Africa

• 10 March 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - The role of the General Secretaries of the Bishops' Conferences on the subject of reconciliation, good governance, the common good and democratic transition Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - A Seminar for General Secretaries of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa begins today in Johannesburg (South Africa). According to a statement sent to Fides Agency, the Seminar, organized b ...
• 10 March 2014
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Support to give strength to the women of Chisitu Chisitu (Agenzia Fides) - Malnourished children, raised by desperate women and at the end of their tether. Women who are abandoned, sick and jobless: this is what the Community Center in Chisitu, Zambia is committed to, ...
• 10 March 2014
  AFRICA/SOMALIA – Vast offensive against the Shabaab in the south-west of Somalia Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - A major offensive against the Shabaab has allowed to regain a number of places in the south-west of Somalia. Military operations are carried out by the forces of AMISOM (African Union Mission ...
• 7 March 2014
  AFRICA/UGANDA – The "miraculous necklaces" made from recycled paper Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - On the occasion of International Women's Day, the "miraculous necklaces" of the NGO Meeting Point International, in Kampala will return to Italy. Made by mothers, the 48 000 pearl necklaces made ...
• 7 March 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "The South Sudanese people will come out of this crisis stronger than";fifty years from the expulsion of the missionaries Juba (Agenzia Fides) - On 27 February 1964 the Council of Ministers of Sudan issued the decree of expulsion of all foreign missionaries in the three provinces of South Sudan: Juba, Wau and Malakal. 154 Comboni Sisters, 1 ...
• 6 March 2014
  AFRICA/GUINEA – A campaign to vaccinate 400,000 children against measles Conakry (Agenzia Fides) – A vaccination campaign has begun against measles in Guinea to curb the epidemic declared by the national government on January 14. 1105 suspected cases including 68 confirmed have already been ...
• 6 March 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT – Coptic politician Shukrallah: what worries me is the possible return of the military to power Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic politician Hala Shukrallah, the first woman elected to lead a Party in Egypt, has expressed "concern" with regards to the possibility that a return to power of the military in the Count ...
• 5 March 2014
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Famine affects more than 300 000 people Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - This year more than 300 thousand people have suffered famine in the southern part of Mozambique. According to information gathered by Fides Agency, the Minister of Agriculture Jose Pacheco said t ...
• 5 March 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Imam of Bangui: "If we want peace, we must be impartial and condemn all forms of violence" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We cannot ignore what Seleka has done, and provoked today's anti-Muslim reactions", said the Imam of Bangui, Oumar Kobine Layama in an interview with metronews.fr, stating that "some Imams prese ...
• 4 March 2014
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The only Catholic presence in the boundless Somali region of Ogaden Gode (Agenzia Fides) - Father Christopher Hartley Sartorios, Spanish, a 55-year-old diocesan missionary from Toledo, is the only Catholic priest who has ever reached the Somali region of Ethiopia called Ogaden, where he ...
• 4 March 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "No to indirect elections", say the Bishops who fear fraud and manipulation Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo are contrary to the hypothesis of indirect vote to elect mayors, councilors and provincial deputies, as proposed by the President of the Independ ...
• 3 March 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Malakal, a city of 250,000 inhabitants, completely deserted after the rebel attacks: the testimony of a missionary to Fides Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Malakal, a city of 250,000 inhabitants, is completely deserted. Although our safety was guaranteed, staying there would have been completely useless, because we would not have had anyone to assist ...
• 1 March 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 62nd Catholic Festival of Egyptian Cinema opening ceremony Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The 62nd Catholic Festival of Egyptian Cinema was officially opened in the evening of Friday 28 February at the Nile Hall - a 500 seat multi-media hall annexed to Saint Joseph’s Latin Catholi ...
• 28 February 2014
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE – Health care and schooling to combat poverty and neglect in the area of Beira Beira (Agenzia Fides) – In Mozambique emergencies and conflicts persist following the decision by the opposition Resistencia Nacional Mozambiqueña (Renamo) to end a peace agreement with the governing Mozambique Liber ...
• 28 February 2014
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “We have yet to verify the presence of the bodies of the three Assumptionist priests in mass graves discovered” says the Bishop Butembo-Beni Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Still uncertain the plight and whereabouts of three Congolese Assumptionist Fathers (Augustinians of the Assumption), abducted in 2012 in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Fa ...