Only days after the fatal attack on the Italian Ambassador, more civilians have since been massacred in the eastern province of the DRC. Vatican News English Africa North Kivu, in the eastern province of the Democratic Republic…

Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a number of schoolgirls from the town of Jangebe in northwest Nigeria early on Friday. Vatican News English Africa Services In a sign of the total breakdown of security in the north of Africa's most…

In Kitwe, Zambia’s second largest city, Unknown people have stolen the Tabernacle from a Catholic Church. Vatican News English Africa Service Zambia’s Catholic Radio Icengelo reports that thieves broke into the St John…

The South Sudan Council of Churches and other civil society groups call on the government to take steps to promote peace, security and national cohesion as the country celebrates the first anniversary of the creation of its Transitional…

"The security situation remains worrying in various areas, despite a relative calm," Agenzia Fides quotes the Bishops of Burkina Faso and Niger as saying. Vatican News English Africa Service According to a communiqué of the West…

The warm reception of Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin to the Cathedral of Bamenda in Cameroon shows that faith is bigger than politics and intimidation, according to Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya. In welcoming the visit…

Several African countries are grappling with a deadly second wave of the covid-19 virus being driven by a variant first identified in South Africa. Paul Samasumo – Vatican City There are fears that the continent’s health system,…

Following the kidnapping of eight children from an orphanage on Saturday, Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Abuja calls on the Nigerian government to ensure the protection of Nigerians. By Vatican News staff writer In another…

Barely two years after tropical Cyclone Idai and Cyclone Kenneth battered Mozambique, the country is now experiencing tropical cyclone Eloise which made landfall early Saturday. Vatican News English Africa Service The Mozambican…

Father Rodrigue Sanon, the priest missing since Tuesday in Burkina Faso, was found dead Thursday in the country’s south-west forest. Paul Samasumo – Vatican City. In a sign of the deteriorating security situation in Burkina…