Africa

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  21 April 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - An initiative promoted by the Catholic Church: "Taxi against human trafficking" Johanneburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Taxi against human trafficking". This is the initiative promoted by the Catholic Church in South Africa to raise awareness among taxi drivers to fight this human and social evil. The projec ...
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  21 April 2016
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Social peace at risk due to falling oil and gas prices t Algiers (Agenzia Fides) - The sharp decline in oil prices (oil in the first place, plus gas whose cost is related to the first) is likely to have social and political repercussions on those Countries whose main source of ...
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  20 April 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The formation of a national unity government is necessary to tackle food emergency Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "If it were not for the tragic situation, one might say that we are facing a farce" say to Agenzia Fides local sources from Juba, capital of South Sudan, where people are still awaiting the arrival ...
• 20 April 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Policemen in riot for the killing of a policeman and set fire to 139 homes Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Policemen in riot for the killing of a policeman and set fire to 139 homes last weekend in Mombeleke area in Sankuru, in eastern Kasai in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The policeman had bee ...
• 18 April 2016
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Resignation of the Apostolic Vicar of Harar, appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 16 April 2016, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Apostolic Vicariate of Harar (Ethiopia) presented by His Exc. Mgr. Woldetensaé Ghebreghiorghis, O.F ...
• 15 April 2016
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - National Director of the PMS, Fr. Manfred Ejong Nokwe Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 24, 2016 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Fr. Manfred Ejong Nokwe, of the diocesan clergy in Mamfe as Nationa ...
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  15 April 2016
  AFRICA/UGANDA - "The Ghetto Kids": street dance to remove children from violence Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - A group of street children in Kampala has formed "The Ghetto kids". All together they dance and do choreography that are already proving to be very popular on the net. Through dance, the child ...
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  15 April 2016
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Food disaster, but "the real crisis will be in June" says a missionary Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "The month of June will lead to an unprecedented food crisis" foresees Fr. Piergiorgio Gamba, Monfort missionary, who sent a note to Agenzia Fides on the dramatic food situation in Malawi. "Ba ...
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  15 April 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Mass in Nairobi for the 4 Mother Teresa sisters killed in Yemen Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The religious men and women belonging to various congregations and orders in Kenya will remember the four Missionaries of Charity killed in Yemen at a Eucharistic celebration this Saturday on Ap ...
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  14 April 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Despite a UN Resolution the government in Kinshasa insists on the postponement of presidential elections Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Clash between the UN and the government in Kinshasa on the next elections. On 30 March the UN Security Council approved Resolution 2277, which calls on the government of the Democratic Republic ...
• 14 April 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Media concerned about the threats to freedom of expression Juba (Agenzia Fides) - South Sudanese media are concerned about the statements of a government spokesman who asked inter alia to "stop direct calls from citizens to express their views on radio talk shows". The Associat ...
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  14 April 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Professor of al-Azhar University: If the veil is banned, we must also ban the wearing of the cross Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - If laws ban Muslim women from wearing the full veil (niqab), at that point, to avoid discrimination, we must also ban Christian women wearing necklaces with crosses. This - as reported by the Egyp ...
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  13 April 2016
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Migration: Caritas Africa and Europe at a seminar in Dakar Dakar (Agenzia Fides) – To make proposals for migration policies that go beyond the current approach based solely on security, through a partnership between African and European countries. This is what will be discusse ...
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  13 April 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Don Benoît Kinalegu has passed away, the priest who was next to the victims of the LRA Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Don Benoît Kinalegu, the Catholic priest who alerted the world to the terrible abuses of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Congo, passed away at only 53 years of age. In particular, it was ...
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  12 April 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops denounce: "Corruption is killing the country" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The cancer of corruption is killing our Country. Are we heading towards a society without God, plagued by tribalism, in which money has become the only God": is the sharp cry of alarm of the Bi ...