NAIROBI, August 31 -A three-day workshop on the possibility of setting up a Continental Catholic News Agency for Africa opens at the Resurrection Garden in Nairobi, Kenya.
JOHANNESBURG, August 31 -The archbishop of Durban, South Africa Cardinal Wilfrid Napier expresses his dismay at the Protection of Information Bill, which would give the government power to define information as in the "national interest."
NAIROBI, August 31 -Most Kenyan officials were under the impression that Sudan first Vice President and South Sudan government (GoSS) president Salva Kiir was going to be present at the ceremony as a representative of his country.
VATICAN CITY, August 31 - “There are many causes for violence among believers of different religious traditions, including: the manipulation of the religion for political or other ends; discrimination based on ethnicity or religious identity; divisions and social tensions.
NAIROBI, August 31 -EAJA condemns the charges of editor-in chief saying the law is being used to persecute a journalist who merely performed his duty by passing the information to the people.
CAIRO, August 31-An Egyptian military court hands down sentences in the trial of eight civilian factory workers who led a protest against deteriorating safety conditions in an army-owned factory.
VATICAN CITY, August 31 -The Pontifical Council for Social Communications organizes an international conference for the Catholic press to focus on the Churchs use of the Internet and new media.
