African faith leaders call for cancellation of punitive foreign debts
Catholic leaders in Africa have called for the removal of the unpayable debts, saying that the burdens were sinking their countries further into poverty.
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by bcadmin | Oct 8, 2022 | African bishops, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Hunger, News, Poverty | 0 |
Catholic leaders in Africa have called for the removal of the unpayable debts, saying that the burdens were sinking their countries further into poverty.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 8, 2022 | African bishops, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Hunger, News, Poverty | 0 |
Catholic leaders in Africa have called for the removal of the unpayable debts, saying that the burdens were sinking their countries further into poverty.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 2, 2022 | Africa, African bishops, Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, News, Poverty | 0 |
A Vatican diplomat in southern Africa warned that deprivation and poverty among the laity could obstruct Pope Francis’ vision of synodality in the region, where the challenges are widespread.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 14, 2022 | African bishops, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Climate change, Drought, News | 0 |
Catholic bishops in Eastern Africa set aside a week to discuss the consequences of ecological damage in the region as it becomes evident that climate change is exacting a crushing toll on the development of people in both rural and urban parishes.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 12, 2022 | African bishops, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, HIV/AIDS, Kenya, News, Prostitution, Religious Sisters, sex abuse | 0 |
Fish is the main currency in southwestern Kenyan cities on the lake. In early morning, women who sell fish in the market for a living wait on the shore to trade sex for fish.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 9, 2022 | African bishops, Cardinal Berhaneyesus Souraphiel, Catholic News Service, Christmas, Church in Africa, Civil war, Ethiopia, News | 0 |
As Ethiopia celebrated Christmas Jan. 7, Cardinal Berhaneyesus Souraphiel of Addis Ababa called for humility, patience and gentleness, while urging the people to remember those suffering from war.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 30, 2021 | African bishops, Caritas Internationalis, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, floods, News, South Sudan, United Nations | 0 |
Forty-year-old Chol Garang and his wife Anok Deng, 33, sit on a woven mat outside their new home in Malakal, South Sudan’s second largest city, waiting for rice donated by the church to cook for their children.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 11, 2021 | Africa, African bishops, Church in Africa, Comboni missionaries, lead, News, Pope Francis, South Sudan | 0 |
A missionary set to become one of the Catholic Church’s youngest bishops in one of the world who was just appointed to South Sudan said his main inspiration as a missionary is Saint Josephine Bakhita, a former slave in Sudan who became a nun and serves as an inspiration for millions.
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