Africa

• 21 September 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Religious leaders develop peace strategy: reopen talks with the LRA and encourage guerrillas to desert Yambio (Agenzia Fides) – Religious leaders from the four countries affected by the violent raids of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have signed a commitment to apply pressure locally and internationally to find a peac ...
• 18 September 2010
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Apostolic Vicar of Awassa tells Fides: “Our concern is to promote integral human development, based on Gospel values.” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – An Apostolic Vicariate with an area approximately one third the size of Italy is Awassa, Ethiopia. Fides has asked its Apostolic Vicar, Bishop Giovanni Migliorati, in Rome for the Seminar of newl ...
• 17 September 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Growing concern for security and human rights Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – "We are still concerned about the escalation of armed conflict in Darfur, the post-election violence in South Sudan, and the ongoing political oppression in northern Sudan," say 27 NGOs for t ...
• 16 September 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Second round of presidential elections postponed due to organizational problems Conakry (Agenzia Fides) – "We are still experiencing the growing pains of a young democracy that is trying to fulfill the population's desire to participate in credible elections," Fides was told by a source from the C ...
• 16 September 2010
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Missionaries' efforts to eradicate superstition of witchcraft, where first victims are children Luanda (Agenzia Fides) – There is growing concern in the Catholic Church in Angola for the phenomenon of witchcraft. "Witchcraft is the new war that makes pastoral activity very difficult," Radio Ecclesia was told by ...
• 15 September 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - From Argentina to KwaZulu: Bishop Ponce de Leon, Apostolic Vicar of Ingwavuma Rome (Agenzia Fides) – A missionary Bishop from Argentina in South Africa. That would describe Bishop Jose G. Ponce de Leon, Vicar Apostolic of Ingwavuma, who has been in Rome for the seminar for newly appointed bishop ...
• 14 September 2010
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Bishop of Tombura-Yambo tells Fides: a political solution must be found to stop the LRA Yambio (Agenzia Fides) – "After 25 years of war, we need to find a political solution," Fides was told by Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambo, in southern Sudan, where last week there was a meeting of the Re ...
• 14 September 2010
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Archbishop of Freetown: “Unemployment among the youth is a threat to social stability.” Rome (Agenzia Fides) – "We are still living in a post-war era following the conclusion (8 years ago) of the terrible war of 1992-2002," Fides was told by Archbishop Edward Tamba Charles, Archbishop of Freetown and Bo, ...
• 13 September 2010
  AFRICA/GUINEA - Disorder in Conakry: “growing pains of an emerging democracy” Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - "We are still experiencing the growing pains a democracy that is emerging, although, unfortunately, with the loss of lives," Fides was told by a Church source in the Republic of Guinea, followin ...
• 13 September 2010
  AFRICA/KENYA - Only 24% of HIV-positive children receive palliative care Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - A new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the Kenyan government needs to do more to provide palliative care for children with chronic illnesses, including cancer and HIV/AIDS. The report, Ne ...
• 11 September 2010
  AFRICA - Testimony of two “border” Bishops from Burundi and Kenya Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Two newly appointed bishops who work in "frontier dioceses" have told Fides of the challenges they face and the hopes they have for the future of evangelization in their dioceses. Bishop Bonavent ...
• 10 September 2010
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A fire destroys the Church of Hagazah, in Upper Egypt Luxor (Agenzia Fides) – A fire has destroyed the church of the Catholic Copts in the village of Hagazah, Quena Province, Upper Egypt, in the Diocese of Tebe - Luxor. Fides was informed of the event through Bishop Joann ...
• 10 September 2010
  AFRICA - African bishops delegation in Europe to discuss Millenium Development Goals Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the Summit for review of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be held in New York, September 20 to 22, a delegation of SECAM (Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa ...
• 8 September 2010
  AFRICA/CONGO DR - UN reports 500 rapes in Kivu in 1 month; a missionary comments Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – “The UN has finally become aware of a situation that we as missionaries and as the Church have been denouncing for some time now. However, I often wonder whether there are strategic and pol ...
• 7 September 2010
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Public workers strike ends after keeping the nation on hold 3 weeks Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – After 21 days of strike, hundreds of thousands of South African public sector workers have returned to work. However, this is only a suspension of the strike, civil servants' unions said, ...