Africa

• 26 June 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Let us seek the path of dialogue to end violence", says to Fides Cardinal Onaiyekan Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no way to prevent this kind of attacks. You cannot block a city like Abuja" says to Fides Agency His Eminence Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja, the federal capital ...
• 26 June 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - The governor of Lamu arrested for the attacks on coastal villages Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The governor of Lamu, coastal region of Kenya, has been arrested in connection with the attacks in the city of Mpeketoni and the surrounding villages that caused at least 60 deaths (see Fides 24 ...
• 25 June 2014
  AFRICA/TANZANIA – A Tanzanian religious woman killed during a street robbery Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Clecensia Kapuli, a 50-year-old Tanzanian nun of the Congregation of the Diocese of Mbeya "Our Lady Queen of Apostols, was killed on June 23 during a street robbery in Dar es Salaam ...
• 25 June 2014
  AFRICA - Ebola in West Africa: massive deployment of resources needed Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - Ebola continues to spread in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Ebola patients have been identified in more than 60 separate locations across the three countries, complicating efforts to treat pa ...
• 25 June 2014
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Over 4,500 homeless children in the capital of South Darfur Nyala (Agenzia Fides) – In Nyala, capital of South Darfur, there are over 4500 homeless children. This is what was reported by the Governor of the State in a press conference. According to the Ministry of Social Affair ...
• 25 June 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "Address the problem of Rwandan Hutu militias once and for all" ask the missionaries Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The recent armed clashes at the border of the two Countries between the military of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, shows, according to the missionaries of the Network for Peace in ...
• 24 June 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Appeal of Christian and Muslim leaders: "Pursue political dialogue for peaceful settlement and end the war" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Stop war and start talking". This is the urgent appeal by Christian and Muslim religious leaders to the government and the rebels of South Sudan so that thay apply the peace agreements signed on 1 ...
• 24 June 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - Christian leaders: "call off political rallies, demonstrations, one has to work to stop violence" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We have watched in recent days as politicians who promised and swore that never again would Kenya walk the sad road of ethnic violence of 2007/2008, move around inciting Kenyans against one ano ...
• 24 June 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - Clean water and health care to reduce mortality among the most vulnerable Isiolo (Agenzia Fides) - In the rural county of Isiolo in central Kenya, more than 143 thousand people devoted mainly to agriculture live. Due to poor sanitation, diseases caused by unclean water (gastro-intestinal infec ...
• 24 June 2014
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Control and prevent outbreaks of cholera with a highly effective oral vaccine New York (Agenzia Fides) - An oral cholera vaccine proved to be 86 percent effective in controlling the disease during a recent outbreak in Guinea. Researchers with Epicentre, the research arm of the humanitarian organiz ...
• 23 June 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - An American missionary who dedicated her life to orphans in South Africa has been killed Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The South African police have arrested two men suspected of killing an 82-year-old U.S. religious, Sister Mary Paule Tacke, of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blo ...
• 23 June 2014
  AFRICA - "Immigrants are transforming our Church", say the Catholic Bishops of North Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The issue of immigrants and migration was the focus of the work of the Conférence des Evêques de la Région Nord de l'Afrique (CERNA) which was held in Rome, from June 15 to 18. In the final stat ...
• 20 June 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Activist for Human Rights calls for the dissolution of the Salafist Party Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Lawyer Naguib Gabriel, leader of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, submitted to the Egyptian institutions a bill asking for the dissolution of the Salafist al-Nour Party, because of its ...
• 18 June 2014
  AFRICA/KENYA - "The two assaults committed by Kenyans and foreigners, not by Shabaab", says the Bishop of Malindi Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "There is still a lot of fear, even if one notices the presence of the military and police officers sent by the government to secure the area", says to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Emanuel Barbara ...
• 18 June 2014
  AFRICA/BENIN - Meeting in preparation of the Synod on the Family: "Let us be guided by the Gospel and by traditional African values" Cotonou (Agenzia Fides) - "The joys and the sufferings of the families of today concern the Church so much that Pope Francis has convened in October 2014, and in 2015 a Synod of the universal Church on the pastoral chall ...