Africa

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  1 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Robe Apostolic Prefecture: “We are turning the desert into an oasis” Addis Abeba (Agenzia Fides) - "Some may have the impression that I have abandoned the Prefecture, in fact I have lived all this time in the heart of our Church, where the Gospel has not yet arrived, among the Somali peop ...
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  31 March 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Attack on train in Kaduna: Condolences from Christian denominations Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Our hearts and prayers are with the bereaved families and we pray that God will give them comfort. And for those who have suffered injuries we pray for a speedy recovery", said the President of t ...
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  30 March 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Terrorist violence in Kaduna: Three priests have been kidnapped in the region this month alone Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - New attacks have occurred in the state of Kaduna, where two of the three priests kidnapped in Nigeria in the last month were kidnapped (see Fides 29/3/2022). In the last 24 hours, two attacks have ...
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  29 March 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Third priest kidnapped in Nigeria in March Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Father Leo Raphael Ozigi is the third Catholic priest kidnapped in March in Nigeria. Fr. Ozigi, parish priest of the church of St Mary, in the village of Sarkin Pawa, in the local government are ...
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  29 March 2022
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Prison Counseling: “We see the Holy Spirit at work within these walls” Korhogo (Agenzia Fides) - "Since 2009 I have been visiting the Korhogo prison in the north of Ivory Coast twice a week, where little by little a pastoral care for the spiritual accompaniment of the prisoners has develope ...
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  28 March 2022
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Farewell to Cardinal Antonios Naguib, Patriarch Emeritus of the Catholic Copts Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "He was a good pastor for all of us. And for me also a father. He ordained me a priest, and I was the first to receive episcopal ordination from him, in June 1978, when he had been bishop for a fe ...
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  28 March 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Assault on the airport in Kaduna, capital of the homonymous State where two priests have been kidnapped in recent weeks Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Citizens of the State of Kaduna are tired of the government's rhetorical responses without concrete actions taken to protect lives and property", says the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN, a ...
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  28 March 2022
  AFRICA/KENYA - Encourage collaboration between the sisters involved in the communication and dissemination of their work of evangelization Mombasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Nuns are an essential component of the Catholic Church in the particular missionary activity of evangelization", said Msgr. Martin Kivuva Musonde, Archbishop of Mombasa, during a seminar on the ...
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  26 March 2022
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Thousands still flee violence in northern Mozambique Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "Killings, beheadings and dismemberment of bodies, sexual violence, kidnappings, forced recruitment by armed groups and torture". These are the war crimes committed by armed groups active in the ...
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  26 March 2022
  AFRICA/TOGO - Work continues on the new Tové dispensary and collaboration between missionaries continues Lomè (Agenzia Fides) - "I was in Tovè in 2005 for a meeting with all the Italian missionary personnel present in Togo, organized by the Pontifical Mission Societies. At that time in the area there was only a small chap ...
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  26 March 2022
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Education and business training: Comboni missionaries promote opportunities for young people Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "The 'Comboni Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center' (Ciec) aims to increase and encourage new skills: it is in fact a business incubator, designed to strengthen social cohesion, offer opportu ...
• 26 March 2022
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Erection of the Diocese of Tshilomba and appointment of first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 25, 2022, the Holy Father erected the diocese of Tshilomba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, with territory taken from the diocese of Luiza, making it a suffragan of the metropol ...
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  25 March 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - After Father Joseph Akete Bako, another Priest Abducted in Kaduna State Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Another priest has been kidnapped in Nigeria. It is Father Felix Zakari Fidson, from the diocese of Zaria, in the state of Kaduna, in the north of the country. According to a statement sent to Age ...
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  25 March 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "Peace, not war, has always been our choice": hope for a humanitarian truce Mekelle (Agenzia Fides) - The Ethiopian government, led by Prime Minister Abiy Ali Ahmed, wants to take "extraordinary measures" "to save lives and reduce human suffering" and declares "an indefinite humanitarian ceasefi ...
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  25 March 2022
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A new beginning for the Catholic Church: Father Christian Carlassare is ordained bishop in Rumbek Rumbek (Agenzia Fides) - Almost a year after the dramatic attack in which he suffered serious injuries (armed men broke into his bishop's house on the night of April 25-26, 2021), Bishop Christian Carlassare returns to R ...