Africa

• 24 November 2009
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Adopt a well in Ethiopia: an initiative of National Institute for Health, Migration and Poverty Mekellè (Agenzia Fides) - "The privatization of water is already a tragedy for Italy, imagine if we talk about Africa or Ethiopia, where there is a lack of drinking water.” These were the words of Professor Aldo Morro ...
• 23 November 2009
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - “Africa Cup 2010 should be an opportunity for dialogue and friendship,” Bishops of Angola say Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - “The Africa Cup for soccer is an opportunity to strengthen dialogue between people of different cultures, to increase esteem and respect for each other and build a friendship that goes beyond a ...
• 23 November 2009
  AFRICA/GHANA - “With missionary vocations...Africa can become a continent of hope,” National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Kenya tells Fides Accra (Agenzia Fides) - “We thank God for the gift of the missionaries, men and women who moved by love, left their country, came to minister in our midst bearing much bodily suffering, cultural challenges, climatic di ...
• 21 November 2009
  AFRICA/GUINEA - “If talks between the military regime and the opposition fail, ethnic card may be played,” a local Church source tells Fides Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - “The two sides have started talks, but they are ready to play the ethnic card if negotiations fail,” say Fides sources from the Church (who requested anonymity for security reasons) in Conak ...
• 20 November 2009
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Central government and South Sudan respect 2005 peace accord, Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako, Archbishop of Khartoum, tells Fides Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church will continue its work of evangelization and Christian witness as well as human development. As for the rest, it is difficult to predict," Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako, Archbishop of Kh ...
• 20 November 2009
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, visits Cairo Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – On November 18, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, arrived for a visit to Cairo, the capital of Egypt, upon the invitation of His Beatitude Antonious Nag ...
• 19 November 2009
  AFRICA/MALAWI - “We are working alongside doctors from Malawi every day on the Internet,” says Fr. Alfonso Raimo, head of “Denied Childhood,” collaborating with health center in Diocese of Dedza Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The few doctors who decide to remain in Malawi make heroic efforts, but that alone is not sufficient to cope with diseases such as AIDS. So, we started a project to help them," Fides was told by F ...
• 18 November 2009
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Resurgence of xenophobic violence feared; spokesman from Bishops' Conference tells Fides: “We are in contact with the Internal Affairs Minister and we continue to observe how the situation evolves.” Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - “We are in contact with the Internal Affairs Minister and we continue to observe how the situation evolves, to see what exactly is taking place. When we have a clear picture of what is ha ...
• 18 November 2009
  AFRICA - Western Africa likely to be an area of confrontation between Colombian and Nigerian drug traffickers: UN expert warns Rome (Agenzia Fides) – A Boeing flight hired by South American traffickers crashed on takeoff in northern Mali. Alexandre Schmidt, an official of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has commented on th ...
• 18 November 2009
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Spiritans celebrate their General Chapter in Africa, for the first time Rome (Agenzia Fides) – For the first time in the history of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, founded in 1703, a General Chapter be held in Africa. The Superior General of the Spiritans, with the consent of its boar ...
• 17 November 2009
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - “We have made substantial progress towards democracy, but more must be done," say Mozambican Bishops Maputo (Agenzia Fides) – In reply to the message that the Synod Fathers addressed to Africa, the primary need is to make recourse to the Sacrament of Reconciliation. This is what the Bishops of Mozambique said in their ...
• 16 November 2009
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “Africa needs water, not GMOs,” Cardinal Napier, Archbishop of Durban, tells Fides Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "From the first information that I have read this morning on the FAO Summit, I have the impression that this organization does not know what the real problems of nutrition in Africa are. Africans d ...
• 16 November 2009
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Clergy celebrates 75th anniversary and Saint Coeur de Marie Major Seminary in Anyama celebrates 50th anniversary Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, November 15, 2009, the National Day for Peace, in the presence of Cardinal Bernard Agre, and the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Ambrose Madtha, the Church of Ivory Coast has solemnly ...
• 14 November 2009
  AFRICA/TOGO - "A Church, daughter of missionaries, becoming an adult," Director of PMS in Togo tells Fides Lome (Agenzia Fides) - “The Catholic Church in Togo was begun on August 28, 1892, when the first Mass was celebrated in our land,” Agenzia Fides was told by Fr. Benoit Eoevi Penoukou, National Director of the Pontifi ...
• 12 November 2009
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Life of the Church: Consecration of the new Apostolic Vicar for Latin Community in Egypt and commemoration of the Legion of Mary Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – On October 31st, we held the ceremony of consecration for Bishop Adel Zaki, new Apostolic Vicar for the Latin Community in Egypt. The ceremony was held at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in downtown ...