Africa

• 17 December 2012
  AFRICA/LIBYA - The Libyan authorities decree the south "military zone" and close the borders with four States Tripoli (Agenzia Fides) - The Libyan General National Congress (parliament) decreed the south of the Country "closed military zone" and announced the temporary closure of the border with Algeria, Chad, Sudan and Niger, i ...
• 15 December 2012
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Centenary of the Evangelization of Koudougou: an extraordinary opportunity to become more aware of the missionary mandate Koudougou (Agenzia Fides) - For the first time 100 years ago, in 1912, the Good News arrived in the region including the present diocese of Koudougou, in Burkina Faso, starting from the town of Réo, in the province of S ...
• 14 December 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Christian Churches: no to the boycott of the constitutional referendum Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The leaders of the Christian Churches in Egypt will not support the boycott of the Referendum on the draft of the Constitution - scheduled on 15 and 22 December - at the center of political and so ...
• 14 December 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Reconciliation passes through respect for differences," say the Bishops in the 2013 elections Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church has committed herself so that the March 2013 elections are conducted peacefully and rejects being accused of having taken sides in the 2007-2008 post-election confrontation. ...
• 13 December 2012
  AFRICA/UGANDA - "We want to preserve the missionary spirit handed down to us by our first evangelizers" says the Bishop of Arua Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "The diocese was founded thanks to the work of evangelization of the Comboni Missionaries. The Comboni Missionaries are still present in our diocese and we are very happy to have them with us, " ...
• 13 December 2012
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Demarcation of borders to avoid further violence," the request of the Bishops of four East African countries Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of neighboring Dioceses in South Sudan in Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia have called for borders demarcation to avoid conflicts and to achieve peaceful co-existence amongst the neighbour ...
• 13 December 2012
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Traditional midwives help save women in childbirth Betraka (Agenzia Fides) - Madagascar is facing a triple challenge: rapid population growth, increasing poverty and political instability. This is what emerges from the report of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) ...
• 12 December 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - Reserve about how the Prime Minister was deposed, but the parties are in favor of change Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The political parties have taken note of the appointment of the new Prime Minister and the resignation of the previous. The political group that supports the military junta has expressed its con ...
• 12 December 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Bishop Hanna: these are the articles of the draft of the Constitution that endanger religious freedom Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Even yesterday, during the demonstration organized by President Morsi's supporters, the Muslim Brotherhood leader Mahmoud Beltagui went back to inciting the crowd against Christians, claiming that ...
• 11 December 2012
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Caritas Goma assists victims of sexual violence in the camps for displaced persons Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are dozens of cases of sexual violence against refugee women in camps for displaced people near Goma, capital of North Kivu, province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for months di ...
• 11 December 2012
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Catholic Bishop Kyrillos: the day after the meeting of Catholic bishops with Patriarch Tawadros; Christians will vote according to their conscience in the referendum Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The meeting scheduled for today between a delegation of Catholic Bishops and the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II has been postponed to after tomorrow. The postponement is confirmed ...
• 11 December 2012
  AFRICA/MALI - Political contrasts at the basis of the forced resignation of the Prime Minister Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - A dispute between President Dioncounda Traoré, and members of the former military junta on the one hand and the Prime Minister on the other hand, led to the "forced" resignation on behalf of the ...
• 10 December 2012
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - "Mary, help us grow in faith": thousands of faithful to the Marian pilgrimage in Cacheu Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, December 8, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, there was the usual Guinean National Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Nativity in Cach ...
• 10 December 2012
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE - The tragic death of the Apostolic Nuncio in the Ivory Coast, Mgr. Madtha, a man of peace Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Nuncio in the Ivory Coast, His Exc. Mgr. Ambrose Madtha, died on Saturday, December 8 in a car accident in the west of the Country. The car carrying Mgr. Madtha was involved in an ...
• 10 December 2012
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Cardinal Sarr remembers the Caliph of Tidjaniyya, "man of respect, man of God" Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "A man of relations, a man of God, whose wisdom revealed he was profoundly inhabited by God": said Cardinal Theodore Adrien Sarr, Archbishop of Dakar, remembering in a message sent to Fides, Serig ...