Africa

• 30 March 2015
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "Tunisians are proud of the demonstration against terrorism" Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "Yesterday's demonstration joined the Tunisians in making common front against terrorism", said Fr. Jawad Alamat, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Tunisia, where yest ...
• 28 March 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Caritas: "There is hope of allowing refugees to return to their homes, but destruction is enormous" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "It was a joy to see the happiness with which refugees welcomed their Bishops who came to visit them", says Fr. Evaristus Bassey, Executive Director of Caritas Nigeria, who is in Rome for the meeti ...
• 28 March 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church supports the government in the fight against illiteracy Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Department of the Coptic Orthodox Church in charge of services and social activities, signed the protocol of the national project on Friday, March 27 to combat illiteracy prepared by the Egypt ...
• 27 March 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - On the eve of the vote 90% of the areas freed from Boko Haram; "Why was it not done before?" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nigeria to vote tomorrow, March 28, to elect the new President. "The Nigerian press has already made predictions that the main opposition candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, will get two-thirds of the vo ...
• 26 March 2015
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Caritas Bangui distributes aid to the displaced Muslims in Mbaiki Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Bangui, very active in providing relief to the displaced of the civil war in the Central African Republic, has distributed food aid to 49 members of the Muslim community in the city of Mb ...
• 26 March 2015
  AFRICA - Rome -Caritas meeting: A million displaced persons and refugees fleeing Boko Haram Rome (Agenzia Fides) - An action plan for displaced persons and refugees from the violence of Boko Haram will be discussed during the meeting promoted by Caritas Internationalis in Rome which begins today and will end to ...
• 26 March 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Orthodox Church reaffirms ban on pilgrimages to Jerusalem Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, through spokesman Father Boulos Halim, confermed the ban to visit Jerusalem, as provided in 1979 by the then Patriarch Shenouda III, which remains in force for th ...
• 25 March 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Elections can be held in Maiduguri" says the Bishop Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "The security situation has improved, and I think it likely that elections can be held in the city of Maiduguri on March 28, even if not in the whole Borno State" says to Agenzia Fides His Exc. Mg ...
• 25 March 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - President Sisi endorses the new regulation for the election of the Coptic Pope Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi approved yesterday, Tuesday, March 24, the decree containing the rules and procedures for the election of the Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Sourc ...
• 25 March 2015
  AFRICA/LIBYA - The Islamic State claim new attacks Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - The Islamic State has claimed two attacks carried out respectively in a suburb of Benghazi, capital of Cyrenaica, and in Misurata in Tripolitania. In the first case a suicide bomber is of Tunisi ...
• 24 March 2015
  AFRICA/ANGOLA – Angola, a nation of contradictions Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - Angola is a nation of contradictions. Children die because they do not have medicines. In many communities there are no schools, mosquito nets and toilets. The only sources where one can get drin ...
• 24 March 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Inexperience and corruption are the cause of civil war" says the Bishop of Wau Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Claims of ethnicity are too simplistic and offensive to people who come from the area. Many times, African conflicts are reduced to clans, tribes. It is not as simple as that", said Mgr. Rudolf De ...
• 23 March 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The conviction for the Salafist leader who tore up a copy of the Bible confirmed Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian Court of Appeal confirmed the sentence to five years in prison against the preacher Ahmed Mahmoud, also known by the nickname Abu Islam, convicted for having torn the pages of a Bible ...
• 23 March 2015
  AFRICA/LIBYA - After two days of bombing, the situation is calm in Tripoli Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation in Tripoli is quite calm. We do not know yet how long the calm will last", report local sources to Agenzia Fides from the capital of Libya. The government of Prime Minister Abdul ...
• 23 March 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Cardinal Onaiyekan: "We need a change in policy, people are tired" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "There has to be change in the policy of Nigeria, no matter who wins on March 28", said Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja, the federal capital of Nigeria. On March 20, in his speech for ...