Africa

• 11 July 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - Bishops concerned for radio attacks against judges Accra (Agenzia Fides) - " We have received media reports on the threat of attack on members of the Judiciary allegedly made by two panelists during a radio discussion on an Accra-based Muntie FM with a lot of worry and a ...
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  6 July 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishop of Yei: "the judiciary should not delay the results of the investigations into the death of Sister Veronika" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The judiciary should not delay the results of the investigations, and the culprits must be brought to justice" said His Exc. Mgr. Erkolano Lodu Tombe, Bishop of Yei, in southern Sudan, launching a ...
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  6 July 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Students in Darfur call for major security in Sudanese universities Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The Darfur Students Association in Sudanese universities has rejected the death penalty for a student who is accused of murdering a student. According to what was reported by Radio Dabanga loca ...
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  6 July 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A Coptic Orthodox nun killed by stray bullets Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - It was not a targeted attack, but a tragic accident that caused the death of Sister Athanasia, the Coptic Orthodox nun killed yesterday, Tuesday, July 5, while she was traveling on board of a car, ...
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  6 July 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Justice and Peace: "MPs who skip parliament session betray the people who gave them the mandate to represent them" Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Members of Parliament become leaders because people vote for them to represent them in parliament. By choosing to skip parliament session without genuine valid reasons, they betray the people ...
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  5 July 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Bishops' appeal: Over six million people at risk of hunger Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Our hospitals are already reporting higher rates of malnutrition cases with the situation feared to worsen as we approach what we normally call the lean period" warn the Bishops of Malawi, in ...
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  5 July 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Massacres and tensions in North Kivu: perhaps to empty resource-rich territories? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Since the beginning of the year, in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, seven reception centers for displaced persons have been closed and, for at least six of them, the reason is ...
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  4 July 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishop of Tombura-Yambio: "Dialogue is the only path to peace: stop to inflammatory speeches" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Language is doing much more violence, sometimes even much more harm than the gun", said His Exc. Mgr. Edward Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop of Tombura-Yambio in South Sudan, while speaking to a United N ...
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  4 July 2016
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Kigali reacts to the accusations of Washington on the recruitment of Burundian refugees in armed groups Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - "A report politically motivated deliberately distorts reality". Thus the Ambassador of Rwanda in Washington, Mathilde Mukantabana, defined the annual US State Department report on human trafficki ...
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  2 July 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic priest killed on the anniversary of the beginning of the uprising against former President Morsi Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A Coptic priest, Fr. Rafael Moussa, was killed in Al Arish in the north of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, in an attack claimed by the local branch of the Islamic State. The murder took place on June 30, ...
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  2 July 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - "The Church is with you", says the Bishop of Garissa to refugees Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Dear migrants and refugees, never lose the hope that you too are facing a more secure future, that on your journey you will encounter an outstretched hand, and that you can experience fraternal ...
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  1 July 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Municipal elections: the Bishops call for "an ethical leadership, being a politician can be a noble Christian vocation" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "We need mayors and councillors who have genuine concern for the economic and other hardships that our citizens are enduring" said the pastoral Letter of the Southern African Bishops on the ...
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  1 July 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Father Apollinaire Malumalu has died, organizer of the first free elections in the DRC Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "A shocking news that troubles us strongly. The death of Father Malumalu is one of the greatest difficulties that the DRC has to overcome. It is a catastrophe, and a great loss for the entire n ...
• 30 June 2016
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Appointment of the Apostolic Vicar of Awasa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 29 June 2016 the Holy appointed Fr. Roberto Bergamaschi, S.D.B. as Apostolic Vicar of Awasa (Ethiopia), assigning him the titular see of Ambia. The new Apostolic Vicar was born in San ...
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  30 June 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops warn: "Without elections we will likely sink into the abyss" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Respect of the Constitution and electoral deadlines as prescribed; start of authentic dialogue among all political parties; initiate social policies to alleviate the painful conditions of the p ...