Africa
15 January 2016
AFRICA/NIGERIA - President Buhari: "I want to get to the bottom of the causes of the kidnapping of the Chibok girls"
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered another investigation into the abduction of 219 girls and in particular intends to clarify the responsibility of the security forces in their failure to rele ...
15 January 2016
AFRICA/KENYA - Agreement between the Catholic University of Eastern Africa and the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) - Commission for Education and Religious Education and the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) signed a memorandum of understanding in a ...
13 January 2016
AFRICA/SUDAN - Health care for nomads and the poor in East Darfur
Ed Daein (Agenzia Fides) - The Zakat Chamber in eastern Darfur has announced the launch of programs and health care assistance for nomads by the end of January, with the goal of providing the best services to the poorest ...
13 January 2016
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "St. Albert the Great" Seminary in Abeokuta
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 16 October 2015 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Anselm Izuade Ekhelar of the diocesan clergy of Auchi as Rector of ...
13 January 2016
AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops: "We are shocked and surprised by the proposed regulation of worship"
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - With "shock and surprise" the Bishops of Kenya say they have received the news that the government has formulated new rules that, "if implemented, will have direct and negative impact on our eva ...
12 January 2016
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Hundreds of displaced South Sudanese stranded at the border with DRC
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of South Sudanese have been abounding the capital of Western Equatoria State, Yambio, to take refuge in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, where they are deprived of humanit ...
12 January 2016
AFRICA/GABON - Appointment of the Bishop of Port-Gentil
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 12 January 2016 the Holy Father appointed Rev. Euzébius Chinekezy Ogbonna Managwu, Episcopal Vicar of the Archdiocese of Libreville as Bishop of the Diocese of Port-Gentil (Gabon).
The ...
12 January 2016
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Is the constant insecurity in the east used to sabotage the elections?
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "The persistence of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an armed group originally from Uganda but still active in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), raises various concerns ...
11 January 2016
AFRICA/TOGO - Resignation of the Bishop of Sokodé and appointment of successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 3 January 2016, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Sokode, Togo, presented by His Exc. Mgr. Ambroise Kotamba Djoliba, in accordance with ca ...
11 January 2016
AFRICA/SUDAN - Dengue: in a few months a hundred dead and many suspected cases
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Since the end of August to 11 December 2015 hundreds of people died from dengue hemorrhagic fever.
This is what the health minister of West Darfur declared who added to the data 523 suspected ...
11 January 2016
AFRICA/SENEGAL - Mgr. Bassène: "Caritas Senegal is at the service of all, because Charity is an integral part of the gospel"
Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "Caritas Senegal wants to be in solidarity with man and be on his side whenever he is faced with the difficulties of life" said His Exc. Mgr. Jean Pierre Bassène, Bishop of Kolda and President of ...
11 January 2016
AFRICA/EGYPT - Imam "under investigation" due to a fatwa against Christmas greetings to Christians
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Social tension and the risk of sectarian conflict have recently occurred in the Egyptian city of Damietta, since the imam of a mosque in the port city, addressed to the faithful Muslims, issued a ...
11 January 2016
AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops announce a Monitoring Committee to relaunch the electoral process
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) today announced that they have established a Monitoring Committee to follow political developments in the Country in a year characterized b ...
9 January 2016
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Meeting of the Bishops to study a communication policy
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - In order to allow the Catholic Church to better coordinate its pastoral work in the media in Burkina Faso, the Episcopal Conference Burkina-Niger organized a workshop to strengthen their cap ...
8 January 2016
AFRICA/TANZANIA - Director of Doctors with Africa Cuamm: The privilege of being with 'minors'
Tosamaganga (Agenzia Fides) - "It is possible be nice and cheerful even amid the many forms of poverty", writes Don Dante Carraro, Director of Doctors with Africa Cuamm, who has just come back from Tosamaganga, Tanzania. ...
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