Africa

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  1 February 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - After the decision of AU not to send a peacekeeping force: "We are disappointed but we do not lose hope" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "The decision of the African Union (AU) not to send a peacekeeping force in Burundi was disappointing, but all is not lost" local sources told Agenzia Fides from Burundi, who for security reas ...
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  1 February 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic professor sentenced for insulting Islam: His students mocked jihadist barbarism Minya (Agenzia Fides) - The court of Beni Mazar sentenced a Coptic teacher on charges of insulting Islam, to three years in prison. The episode happened last spring, at a village school in Nasiriyya, near the town of Ben ...
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  1 February 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishop of Maiduguri: "The assault and the massacre in the village of Dalori is a challenge to the army" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a challenge to the army of Nigeria", says to Agenzia Fides, His Exc. Mgr. Oliver Dashe Doeme, Bishop of Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, in northern Nigeria, near which lies the village o ...
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  29 January 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - "Our only hope is an intervention on behalf of the international community" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "The satellite images confirm what the people of Burundi are finding out on their own" local sources from Burundi told Agenzia Fides, where at least a dozen mass graves containing the bodies o ...
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  29 January 2016
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - The Bishops in view of the elections in August: "No to discrimination and incitement to hatred" Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - The multiparty democracy in Zambia is at risk for the spread of intolerance, regionalism and tribalism. This is what the Bishops of Zambia say in a statement issued at the end of their Plenary As ...
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  28 January 2016
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Two hundred and fifty Islamic scholars sign the Marrakech Declaration calling for religious freedom for all Rabat (Agenzia Fides) – An appeal to develop an Islamic jurisprudence on the concept of citizenship, that is inclusive of all groups, was signed on January 27 by 250 leading Islamic scholars gathered in Marrakech, at t ...
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  28 January 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Is there a real political will to defeat the LRA?" asks the Bishop of Bossangoa Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The LRA rebels continue to enslave villagers, making them load carriers and sex slavesand they are also burning down villages", says His Exc. Mgr. Nestor Desire Nongo-Aziagbia, Bishop Bossangoa ...
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  28 January 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Ten Coptic workers in prison for having built an "illegal" wall Samalout (Agenzia Fides) - Ten Coptic men were arrested while they were building a fence wall for the Coptic church in the village of Abu Hennis, near the city of Salamout, in the governorate of Minya. The news was repor ...
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  27 January 2016
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishop of Garissa: "We offer education to Christians and Muslims to overcome divisions" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Education is an essential tool to overcome religious, tribal and political barriers, as well as being an essential element for human development. This is what His Exc. Mgr. Joseph Alexander says ...
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  27 January 2016
  AFRICA / SUDAN - Five thousand newly displaced in the capital of West Darfur El Geneina (Agenzia Fides) - The Government Commission for Humanitarian Aid (HAC) and the Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) have estimated that, since January 10, 5000 people displaced from Mouli and surrounding villa ...
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  27 January 2016
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - The Cameroonian military claim successes against Boko Haram but are accused of massacres against civilians in Nigeria Yaounde (Agenzia Fides) - The Cameroonian authorities announced they had inflicted "heavy losses" on Nigerian Boko Haram extremists who perpetrated a fourfold suicide bombing on January 25 in the town of Bodo, in the far ...
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  26 January 2016
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops: "The perpetrators have to be punished with justice, no to innocent victims" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Need to punish the real culprits of terrorism and corruption, avoiding innocent victims". This is what the Nigerian Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ibadan say in a statement sent to Age ...
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  26 January 2016
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishops of Sudan and South Sudan: "more efforts are needed for peace in our Countries" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The international community have to develop alternative plans if peace agreements reached between the Government of South Sudan and the armed opposition should fail. This is what the Bishops of Sou ...
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  25 January 2016
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - The political crisis in Mozambique also affects Malawi due to the many refugees Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - The number two of the Renamo (the former guerrilla movement which has become the main opposition party), Manuel Bissopo, escaped an ambush in the second largest city in Mozambique, Beira. On Janu ...
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  25 January 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Even the LRA rebels respect Pope Francis Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Even the LRA rebels respect Pope Francis. When a seminarian from St. Andrew parish told Ugandan rebels that their car and the computer was a gift from the Pope, they did not touch it", says to A ...