Africa

• 18 May 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More than a hundred women victims of rape in the attack in Kikamba Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) - NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in the region of Shabunda, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have provided medical care for 127 women who reported being sexually abused after an attack by do ...
• 18 May 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Morsi condemned to death. Coptic Catholic Bishop: "the Church never justifies death penalty for anyone" Assiut (Agenzia Fides) - The death sentence of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is arousing strong reactions in Egypt and other Countries, starting from Turkey. The Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist organization, i ...
• 18 May 2015
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Prayers and mobilization of the population to demand an end of attacks by Ugandan rebels Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Religious confessions of North Kivu have organized moments of prayer to pray for peace in the province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a prey to repeated violence by various armed grou ...
• 16 May 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Five radio stations attacked during violence over an attempted coup in Bujumbura Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "Attacking news outlets is never a solution, especially when citizens need to know what is happening around them and those in power should be listening to what their people are saying " says S ...
• 15 May 2015
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Coup failed: "The streets of Bujumbura are deserted and the national broadcaster is the only outlet still broadcasting" Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "The streets of Bujumbura are deserted, even though we know that civil society has asked to resume demonstrations against the third term of President Pierre Nkurunziza, who according to rumors ...
• 15 May 2015
  AFRICA/NIGER - Meningitis in Niger: 100 people hospitalized every day in Niamey Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - A meningitis epidemic which has stretched across several regions of Niger has killed 352 people so far, with a total of 5,273 cases recorded by the health authorities since January. The epidemic ...
• 15 May 2015
  AFRICA/TOGO - "We are living a delicate moment", says the President of the Episcopal Conference after the elections Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We are living a delicate moment", says to Fides His Exc. Mgr. Benoȋt Comlan Messan Alowonou, Bishop of Kpalimé and President of the Episcopal Conference of Togo in Rome for his ad limina visit. ...
• 13 May 2015
  AFRICA - Regional Conference of "Caritas Africa": the challenges to face Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The love of Christ urges us: together in the service to the poor". This was the theme of the 8th Regional Conference of "Caritas Africa" which was held in Rome from May 10 to 12, before the 20th G ...
• 13 May 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - Remembering the victims of Garissa, Christian leaders denounce the insecurity in which Kenya lives Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "As we remember the victims of the Garissa terror attack, we should continue to pray for those who were involved in this tragedy- those who actually killed so that they be converted and have res ...
• 13 May 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - President al-Sisi: so far little has been done to renew "religious speech" Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - In Egypt similar efforts to "renew religious speech" and therefore "dry up the sources" of extremism and terrorism, "are still not sufficient". This is what Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ...
• 12 May 2015
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The Bishops urge to "work for reconciliation in view of elections" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - Disarmament, reconciliation of souls, truth about the recent past of the Ivory Coast, equal justice, forgiveness, dialogue among political opponents and within the parties themselves. These are ...
• 12 May 2015
  AFRICA/GHANA - Appeal from Christian leaders: "Young people, stay in Africa, Europe does not guarantee comforts and pleasures" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "We are saddened by the news of many African migrants perishing in the deserts of northern Africa and the Mediterranean Sea and call on African states and Governments to institute proactive measur ...
• 12 May 2015
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Positive comments and controversy over the case of the Ethiopian Christians freed in Libya thanks to the Egyptian intervention Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The recent case of 27 Ethiopian Christians abducted in Libya and released thanks to the decisive involvement of the Egyptian apparatus is arousing positive appraisal regarding the efforts by the E ...
• 11 May 2015
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Liberia was declared free from Ebola, but MSF warns that the outbreak is not yet over Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - Liberia was declared free from Ebola by the government and the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday, May 9, 2015 after 42 days without a new case of the virus. However, MSF warns that, w ...
• 11 May 2015
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops warn: "A Government that cannot protect its own people loses its legitimacy to govern" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Kenyans are worried and desperate. The Government, which swore to protect Kenyans, seems hopelessly incapable of offering permanent solutions to perennial insecurity", said the Kenyan Bishops i ...