Africa

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  30 October 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Cardinal Filoni concludes the Jubilee of the Archdiocese of Kampala: "new commitment, new perspectives" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "The past half-century has mainly been a period of consolidation of the excellent work begun by the missionaries. The coming 50 years should be, among other things, a period of deeper growth in ...
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  30 October 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A Christian condemned to prison under the new anti-terrorism laws Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Andrew Nassif is the first Christian condemned to jail under the new laws laid down by the Egyptian government with the stated aim of countering terrorism. The conviction - according to Egyptian m ...
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  30 October 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Tensions awaiting the results of the vote. "Kenians want peace, I have faith that the violence which took place 10 years ago will not be repeated", says a missionary Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is still quite alarming, though tension has calmed down a bit in the last few hours. Kenya is awaiting the results of the vote", says to Agenzia Fides Alfonso Poppi, Missionary of ...
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  28 October 2017
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Uganda: listen to the voice of civil society to trace the future To rewrite the Constitution to extend his political life and to remain the leader of the country that he has ruled for over 30 years. The attempt of 73-year-old Yoweri Kaguta Musuveni divides Uganda: on the one hand ther ...
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  28 October 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Witnesses of the Christian value of marriage, builders of the Church and society Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni met married couples at St. Mary’s Cathedral Church, or rather "Rubaga Cathedral", on October 27, in the context of the concluding celebrations of the Jubilee of the ...
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  28 October 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Cardinal Filoni in Kampala: "Catechists, determinative force in the work of evangelization" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "The role of catechists in Uganda has always been and remains a determinative force in the work of evangelization. Without your generous dedication, surely the growth of the Church would be much ...
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  27 October 2017
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Aid for Ong Mogadishu and Catholic Church after the maxi attack Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after the bloody attack in Mogadishu by Al-Shabaab, a Somali terrorist group, which killed more than three hundred people and hundreds were injured (see Fides 16/10/2017), Perigeo O ...
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  27 October 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Cardinal Filoni: "The Church does not need bureaucrats, but passionate missionaries" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - In the second appointment this morning in Kampala, where the celebrations of the Jubilee of the Archdiocese are about to conclude, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the E ...
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  27 October 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Cardinal Filoni to the young people of Kampala: "The future of the Church in Uganda and Africa depends on each of you" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "Take in hand the development of your local Church and of your country. Always remember that the spiritual future, as well as other aspects of your continent and of this Nation, no longer depend ...
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  26 October 2017
  AFRICA/TOGO - Political crisis: appeal to dialogue from France and the United States, solidarity of the Bishops of Benin to the Togolese people Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal to dialogue was launched by France and the United States to all political parties in Togo, majority and opposition, so that political reforms are made and to respect the right to demonst ...
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  26 October 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Cardinal Filoni in Kampala for the 50 years of the Archdiocese Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, is in Uganda to conclude the 50th anniversary celebrations of the creation of the Archdiocese of Kampala ...
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  26 October 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Elections and clashes; Bishops reveal: "Right to the end we tried to bring Kenyatta and Odinga to the negotiating table" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Tension increases in Kenya where today fresh Presidential election are to be held after the Supreme Court had nullified the election of the President after the August 8 poll. There were clashe ...
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  25 October 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Churches also involved in the campaign in favor of a second presidential term for Sisi Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egypt's presidential elections are scheduled for 2018, but Egyptian intellectuals and public figures have already begun promoting press and social media campaigns to re-elect President Abdel Fatta ...
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  25 October 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops of Sudan/South Sudan to Kenyans: "Choose the path of peace" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a message that we Kenyans cannot just close our eyes, ears, and hearts to": this is the reaction shared with Fides of the President of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB), Bis ...
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  25 October 2017
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - A nun killed; the murderer arrested: a young man with mental disorders Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Ruvadiki Plaxedes Kamundiya, a 49-year-old Catholic religious, was brutally murdered on Sunday 22 October in Mutoko, in the Province of Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe. The police arrested a su ...