Africa

• 1 July 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "A return to savagery": Bishops condemn the new executions Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Just when we believe that Nigeria was on the verge of joining the civilized world in ending the death penalty, we are shocked to hear of the unfortunate execution of 4 convicted persons in Benin ...
• 1 July 2013
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Yes to the devolution of powers but not to that of the evils that afflict the central government," say the Bishops Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Kenya express appreciation for the process of decentralization and devolution of powers from the central State to the 47 counties that make up the Country, under the new Constitut ...
• 28 June 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "A situation never seen before in Central Africa," says Mgr. Nzapalainga Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "A situation never seen before in our Country" said His Exc. Mgr. Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, in an interview with the "Journal de Bangu ...
• 28 June 2013
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE – Tension in Mozambique after the recent attacks on transportation lines Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Tension in Mozambique increases, after an armed group linked to RENAMO blocked the E1, the main arterial road of the Country. The E1 connects the south to the center-north of the Country and is ...
• 27 June 2013
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE – Death of "Bepi" Berton, the apostle of child soldiers in Sierra Leone Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Giuseppe Berton, a Xaverian missionary, apostle of child soldiers in Sierra Leone died on June 25, at the mother house of the Xaverians in Parma. In a note sent to Fides Agency the current ...
• 26 June 2013
  AFRICA/KENYA - 15 victims and about twenty wounded in an attack by an armed group from Ethiopia Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - At least 15 victims (including 6 women and 5 children) and about twenty wounded. This is the toll of an assault carried out on June 23 by an armed gang in Choroko, in the County of Mandera, on t ...
• 26 June 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The instability of Katanga at the center of the Congolese political struggle Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The failed assault on Kasapa prison in Lubumbashi by an armed commando highlights once again the insecurity in the province of Katanga. The assault was carried out in the night between 22 and ...
• 25 June 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "The social fabric is completely torn" the Bishops write to the President of Transition Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The rebellion led by the coalition Seleka has shaken the foundations of national unity. The Central Africans live in fear and distrust." This is the cry of alarm launched by the Bishops of the C ...
• 25 June 2013
  AFRICA/TOGO - "Social peace is threatened, we work for reconciliation": Bishops' appeal Lome (Agenzia Fides) - "When social peace is threatened, no disciple of Christ can close himself in indifference or withdraw from the call of the Gospel to be a peacemaker. This is what the Bishops of Togo write in the m ...
• 25 June 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Orthodox Church: thanks to the army, bulwark against chaos Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the demonstration against the government of Morsi convened on June 30 - the first anniversary of his rise to power - by opposition forces, the Coptic Orthodox Church published a message ...
• 24 June 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - Meeting of Caritas on the humanitarian crisis in Mali Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting of the Steering Committee (COPIL) of Caritas, that have initiated a program of emergency aid to help people affected by the crisis in the north of Mali, begins today in Bamako. Accor ...
• 24 June 2013
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - An anti Boko Haram civilian militia worries residents of Maiduguri Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The local population is concerned about the presence of a civilian militia that operates alongside military personnel engaged in security operations in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, one of th ...
• 21 June 2013
  AFRICA/LIBERIA – A town has been granted to 300 Sierra Leonean refugees; "it is the sign of the regional integration process," says a missionary Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - Liberia has granted citizenship to 300 Sierra Leonean refugees living in the Country since the days of the civil war that ended in 2002. The ceremony for the conferral of citizenship took place ...
• 20 June 2013
  AFRICA/NIGER - "Refugees are the invisible of our time", says a missionary Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The refugees are the invisible of our time," says Fr. Mauro Armanino, SMA missionary from Niamey, the capital of Niger, who shares with Fides some reflections on World Refugee Day which is celeb ...
• 20 June 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A day of prayer for national reconciliation has been announced Juba (Agenzia Fides) - A day of prayer for national reconciliation on the occasion of the second anniversary of the independence of South Sudan was announced by His Exc Mgr. Paride Taban, Bishop Emeritus of Torit and Pre ...