Africa

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  31 August 2016
  AFRICA/GUINEA - The number of Guineans who seek to enter the US from Mexico increases Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - The US border authorities have in recent months registered an increase of emigrants of the Republic of Guinea who try to enter through the land border with Mexico. The phenomenon is related to t ...
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  31 August 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - In Yei, hundreds of young people devastated by the violence and say "no to tribalism" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - A no to tribalism and violence comes from Yei, the city of Equatoria, South Sudan, which was hit by a wave of murders and massacres attributed to mixed military-civilian armed groups that target su ...
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  31 August 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "Long live the Cross and the Crescent": the Egyptian Parliament approves the law on the construction of churches Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Egypt’s parliament approved on Tuesday, August 30, a landmark law on the construction of churches, still the subject of harsh criticism from observers and groups belonging to the Egyptian Chri ...
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  30 August 2016
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - Protest march authorized by the Supreme Court violently repressed; Police accused Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The violent repression of opposition demonstrations by Zimbabwean police has been criticized by several humanitarian organizations. On Friday, August 26 a protest demonstration organized by 18 op ...
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  30 August 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Monastery will make a film on Pope Shenouda III Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian Monastery of Anba Bishoy, founded by Saint Bishoy in the fourth century A.D. in Wadi al-Natrun (one hundred kilometers north of Cairo), will make a film on Pope Shenouda III, the Patr ...
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  30 August 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Wave of killings against civilians in Yei: for the Bishop "heinous actions and unspeakable crimes" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Heinous actions and unspeakable crimes". This is how Mgr. Erkolano Lodu Tombe, Bishop of Yei, in Southern Sudan, condemned the wave of killings against the inhabitants of the city and surrounding ...
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  29 August 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The bill on the construction of churches under the consideration of the Council of State Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Department of the Egyptian Council of State in charge of evaluating the legislative work has begun its review of the new draft law on the construction of churches, whose latest version was pre ...
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  27 August 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Orthodox Synod approves the law on the construction of churches. But there are doubts and disagreements Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A long-debated draft law concerning the building and restoration of churches was approved in past days. The Cabinet's approval follows a prolonged back and forth between church representatives and ...
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  26 August 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The Jesuits denounce the political use of the police against the Minister of Finance Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "The Jesuit Institute South Africa is seriously concerned with, what appears to be, the continued harassment by the HAWKS of the Minister of Finance, Mr. Pravin Gordhan", said a statement s ...
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  26 August 2016
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The police break up a protest march, which was then authorized by the Supreme Court Harare (Agenzia Fides) - Police used batons and fired tear gas against demonstrators who were preparing to attend today, August 26, a protest march in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital. The police’s intervention took place be ...
• 26 August 2016
  AFRICA/CHAD - Appointment of the Archbishop of N'Djaména Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 20 August 2016 the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Edmond Djitangar, Bishop of Sarh as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of N'Djamena, in Chad. His Exc. Mgr. Edmond Djitangar was born o ...
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  25 August 2016
  AFRICA/UGANDA - The Archbishop of Tororo: "Domestic violence is the main challenge for families" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "We have all forms of domestic violence, and no one is spared: a child, a student, a mother, a father", denounces His Exc. Emmanuel Obbo, Archbishop of Tororo in Uganda, in an interview with CAN ...
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  25 August 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - "Land grabbing; threat or possibility of development?" forum in Accra organized by Caritas Ghana Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Unmasking land grabbing in Ghana; restoring livelihoods; paving the way for Sustainable Development Goals". Is the title of the forum which is being organized by Caritas Ghana under the auspices ...
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  24 August 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Eight people die during an assault in the home of a man who had saved a student accused of blasphemy Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A mob has killed eight people by burning down the house of a Muslim man who intervened in the attempted lynching of a Christian student accused of blasphemy in the city of Zamfara, in northern Nig ...
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  24 August 2016
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Suspended the licences of three private broadcasters of the opposition after the re-election of outgoing President Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Zambia's broadcasting regulator suspended the licences of three private broadcasters linked to the opposition, saying they had posed a risk to peace and stability during this month's presidential ...