Africa

• 3 February 2004
  AFRICA/SUDAN – FIGHTING CONTINUES IN WEST SUDAN. REPORTS OF VIOLENCE AND MASSACRE OF CIVILIANS. MORE THAN 100,000 TAKE REFUGE IN NEARBY CHAD. SINCE FEBRUARY LAST YEAR 3,000 KILLED Khartoum (Fides Service)- The humanitarian situation in Darfur, west Sudan, is ever more critical. International humanitarian organisations say the Sudanese army and airforce are attacking villages along the border with ...
• 2 February 2004
  AFRICA - DAY FOR CONSECRATED LIFE – SPANISH SISTER MARINA HAS SPENT 20 YEARS HELPING AFRICAN WOMEN REALISE THEIR DIGNITY AND SPECIAL ROLE IN SOCIETY Rome (Fides Service) - Sister Marina Martínez González, a Spanish member of the Teresian Carmelite Missionaries has spent more than 20 years in Africa promoting the conditions of women in different countries Democratic ...
• 2 February 2004
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - MISSIONARY FATHER ARMANINO, YEARS OF EXPERIENCE SERVING LIBERIANS, EXPLAINS UNSOLVED PROBLEMS AT ROOT OF CIVIL CONFLICT Rome (Fides Service)- “As always different factors intervene and interact in civil conflict and genocide as in the case of Liberia” Father Mauro Armanino, SMA Superior General in Liberia told Fides. Liberia is trying ...
• 2 February 2004
  AFRICA/LIBERIA – TWENTY YEARS OF CONFLICT: INFO UPDATE 2 FEBRUARY 2004 Monrovia (Fides Service) – Liberia has been in crisis since the 1980s of the last century when a coup led by sergeant Samuel K. Doe, put an end to Afro-American rule. Those rulers were former slaves in America, given t ...
• 30 January 2004
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - PEACE AGREEMENT FOR SOMALIA: TRANSITION GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT MEMBERS APPOINTED BY LOCAL CHIEFS NEW FEDERAL CONSTITUTION Mogadishu (Fides Service) - A agreement for peace in Somalia was signed yesterday 29 January in the Kenyan capital Nairobi by 42 representatives of different factions. The agreement stipulates the formation of a new tran ...
• 30 January 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC CONGO - SCOTLAND’S CARDINAL ENCOURAGES CONGO WHERE CIVIL WAR KILLED 3 MILLION PEOPLE AND PRAISES LOCAL CHURCH FOR WORK IN EDUCATION AND ITS OWN CATHOLIC RADIO “A GOOD MEANS OF EVANGELISATION FOUND NEITHER IN SCOTLAND, ENGLAND NOR IRELAND” Bukavu (Fides Service )- Cardinal Keith Michael Patrick O’ Brian, Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, was very impressed with the work of the local Church in Bukavu which he had the opportunity to see during a r ...
• 29 January 2004
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - CHILD SOLDIERS IN SIERRA LEONE: DEEPLY TRAUMATISED BUT NO HATRED IN THEIR HEARTS, SAYS MISSIONARY Freetown (Fides Service) -“Now that the process of disarming child soldiers has been completed there is the difficult stage of reinsertion in normal life” Father Giuseppe Berton, Xaverian missionary in Sierra Leone t ...
• 29 January 2004
  AFRICA – EDUCATION IS A RIGHT, BUT IN AFRICA THERE ARE CLASSES WITH 100 PUPILS AND NO BLACKBOARD Kinshasa (Fides Service ) – When the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa achieved independence they all gave absolute priority to education as a means not only to avoid but also to eradicate poverty. Every country has the ...
• 29 January 2004
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - IVORY COAST WOULD WELCOME THE UNITED NATIONS, EVERYONE WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE UN INVOLVEMENT. CATHOLIC BISHOPS URGE PEOPLE TO PRACTICE MODERATION TO HELP RETURN OF PEACE Abidjan (Fides Service )- “The news that the United Nations may take a more active role in the peace process has been welcomed by all in Ivory Coast” a local Church source in Abidjan, told Fides with regard to the ar ...
• 28 January 2004
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - MURDERED NUNCIO ARCHBISHOP COURTNEY COMMEMORATED TOMORROW A MONTH AFTER TRAGIC AMBUSH, WITH A SOLEMN MASS IN BUJUMBURA CATHEDRAL Bujumbura (Fides Service). There is still deep grief all over the country for the violent killing of Archbishop Michael Aidan Courtney, papal nuncio in Burundi, killed in an ambush on 29 December 2003 (see Fides 30 Decem ...
• 28 January 2004
  AFRICA/LIBERIA – CAPUCHIN FATHERS’ VEHICLE STOLEN: THIEVES’ RANSOM DEMAND TYPICAL OF LIBERIA’S STATE OF CONFUSION Monrovia (Fides Service )- “People are disillusioned with the country’s political vicissitudes; they have other problems, where to find food for the evening meal” a local Church source told Fides commenting the req ...
• 27 January 2004
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - “WE HAVE COME TO LEARN FROM YOUR HOPE”. CARDINAL PATRICK O’BRIAN, PRIMATE OF SCOTLAND TELLS THE MARTYRED ARCHDIOCESE OF BUKAVU Bukavu (Fides Service )- To the delight and deep appreciation of Congolese Catholics Cardinal Keith Michael Patrick O’Brian, Primate di Scotland, Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, chose to make his first visit ...
• 27 January 2004
  AFRICA/ DEMOCRATIC CONGO - SUDDEN DEATH OF BISHOP PAUL MAMBE, BISHOP OF KINDU, FOR YEARS COMMITTED TO PROMOTING PEACE AND RECONCILIATION IN CONGO Bukavu (Fides Service ) – Bishop Paul Mambe, Bishop of Kindu and Vice president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference (CENCO) died suddenly during the night of 26 January 2004, Radio Maria Malkia wa Amani in Bukavu rep ...
• 27 January 2004
  AFRICA/UGANDA - NORTHERN UGANDA’S SILENT WAR MAKES NO SOUND Kampala (Fides Service) – The LRA Lord’s Resistance Army rebels continue to sack, kidnap and kill in northern Uganda. According to missionaries contacted by Fides whom we will not name for security reasons, “violen ...
• 22 January 2004
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - LOCAL CATHOLIC CHURCH LAUNCHES EDUCATION CAMPAIGN TO STRIKE CORRUPTION AT THE ROOT Yaounde (Fides Service) - The Catholic Church in Cameroon has begun a school programme to teach pupils respect for the common good in view of eliminating corruption in future. According to local Catholic News Agency DIA, ...