Africa

• 12 February 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - New round of peace talks in South Sudan Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The second round of peace talks started yesterday, 11 February, in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, between the two rival factions of the SPLM (Sudan People's Liberation Movement, the ruling par ...
• 10 February 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Bishops’ message in view of the elections on May 7: "Let us carefully choose who to vote for" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides ) - "As we approach the elections, politicians call for our support through the use of the TV, radio and other media. It is important that we listen carefully and make up our minds as to how b ...
• 10 February 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Bishop Zaki: Christian churches pray together for the future of the Country Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The representatives of the different Churches and Christian communities in Egypt will meet Monday evening, February 10 at the Latin Catholic Co-Cathedral of Our Lady of Heliopolis, in Cairo, to pr ...
• 10 February 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Religious leaders’ appeal: "Do not drag religion into political conflict" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We do not want religion to be dragged into a conflict that is purely political". This is what the main religious leaders of the Central African Republic (His Exc. Mgr. Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Ar ...
• 7 February 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Despite the truce, clashes continue: aid, medicines and therapeutic food are needed Yirol (Agenzia Fides) - In the aftermath of the truce signed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, between representatives of the Government of Southern Sudan and the rebels led by Riek Machar, fighting continues and there remains m ...
• 7 February 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Christians and Muslims: the same blood, the same language, the same Country" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "Christians and Muslims: the same blood, the same language, the same Country"; is the slogan that can be read in the parish of Fr. Dieudonné, a young priest of the Diocese of Alindao, in the Cen ...
• 7 February 2014
  AFRICA/UGANDA – Catholic Church launches Uganda Martyrs’ campaign Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, Archbishop of Kampala, has launched the campaign dubbed "Kikungo" started at the Holy Family Catholic Parish in Namayumba. The campaign will climax on Octobe ...
• 6 February 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al-Sisi to run for President. Bishop Fahim Hanna: he has the support of the people, but the Church does not take sides Minya (Agenzia Fides) - The head of the Egyptian armed forces Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has publicly confirmed his candidacy for the presidential elections to be held in Egypt next April. " I have to succumb to the people's d ...
• 6 February 2014
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Valentine's Day: occasion to raise funds for the 18th Plenary Assembly of AMECEA Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Malawi choose Valentine's Day to raise funds for the 18th Plenary Assembly of AMECEA (Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa), which will be held in Lilong ...
• 6 February 2014
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The flow of Central Africans seeking refuge in the DRC does not stop Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The arrival of Central Africans fleeing their country in the Democratic Republic of Congo does not stop. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) only last week another 500 pe ...
• 5 February 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA – 80 people killed in the last 24 hours due to violence in four Nigerian states Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - At least 80 people have been killed in a series of attacks committed in the last 24 hours in 4 States of Nigeria, Plateau, Kaduna, Yobe and Katsina. In Plateau State 30 people, mostly women, chil ...
• 4 February 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The situation in Bouar is a bit calmer although there are reprisals against the Muslims" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "We are finally breathing a bit of peace" says to Fides a missionary in Bouar, in the west of the Central African Republic. "Currently the situation is quite calm after last week’s problems, ca ...
• 4 February 2014
  AFRICA/GUINEA – Guinea: a new African hub for cocaine destined to Europe? Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - Last year, one or two airplanes loaded with cocaine landed in the Republic of Guinea (Guinea Conakry) from Latin America every month. The drug load was then extradited to Europe by criminal orga ...
• 3 February 2014
  AFRICA/RWANDA - An initiative to spread the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - "In order to offer a suitable tool to spread the knowledge of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church in the Christian community in Rwanda, the Kwizera Association has promoted the pu ...
• 3 February 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT – Assiut, police operation against the abduction of Copts Assiut (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian security forces in the first days of February carried out a huge operation in the city of Assiut to dismantle an organized crime network that for months organized kidnappings, robber ...