Africa

• 20 March 2015
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "Tunisians, peaceful people who want a democratic Country are those who suffer the most" says the Director of the PMS Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "Tunisians are deeply saddened because they are the first to experience the violence of the terrorists", says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Jawad Alamat, Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) ...
• 20 March 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Hospitals in Al Azhar open their doors to Christian doctors Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Abel Hai Azab, dean of the University of Al Azhar - known as the greatest theological center of Sunni Islam - has announced the decision to take advantage of Christian doctors and professors withi ...
• 18 March 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - New violence in North Kivu: "there is an attempt to block the operations against the FDLR" denounces civil society Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "From east to west, from north to south, there is insecurity in the territory of Rutshuru", says a statement sent to Agenzia Fides by the Civil Society of North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republ ...
• 18 March 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - No trace of the schoolgirls abducted in areas reconquered by the army Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Nigerian military have found no trace of the 200 girls abducted in April last year by Boko Haram, in the territories they reconquered in northern Nigeria. "In the liberated areas we made some ...
• 18 March 2015
  AFRICA – One out of 5 people with Ebola is a child Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - 20% of cases of Ebola recorded so far in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are children. Ebola continues to be a tragic reality for nine million children living in infected areas. Besides moni ...
• 17 March 2015
  AFRICA/NAMIBIA - Justice and Peace: "Our initiatives for conflict resolution and environmental protection" Windhoek (Agenzia Fides) - A structure or a continental reconciliation committee in the event of conflicts, a committee that is able to go wherever there is need for mediation. This is one of the decisions taken at the e ...
• 17 March 2015
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The Church assists 230,000 flood victims Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - Clothes, food, money and other aid, for a total of 1 billion kwachas (about 192 thousand US dollars), were distributed by the Bishops of Malawi to more than 230,000 displaced flood victims (se ...
• 17 March 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Egyptian government reviews Islamic religious education programs to combat extremism Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Ministry of Awqaf - in charge of endowments to mosques and religious communities - announced that it has completed a draft revision of the general programs of religious education that will pro ...
• 16 March 2015
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Religious leaders: "Development and the fight against corruption to stop Boko Haram" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Hatred and mistrust sown by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria are likely to last for years even after the disappearance of the Islamist group. This is what emerged from the seminar titled "Religious ...
• 16 March 2015
  AFRICA/NAMIBIA - "Year of Reconciliation" from July 29, 2015 Windhoek (Agenzia Fides) - "Justice and Peace" Commissions must be at the center of reconciliation, peace and development pastoral programs promoted by various Episcopal Conferences of Africa. This was stated by His Exc. ...
• 14 March 2015
  AFRICA - "Africa, a continent on the move", Africa is always more part of the global village Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The conference, "Africa, the continent on the move" is taking place at the Auditorium of Seraphicum in Rome, organized by the Comboni missionaries. "From colonialism to the emergence of independen ...
• 12 March 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Alarm for the recruitment of young Muslims in eastern Congo Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Young Congolese Muslims are recruited in North and South Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The alarm is launched by some articles in the Belgian and Congolese press. "The pheno ...
• 11 March 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA – A study of the Church: the factors of internal conflict Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Youth unemployment, unequal distribution of resources, land disputes, fights between ethnic and political groups. These are the potential causes of conflict in Kenya according to a study sponsor ...
• 11 March 2015
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The suffering of the population will increase with the war; the Church is making huge efforts Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Unfortunately the military option seems to prevail, and the suffering of the population will continue", say local sources from South Sudan to Agenzia Fides, who for safety reasons have asked for a ...
• 11 March 2015
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - A primary school for children in Hosanna Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - In Hosanna, 250 km south-east of Addis Ababa, about 70 thousand people live, mainly very poor families, who do not have sufficient resources to ensure education to their children. The precar ...