Africa

• 16 July 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Doubts of the Burundian opposition regarding the mediation of Museveni Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "The Burundian opposition does not have confidence in the mediator chosen by the East African Community, the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, to try to unravel the political crisis in our ...
• 16 July 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "If Boko Haram succeed in cutting us off from the other part of Nigeria, Maiduguri is doomed" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The rate of the Boko Haram attacks in the past few weeks have become worrisome and dangerous. This remains the only route linking Maiduguri city with the other parts of the world. One can only im ...
• 15 July 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros withdraws the complaint against the militants of the "38 Copts" association Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic activist Nader El Serafy, co-founder of the "Copts 38" association revealed that Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II withdrew the complaint lodged by the Coptic Church against militan ...
• 15 July 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Boko Haram strikes again, but no longer controls whole territories Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Boko Haram is still able to strike and unfortunately cause victims, but unlike a few months ago, no longer controls towns and villages", says Fr. Patrick Tor Alumuku, Director of Social Communica ...
• 15 July 2015
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Caritas launches the program of consolidation of democracy in view of the elections in October Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of Burkina Faso has launched the "project of consolidation of democracy and social cohesion (2015-2017)" run by OCADES, Caritas Burkina Faso. The project was presented yesterday, ...
• 14 July 2015
  AFRICA/MALAWI - "We will continue to be poor without a moral transformation", says the Archbishop of Blantyre Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Why are we poor?" asked His Exc. Mgr. Thomas Luke Msusa, Archbishop of Blantyre, in his message for the 51st anniversary of the independence of Malawi, celebrated on July 6. "Our poverty is mu ...
• 14 July 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishops' appeal: "Priority to the life of the poor people instead of the interests of pharmaceutical companies" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Give access to treatment for cancer and AIDS to the poorer segments of the population". This is the appeal launched by the Episcopal Commission "Justice and Peace" of South Africa in a sta ...
• 13 July 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New attacks of the Muslim Defense International (MDI) in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - A total of 16 deaths, of whom 8 terrorists killed by the army, 3 civilians killed by the assailants and 5 soldiers killed in battle. This is the toll of an attack of the jihadists of the Muslim ...
• 13 July 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Arsenal of the rebels discovered, clashes in the north: confusing situation on the eve of the presidential vote Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - The Burundian authorities have announced the discovery of illegal weapons caches, the arrest of hundreds of suspected rebels, and have released pictures of the arsenal discovered. "The opposit ...
• 10 July 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA – Bishops' concern for the approval of same-sex marriages in the western world Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – The Nigerian Bishops in Africa express their concern regarding the repercussions that the legalization of same-sex marriage in some states of the Western world (Ireland, Canada, Spain, France, U ...
• 10 July 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - New peace initiative announced by the Church on the anniversary of independence Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church has announced a new initiative of mediation to bring peace to South Sudan, which since December 2013 has been devastated by a civil war between President Salva Kiir and former V ...
• 9 July 2015
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - Tunisia calls on compatriots abroad to save the tourist season Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "From the beaches where tourists were killed, the Tunisian people want to make it a place of life and not of death" says Fr. Jawad Alamat, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in ...
• 9 July 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Violence and insecurity in the camps where refugees fleeing the civil war are welcomed Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "In the Unity and Upper Nile States the population endures suffering. We experienced war in the past, but the cruelty that we are experiencing today is without equal. It is like living in a nightma ...
• 8 July 2015
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Archbishop of Freetown: "people are making efforts to protect themselves against Ebola" Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - "There are cases of Ebola infection in Freetown, Kambia and Port Loko but people are making efforts to protect themselves", says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Edward Tamba Charles, Archbishop of Freet ...
• 8 July 2015
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Migrants evicted welcomed in the Cathedral of Tangier Rabat (Agenzia Fides) - Several migrants evicted from the apartments they occupied in the district of Bujalef, were welcomed in the Cathedral of Tangier. According to a statement sent to Agenzia Fides, signed by His Exc. ...