NAIROBI, Kenya (CWR) – In eastern Africa, unusually heavy and sustained rainfall has led to massive flooding and numerous deaths as large tracks of land where thousands once lived are now under water. This, in […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (CWR) – African Catholic leaders are cautioning that an Islamist insurgency in the Sahel region threatens to escalate in a manner similar to that in Syria. The cleric fears heightened early this month […]
A wind of change is blowing in South Sudan and Sudan, two African countries where, according to their bishops, ordinary people are wounded and suffering due to conflict. “We have seen the wounds and misery […]
As the Orthodox Church in Ethiopia celebrated the feast of True Cross last month, its most senior bishop raised concerns over rising attacks on its churches and an emerging rift within the church itself. Abune […]
In Nigeria, deadly violence linked to Fulani herdsmen is increasingly taking toll on Christians and their leaders in a conflict seen largely as a struggle for land resources. The assailants have advanced on villages, homes, […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (CWR) –Archbishop Bert Van Megen, the Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya, urged world Catholic youth to use all means of communication to spread the message of Laudato Si’, at an event marking the fourth […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (CWR) – In Sudan, the third-largest country in Africa and a nation in which Christians have frequently faced persecution from extremists, the ruling military and civilian protest leaders reached an agreement to share […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (CWR) – In the Congo’s “new dawn”, Catholic bishops are taking steps to move the country forward, even as the presidential election result continues to stir controversy. Initially, the bishops had rejected the […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (CWR) – Some observers have viewed the latest elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as a new dawn for the troubled country that has never enjoyed a peaceful transfer of power […]
As another attack ends an uneasy calm in northern Mozambique, a growing Islamist insurgency in the region has continued to worry Catholic bishops in the southern African country. On November 14, the insurgents attacked Nagulue’, […]
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