Africa

• 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 ...
• 28 February 2014
  AFRICA/TANZANIA – Zanzibar police says “no religious motives behind bomb blasts” Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - “Exaggeration should be avoided ; there are neither religious nor political motives behind the violence” said chief of Zanzibar police, Hamdani Omar, in a press conference in Zanziba ...
• 27 February 2014
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - 50,000 Somali children at risk for malnutrition and inadequate sanitation Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) – In Somalia the famine of 2011 has ended, Mogadishu is rid of militia, in politics there has been marked progress. Never the less the United Nations Organisation and the Somali government ...
• 27 February 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - “Let us work together for peace”: Bishop Taban urges Muslim community Juba (Agenzia Fides) – A call to the Muslim community in the country to work together with Christians for peace in South Sudan has been launched by Bishop Paride Taban, emeritus Bishop of Torit, also chairman of the So ...
• 27 February 2014
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - “Move army command to epicentre of Boko Haram violence” Nigerian Senate orders Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Nigeria is still shocked after the killing of more than 40 students in a dormitory of the government run Buni-Yadi college in the north eastern state of Yobe, during the night of 25 February. The ...
• 26 February 2014
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC – Work goes on at Bangui university despite chaos Bangui (Agenzia Fides) – A group of young people at Bangui University, under the guidance of local Jesuit Fathers, continues to keep the doors of the college open despite extreme violence and political disorder which ...
• 26 February 2014
  AFRICA/MALI – More than 3 million suffer food shortage, some 50,000 could starve to death before the end of 2014 Bamako (Agenzia Fides) – In Mali some 136,000 children are severely undernourished , a pathology which registers high mortality rates, and another 360,000 are moderately undernourished According to latest reports iss ...
• 25 February 2014
  AFRICA/LYBIA - “These extremists are shedding innocent blood to get more visibility” says Archbishop Martinelli Bengasi (Agenzia Fides) - “It is not clear what these extremists really want. They would appear to be shedding the blood of innocent victims to get more visibility. Orthodox Coptic Christians have been their target for ...
• 25 February 2014
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - “Our place is here”: caring for mothers and infants in need of medical attention Yirol (Agenzia Fides) – War is making it ever more difficult to help mothers and infants in need. Caring for the most vulnerable is the constant commitment of Medici Africa Cuamm in the martyred land of South Sudan. T ...
• 25 February 2014
  AFRICA/EGYPT – New rules for election of Orthodox Coptic Pope examined by civil authorities Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The Synod of Orthodox Coptic Bishops has approved new regulations for the election of a Patriarch. The rules are now being examined by the Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt. Fides was to ...