Africa

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  10 July 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - First African Assembly of the Scalabrinians Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives of the missionary Sisters communities of St. Charles Borromeo, Scalabrinians, present in the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Mozambique and Angola, have gathered ...
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  7 July 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - President Kabila meets with the President of the Episcopal Conference: elections will be held Kisangani (Agenzia Fides) - "We talked about elections. Elections will be held. It is not a secret. They all talk about elections. And I think the president of the Republic, at his level, has not stopped saying that ther ...
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  7 July 2017
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Pediatricians, obstetricians, nurses engaged in the refugee camp in Mayo Mayo (Agenzia Fides) - The refugee camp in Mayo is a huge expanse of dust, mud and huts at the doors of Khartoum, capital of Sudan. Its population ranges between 300,000 and 700,000 people who arrived in the early 2000s, ...
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  6 July 2017
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Cholera also reaches the refugee camps of East Darfur Karthoum (Agenzia Fides) - Following the cases of cholera registered in the White Nile and in the northern State of the Country (see Fides 14/6/2017), it is the turn of the refugee camps in South Sudan and Darfur. Deaths ...
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  6 July 2017
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The creation of a Church Solidarity Fund for national emergencies is being studied Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - A workshop on the establishment of a Caritas national solidarity fund is being held in Ouagadougou, at the Center for Integral Human Development, to address the various crises and natural ca ...
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  4 July 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - Lay people need to intensify their involvement in the pastoral activities of the Church Accra (Agenzia Fides) – The laity in Ghana should begin to intensify their involvement in the Pastoral activities of the Church by assisting Priests to provide spiritual and emotional support to Christ’s faithful and ...
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  4 July 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "Stop contagion": campaign against trachoma Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - There are 2 million blind people around the world due to trachoma, an eye infection that spreads in precarious hygiene conditions through contact, even with a simply kiss or a caress. In Eth ...
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  3 July 2017
  AFRICA/NIGER - "Marriage is not a game for children": 60% of girls are married in the Country Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Every 7 seconds, somewhere in the world, a girl under 15 years of age gets married. Niger is one of the countries where the highest rate of girls between 15 to 19 years of age get married. Accord ...
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  3 July 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The drama of Internal Displaced People, mainly mothers and children, young girls, often widows Nyal (Agenzia Fides) - "From Juba by plane to Rumbek, a former state of the Lakes, and from here by helicopter for 40 minutes, to Nyal, in the south of the former Unity state. You cannot travel by car, it is too dangerou ...
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  30 June 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishops thank the Pope "for his affectionate support to South Sudan" Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "In my name, as President of the Catholic Bishops 'Conference of Sudan (SCBC) and in the name of my Bishops of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Sudan, I wish to express my sincere gratitude ...
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  28 June 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The police releases a priest, victim of a seizure for extortion Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic priest who had been the victim of a kidnapping for extortion was released by the police. Father Charles Nwachukwu of the diocese of Okigwe in the State of Imo (in Southeast Nigeria) wa ...
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  27 June 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - No to impunity for crimes committed, otherwise the Country will sink back into hatred and violence Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Over 5,000 dossiers on violence committed in the Central African Republic from 2014 until today will be submitted to the Special Criminal Court for Central Africa by the "Justice and Peace" Episc ...
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  27 June 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Poverty is serious and rampant, there are more and more weapons and insecurity increases Padua (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent days, Fao, Unicef and Wfp (World Food Program) have officially declared the famine to be over. Perhaps, maybe in the capital Juba! Surely not in Yirol, Rumbek, Cueibet, Maper or in any ...
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  26 June 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops: "We all demand respect for the New Year's Eve Agreement" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The New Year's Eve Agreement is the only roadmap based on the Constitution, which we must demand respect and its application by the signatories", the Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Cong ...
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  26 June 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Azhar presents a bill against those who use religion to justify violence and hate campaigns Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The scholars of the University of al Azhar, the main theological-academic center of Sunni Islam, submitted the text of a bill to the offices of the Presidency of the Egyptian Republic to counter v ...