africa ...
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  24 May 2019
  AFRICA/GHANA - Attacks on churches in Ghana and other West African countries Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "It is time that we stay awake; it is time that we rise to see what we can do to protect innocent people who come to church. They have come to church to worship and it will be sad that it is insid ...
• 23 May 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Appointment of the Bishop of Malakal Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed the rev. Stephen Nyodho Ador Majwok, of the clergy of Malakal, currently Vicar General of the same diocese as the Bishop of the diocese of Malakal (Sou ...
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  23 May 2019
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The arrival of thousands of Peuls with millions of cattle destabilizes the south-east" says Mgr. Aguirre Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The local warlords are facilitating the progression of the Peuls herders in our area, creating alarm among the population", says His Exc. Mgr. Juan José Aguirre Muños to Agenzia Fides. "Throu ...
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  22 May 2019
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Sister Ines, another woman who gives her life for Jesus at the service of the poor" says Pope Francis Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "I have no idea. In our area ritual killings do not take place", says His Exc. Mgr. Juan José Aguirre Muños, Bishop of Bangassou, to whom Agenzia Fides has asked for more details on the murder ...
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  22 May 2019
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Peace and immigration at the center of the attention of the Bishops of West Africa Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - There are two main themes at the center of the third Plenary Assembly of the bishops of West Africa (RECOWA-CERAO), recently concluded in Ouagadougou (see Fides, 13/5/2019): "On the one hand ...
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  22 May 2019
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Congolese priest who ran the institute for the blind was killed in Beira Beira (Agenzia Fides) - "In the face of the death of our brother Landry Ibil Ikwel, in the hospital of Beira (Mozambique) following a brutal attack in the community house in Beira, we join our hearts to those of our brot ...
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  21 May 2019
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - The "nameless war" between Banyindu and Banyamulenge has already caused hundreds of deaths Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A creeping conflict, far from the eyes of the international media, is underway in South Kivu in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. From May 9th, armed groups formed by the B ...
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  21 May 2019
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Malawi elections: outgoing President Peter Mutharika running for a second term Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "It is an important appointment", says Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, Montfortian, a missionary in Malawi since the seventies, where today, May 21st, we vote. Voters are called to choose the President ...