Africa

• 1 July 2015
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - School lunch program to fight malnutrition and school dropout Moamba (Agenzia Fides) - Primary education and access to basic health services for school age children are the target of the non-profit Cooperative Development Center (CCS), which has been involved in promoting a better ...
• 1 July 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Two hundred thousand Burundian refugees abroad, some priests forced to flee because of threats Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we celebrate national independence. The celebrations in the center of the capital, Bujumbura, are taking place without problems, but the suburbs are blocked due to the presence of oppos ...
• 1 July 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Precarious security and non-existent infrastructure in the areas liberated by Boko Haram" reports the Bishop of Yola Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Many refugees would like to return to their villages and return to work in the fields, but different areas formally liberated by Boko Haram are still dangerous", says His Exc. Mgr. Stephen Dami M ...
• 30 June 2015
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "Do not abandon Tunisia, otherwise you will find the extremists at home", says the pastor of Sousse Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "They want to punish Tunisia for its democratic progress. This is why it must not be left alone" says Fr. Jawad Alamat, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Tunisia, who ...
• 30 June 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops denounce insecurity and threats to family Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo denounce the insecurity in the north, east and south of the Country, in a statement sent to Agenzia Fides at the end of their 52nd Plenary Assemb ...
• 30 June 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Condolences of the Council of Christian Churches for the assassination of Attorney General Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Council of Churches in Egypt expressed the unanimous sympathy of all Christian communities in Egypt for the assassination of Attorney General Hisham Barakat, who on Monday, June 29 was the vic ...
• 26 June 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Presentation of the report on the incidents in Marikana, in 2012: "a horrible tragedy" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - A judicial inquiry on the work of the police in the tragic events in the mine in Marikana and criticisms against the leadership of the Lomnin company, which manages the mine of platinum. Th ...
• 26 June 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Opposition announces the boycott of elections Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - The opposition in Burundi announced that it will boycott the elections which will begin on June 29, with the vote for the renewal of the municipalities and parliament. On July 15, the disputed ...
• 26 June 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Christians organize the "banquet of unity" for Muslims on the occasion of Ramadan Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Once again this year, according to custom, parishes and Christian families in Egypt organize spontaneously at the end of the day the so-called "banquet of unity", social occasions in particular of ...
• 25 June 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Cholera and rains aggravate the humanitarian situation, thousands of refugees fleeing the war: the testimony of a missionary Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The authorities have announced that 18 people have died from cholera and about 170 people have been admitted to hospital due to the epidemic, and three diagnostic centers have also been reopened t ...
• 25 June 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - "We respect the Constitution, no to Kabila’s third term", says civil society in South Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Respect the Constitution". This is the main request made by civil society in South Kivu (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo) during national talks promoted at a national and local level by P ...
• 25 June 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch Tawadros: the so-called "Gospel of Barnabas" is a fake Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The fake "Gospel of Barnabas", also passed off by the international media as a document found, is "a book full of also historical and geographical errors, the work of a forger", and has no value a ...
• 24 June 2015
  AFRICA/MALI - The peace agreement signed in a climate of emotion and conviviality Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The signing ceremony of the peace agreement took place in a very convivial climate" says Don Edmond Dembele, Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Mali to Agenzia Fides, who was prese ...
• 24 June 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The campaign to "clean up" the bookshops and libraries of mosques of extremist propaganda continues Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Operations to collect all books and materials of extremist and fundamentalist propaganda, that had been widely disseminated especially during the government led by the Muslim Brotherhood, have bee ...
• 24 June 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Despite the latest attacks, we hope that Boko Haram will be soon defeated" says the Bishop of Maiduguri Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We have concrete hope that Boko Haram will be defeated soon. We are praying that Boko Haram will soon become a thing that belongs to the past", says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mgr. Oliver Dashe Do ...