Africa

• 21 October 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Pilgrimages in the footsteps of the Holy Family Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of representatives and pilgrims from the Philippines took part in the celebration in honor of the Holy Family held on Tuesday, October 21 at the Coptic Museum, in the historic part of ...
• 20 October 2014
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - A cassava field transformed into an ebola treatment center Bo (Agenzia Fides) - A few weeks ago it was a cassava field. Today it is a gleaming tented city made up of four huge tents surrounded by smaller tents and brick-built buildings, intersected by orange fences and dotted wi ...
• 20 October 2014
  AFRICA/LIBIA - Elements of the Islamic State and Boko Haram are in Libya, says the Prime Minister Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - In Libya there are both elements of the so-called Caliphate or Islamic State or (ISIL/ISIS or Daesh in Arabic) and elements of the Nigerian Boko Haram group. This was stated by the Libyan Prime ...
• 20 October 2014
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - "Fair, free and transparent" elections, but not everyone agrees Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "International observers have described the elections as 'fair, free and transparent' but some groups of local observers do not share this point of view" say to Fides Agency sources of the local ...
• 17 October 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian Family House grows, liaison body between Muslims and Christians Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian Family House, liaison body which unites the University of Al Azhar - the highest seat of learning in the Sunni Muslim world - and the Christian churches in Egypt, has decided to inaug ...
• 17 October 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - At least 30 people have died in the guerrilla assault in the town of Beni Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - 30 people have died and 9 injured in the massacre perpetrated in the night between 15 and 16 October by the Ugandan rebels of the ADF-NALU in a neighborhood of the city of Beni, North Kivu (eas ...
• 17 October 2014
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Activities and programs for children and adolescents infected with HIV Dodoma (Agenzia Fides) - According to the 2011-12 Report on indicators of HIV and Malaria in Tanzania, the prevalence of the AIDS/HIV virus in the African country went from 5.7% in 2007 to 5.1% in 2012. Women contract AI ...
• 17 October 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - The Bishops: "What does the tetanus campaign hide?" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We want the government to come clean on the ongoing tetanus vaccine campaign" ask the Bishops of Kenya who fear that the prophylaxis hides a campaign of forced sterilization concerning women in ...
• 16 October 2014
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "Bombing continues, with less intensity", says the Apostolic Vicar of Benghazi Benghazi (Agenzia Fides) - "Bombings continue, although with less intensity compared to yesterday" says His Exc. Mgr. Sylvester Carmel Magro, Apostolic Vicar of Benghazi to Fides Agency, where the forces of General Khali ...
• 16 October 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Bishops' strong condemnation regarding the attack against priests and religious women in Lodja Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "It is unacceptable to blame the church personnel who, faithful to the hierarchy, exercise their pastoral ministry", said a statement from the Episcopal Conference of the Democratic Republic of ...
• 15 October 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Contacts with the kidnappers of the Polish missionary Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - There is an ongoing dialogue with the kidnappers of Fr. Mateusz Dziedzic, the Polish "Fidei Donum" priest, of the diocese of Tarnow, who was kidnapped on Sunday 12 October in Baboua, in the Centr ...
• 15 October 2014
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "The population is locked in the house, fighting continues on the outskirts of Benghazi", says the Apostolic Vicar Benghazi (Agenzia Fides) - "The population is locked in the house while they is ongoing fighting in the outlying areas of the city", says His Exc. Mgr. Sylvester Carmel Magro, Apostolic Vicar of Benghazi where today, Oct ...
• 14 October 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - New threats to priests and religious women because of the opposition of the Bishops to the constitutional amendment Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Priests threatened and a nunnery was devastated on Sunday, October 12 in Lodja, 750 km north of Mbuji-Mayi, capital of Kasai Oriental, in the Democratic Republic of Congo due to the Pastoral Le ...
• 14 October 2014
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - 30% of children between 10 and 14 years of age have been sexually abused Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - According to the Minister for Solidarity of Côte d'Ivoire, in 2014 about 30% of children between 10 and 14 years of age have been sexually abused. Teenagers are the most at risk. According to s ...
• 13 October 2014
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - "Only the Church assists victims of Boko Haram in the north of Cameroon," says a missionary Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "In the north of Cameroon there is a silent ongoing war which few people know about but has serious humanitarian consequences" says to Fides Agency Friar Fabio Mussi, a PIME missionary, at the he ...