Africa

• 27 June 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - IN MONROVIA “KILLING, SACKING AND TERROR” MISSIONARY TELLS OF YET ANOTHER OF AFRICA’S FORGOTTEN WAR Monrovia (Fides Service) – Killing, sacking, terror. This is how a missionary stationed in Monrovia, capital of Liberia, describes to Fides Service the situation in the town for days caught in conflict between troops l ...
• 27 June 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - A CRISIS LASTING MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS: BACKGROUND Monrovia (Fides Service) – Liberia has been in crisis since the 1980s of the last century, since a coup in 1980 led by Sergeant Samuel K. Doe put an end to centres of dominion of the so-called “Afro-Americans”. The ...
• 26 June 2003
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - UNHCR AWARD TO ITALIAN VOLUNTEER FOR THIRTY THREE YEARS OF WORK WITH TB SUFFERERS IN NORTHERN SOMALIA “TELLING THE GOOD NEWS OF THE GOSPEL WITH HER LIFE” Geneva (Fides Service) – A prestigious award has been given to an Italian volunteer who has worked for thirty three years in Somalia treating people with tuberculosis. On June 25 in Geneva the United Nations High Commi ...
• 26 June 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - “OUR ONLY HOPE IS FOR AN INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION”, SAYS MISSIONARY IN THE CAPITAL IN THE GRIP OF FRESH FIGHTING Monrovia (Fides Service) – “Liberia’s only hope now is for an international intervention” a missionary in Monrovia tells Fides Service. For the past few days in various city districts of the capital there has bee ...
• 26 June 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - RELIGIONS UNITE FOR PEACE. ARCHBISHOP ODAMA AND OTHER RELIGIOUS LEADERS SLEEP IN THE OPEN WITH 200,000 CHILDREN TO PROTECT THEM FROM WARLORDS. Kampala (Fides Service) – “We are here with about 20,000 children and young people offering concrete solidarity to people being persecuted” Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu in northern Uganda tells Fides Servi ...
• 25 June 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - MONROVIA UNDER CANON FIRE, CHURCH DOES WHAT IT CAN TO HELP CIVILIAN WAR VICTIMS, HUMANITARIAN ORGANISATIONS WITHDRAWING WORKERS Monrovia (Fides Service) – Fighting has resumed in Monrovia the capital of Liberia, between the army loyal to president Charles Taylor and LURD rebels (Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy). “At the mome ...
• 25 June 2003
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - RELIGIOUS MEN AND WOMEN AND EVANGELISATION IN TANZANIA: INCULTURATION OF THE FAITH, MISSIONARY ANIMATION, USE OF MEDIA Dar es Salaam (Fides Service) – A local Church ever more committed to missionary activity and the inculturation of the faith also using the media. This picture emerges from an annual report sent to Fides Service by the ...
• 24 June 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - HOPES FOR PEACE VANISH: SHELLING IN MONROVIA AS PRESIDENT TAYLOR PREPARES FOR DECISIVE BATTLE Monrovia (Fides Service) – The pounding of heavy shelling awoke the capital Monrovia at 530am local time this morning 24 June, local Fides Service sources report, asking to remain unnamed for security reasons. For days ...
• 23 June 2003
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO-NIGER - CHURCH STILL YOUNG, DESPITE DIFFICULTIES TENDS TO MISSION, INTERVIEW WITH BISHOP OUEDRAGO, PRESIDENT OF BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Despite difficulties connected with the precarious living conditions of the local people, the missionary vitality of your diocesan Churches has expressed itself in various forms”, Po ...
• 23 June 2003
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - NEGLECT AND IGNORANCE CAUSED LATEST NIGERIAN OIL TRAGEDY SAYS ARCHBISHOP ONAIYEKAN OF ABUJA Abuja (Fides Service) – “This is the umpteenth tragedy caused by neglect on the part of those responsible for protecting one of the largest oil installations in Nigeria” Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuj ...
• 20 June 2003
  AFRICA/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO - FEAR AND UNCERTAINTY IN NORTH KIVU. DESPITE UNILATERAL CEASE-FIRE CALLED BY REBELS MORE VIOLENCE IS FEARED Kinshasa (Fides Service) – Tension is still high in North Kivu, in the eastern part of Democratic Congo DRC, where rebels of the Congolese Group for Democracy (RCD-Goma) have declared a unilateral cease-fire. Local sou ...
• 20 June 2003
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - WORLD REFUGEE DAY: ASSISTANCE AND FORMATION FOR A BETTER FUTURE: SCALABRINI REFUGEE SERVICE IN AFRICA Cape Town (Fides Service) – Shelter, food, medical assistance, schooling, professional training are some of the services offered by the Scalabrini Refugee Service in Cape Town, South Africa, a large port destination of ...
• 20 June 2003
  AFRICA/UGANDA - ACHOLI PEOPLE VICTIMS FOR YEARS OF THE WORST FORM OF TERRORISM WHICH NEVER MAKES THE HEADLINES Kampala (Fides Service) – “It is certainly a good sign the fact that the Ugandan press is talking of the need to end the carnage in northern Uganda which has gone on for too long” said a missionary with years of ex ...
• 18 June 2003
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - A YOUNG CHURCH FULL OF ENTHUSIASM Ouagadougou (Fides Service) – In 2000 the Catholic Church in Burkina Faso celebrated the centenary of evangelisation in the region. The first mission here was opened by the White Fathers, today known as Missionaries of ...
• 18 June 2003
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - DISBELIEF AND SCEPTICISM IN LIBERIA AFTER CEASE-FIRE BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND REBELS IS ANNOUNCED Monrovia (Fides Service) – Liberia awoke with surprise, uncertainty and hope following the announcement of a cease-fire agreement and the resignation of President Charles Taylor. On June 17 at midnight the Liberian go ...