Africa

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  29 October 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Presidential vote: the doubts of members of the Church Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "I question myself on the conduct of the vote", said His Exc. Mgr. Samuel Kleda, Archbishop of Douala, the day after the re-election of Paul Biya as President of Cameroon for the seventh time. ...
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  27 October 2018
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Mgr. Mtumbuka visits one of Malawi's most neglected communities as as part of the celebration of Mission Month Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Jesus was incarnated in human condition to save us and died on the cross out of love; it is this love that we must take to others as well. Those who have received the faith are obliged by the ...
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  26 October 2018
  AFRICA/BENIN - The Bishops: "One cannot live sexuality without love" Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "Sexuality is a force that must be learned how to command and steered, otherwise it is like a car, if you cannot drive it, you will have accidents", write the Bishops of Benin in a note in which ...
• 26 October 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - Appointment of the Rector of the Interdiocesan Theological Seminary in the Archdiocese of Lomé Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 18 July 2018 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Etienne Inibide, of the diocesan clergy of Kara as Rector of ...
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  25 October 2018
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "It is necessary to look at young people with a different gaze" says the Archbishop Coadjutor of Kinshasa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Young Africans want to live and want to live worthily" said His Exc. Mgr. Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Coadjutor Archbishop of Kinshasa and Vice President of CENCO (National Episcopal Conference of C ...
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  25 October 2018
  AFRICA/TOGO - Archbishop emeritus of Lomè: "The Constitution is the path of salvation for democracy" Lomè (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of the reopening of dialogue between the Government and the opposition, Archbishop emeritus Mgr. Philip Fanoko Kpodzro, who led the transitional parliament in Togo, had launched an ...
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  24 October 2018
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A priest denounces: "It is poverty, not religion or ethnicity, that drives young people to become terrorists" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - We need to change the narrative on the causes of the spread of terrorism in Nigeria, says Fr. Cornelius Afebu Omonokhua, Director of the mission and dialogue Office of the Episcopal Conference of ...
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  24 October 2018
  AFRICA/ERITREA - Fr. Zerai’s alarm: "The regime does not reduce pressure: it is a State-prison" Asmara (Agenzia Fides) – People still flee from Eritrea. The official end of the war with Ethiopia has not stopped the exodus. Boys and girls run away from an oppressive regime and from a very poor society that does no ...
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  23 October 2018
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Young people from Burkina Faso and Niger are also bewitched by smartphones Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I believe that the Synod will be of great benefit to the young people of Burkina Faso and Niger" said His Exc. Mgr. Gabriel Sayaogo, Bishop of Manga (Burkina Faso), representing Burkina Faso and N ...
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  23 October 2018
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Radio Maria Liberia remembers and prays for the abducted missionary in Niger every day Foya (Agenzia Fides) - "Every day a prayer is held at Radio Maria Liberia for the release of my brother Fr. Gigi Maccalli": says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Walter Maccalli, brother of the missionary kidnapped in Niger. The two ...
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  22 October 2018
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "It is our duty to give young people a perspective of life" says Cardinal Nzapalainga Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Central African Youth is sick" said His Eminence Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, on the margin of the XV Ordinary General Assemb ...
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  20 October 2018
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - World Mission Day: the experience of a missionary who visits prisoners Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) - Every week Alex Goffinet, a French white father who has been on a mission in Africa since 1962, visits the prison in Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He listens to prisoners, gives t ...
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  19 October 2018
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Church collapses during the prayer of the rosary; at least two dead and one missing Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - At least two people died in the collapse of the church of Sainte Marceline de Minkan in Odza, a suburb of the capital of Cameroon, Yaoundé, which occurred on the evening of 17 October. The col ...
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  19 October 2018
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "The hundreds of miners affected by pneumoconiosis are an indictment of human greed" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "For decades, coal mining companies allowed their workers to be exposed to unsafe levels of coal dust. The mines need to take both ethical and legal responsibility for the sick miners", sa ...
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  18 October 2018
  AFRICA/NIGER - The Church of Niamey: prayer and fasting for Father Maccalli Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - The diocese of Niamey has begun a prayer triduum for the release of Father Gigi Maccalli. "The last day of the triduum, which takes place from 17 to 19 October, will be a day of fasting that all ...