Africa

• 16 February 2005
  AFRICA/GHANA - Exploited child workers on Lake Volta rescued and rehabilitated by international programme Accra (Fides Service)- Another 114 children have been rescued from forced labour in Central Ghana thanks to a programme of the International Organisation for Migration IOM. The children were victims of traffickers withou ...
• 16 February 2005
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - School meals, health and education in Sahel: Italian initiative in support World Food Programme. 1.250 tonnes of rice for about 200,000 people Rome (Fides Service) - According to a Report on Millennium Development Goals in Guinea Bissau 124 in every 1000 children die before the age of 1 and 203 before the age of five. Infant mortality affects 822 out of every ...
• 16 February 2005
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Missionaries in northern Uganda build home to protect for high-school girls from violence Gulu (Fides Service)- “I am here with the workmen, we are building a home for high-school girl pupils”. Loud and clear the voice of a missionary working in northern Uganda reaches Fides from the most forgotten region ...
• 15 February 2005
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - “Political tension must stop, or we risk a civil war” warn Catholic Bishops of Zambia Lusaka (Fides Service)- In a statement dated 15 February on ‘Concerns of Governance’ the Catholic Bishops of Zambia voiced concern for the future of the country. “As Church leaders, we are concerned by the endemic ...
• 15 February 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Local Church’s intervention to help process of disarmament, demobilisation and reinsertion of militia: Meeting in Kinshasa Kinshasa (Fides Service) - A meeting to discuss how the local Church in Democratic Congo can help in the programme for disarmament, demobilisation and social reinsertion of troops involved in civil war started yesterday, ...
• 14 February 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - Lendu and Hema clash in north eastern Ituri region of Congo: pastures and farmlands on top and gold, coltan uranium and oil underground! - Who aims for these resources? Bunia (Fides Service)- “This is a humanitarian catastrophe, a war on civilians” said a local Church source in Bunia main town in the north western Ituri region of Democratic Congo, where at least 80,000 people have a ...
• 14 February 2005
  AFRICA/TOGO - Pray to God who is Lord of difficult even impossible situations” : appeal from Christian religious authorities Togo in a situation of political crisis since the death of President Eyadema Lome (Fides Service)- " In this political situation following the tragic events in our country Togo, the country’s religious communities cannot fail to voice concern" Christian leaders in Togo said in a message to the ...
• 10 February 2005
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Archbishop of Bangui among guarantors for presidential elections in Central African Republic. Missionary comments for Fides Bangui (Fides Service)- “The reaction has been positive. The local press welcomed the agreement reached by political groups in Central Africa” a missionary working in Central African Republic told Fides with regard ...
• 10 February 2005
  AFRICA/SUDAN - “May peace encourage cultural renewal and eventually bring democracy” says missionary in Sudan Khartoum (Fides Service)- “There will be a real turning point for the country only if the peace process triggers cultural renewal which will eventually bring democracy. But this will take time” a missionary with yea ...
• 9 February 2005
  AFRICA/TOGO - part of the country wants “a return to constitutional rules to allow the country to vote” Lome (Fides)- Protest on the part of the Opposition continues in Togo with two days of “dead country” with schools, offices and shops closed. Togo has still not recovered after the death of President Gnassingbe Eyade ...
• 9 February 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Pray for the conversion of hearts” says a Catholic Bishop in the Democratic Republic of Congo according to DIA new agency of the Congolese Bishops’ Conference Kinshasa (Fides Service) - Pray for peace. This is the call for Lent launched by Bishop Stanislas Lukumwena, Bishop of Kole, in the centre of Congo, according to the news Agency of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference DIA. ...
• 8 February 2005
  AFRICA/TOGO - “Unreal silence increases people’s fear” say Fides sources in Lome capital of Togo following death of President Eyadema in power for 38 years Lome (Fides Service)- “A ghost city wrapped in unreal silence which only increases the fear of the people”. This is how Fides sources describe the situation in Lome, capital of Togo, following the death of President ...
• 8 February 2005
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - “Congo is ours: the time has come for full commitment for democracy” say Catholic Bishops of Congo Kinshasa (Fides Service)- “The time has come for serious commitment to promote democracy” said the Bishop members of the Standing Committee of the Congolese Bishops’ Conference in a statement at the end of meeting ...
• 8 February 2005
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Emeritus Bishop of De Aar in South Africa dies at the age of 92 Rome (Fides Service)- Bishop Joseph Antony De Palma SCI, emeritus of De Aar (South Africa), died on 3 February at St. Peterburg in Florida (USA). Nel 1959 he was elected 5th Superior General of the Congregation of the P ...
• 4 February 2005
  AFRICA/UGANDA - We hope that peace in Sudan will bring peace in Uganda” says missionary involved in teaching children in tormented northern region of Uganda Gulu (Fides Service)- We are losing spirit, instead of a will for peace there seems to be only a desire to continue along the military path” a missionary in Gulu northern Uganda where amidst many difficulties talks con ...