Africa

• 25 July 2006
  AFRICA/UGANDA - First round of talks between Government and Lord’s Resistance Army militias. “a first important towards peace” says Rome based Community of S. Egidio Kampala (Agenzia Fides)- The first week of peace talks between the Ugandan government and the LRA Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group ended yesterday 24 July. The delegations met in Juba, government the capital of Sout ...
• 25 July 2006
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - “Vote for a better future!” Catholic Bishops lengthy Pastoral Letter in view of end of year elections Lusaka (Agenzia Fides)- In a pastoral Letter on elections to be held at the end of this year, dated July 14 and entitled “The Truth Shall set you Free” the Catholic Bishops of Zambia say “The coming elections offer ...
• 25 July 2006
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - After 13 years Unione Medico Missionaria Italiana concludes longest service of the poor in a third world country Rome (Agenzia Fides) - After 13 years of mission among the poor people of Mishikishi, in Zambia, the Unione Medico Missionaria Italiana UMMI has concluded its activity and withdrawn. Since 1993 UMMI has worked in Zambi ...
• 22 July 2006
  AFRICA/TUNISIA - "Prayer is indispensable for fostering in hearts a desire for justice and reconciliation, the condition for finding solutions for conflict": Day of Pope’s Prayer for Peace, a missionary reports Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in Tunisia will join Pope’s Benedict XVI initiative for a Day of Prayer and Penance on Sunday 23 July to obtain from God the gift of peace in the Middle East, Fides was informed by Fr ...
• 20 July 2006
  AFRICA - African Communities in Rome and the pastoral support of the Church (3) - Mauritius, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Not only Catholics frequent the Mauritius community which meets every second Sunday of the month at the Convent of the Sisters of Perpetual Succour in via Merulana 170. "This is an opportunity - c ...
• 19 July 2006
  AFRICA - African communities in Rome and the pastoral care of the local Church (2) - Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Eritrea Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Ghanaian community is one of the smallest African communities in Rome: in the beginning in 2001 it was formed of only ten Catholics. Today there are 50 and a chaplain Fr Joseph Blay. "We only m ...
• 18 July 2006
  AFRICA - African communities in Rome and the pastoral support of the local Church (1) - (Comboni Association for Service of Emigrants and Refugees) D. Congo, Cape Verde Rome (Agenzia Fides) - No less than 29 African countries have a significant presence in Rome, not to mention personnel at African embassies and Africans working with UN organisations such as FAO and IFAD. This has encour ...
• 14 July 2006
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - “Outside interventions can be counter productive unless there is precise knowledge of the situation” says Bishop Bertin Apostolic Administrator di Mogadishu Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides)- “For about a century the Catholic Church has dedicated her service-witness to the poor in Somalia. She did this under colonialism, then with the first Republic, the regime of Siad Barre and i ...
• 14 July 2006
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Children from Mansheya garbage collectors district in Cairo make progress at school run by Italian Comboni missionary Cairo (Agenzia Fides)- “In June last year our work had been in a situation of stall for several months. We wanted to start a course of adult primary education but the prospects were not very hopeful” says Italian Com ...
• 13 July 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - 18 months on from the peace agreement southern Sudan begins to live again and hope for the future Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- “There are numerous signs of general increase of movement and trade in southern Sudan” said Noelle Fitzpatrick, regional head of Jesuit Refugee Service for East Africa. During a recent visit ...
• 13 July 2006
  AFRICA/D. CONGO - Kinshasa Hospital patients benefit from local Church’s civic education programme. Electoral campaign underway, candidates concerned for 5 million extra ballot papers Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- Even hospital patients in Kinshasa, capital of Democratic Congo are benefiting from the programme of civic education offered by the Catholic archdiocese, thanks to Sr. Francine Buys, a Francisc ...
• 12 July 2006
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Annual Holy Childhood Celebration in Uganda. “Peace cannot wait” says Catholic Archbishop of Gulu in northern Uganda where children are the principal victims in 20 years of civil war Gulu - Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu in northern Uganda launched a call to the Ugandan government and the rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army to reach a peace agreement. The Catholic archbishop made the appeal ...
• 10 July 2006
  AFRICA/SUDAN - More than 10,000 Sudanese refugees in bordering countries repatriated. UNHCR calls the international community to fill the void between stages of assistance and development to make sure the once home repatriates can stay home Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - With the arrival at the beginning of last week of a convoy from Uganda, the number of refugees repatriated to southern Sudan with the assistance of the UN High Commission for Refugees overtook ...
• 10 July 2006
  AFRICA/KENYA - Drought emergency persists: hundreds of thousands still risk famine in semiarid regions of Kenya. Economic recovery for families must include substantial replenishing of flocks Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The food shortage persists in semiarid regions of Kenya, where millions are threatened by the consequences of another famine. The alarm was raised by Famine Early Warning Systems Network FEWS NE ...
• 7 July 2006
  AFRICA/GHANA - “The Liturgy must be lived as the principal means of living our faith in the presence of Christ in the life of every person” the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments said at a Meeting in Ghana on “The Liturgy in Africa” Kumasi (Agenzia Fides)- “The Meeting is underway and the debate is high-level. The gathering has brought together 100 delegates from all over Africa including bishops, members of national liturgy commissions, liturgica ...