Catholic Relief Service works to battle hunger in Africa’s Sahel region
Several experts are warning that the humanitarian situation in Africa’s Sahel Region could spiral out of control, without outside intervention.
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by bcadmin | Feb 20, 2022 | Burkina Faso, Catholic Church, Catholic Relief Services, chad, Church in Africa, lead, Mali, News, Niger, Sahel | 0 |
Several experts are warning that the humanitarian situation in Africa’s Sahel Region could spiral out of control, without outside intervention.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2021 | Cecilia Marogna, lead, Mali, Missionaries, News, Vatican, Vatican finances, Vatican trial | 0 |
After the release over the weekend of a Colombian nun who was kidnapped by jihadists nearly five years, reports also came out indicating that a Sicilian woman indicted by the Vatican for financial crimes had a hand in the nun’s release.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 10, 2021 | Catholic missionaries, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Colombia, Franciscan sisters, Kidnapping, Mali, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
The day after authorities announced her release from kidnappers in Mali, Colombian Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez Argoti was at the Vatican for a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica and was greeted by Pope Francis.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 22, 2021 | Catholic missionaries, Church in Africa, Colombia, Jihadists, kidnapped, lead, Mali, News | 0 |
After three months, Colombia’s government has given up on negotiations for the release of Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez, kidnapped in Mali by jihadists four years ago.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 2, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Mali, News | 0 |
Catholic bishops in Mali “firmly condemned” a May 24 military coup, the north African country’s second in nine months, and appealed for “constructive dialogue” among the state’s actors.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Burkina Faso, Caritas, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Relief Services, Catholic-Muslim relations, Christian-Muslim relations, Church in Africa, Ghana, Islam, Mali, News, Niger, Sahel | 0 |
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 30 online workshop presented by Catholic Relief Services.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 17, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Mali, News, Sahel | 0 |
Malians have come to see the African nation’s Islamic clergy as a “fourth branch of government” in a country that has been buffeted by two coups in the past decade, said a professor from the University of Notre Dame who spent two years between the coups surveying Malians’ attitudes on war, peace and politics.
Read MoreACN Interview with Fr. Pierluigi Maccalli
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 9, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic missionaries, Catholic News Service, Islamic extremists, Mali, News, Pope Francis, priest kidnapped, Sahel, Vatican | 0 |
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.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 16, 2020 | Church and World, Feature3, Mali, News, World Mission Day | 0 |
‘For a peaceful Mali, here I am, send me Lord’
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 9, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic missionaries, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Islamic extremists, Mali, News, priest kidnapped, Sahel | 0 |
The bells of the cathedral in Crema, Italy, pealed for joy in the night when the Italian government announced the release of Father Pierluigi Maccalli and three other hostages being held in Mali.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 9, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Catholic missionaries, Church in Africa, Islamic extremists, Mali, News, priest kidnapped, Sahel | 0 |
Father Pierluigi Maccalli was one of four hostages released by Islamic militants in Mali on Thursday.
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