Africa

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  24 February 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishops denounce: "War Crimes committed on the basis of ethnicity" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - In South Sudan one kills according to ethnicity. This was denounced by the South Sudanese Bishops in a statement sent to Agenzia Fides, which announces that Pope Francis hopes to visit South Sudan ...
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  24 February 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New desecration of churches and convents: unanimous condemnation of the Nunciature, Bishops and the UN Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The desecration of Catholic churches in the Democratic Republic of Congo continue, after the assaults at St. Dominic Parish in Limete, in the capital Kinshasa on February 19, and at the major ...
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  24 February 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Another Coptic Christian found dead in northern Sinai Al Arish (Agenzia Fides) - A 40-year-old Coptic Christian was found dead with a gunshot to the neck, in the Egyptian town of Al-Arish, capital of Northern Sinai, on Thursday, February 23. The body was found inside his ho ...
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  24 February 2017
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Kira Mama Plus! A new maternity ward in Cibitoke Cibitoke (Agenzia Fides) - Mothers and children in Cibitoke, in the north of Burundi, will soon have a new neonatal ward. The Medical Cooperation Committee will provide the district hospital an essential tool to reduce i ...
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  23 February 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - Ghana to be re-consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ Accra (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Francis has confirmed Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello as his Envoy to preside over the Ecumenical and Inter-Faith Vespers for the re-consecration of Ghana to the Sacred Heart of J ...
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  23 February 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - After the jihadist threat, two Coptic Christians killed in Sinai Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Two Coptic Christians were found murdered on Wednesday, February 22 in North Sinai peninsula, after a video message announcing new attacks presumably by Jihadists against the Christian community h ...
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  22 February 2017
  AFRICA/MALI - Bogota sends a special anti-kidnapping team to investigate the kidnapping of the Colombian nun Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The special Guala anti-kidnapping group of Colombia's National Police was sent to Mali to help local authorities to find Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez Argoti of the Congregation of the Francisca ...
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  22 February 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishops of Ibadan: "It is time for the government to prove that it can mantain its promises" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "After two years of the current government administration, Nigerians must not be told that the evils of the present moment stem from choices of past administrations. Our governments, at federal a ...
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  21 February 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Monsengwo denounces: Acts of vandalism against the Church Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a resurgence of fear, anger, uncertainty", says Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Archbishop of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a message sent to Agenzia F ...
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  21 February 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Even the voice "religion" in the application forms for the next census Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time in 30 years, the census of the Egyptian population, conducted by the Central Agency for public monilization and Statistics will also include a field for religious. Abu Bakr Gend ...
• 21 February 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - State of emergency declared in Unity State: 100,000 people at risk of hunger Juba (Agenzia Fides) - More than 100,000 people are at risk of hunger in Unity State, in the region of the Upper Nile, South Sudan. The state of food emergency has been declared by the government in Juba and United Natio ...
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  20 February 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Cholera alarm: "at least 300 suspected cases in a vast and impoverished area" says Cuamm Juba (Agenzia Fides) - There are about 300 suspected cases of cholera which were recorded in February in the counties of Yirol East and Awerial, but the number is expected to grow because "the stories of those who arrive ...
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  20 February 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - A seminary in central Kasai and a parish in Kinshasa ransacked Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Kamwina Nsapu militiamen ransacked the major seminary of Malole in Kananga, in Central Kasai in the Democratic Republic of Congo. "The militias systematically broke the doors of the rooms and ...
• 20 February 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Resignation of the Bishop of Mweka, appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 18, 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Mweka (Democratic Republic of Congo), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Gérard Mulumba ...
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  17 February 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Disputes over the lands of St. Macarius monastery still unresolved Fayyum (Agenzia Fides) - There is still no definitive solution to the dispute between the Coptic Orthodox Monastery of St. Macarius, in the region of Wadi al Rayan, and the Egyptian government regarding the proposed cons ...