Africa

• 28 April 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Sinai jihadist groups threaten Copts for their support to President al-Sisi Al-Arish (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic Christians must leave their homes and the Sinai Peninsula if they do not want to die for the next targeted attacks that jihadist groups operating in the Peninsula are preparing to ca ...
• 27 April 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Demonstrations for the third presidential term: the army prevents the police to use tear gas against protesters Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "The army is preventing the police to launch tear gas against protesters", say local sources to Agenzia Fides from the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, where since yesterday there have been demon ...
• 27 April 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The United Nations Commission on Human Rights takes office, but repression of opponents continue Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "In Kinshasa thirty pro-democracy activists were arrested after participating in a seminar on the enforcement of constitutional principles, good governance and active participation in the elect ...
• 27 April 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Muslims collect money to build a church in the Egyptian province of Al Manufiyya Shibin El Kom (Agenzia Fides) - A Coptic church will rise thanks to monetary donations from Muslims in the Governorate of Al Manufiyya, located in the north of Cairo, in the region of the Nile Delta. This is reported by ...
• 24 April 2015
  AFRICA/NAMIBIA - President of the Episcopal Conference: "Namibia is a stable Country, but the gap between rich and poor increases" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "After 25 years since its independence, Namibia is a politically stable Country and is growing economically. One of the biggest problems we have to face, however, is the distribution of the wealth ...
• 24 April 2015
  AFRICA - Only one African child out of 5 suffering from malaria receives efficient treatment Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Tomorrow, April 25, World Malaria Day will be celebrated. Unfortunately, the phenomenon is still widespread and from the latest reports from the World Health Organization, it appears that only ...
• 24 April 2015
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The Bishops: "We plead to the human traffickers who are tricking the youth to leave their country through illegal means to stop their acts" Addis Ababa (Fides) - "We the Ethiopian Catholic Bishops of Ethiopia condemn in unambiguous terms this barbaric terrorist act and call up on all international communities and Governments to provide protection to migrants ...
• 22 April 2015
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Malawians fleeing xenophobic violence in South Africa: "We were chased like dogs" Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "We were chased like dogs", said the first vanguards of the 3,200 Malawians that the government is repatriating from South Africa, where violent xenophobic clashes are being carreid out. This w ...
• 22 April 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Malakal: heavy fighting between soldiers from three different ethnic groups Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Violent fighting with the use of heavy weapons between two groups of soldiers of the army of South Sudan with many victims is what is happening today, April 22, in Malakal, the capital of South Sud ...
• 22 April 2015
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Outbreak of measles in Darfur: cases continue to multiply Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The local Ministry of Health has confirmed a sharp increase in cases of measles in Sudan. Currently we are talking about 1,472 people infected. The dead recorded so far are 25, while other 3000 ...
• 22 April 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Imams and priests promote the "culture of encounter" preaching together in schools in Minya Minya (Agenzia Fides) - The collective "mission" of a large group of imam linked to al Azhar – the biggest theological center of Sunni Islam - and Coptic priests begins today, who for a few days will visit together the ...
• 21 April 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Peripheral areas left to themselves due to national conflict: tribal clashes reawaken Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "It was not possible to celebrate the Easter Triduum in Malakal due to clashes between the Shilluk and Dinka tribes" refer to Agenzia Fides missionary sources from the capital of the South Sudan St ...
• 21 April 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA – A nun killed in KwaZulu-Natal: a life dedicated to poor children for 60 years Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – An 86-year-old Austrian missionary nun, Sister Stefani Tiefenbacher CPS (Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood), was killed in the night between Saturday 19 and Sunday, April 20 in her ...
• 21 April 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Islamic University of Al Azhar condemns the massacre of jihadist of Christian Ethiopians Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A "heinous crime, committed by the Daesh terrorist group, which goes against any religion, law or human conduct". With these formulas without appeal the University of Al Azhar, highest academic ce ...
• 20 April 2015
  AFRICA - Senegalese NGO: "An international coalition to combat human trafficking" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - An international coalition to curb illegal immigration, at the origin of tragedies such as the sinking of a boat with at least 900 migrants in the early hours of Sunday, April 19 off the coast of L ...