Africa

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  6 April 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The Catholic missions of Ngaoundaye have been attacked; the bandits fled at the arrival of the Blue Helmets Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Two Catholic missions in Ngaoundaye, a small town in the far northwest of the Central African Republic have been attacked. "The news that we have is still incomplete", says Fr. Aurelio Gazzera, ...
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  5 April 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More attacks against priests and nuns; unknown persons assault Paida parish in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "From Kinshasa to North-Kivu, churches, convents and Catholic schools are vandalized, looted and attacked by armed bandits, rebels or other uncivilized persons", denounces CEPADHO, an NGO based ...
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  5 April 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Bishops: "President Zuma do not be afraid to consider resigning" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - Bring the political crisis in Parliament to preserve democracy and social peace, ask the South African Bishops in a message signed by Mgr. Stephen Brislin, Archbishop of Cape Town and Presi ...
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  4 April 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture: "Beware of online recruitment into ISIS of our students" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has urged parents and guardians to monitor the activities of their children and wards in order to prevent them from being recruited ...
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  4 April 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - General strike called by the opposition Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Residents in key cities joined a general strike called by the opposition to force Congolese President Joseph Kabila to implement a power sharing deal signed on December 31, 2016 to provide the ...
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  4 April 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Azhar condemns the attack in Russia. The Grand Imam: Interreligious dialogue is not enough to stop terrorism Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - An immediate condemnation of the terrorist attack that on Monday, April 3 hit Saint Petersburg was expressed by the University of Al Azhar, the main theological and academic center of Sunni Islam. ...
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  3 April 2017
  AFRICA/ RD CONGO - Fresh attacks on Catholic church property in Kasai; Pope Francis says “pray for peace in DR Congo” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- Fresh attacks on Catholic church buildings are reported from the Kasai region of the democratic republic of Congo ravaged by fighting between army troops and followers of traditional chief Kam ...
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  3 April 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The tragedy of outcast children accused of witchcraft Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Outcasts accused of witchcraft : thousands of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo, rejected by their families, accused of practicing black-magic, bringing bad luck or just because ...
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  31 March 2017
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Child "beggars" of Senegal Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - In Senegal there are about 50,000 children who beg in the streets. They come from villages or from neighboring Countries like Gambia, Mali and Guinea Bissau. Most of them are Talibe, children betw ...
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  31 March 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Justice and Peace: "the dismissal of the Minister of Finance damages economy and the poor" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – The continuous reshuffling of the Ministry of Finance summits throw the Country into chaos and uncertainty and "are not in the interest of the economy and the poor". This was stated by Hi ...
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  30 March 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - "The Holy Father sees Ghana as one of the strongest democratic states in Africa", says the Nuncio Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "The relation between the Holy See and Ghana is excellent and there has been positive development over the years", says His Exc. Mgr. Jean-Marie Speich, Apostolic Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana, in an ...
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  29 March 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bodies of two UN experts found in central Kasai Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The bodies of US citizen Michael Sharp and Swedish national Zaida Catalan were discovered in the central Kasai region, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They were abducted on 12 March afte ...
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  29 March 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 13 Copts arrested. The police was asked to intervene in the case of a missing girl Qena (Agenzia Fides) - 13 Coptic Christians were arrested in the city of Qena by the Egyptian police while they were participating in a demonstration to demand the security apparatus to intervene more decisively in the i ...
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  29 March 2017
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Cholera epidemic does not stop El Gallabat (Agenzia Fides) - More than 50 people have been infected by cholera in El Gallabat, in eastern Sudan. A woman died in El Jinan, in the western town of El Gallabat. A local health source has informed that 30 c ...
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  28 March 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishop of Kafanchan denounces: "The violence of the Fulani fueled by government complicity" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The crisis here has persisted because of the way and manner the Federal and State governments, as well as the Security Agents are handling it", denounces His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Bagobiri, Bishop of ...