NAIROBI, Kenya (OSV News) — As Rwanda marks 30 years since the 1994 genocide, the Catholic bishops in the country have expressed their closeness to survivors of the killings, while …
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NAIROBI, Kenya (OSV News) — Paul Mackenzie, the self-proclaimed Kenyan pastor who shocked the country and the world after he drove his followers into mass “starvation suicide,” has been charged …
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NAIROBI, Kenya (OSV News) — Ahead of COP28, the U.N. climate change conference, Catholic leaders in Africa called for decisive action against climate change, as churches and agencies moved to …
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NAIROBI, Kenya (OSV News) — When Pope Francis released his apostolic exhortation “Laudate Deum” (“Praise God”) was released Oct. 4, its message echoed loudly across Africa, where millions of ordinary …
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NAIROBI, Kenya (OSV News) — On the day the world celebrates efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity, a bishop in Ethiopia was warning that his people were still dying …
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(OSV News) — As authorities in Libya announced a three-day mourning period following a deadly flood disaster, a Catholic bishop in the North African country expressed the church’s closeness to …
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(OSV News) — When the next consistory convenes at the Vatican on Sept. 30, a South Sudanese archbishop — whose installation met stiff resistance — will be among the 21 …
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NAIROBI, Kenya (OSV News) — An international Catholic pro-life organization is warning that the West’s fight against gender-based violence in Africa has a hidden agenda of promoting abortion. The warning …
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NAIROBI, Kenya (OSV News) — Deadly violence hit Christians in Africa Jan. 15, with a Catholic priest in northern Nigeria burned to death and as many as 17 Christians killed …
