Africa

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  18 March 2025
  AFRICA/CONGO RD - Appeal by Butembo university students: “Enough 30 years of war imposed on us to plunder our country's resources” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “We have been living in war for more than 30 years. The war was born before our generation. It has produced misery, millions of internally displaced people, millions of dead” say the univ ...
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  17 March 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - After the March 3 kidnapping: Seminarian murdered, while the priest kidnapped with him is released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The seminarian who was kidnapped along with a priest on March 3 in southern Nigeria (see Fides, 5/3/2025) has been murdered, while the priest was released. According to the Diocese of Auchi, "Fr. ...
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  17 March 2025
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - "Closely connected to the community": Catholic University in Beira inaugurates academic year and celebrates its 30th anniversary Beira (Agenzia Fides) - "Since its founding in 1995, the Catholic University of Mozambique (UCM) has responded to educational challenges with seriousness and innovation, with the firm desire to educate citizens of integr ...
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  12 March 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Angola announces it will mediate in the crisis in eastern DRC Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Angola will host negotiations in Luanda between the Kinshasa government and the M23 with the aim of resolving the crisis affecting the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
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  12 March 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - 145 priests kidnapped in 10 years, 11 of whom have been killed and 4 still missing Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In the last 10 years, 145 priests have been kidnapped in Nigeria. This is evident from the analysis carried out by the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN), which collected data on the kidnapping ...
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  11 March 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - President Tinubu responds to Archbishop Ugorji's remarks on the state of Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The description of the state of the nation made by Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, Archbishop of Owerri and President of the Bishops' Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), during the opening of the first Plenary A ...
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  11 March 2025
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Bishops: "We must roll away the stones that are oppressing us" Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "We order all our priests not to take sides or favour any candidate or political party. Any such action on the part of our priests using church structures for political purpose will not be tole ...
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  10 March 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference: “Youth unemployment is a time bomb” Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - “Food inflation has hit 39.84 percent, making it nearly impossible for families to afford three meals a day”. This is the alarm raised by Lucius Ugorji, Archbishop of Owerri and President of t ...
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  10 March 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The two priests kidnapped on February 22 were released unharmed thanks to a police operation Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – The two priests kidnapped in Nigeria on February 22 (see Fides, 24/02/2025) have been released. Father Matthew David Dutsemi of the diocese of Yola and Father Abraham Saummam of the diocese of J ...
• 8 March 2025
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Appointment of bishop of Bafatá Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Fr. Victor Luís Quematcha, O.F.M., until now definitor general of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor for Africa, as bishop of the diocese of Ba ...
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  7 March 2025
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishop of Nakuru: "We do not know where the huge sum of money donated to churches by politicians comes from and we should be worried" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Let the church not be seen as a beneficiary while schools have no books, hospitals have no medicine and doctors and teachers have no pay," said the Bishop of Nakuru, Cleophas Oseso, in his homi ...
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  7 March 2025
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The murder of Father Okechukwu is only the latest act in a chain of crimes arising from the insecurity that threatens all citizens Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "This is not only an attack on the Church, but above all a direct affront to the values of justice, peace and human dignity." This is how Julius Yakubu Kundi, Bishop of Kafanchan, described the mu ...
• 7 March 2025
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Erection of the diocese of Bagamoyo, Tanzania, and appointment of first bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has erected the new diocese of Bagamoyo, Tanzania, with territory taken from the metropolitan archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam and the diocese of Morogoro, making it a suffragan ...
• 7 March 2025
  AFRICA/COTE D’IVOIRE - Appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Korhogo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed the Reverend Armand Koné, until now delegate vicar of the archdiocese of Korhogo, Cote d’Ivoire, as metropolitan archbishop of the same see. Msgr. Armand ...
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  6 March 2025
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “Insecurity prevails in Bukavu where not a night goes by without three or four bodies found on the street” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Not a night goes by in Bukavu without finding three or four bodies on the street. Bodies also emerge from the lake," report local church sources in Bukavu, the capital of the Congolese provinc ...