Africa

• 26 May 2011
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - A refugee camp has been assaulted from Libya: "we need to accelerate the reception procedures," says the priest who assists them Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - " The UNHCR's responsible have arrived from Genova to try and handle the situation. The problem is that if the Tunisian government does not guarantee security, a commitment that was made when it ...
• 26 May 2011
  AFRICA/TUNISIA- The procedures for repatriation of Africans who fled from Libya and who are not entitled to asylum have begun Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - " 350 Sudanese were repatriated last night and tonight another 250 from Sudan, Chad and the Ivory Coast. Virtually all those who do not have right to political asylum will be expelled to their cou ...
• 25 May 2011
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE-"Our priority is the reconciliation of souls" the national director of the PMS says to Fides Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Our priority as a Church is the reconciliation of people," says Father Alphonse N'Guessan N'Guessan, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Côte d'Ivoire to Fides. On M ...
• 25 May 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN-"The population is fleeing from Abyei under the rain and is at risk of epidemics, no one helps them" dramatic appeal of the parish priest and the Apostolic Administrator Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "The population fleeing from the city is still moving towards south, " says Fr. Peter Suleiman, pastor of Abyei to Fides, a town on the border between north and south Sudan, occupied by troops ...
• 25 May 2011
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE-Appointment of the Auxiliary of Maputo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 25, 2011 the Holy Father Benedict XVI appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Maputo (Mozambique), Rev.do Priest João Carlos Hatoa Nunes, General Pro-Vicar, Chancellor of t ...
• 24 May 2011
  AFRICA/CAMEROON-"Proposing vocations in the local Church": the role of the youth in vocational promotion Edea (Agenzia Fides) - Ninety young aspirants to priesthood and religious life of the diocese of Edea and the neighboring dioceses of Douala and Yaoundé, lived three days of study, prayer and fraternity, from May 13 to ...
• 24 May 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN-"The population is escaping under the rain, without any assistance, " says the priest of Abyei to Fides Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "I was able to reach by phone a few parishioners who told me that the IDPs from Abyei are escaping, under a strong rain, from Agok heading towards Turalei" says the priest of Abyei to Fides, ...
• 24 May 2011
  AFRICA/DR CONGO-New LRA attacks in northeastern Congo, the Bishop of Bondo thanked "those who keep talking about this tragedy" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - In the night between 18 and 19 May a group of guerrillas of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) kidnapped 15 to 18 people in a village 7 km from Angola in the north-east of the Democratic Republic ...
• 23 May 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN-"Abyei is a dead town: all the inhabitants have fled" the local priest says to Fides Abyei (Agenzia Fides) - "We have fragmented news from Abyei, but according to what we managed to find out the residents have evacuated the city, which is now empty," the priest of Abyei told Fides, who was not in town a ...
• 23 May 2011
  AFRICA/KENYA-The Kenyan Episcopal Conference presents its new internet website Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Kenyan Episcopal Conference (KEC) inaugurated its new website with a ceremony presided over by His Eminence Cardinal John Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi, at the "St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in ...
• 23 May 2011
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA-Appointment of the Bishop of Queenstown Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on May 23, 2011 appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Queenstown (South Africa) Rev. do Dabula Anthony Mpako of the clergy of Pretoria, the pastor of St. Thomas Mo ...
• 21 May 2011
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE-The contribution of the mysterious Mani people in the construction of modern Sierra Leone Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The mysterious Mani people traveled the streets of West Africa since the beginning of the sixteenth century until almost the beginning of the seventeenth century. Almost unknown and even ignored b ...
• 21 May 2011
  AFRICA/SUDAN-North and south Sudan accuse each other due to new clashes in Abyei Juba (Agenzia Fides) - Tension in Abyei increases, the area rich in oil is disputed between north and south Sudan, after clashes that have opposed the troops of the two contenders, and have also involved the men of UNMI ...
• 21 May 2011
  AFRICA/COTE D'IVOIRE-Inauguration of Ouattara; tonight interfaith prayer at the Basilica of Yamoussoukro Yamoussoukro (Agenzia Fides) - "There is a strong popular mobilization and every effort has been made so that there is a festive atmosphere, also thanks to the organization of events throughout the city, " says Fr. Aug ...
• 21 May 2011
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO-Resignation of Bishop of Koudougou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI on May 21, 2011 accepted the resignation from the ministry of the Diocese of Koudougou (Burkina Faso), presented by Archbishop Basile Tapsoba, in accordance wit ...