Africa

• 9 December 2014
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - On the feast day of Our Lady of Caacupé bishop denounces corruption and drug trafficking Caacupé (Agenzia Fides) – Diffused corruption and its connections with drug trafficking was denounced by the President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Paraguay, Bishop Catalino Claudio Giménez Medina, Bishop ...
• 9 December 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT – In Minya Governatorate in 4 years some 120 million Egyptian pounds paid in ransom for kidnapped Christians Minya (Agenzia Fides) – In Upper Egypt, systematic kidnapping of persons belonging to the Copt Christian community has become a criminal business: according to information given to the local media by Copt Christian Mi ...
• 9 December 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO – More massacres in Beni area; civil society starts dialogue Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - “We wish to draw the attention of the international community towards the deadly war and terrorism which is ever more intense in this eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, whose ...
• 9 December 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - “Where are you, perpetrator of violence in Central Africa?” demands the Archbishop of Bangui Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - “Where are you?”. The question posed by God after the disobedience of Adam and Eve, addressed to all humanity, is referred to the situation in the Central African Republic by Archbishop Dieud ...
• 6 December 2014
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE – Indian Camillians ready for “mission Ebola” in Sierra Leone New Dehli (Agenzia Fides) – While the Ebola virus continues to spread fear and death, numerous volunteers are putting their lives at risk and will continue to do so. Among them Camillian religious with the Camillian Ta ...
• 6 December 2014
  AFRICA/MALAWI - “Corruption scandal consequences ever more serious” missionary says Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - “In a poor country the consequences of bad government and corruption are terrible” Italian Monfort missionary p. Piergiorgio Gamba informs Fides about the consequences of the so-called Cas ...
• 5 December 2014
  ASIA/SYRIA - Melkite Patriarch Grégoire III: al Azhar Conference “fundamental event”. Islamist ideology harms both Christians and Muslims Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – The Conference held at al Azhar University “represented a fundamental event, never before has such clear condemnation of Islamist extremism and terrorism been voiced by such an authoritativ ...
• 5 December 2014
  AFRICA – Schools closed, no lessons: Ebola stops education Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - In Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone at least 5 million children are kept away from school because of the presence of the Ebola virus. According to a study by World Business Group for Education ...
• 5 December 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More than 88,000 persons displaced by guerrilla violence; no words describe the tragedy and horror Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) –At least 88,500 people have been displaced in the areas of Beni and Walikale, in North Kivu province (east DR Congo). They are fleeing violence from the Alied Democratic Forces (ADF), an arme ...
• 5 December 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA – Bishop of Kakamega resigns, successor appointed Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Pope Francis, on 5 December 2014, accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Kakamega (Kenya), presented by Bishop Philip Sulumeti, in confor ...
• 5 December 2014
  AFRICA/UGANDA – The Catholic Church in Uganda has been fighting AIDS since 1989 Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - “The Catholic Church in Uganda has been committed to fighting AIDS and the spread of the HIV virus since the epidemic first broke out in our country” said Philip Odii, head of Social Commun ...
• 4 December 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Special Mass for peace at Bangui Carmel hosting 4,000 refugees Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – For a year now, since 5 December 2013, following disorder in various districts of Bangui, we have welcomed thousands of displaced persons to our Friary. Many – about 4,000 – are still with ...
• 4 December 2014
  AFRICA/LIBYA – Not only local militia, also foreign interests clash in Libya Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - In Libya there is a strategic struggle among various Arab and non-Arab powers, in which a number of local actors play a primary role, while being in turn backed by foreign referents. The United ...
• 4 December 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN – Police raid Evangelical church in Khartoum Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – Members of the police force carried out a raid on an Evangelical church in North Khartoum and preceded to demolish the building. Others arrested 37 young people gathered for prayers inside t ...
• 4 December 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - For Copt Catholic Bishop Antonios Mina the anti-Islamist terrorism Conference at al-Azhar was “epochal” Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “The conference organised at the University of al-Azhar to condemn terrorism and extremism of Islamist matrix , was an event of historic importance. However I am not sure whether or not it was ...