Africa

• 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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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. ...
• 8 January 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: terrorism does not make any distinction between Christians and Muslims Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Terrorism "does not make any distinction between Christians and Muslims", and even when it is fueled by religious ideology, it indiscriminately affects all believers in God, fomenting sectarian st ...
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  8 January 2016
  ASIA/IRAQ - Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr: return the homes illegally stolen from Christians Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Christian politician Pascale Warda, former immigration minister in the first government of transition following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, has publicly expressed her satis ...
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  7 January 2016
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The Country ignores the disabled in the fight against HIV, the blind and the deaf the hardest hit Chachacha (Agenzia Fides) - In Zimbabwe, home to 14 million people and, according to the National Association of Societies of Assistance to the Disabled, all over the country there are 1 billion 800 million disabled, dea ...
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  7 January 2016
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Insufficient funds and closure of schools: 18,000 students without education El Fasher (Agenzia Fides) - In Zamzam refugee camp, near the town of El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, the schooling of about 18,000 students is at risk. According to local sources, the lack of funding has forced the c ...
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  7 January 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - President al-Sisi attends Christmas Eve in the Coptic Cathedral Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took attended the Coptic Christmas Eve mass celebrated by the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II at the St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral on Wednesd ...
• 5 January 2016
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Explosions in Bujumbura; in Nairobi Burundian opponents threatened with death Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - A strong explosion occurred near a Catholic convent in Bujumbura, capital of Burundi. The incident occurred yesterday, January 4. "We do not know well what happened", refer to Agenzia Fides lo ...
• 5 January 2016
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Presidential elections: two-thirds of the candidates denounce fraud and call for the suspension of the counting of votes Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Twenty of the 30 candidates in the presidential elections held on 30 December in the Central African Republic (see Fides 29/12/2015) yesterday, January 4, asked to stop the counting of votes, den ...
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  4 January 2016
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Azhar accuses the Coptic Church of inspiring anti-Islamic television programs Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The accusations launched by the al-Azhar Observatory against the Coptic Church with regards to anti-Islamic television programs broadcast by the channels of the NileSat platform were rejected by t ...