Africa

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  16 September 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops alarm: "A hurricane of violence that threatens to plunge the country into chaos" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "A hurricane of violence by herdsmen and other agents of death has left in its wake a landscape of blood and destruction" accuse the Bishops of Nigeria in their message "Restoring confidence in Ni ...
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  15 September 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - New sectarian clashes in Minya; Coptic Bishop visits the wounded Minya (Agenzia Fides) - New tensions and sectarian clashes have affected the province of Minya in Upper Egypt. Yet another violent incident occurred in the village of Assem, 250 kilometers south of Cairo, on September 1 ...
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  15 September 2016
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Coadjutor of Tripoli: "Migrants have a distorted vision of Europe instilled by traffickers" Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in Tripoli is generally calm but occasionally clashes break out among the various militias that have divided the control of the city. These things do not happen often; skirmishes ...
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  15 September 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The Country threatened by a locust plague Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Another scourge is affecting the populations of North Kordofan and North Darfur. Swarms of locusts are infesting the fields and are endangering crops. This is what mainly farmers of the invaded ...
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  14 September 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Disturbing situation that threatens to plunge the country into chaos", says the secretary of the Episcopal Conference Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Blocking the electoral process creates a worrying situation which risks plunging the country into chaos", said Fr. Léonard Santedi, Secretary General of the National Episcopal Conference of t ...
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  14 September 2016
  AFRICA/CONGO - Cooperatives to empower disabled children Pointe-Noire (Agenzia Fides) - In Pointe-Noire, the second largest city in the Republic of Congo, about 500 kilometers from the capital Brazzaville, it is estimated there are at least 7,000 disabled children out of a pop ...
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  14 September 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The number of children with cancer increases Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - There are 400,000 children suffering from cancer in Sudan. This was stated in a note sent to Agenzia Fides, by the General Coordinator of the Pediatric Hospital of Oncology in Khartoum. The cas ...
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  14 September 2016
  AFRICA/GABON - The Pope's appeal for Gabon has had strong echo in the Country", says the Bishop of Port Gentil Libreville (Agenzia Fides) - "The Holy Father's appeal for Gabon was greeted with great joy by the people", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Euzébius Chinekezy Ogbonna Managwu, Bishop of Port Gentil, who is in Rome f ...
• 14 September 2016
  AFRICA/CHAD - Appointment of the Rector of the "Saint Luc" Theological major Seminary in Bakara Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 9, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Dominique Tinoudji, of the clergy of the diocese of Moundou as Recto ...
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  13 September 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - A religious network has been launched to promote peace in Africa Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - A religious network to promote peace in Africa through dialogue has been launched. This is what was announced in Nairobi, Kenya, at the end of a three-day conference organized by Missio-Aachen a ...
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  13 September 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Cardinal. Onaiyekan: "Immigration in Europe is not the answer to the frustration of unemployed youth" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Human trafficking is likely to increase the number of frustrated people who cannot make ends meet. You know by the time you finish university and you are roaming the streets for three, four, five ...
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  12 September 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Orthodox Church mobilizes for President al Sisi’s visit to the US New York (Agenzia Fides) - Priests and Coptic Orthodox faithful living in the US have been called by the Archdiocese of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate in North America to take part in the event convened on 20 September ...
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  12 September 2016
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Earthquake in the north-west: "The rescue operations started immediately" says the Bishop of Rulenge-Ngara Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "The earthquake was not very strong in my diocese, but some areas have been damaged. Even some church structures have been damaged, such as the minor seminary and a parish", says to Agenzi ...
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  9 September 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic students sentenced for allegedly insulting Islam flee to Switzerland Minya (Agenzia Fides) - The four Coptic students sentenced to five years in prison in February for allegedly insulting Islam in a video flee to Switzerland, where they will seek asylum. The Egyptian Ministry of Justice ...
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  9 September 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops of Kaduna - "No to the creation of grazing reserves for herdsmen" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - No to the creation of grazing reserves for herdsmen moving in northern Nigeria. This is what the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Kaduna in a pastoral letter sent to Agenzia Fides say. "W ...