Africa

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  11 April 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The suffering of displaced women and children Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In recent months the violence of the Islamist Boko Haram group has intensified in the northeast of Nigeria and the border with Cameroon, Chad and Niger, causing a serious increase in the number of ...
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  11 April 2016
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - The Church in North Africa is directed more and more towards sub-Saharan Africans Rabat (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in North Africa questions about the African dimension of its Countries and its communities. This was stated in the final communiqué by the Assembly of CERNA (Conférence des Évêques ...
• 11 April 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "Justice and Peace" denounces: "The hunger for money is killing us" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "For over 20 years we have been through rough moments with incalculable consequences on our daily life and our ecosystem" says the statement of the "Justice and Peace" Diocesan Commission of th ...
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  9 April 2016
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The experience of the missionary children: "Listen to the word, communicate it to those who still do not know it" Adaba (Agenzia Fides) - "I want to tell you about the initiative that I am carrying out with my Catholic children in Adaba" says to Fides Don Giuseppe Ghirelli, a diocesan fidei donum missionary. "Every week, on Thursday ...
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  8 April 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Classical music to help street children Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Nairobi Classics association has organized a series of concerts regarding the best musicians around the world in Nairobi whose fundraising will be destined to Ghetto Classics, a group that c ...
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  8 April 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Skepticism from the opposition about the possible dispatch of UN police officers in Burundi Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "The decision of the UN Security Council to send an international contingent of police was welcomed with strong skepticism by the opposition and civil society. In their view, this will not hel ...
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  8 April 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - After the signing of the agreement with the rebels of Western Equatoria "comes the arduous task of rebuilding" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "This is the first kind of peace deal to be realized in one of the 28 countries of Southern Sudan" stressed His Exc. Mgr. Barani Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop of Tombura-Yambio, in his speech at ...
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  8 April 2016
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - A video game to raise awareness about the plight of many children Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - Cross Dakar City is the name of a video game that highlights the serious situations in which some Senegalese children live, and that shows that video games can be used to offer social awareness. T ...
• 7 April 2016
  AFRICA/EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Appointment of the National Director of the PMS, Fr. Diosdado Marqués Sabadell Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 4, 2016, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Diosdado Marqués Sabadell, of the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraterni ...
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  7 April 2016
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - How to encourage girls to study and avoid early marriages Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - Zambia has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. More than 4 out of 10 women, aged between 20 and 24, get married when they are only 16. A destiny "already decided" for many yo ...
• 7 April 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - Resignation of the Bishop of Keta-Akatsi and appointment of the Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 7 April 2016 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Keta-Akatsi (Ghana), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Anthony Kwami Adanuty, in ac ...
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  6 April 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - New air raids on the Nuba Mountains Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Local Church sources confirmed to Agenzia Fides what the rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement - North (SPLM-N) denounced, according to which the Sudanese air force has carried out a ...
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  6 April 2016
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Churches are opposed to the proposed registration of religious denominations Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - After Kenya (see Fides 04/02/2016) Uganda also intends to proceed with the registration of so-called FBO - Faith Based Organizations. A measure, sponsored by the department of Ethics and Religio ...
• 5 April 2016
  AFRICA/GABON - Appointment of the Apostolic Administrator of Franceville Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 4, 2016, the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Basile Mvé Engone S.D.B., Archbishop of Libreville as Apostolic Administrator for the vacant et nutum Sanctae Sedis of the Diocese ...
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  5 April 2016
  AFRICA/CONGO - Calm has returned in Brazzaville Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - Calm is slowly returning in Brazzaville after yesterday's clashes. This was reported to Agenzia Fides by local Church sources from the capital of the Republic of Congo, where in the early mo ...