Africa

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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 ...
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  21 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Cardinal Berhaneyesus: “Through the Cross of Christ we can conquer hatred with love” Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "Faith in the Resurrection of Christ gives every Christian and all humanity the strength to conquer all evil and sin", said Cardinal Berhaneyesus in the official message delivered to all pub ...
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  20 April 2022
  AFRICA - The Comboni Missionaries: 150 years of love for the mission Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "The Congregation of the Pious Mothers of Nigrizia, now known as the Comboni Missionary Sisters, took its first steps on January 1, 1872. The day before, Maria Caspi had crossed the threshold of ...
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  20 April 2022
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - "Intentional mass starvation": humanitarian truce in Tigray is at stake Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - Hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans are dying of hunger. The humanitarian truce that began on March 24 is already at stake. The government has allowed only one aid convoy to enter Tigray, the ...
• 20 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Resignation of bishop of Warri Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - on April 18, 2022 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Warri, Nigeria, presented by Bishop John Oke’ Afareha. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 20/4/2022) ...
• 13 April 2022
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Bishops: "May Easter be an invitation to conversion to peace" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us renew our commitment to reject any acts of evil, including acts of war, conflicts and any actions, which will lead to the senseless loss of lives and the creation of needless crises". This ...
• 13 April 2022
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, rev. Jean Claude Rakotoarisoa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 14, 2021, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Jean Claude Rakotoarisoa, of the diocesan clergy of T ...
• 13 April 2022
  AFRICA/SUDAN AND SOUTH SUDAN - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 10, 2022, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Santo Gaba Samuel, of the diocesan clergy of Tombura-Ya ...
• 12 April 2022
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishop of Maiduguri Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed the rev. John Bogna Bakeni, currently chaplain of the All Saints Catholic Chaplaincy of the University of Maiduguri, assigning him the titular seat of ...