Africa

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  2 May 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - The Bishops express their solidarity with the victims of the floods Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Mozambique have expressed their solidarity with the victims of the violent floods that last month affected some countries in southern Africa. "During the recent rainy season, flood ...
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  30 April 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Grand Mufti Shawki Allam: no Islamic prohibition on sharing "fast-breaking" dinners with Christians during Ramadan Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - There are no provisions in the Koran and in the Sunnah that prohibit Muslims from sharing the evening meal of "breaking the fast" (Al-Fitr) with Christian friends, relatives or acquaintances durin ...
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  30 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Ethnic-religious violence: "Who are we as Nigerians?" Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - Nigeria is witnessing a worrying increase in ethnic-religious violence. Nigeria, the "African giant", Africa's most populous country, home of Afrobeat and Nollywood - one of the most thriving film ...
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  29 April 2022
  AFRICA - Appeals continue to support the populations of the Horn of Africa who risk dying of hunger and thirst Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Millions of people across East Africa are facing extreme levels of hunger and malnutrition. The region's food insecurity continues to be exacerbated by ongoing conflicts, severe drought, loc ...
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  29 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Population on the brink: the humanitarian action of the Church, which asks for peace Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "At the end of 2021, when we understood that the conflict would continue, we agreed that more attention would be needed and to start an aid program. At that point, the Church, the Bishops, t ...
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  28 April 2022
  AFRICA/ALGERIA - Canonization of Charles de Foucauld: Archbishop of Algiers on the special spiritual path Algiers (Agenzia Fides) - Charles de Foucauld is not just an icon. Because if his story continues to touch the hearts of a multitude of people in all parts of the world, it is not because of the romantic image of a "herm ...
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  28 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGER - The Easter cross carried by a people suffering from famine, lack of medicine, violence and insecurity Dosso (Agenzia Fides) - "We, the Christians of Dosso, form a small, very small, minority community in a predominantly Islamized society. We are happy but also fragile in the face of the diversity and multiplicity of colo ...
• 27 April 2022
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Appointment of the Bishop of Matadi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 23, 2022 the Holy Father appointed Rev. André Giraud Pindi Mwanza, of the clergy of Matadi, currently Apostolic Administrator of the same Diocese, as Bishop of Matadi (Democratic ...
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  27 April 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - A total of 4,000 Coptic Christians make the Easter pilgrimage to Jerusalem Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - This Easter, more than 4,000 Egyptian Coptic Christians made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land to celebrate in places linked to the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. The data, pr ...
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  27 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Tigray's health system has completely collapsed: local doctors try to "improvise" Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - More than a month after the humanitarian ceasefire declared by the Ethiopian government under Prime Minister Abiy on March 24 (see Fides, 25/3/2022), which had raised great hopes among the a ...
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  26 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - A community farm to bring hope to families and children Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Drought and rising prices are causing health problems in Ethiopia due to malnutrition among the Ethiopian population and affecting 70% of families in the city of Emdibir: aware of these diff ...
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  26 April 2022
  AFRICA /D.R.CONGO - Vocation and priestly mission, gift and mystery to be preserved Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The priestly vocation is a gift and a mystery: this is what the Archbishop of Kinshasa, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu said in his address to the more than six hundred priests who gathered t ...
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  25 April 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Pope's visit: decisive in finding a new peace agreement Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "In recent months we have feared a return to war in South Sudan, especially when Vice-President Machar suspended his participation in the negotiations on responsibilities for the implementation o ...
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  25 April 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 9 Coptic Christians who ended up in prison for protests over delays in the reconstruction of their church were released for Easter Samalut (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday, April 23, the 9 Coptic Christians who had been imprisoned since January 30 for having participated in the previous days in the protests carried out by some Christian residents of th ...
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  22 April 2022
  AFRICA/TOGO - Recent developments in Lomè: Missionary reports on the work of religious in the peripheries Lomè (Agenzia Fides) - "Our students are on vacation, with their families and in their parishes. After Easter we will welcome five interns from Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Tanzania who will work in different parishes ...