Africa

(OSV News) — Amid what a Catholic charity called “unimaginable” suffering of civilians trapped in civil war brutality in Sudan, the United States declared that one of the fighting factions is …

MALMÖ, Sweden (OSV News) — A new report by Open Doors International said that more than 380 million Christians faced persecution and discrimination in 2024, an increase of 15 million …

(OSV News) — Two Nigerian women religious who were kidnapped Jan. 7 as they returned home from a meeting in Ogboji, a town in Anambra state in Nigeria, were freed …

GLASGOW, Scotland (OSV News) — As the Jubilee Year picks up speed, the faithful must participate by sharing what we have with the disadvantaged, Catholic charity Mary’s Meals urged.  Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, …

IHIALA, Nigeria (OSV News) — In a dark sign of descending security in Africa’s most populous country, a Catholic priest has been shot dead on the open road in southeast …

NAIROBI, Kenya (OSV News) — From Nigeria to Mozambique, Sudan and Congo to Burkina Faso, Christians across Africa were victims of horrific persecution in 2024, mainly because of their faith. …

(OSV News) — As he’s sitting in a shed at a salmon farm in Argyll, a remote part of Scotland, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow’s life is only seemingly calm. He quit his …

NAIROBI, Kenya (OSV News) — A disagreement between the Catholic bishops in Kenya and the government has taken a new twist, with the church rejecting a $40,000 donation from President …

NAIROBI, Kenya (OSV News) — A day after Catholic bishops in Mozambique rejected general elections results as fraudulent and manipulated, poll violence had loomed large in the southeastern African country, …

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (OSV News) — Father Christophe Komla Badjougou, a priest of the Diocese of Yagoua in northern Cameroon, was in Yaoundé to get his visa to Italy, when he …