(OSV News) — A leading African cardinal has described the Catholic Church in Africa as “a champion of human development,” saying that it’s precisely the church that makes up for …
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(OSV News) — As fighting continues to rage in Sudan in the Horn of Africa, Catholic bishops in neighboring South Sudan accused warring factions of committing “horrendous war crimes” while …
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(OSV News) — Mary’s Meals, a global charity organization committed to ending child hunger, has expanded its school feeding program to the southern African country of Mozambique — a place …
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(OSV News) — This Ugandan ministry is transforming societal structures to “ensure dignity and justice for all.” Now it has been awarded the inaugural Premio San Giovanni Paolo II — …
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(OSV News) — The Australian Catholic University’s Center for Liturgy offered a training program for lay liturgical ministers of the Word in Nigeria. The program, delivered online, aims to equip …
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YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon (OSV News) — A Catholic priest and three Catholic teachers in Cameroon’s troubled southwest region are recovering from bullet wounds after they were shot in what church authorities …
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(OSV News) — The chairman of U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, has described religious freedom conditions in Nigeria as “abysmal.” Speaking July 18 at a House …
