Africa's Catholic bishops have criticized the appropriation of land, natural resources and other economic assets by private companies and called on national governments to show greater concern for local community rights and needs. "For most ...
Getting Muslim and Christian young people together to know each other before terrorist groups can sow divisiveness is seen as key to peace in the Sahel region of western Africa, said panelists during a March ...
In Sudan's Nuba Mountains and in neighboring South Sudan, mass vaccination against COVID-19 is so far off that it is not even mentioned, said a retired bishop responsible for remote hospitals that he has been ...
Polish Capuchin Franciscan missionaries have opened the first music school in the Central African Republic in hopes of preventing children from being drafted into paramilitary groups. About 100 students study each afternoon with professional musicians from ...
A Nigerian nun working in Ghana urged parents of children with disabilities to see their situation as gift from God and not a curse. Sister Olivia Umoh, a member of the Daughters of Charity, said she ...
Pope Francis met with Father Pierluigi Maccalli, a member of the Society of African Missions, who was freed more than two years after he was kidnapped in Niger. "It was a very, very beautiful meeting. I ...
As Congo battles the COVID-19 pandemic, a new Ebola outbreak has resurfaced in the northwest, just as authorities were prepared to declare the end of Ebola in three eastern provinces. The cases were confirmed in ...
African Church officials and experts say domestic violence is rising during government-enforced measures to fight COVID-19. Now, African Catholic leaders want the crimes tackled. "We need to address the matter urgently. I think fear, panic ...
Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced out of their homes in Burkina Faso as Christian communities are targeted in a spiral of Islamist killings. The surge of attacks has forced some families to ...
Last month while he was in Africa, Pope Francis was asked if his relationship with God had changed since he was elected pope. Our Sunday Visitor managing editor Scott Warden writes that, for the faithful, ...
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