Africa

• 
  3 October 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian Minister at the Vatican to promote pilgrimages on "The Path of the Holy Family" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian Tourism Minister Yahya Rashid returns to the Vatican with the mission of finding support and collaboration in the efforts made by the government of Cairo to relaunch pilgrimages along the ...
• 
  3 October 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - New clashes in the English-speaking regions: law enforcement agencies accused by NGOs Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - 17 people were killed in the clashes with the security forces in the English-speaking region of Cameroon on Sunday 1 October (see Fides 2/10/2017) according to Amnesty International, which call ...
• 
  2 October 2017
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - The Church: "no to the independence of the Anglophone regions, yes to the administrative decentralization" Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - At least seven people were killed in several clashes between separatist demonstrators and security forces in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon, where yesterday, Sunday 1 October, the independe ...
• 2 October 2017
  AFRICA/BOTSWANA - Apostolic Vicariate of Francistown elevated to Diocese and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today, the Holy Father elevated the apostolic Vicariate of Francistown (Botswana) to Diocese with the same denomination and territorial configuration, making it a suffragan of the metropoli ...
• 
  29 September 2017
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Libyan Prosecutor: we know where the Coptic martyrs are buried, slaughtered by jihadists Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - In a press conference held on Thursday 28 September Libyan General Prosecutor Al Sadiq al Sour reported that the place where the dead remains of the 21 Coptic Christians slaughtered by jihadists ...
• 
  29 September 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Another priest abducted in the south of Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Another Catholic priest in the south of Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Lawrence Adorolo, of St. Benedict Catholic Church, Okpella in the State of Edo, was reportedly abducted. "Rev Adorolo was on his way back ...
• 
  28 September 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church announces a conference on homosexuality. Patriarch Tawadros: marriage can only be heterosexual Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Orthodox Coptic Catholic Patriarch Tawadros II reiterates the unavailability of the Coptic Church to legitimize in any form, marriage among same-sex, while Coptic environments announce a forthcomi ...
• 
  28 September 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops alarm: "There is a risk of economic collapse and open conflict if political forces do not talk" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Majority and opposition must listen to IEBC’s (Independent Electoral Commission) invitation to dialogue, and chart the way forward with the aim of holding free, fair and credible Presidential ...
• 
  27 September 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Church: Public institutions must help correct false religious concepts of reproduction Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - State institutions must help counteract and correct concepts of reproduction that claim to be religious-based, and are also followed by the people. This is the wish expressed in the public speech ...
• 
  27 September 2017
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - "The Church is under attack" denounces the President of the Episcopal Conference recalling the abducted priests Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Priests are not engaged in politics. If there have been appeals on behalf of some pastoral agents, it is in the framework of civil commitment, respect for values such as justice, peace and rec ...
• 
  26 September 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - President of Parliament at the Synod on youth: "Seek Christian values and do not be seduced by secularism" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "In our Country today, there is a growing emphasis on prosperity, especially among the youth. Society basically says: the richer you are, the better off you are. That is pretty much true if you li ...
• 
  26 September 2017
  AFRICA/TOGO - Sokodè under siege: "active non-violence" to contribute to peace Sokodè (Agenzia Fides) - "We are going through difficult times, yesterday our town of Sokodé was besieged by the army; each of us has to contribute to bringing new air into the Country", says to Fides Father Silvano Ga ...
• 
  25 September 2017
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Migrants, young people and women at the heart of Caritas' action in Africa Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - Migrants, young people and women. These are the central points of the Caritas' action in Africa in the next few years according to what was established by the Second African Bishops' Meeting on Ca ...
• 
  23 September 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Mothers and children fleeing in the swamps: intervention of Doctors with Africa CUAMM Nyal (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Country have denounced the situation of extreme tension in a letter in past days (see Fides 19/9/2017). "We have also been witnessing this instability for months", says Dr. Giova ...
• 
  22 September 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishop of Nsukka condemns the attack on a Mosque. Fears of independent reawakening Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "This unprecedented mindless destruction of a place of worship is not just abhorrent but totally unacceptable and should be condemned by all", is the strong condemnation expressed by His Exc. Mgr. ...