Africa

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  12 October 2015
  AFRICA - Ugandan Bishops: "Pope Francis comes here as a bridge builder" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "In a Country like ours where unity and national consensus has eluded us for decades, the Pope comes as a bridge builder. This demands of us to imitate Christ who came to serve rather than to b ...
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  12 October 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - Jigger disease severely marks AIDS orphans Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - In Busia and Siaya more than 509 children suffer from jiggers, a skin infection caused by a flea that damages joints and makes walking difficult, they can walk back to school after being treated ...
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  12 October 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Concern for the resignation of the President of the Independent Electoral Commission Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The resignation of Father Apollinaire Malumalu as President of the Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) is raising questions in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is about to experience ...
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  10 October 2015
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Presidential elections create tension Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - 6 million Guineans are called to the polls on Sunday, October 11, to elect a new President. The last phase of the election campaign was marred by accidents, also severe, with victims and wounde ...
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  9 October 2015
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - Nobel Peace Prize: "Tunisia shows that democracy is possible in the Arab Muslim world" Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "We are happy because it is a recognition and encouragement to Tunisian democracy" said to Agenzia Fides Fr. Jawad Alamat, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Tunisia, comment ...
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  9 October 2015
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Archbishop of Conakry: "Sunday's elections: a test of democracy and political maturity" Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - "Our Country is about to undergo a revealing test of its level of political maturity", said His Exc. Mgr. Vincent Coulibaly, Archbishop of Conakry, in a message for the presidential elections to ...
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  9 October 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Organizations call on President al-Sisi to reopen the investigation into the massacre of Maspero Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – After four years of the so-called massacre of Maspero, the Copts of Egypt Coalition - independent organization of the Coptic Orthodox Church, but animated by militant lay Copts - has asked Presi ...
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  8 October 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Perplexity about the creation of 28 new States Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The decision of President Salva Kiir to divide South Sudan (see Fides 03/10/2015) with the creation of 28 new States is provoking criticism. "I would have preferred to hear that the government is t ...
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  8 October 2015
  AFRICA/GHANA - Inquiry on corrupt judges: for the Bishops it is "a scandal that undermines the principle of legality" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not the first time that this eminent son of the soil has brought the nation’s attention to the prevalence of deep-seated bribery and corruption in her public and social life but, by far, ...
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  8 October 2015
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Ebola orphans abandoned on the streets or entrusted to families who mistreat them Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - More than 5,900 Liberian children lost one or both parents to Ebola. According to information sent to Fides, some are with a surviving parent, others found loving homes with friends or relative ...
• 6 October 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - First positive impact of the report submitted by Catholic organizations on the mine in Kibali Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – We have the first positive impact of the publication, in late August, on the report "Giant Kibali mine; remove impurities because gold is pure (Géant Minier Kibali : ôter les impuretés pou ...
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  6 October 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Sectarian clashes in Samalut, the "city of martyrs": ten Copts wounded Minya (Agenzia Fides) - At least ten Copts were wounded and several shops and homes attacked and devastated, but fortunately no victims: this is the toll of the sectarian clashes that on Monday, October 5 shocked the tow ...
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  6 October 2015
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Appeal from Christian leaders: "No to ethnic or religious manipulations before the vote" Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - "Beware of politicians who aim at dividing the population on the basis of a religious or ethnic group in order to obtain electoral advantage". This is the joint appeal launched by the Epis ...
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  5 October 2015
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - "We are all called to work for reconciliation" says Cardinal Ouédraogo after the failed coup Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "A new situation requires new tasks" said Cardinal Philippe Ouédraogo, Archbishop of Ouagadougou, during the Mass he celebrated on Sunday, October 4 at the Marian Shrine of "Notre Dame de Y ...
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  5 October 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: Christians who present themselves as candidates in the Salafist lists are not credible Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Christians who present themselves as candidates in the Islamist Salafist lists "lack credibility" because "no one can live following two opposite thoughts". This is the peremptory judgment that Co ...