Africa

• 29 September 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishops denounce the manipulation of tribalism: "Put an end to the civil war now" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "War is evil (...).There is no moral justification for any further killing. The fighting and killing must stop immediately and unconditionally" say the Catholic Bishops of South Sudan in a message ...
• 29 September 2014
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - "Twelve years after the tragedy of the ferry Joola, ships are still overloaded and continue to travel" denounces the Church Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - The sinking of the ferry Joola, on September 26, 2002, "highlights even today our sins of negligence, lack of sense of responsibility, of fatalism", said Mgr. Alphonse Seck, Vicar General of Dakar ...
• 29 September 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic woman who had disappeared returns home: she did not convert but had been kidnapped Gabal al Tir (Agenzia Fides) - Iman Sarofim, the Coptic woman from Gabal al-Tir who disappeared in early September returned home to her family and said she was the victim of a kidnapping. Initially it was thought that th ...
• 27 September 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - New rules for the construction of churches: Christians prepare their proposal Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives of Churches and Christian communities in Egypt will gather next week to put the final touch on proposals and suggestions on the draft law which will be discussed in the next pa ...
• 26 September 2014
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Health systems are near collapse, while those infected double every three weeks Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - Perhaps there has never been so much attention on a single issue at a global level, but the reality on the ground today is this: The sick are desperate, their families and caregivers are angry, ...
• 26 September 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "I have never uttered those sentences on the CAN President", said Mgr. Kaigama Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "It was a political and media manipulation. I have never uttered those sentences ascribed by the media in Nigeria", says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos and ...
• 25 September 2014
  AFRICA - Ebola and witchcraft: children accused of causing the spread of the virus Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of boys and girls are abused and killed in Africa because accused of witchcraft (see Fides 22/09/2014), and this reality is also increasing due to the spread of the Ebola virus. In fa ...
• 25 September 2014
  AFRICA/LIBYA - Not only in Syria and Iraq, air raids also continue in Libya Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - While the attention of the whole world is focused on the bombings of the Arab-American coalition on extremist groups in Syria and Iraq, in Libya the bombings against emplacements of the so-calle ...
• 25 September 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Kidnappings continue to the detriment of the Copts, a dentist kidnapped killed Assiut (Agenzia Fides) – Ehab Karam - a Coptic dentist was killed on Tuesday, September 23 in the province of Assiut, Upper Egypt, after he was abducted by unknown persons, probably for ransom. Karam had been stopped b ...
• 25 September 2014
  AFRICA/GHANA - "A fast-growing Country, where one feels the effects of secularization", says the President of the Episcopal Conference Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Ghana is blessed with a population that naturally and easily expresses its belief in God and which seeks to honour him in the variety of religious traditions present in your country", said ...
• 24 September 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Severe floods are affecting tens of thousands of new refugees in Darfur Nyala (Agenzia Fides) - More than 3,000 homes have been destroyed by torrential rains that have recently hit the refugee camps of Nierteti in central Darfur. In the south of the Country, in the camp in Kalma, near Nyala ...
• 24 September 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops’ warning: "In the face of Boko Haram, the nation is in danger" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "In the face of Boko Haram group and other criminal militias, the nation is in danger" warn the Bishops of Nigeria in a statement issued at the end of their second Plenary Meeting, held in Warri ( ...
• 23 September 2014
  AFRICA/MALAWI - A "creative" finance act, while 640,000 people are at risk of hunger Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "Restoration of Fiscal Discipline as a Foundation for Poverty Reduction" is the title of the Finance Act of Malawi currently being discussed in the local parliament. "Like every year, poverty- ...
• 23 September 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Religious leaders committed to calm tensions on the border with Uganda Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The local religious leaders are at the forefront to calm tensions in the border area between South Sudan and Uganda, among residents of Kajo-Keji (South Sudan) and those of Moyo (in Uganda). The tw ...
• 22 September 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - More than 70,000 children accused of witchcraft and persecuted Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - More than 70,000 Congolese children were tortured, abandoned, killed, because accused of witchcraft. Only in the region of Kinsasha 30,000 street children were removed from their families for t ...