Africa

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  24 May 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Catholic Coptic Patriarch: the meeting between the Pope and al Tayyib is a 'new beginning' Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The return of the friendly relations between the Holy See and the Islamic University of al Azhar, sealed by the friendly encounter between Pope Francis and Imam Ahmed al Tayyib, "will give new vig ...
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  23 May 2016
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Mgr. Ndiaye warns: "National dialogue serves the interests of the nation and not those personalistic" Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "Do politicians really care to put themselves at the service of the city?" wonders His Exc. Mgr. Benjamin Ndiaye, Archbishop of Dakar and President of the Episcopal Conference of Senegal, in respo ...
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  23 May 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - 87-year-old Fr. Peter Meienberg, a Benedictine who helps the prisoners of Kenya Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "I realised that prisoners needed more than just spiritual nourishment; they were living in very bad environments, and so I set up Faraja Foundation, and through the help of friends and my famil ...
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  23 May 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Bishop: after a meeting between Pope Francis and Grand Imam al Tayyib, the Egyptian press announces the resumption of dialogue between the Holy See and al Azhar Assiut (Agenzia Fides) - "In Egypt great importance is given to the meeting between Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al Azhar: even the most popular newspapers dedicate large space to the event on the front page, and r ...
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  21 May 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Slovak missionary who was shot and seriously wounded has died Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Rev. Sr. Veronica Rackova, a member of the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Spirit (SSPS), who was shot and seriously wounded in South Sudan, has died. Sr. Veronica was allegedly shot by Sudan People ...
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  21 May 2016
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Religious denominations reaffirm their commitment to national reconciliation Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - "We are convinced that unity and reconciliation are in line with what the Holy Scriptures say, that is why in 2000 we established Christian Gacaca that helped to deliver restorative justice to ou ...
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  20 May 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - Closure of Dadaab: President Kenyatta discusses it with the UN Security Council Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Today May 20th, the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, will meet members of the United Nations Security Council in Nairobi to discuss the impending repatriation of refugees as well as the gener ...
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  20 May 2016
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - "Need to stop the phenomenon of early marriages", the warning of the Bishop of Tenkodogo Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Like all young dioceses, even that of Tenkodogo in Burkina Faso, has many difficulties to face". In Tenkodogo the are many basic facilities lacking such as clinics and schools, but the phenomenon o ...
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  20 May 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "The liberation of the girls in Chibok is an important sign", said Cardinal Onaiyekan Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The question we must ask ourselves is: they were abducted two years ago, why haven’t we found them yet?" asks Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja, to Agenzia Fides, commenting on the r ...
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  19 May 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops are against the closure of Dadaab, the largest refugee camp in the world Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The closure of the refugee camp in Dadaab will undoubtedly have consequences not only for hundreds of thousands of refugees but for the entire region", say the Catholic Bishops of Kenya in a st ...
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  19 May 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The massacres in eastern Congo are the result of links between politics, ethnicities and exploitation of resources Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - About fifty people were killed in the first week of May, in North Kivu (DRC): about forty in Beni area, in the north, presumably by militiamen of the Allied Democratic Forces ( ADF), and a doze ...
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  18 May 2016
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Church is betting on young people to eradicate corruption "endemic cancer" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Corruption is an endemic cancer that has reached the summit of the Country", warned His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Osei- Bonsu, Archbishop of Konongo-Mampong and President of the Episcopal Conference of Gh ...
• 18 May 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Archbishop of Juba: "there is completely no foundation for us to hate ourselves because of the tribes" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us think of togetherness, let us talk about unity, I think what went wrong with us was because of lack of unity among us the 64, 65 tribes did not succeed to come together and understand thems ...
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  17 May 2016
  AFRICA/MAURITANIA - Almost half of Mauritanians live in dramatic poverty Nuakchot (Agenzia Fides) - 44% of Mauritania's rural population lives in a situation of crippling poverty, particularly in rural regions. This is what the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Extreme Pov ...
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  17 May 2016
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Civil society’s appeal: "President, stop the massacres in the territories of Beni and Lubero" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - 1,116 people have been killed savagely between October 2014 and May 2016 in the territories of Beni and Lubero (North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) by various armed groups, in p ...