Africa

• 20 January 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "No to the new draft law on State security", says the Archbishop of Cape Town Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a bill that undermines the right to information which is of vital importance for the full exercise of other civil rights, and violates the constitutional commitment to create an open ...
• 20 January 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The kidnappers of the two priests have demanded a ransom for their release Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "The two priests are held near the town of Wadakona, on the border between Sudan and South Sudan. We asked the authorities in Juba (South Sudan) not to intervene, so as not to endanger the live ...
• 19 January 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The two priests kidnapped are well, negotiations are being held for their release Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "We know that the two priests are in good condition and are probably held in a place near the border between North and South Sudan", this is what sources of the Archbishopric in Khartoum told F ...
• 19 January 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Archbishop of Abuja denounces threats against Christians and calls for the protection of the State Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - His Excellency John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja (Federal Capital of Nigeria), denounced the sending of text messages (SMS) "that threaten the existence of plans by some Muslim groups ...
• 18 January 2012
  AFRICA/SUDAN - The kidnappers had promised the release of the 2 priests, but so far they have not done it Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "The kidnappers had promised to release yesterday evening the two priests kidnapped on January 15, but so far they have not done it" say sources of the Archbishopric of Khartoum to Fides. The t ...
• 18 January 2012
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "If a strong signal on the economy is not given there is the risk of a new crisis", says the Archbishop of Tunis one year after the Revolution Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - "The average Tunisian wants two things: security and work. If the first is guaranteed, it is the second which is missing", says His Exc. Mgr. Maroun Elias Laham, Archbishop of Tunis, who in an int ...
• 17 January 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The killing of the coordinator of AMREF in South Sudan is probably due to the consequence of a robbery which degenerated into murder Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "We have learnt that the local police have arrested a person found driving the car that AMREF had removed from our manager. We do not have information about its investigations and interrogations", ...
• 17 January 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Do not be afraid: another Nigeria is possible", says the Bishop of Sokoto Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not be afraid". This is the sense of Archbishop Matthew Hassah Kukah’s pastoral Letter, Bishop of Sokoto, the capital of the homonymous State in the north-west of Nigeria, of which a copy wa ...
• 16 January 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA-The President cuts the price of petrol, but the protest continues; the Bishops: "we think of the nation’s welfare" Abijah (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, announced today, January 16, the reduction of the price of petrol from 141 to 97 naira per litre, although it has not re-introduced the old price of 6 ...
• 16 January 2012
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Meeting between Sudan and South Sudan to resolve the issues of oil and citizenship Juba (Agenzia Fides) - The governments of Sudan and Southern Sudan will meet tomorrow, January 17, in Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia, for a new round of negotiations to resolve the issues left pending after the independence of ...
• 13 January 2012
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Floods block the repatriation of Angolans Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - Several thousand Angolans repatriated from neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are stranded due to floods in northeast Angola. These are the first victims of what promises to be a very ...
• 11 January 2012
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - The results of the legislative elections have been contested, while the battle concerning the presidential continues Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Democratic Republic of Congo continues to live in a rather complex political stalemate. While President Joseph Kabila swore in on December 20, his principle opposer, Etienne Tshisekedi (who ...
• 11 January 2012
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Caritas Somalia: four million Somalis in critical condition, 250,000 at risk of hunger Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - According to FSNAU (Food Security Analysis Unit, an organization sponsored by the European Commission and by USAID), four million people are in conditions of food insecurity in Somalia, of the ...
• 9 January 2012
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Abolition of the subsidy on petrol, "a decision that affects the poor", say the Bishops, denouncing the "insensitive timing" in the face of attacks Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ibadan (southern Nigeria) say they "saddened" for the "unpopular decision" to abolish subsidies on petrol, which has experienced a dramatic and sudden ...
• 9 January 2012
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Birth and development of the African Church, which celebrates 50 years: the diocese of Makeni Makeni (Agenzia Fides) - On July 8, 1950 a group of four Xaverian missionary pioneers landed in the port of Freetown, at the headquarters of the British colonial administration in Sierra Leone. A few days later, the new ...