Africa

• 18 February 2013
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Catholic priest killed; "this is the second of my priests to die" says Catholic Bishop of Zanzibar Zanzibar (Agenzia Fides)- "We have no idea why Fr. Evarist was killed, we are waiting to hear the results of the police enquiry", Fides learned from Bishop Augustine Shao, Catholic Bishop of Zanzibar, where, yesterday Su ...
• 15 February 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Contrasts between African countries and the UN on the neutral force in the Great Lakes Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Contrasts and controversies prevent the establishment of a neutral international force responsible for chasing the "negative forces" (the guerrillas) in the Great Lakes Region and particularly ...
• 15 February 2013
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Elections should not divide us anymore," said Archbishop Okoth Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The entire leadership of the Catholic Church shall remain non-partisan in the forthcoming general elections because as a church we are interested in the unity of all Kenyans." Said Archbishop Z ...
• 15 February 2013
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Violence against street children, orphans, abandoned increase Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The scene that one sees walking the streets of Cairo is many homeless wandering victims of sexual violence and subjected to the use of drugs. They live in poverty and danger. Although there are no ...
• 14 February 2013
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Talks between Sudan and South Sudan have been postponed Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Talks between Sudan and South Sudan that were to open on February 13 in Addis Ababa have been posponed. The meeting was to reach an agreement for the creation of a demilitarized zone on the bor ...
• 14 February 2013
  AFRICA/R.D. CONGO - Thousands of children kidnapped, raped, murdered, mutilated and exploited in armed conflicts Goma (Agenzia Fides) - All over the world thousands of children are kidnapped, raped, murdered, mutilated, recruited by armed groups. During the International Day against the use of child soldiers, which has just conclud ...
• 14 February 2013
  AFRICA/LIBYA - "The nuns, except those of Benghazi, have left Cyrenaica" Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - "On the anniversary of the revolution anything could happen" said to Fides Agency His Exc. Mgr. Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, just days before the second anniversary ...
• 13 February 2013
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Tension rises between South Sudan and Sudan Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "In the last two months we have noticed an unusual strengthening of Sudanese troops along the common border," said Deputy Minister of Defense of South Sudan, Majak Agot. The representative of Sout ...
• 13 February 2013
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The Apostolic Prefect of Robe to the faithful: "Let us show how much we love and we care about our Mother Church" Robe (Agenzia Fides) - On February 11, on the same day as the Apostolic Prefecture of Robe celebrated the first anniversary of its erection, the Holy Father Benedict XVI comunicated his resignation as Supreme Pontiff of ...
• 13 February 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - "To help child soldiers we need to build schools" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We found that children who voluntarily enter into armed groups are those who do not go to school. This is why it is important that in North Kivu there are always more schools and educated yout ...
• 12 February 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - Religious leaders consulted on the crisis of the Malian army Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The Prime Minister met with the religious leaders of Mali, including the Archbishop of Bamako, His Exc. Mgr. Jean Zerbo, to ask their opinion on how to handle the fight within the Malian army" s ...
• 12 February 2013
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC- There is still instability despite the new government of national unity Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The formation of a national unity government has not yet put an end to the instability in the Central African Republic. According to local media, the rebels Seleka of the coalition, which receive ...
• 4 February 2013
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Risk of explosive devices scattered throughout the country continues to be high Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of land mines and other unexploded ordnance (UXO) scattered in different parts of Somalia during the last decades of conflict are creating a new source of threat to the security achi ...
• 4 February 2013
  AFRICA/MALI - The situation is improving but the crisis is not over; Bishop of Mopti’s appeal for the displaced Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is improving gradually, but the crisis is not over," says to Fides Agency Father Edmond Dembele, Secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Mali. "There is in particular an improveme ...
• 4 February 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - Religious leaders call for a truly independent Electoral Commission Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - An Election Commission that is indeed "independent, autonomous and neutral" is what the religious denominations of the Democratic Republic of Congo through their spokesman, don Donatien Shole, ...