Africa

• 2 September 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Bishops support President Buhari's campaign against corruption Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nigerian Bishops support the campaign against corruption led by President Muhammadu Buhari through some recent public statements. "Corruption has done us very deadly harm as a nation and has mess ...
• 2 September 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - New investigations into the case of Mariam, the Coptic student discriminated Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The investigation on the "case" of the Coptic student Mariam Malak will be re-opened, the story of alleged discrimination. It was the same Egyptian Prime Minister, Ibrahim Mahlab, who promised a d ...
• 2 September 2015
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Fighting illegal financial flows to find resources for the continent's development Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - Necessity to fight illegal financial flows, resulting from corruption and illegal export of natural resources, in order to fund the development of African countries. This is what the participants ...
• 31 August 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "People fear that the peace agreements may not be respected", said the Auxiliary of Juba Juba (Agenzia Fides) - People rejoiced because of the peace agreement but did not publicly manifest it because they fear that it will not be applied. This is what His Exc. Mgr. Santo Loku Pio Doggale, Auxiliary Bishop of ...
• 31 August 2015
  AFRICA/SWAZILAND - Prayer and solidarity of the Church for the tragic accident of the girls Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - Daily prayers until 6 September to commemorate the young victims of the road accident on August 28 in Swaziland. This was decided by Mgr. José Luis Ponce de León, IMC, Bishop of Manzini. Acc ...
• 28 August 2015
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Catholic Students are protagonists of "positive change" Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "May Jéciste be a builder of positive change through solidarity, fraternity and tolerance" this is the theme of the 28th National Council of the Jeunesse Etudiante Catholique which opened today, ...
• 28 August 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The President orders the cease-fire, but expresses strong reservations on the peace agreement Juba (Agenzia Fides) - President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, has ordered the army to stop the fighting, as of today, August 28, in accordance with the peace agreements signed on August 26 (see Fides 27/08/2015 ), which p ...
• 28 August 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church: the life of the Country depends on the "good health" of the Nile Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II will travel to Ethiopia in September, where he will take part in the celebrations for the feast of the Holy Cross along with Abuna Mathias I, Patriarch of the ...
• 27 August 2015
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Pope Francis in his encyclical: "We are victims of climate change", says the Archbishop of Blantyre Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "As I read and re-read the Pope’s encyclical, I was reminded of the climate change and its related disasters we have just experienced here in Malawi: – the devastating floods, the prolonged ...
• 27 August 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN – No celebration was held in Juba for the signing of the peace agreement, "too many deaths for us to rejoice" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "In Juba there was no celebratory atmosphere because the suffering caused by the civil war is immense" say local sources from the capital of South Sudan to Agenzia Fides, where yesterday, 26 August ...
• 26 August 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Towards the signing of the peace agreement to end the conflict described by the UN as "a threat to the peace of the entire region" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "A power struggle of an elite that has become a civil war and a threat to peace and security in the region". This is how the report of the Panel of UN Experts on South Sudan, published on August 21 ...
• 25 August 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Benedict Daswa an example for all young Catholics in our region" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "Benedict Daswa was a committed lay Catholic and the loving husband and father of a large family; a dedicated teacher and volunteer catechist, an active and charitable member of the communi ...
• 25 August 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - In Bujumbura, one lives in fear: every night murders and disappearances of suspected opponents Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "Every night there are killings and disappearances. People live in fear", local sources from the capital Bujumbura in Burundi told Agenzia Fides, where a serious political and institutional c ...
• 24 August 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops' appeal to young Africans: "Stay in Africa to build a better continent" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not allow false trappings of wealth lure you to move out of your Countries in search of non-existent jobs in Europe and America". This is the appeal launched by Mgr. Nicolas Djomo of Tshumb ...
• 24 August 2015
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Caritas builds four schools for 4,800 South Sudanese refugees Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 4,800 South Sudanese refugee children in Ethiopia will be able to receive education in 4 schools, inaugurated recently in Kule and Terkendi camps, in the Gambella region, about 800 ...