Nigeria: Violence Between Fulani Herdsmen And Farmers
Nigeria’s bishops have challenged government authorities to resolve the country’s violent disputes, especially after recent attacks by Fulani herdsmen have resulted in over 168 deaths just this year. A recent statement from the Catholic bishops, focused on clashes between herdsmen and farmers, a spate of kidnappings and the large number of internally displaced persons and […]
Syria: Sowing Seeds Of Hope
The shooting has stopped in Aleppo. The city is totally destroyed. The difficult process of reconstruction. The traumas of the children. The Church is involved helping people. “The children have felt the effects of this absurd war. Every day there is death and destruction before their eyes. They sleep very little at night. They still […]
Youth Is A Symbol Of The Future
The challenge for the Church in Africa is clear – it must “welcome this youth with open arms, with all the questions and all the anguishes it raises, with the lively concern to educate it to discernment”. Globally, the current generation of youth is the largest in history, with as many as 1.2 billion people […]
Christian Persecution Is Growing: 215 Million Worldwide
According to the 2018 Open Doors Report, persecution has expanded geographically and numerically. The threat of religious or ideological nationalism is serious, especially in Asia and Africa. More than 215 million Christians suffer from intolerance in the world (about 1 in every 12, or 8.6%), 3060 Christians were killed, 1922 imprisoned, 793 churches targeted. These […]
Madagascar – Games: Ties Of Friendship
Every year, young students from Madagascar participate in the sports and cultural competitions that take place on the occasion of the National Days of Catholic Education. Inhabitants of Toamasina, the populous port city of eastern Madagascar, formerly known as Tamatave, are not particularly interested in the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. They are much fonder […]
Nigeria: To Listen To Them
Sr. Edna Kotse Ikalumhe is a Religious Sister of Charity from Afashio Uzairue in Edo State, Nigeria. Her pastoral activity is in the prisons. She talks about her experience. Every day I visit three prisons in Lagos, two for men and one for women. One of these prisons has 3,580 inmates. This ministry is a […]
Togo – A Comboni Missionary: “When People Take Destiny In Their Hands, There Is Hope”
In the last months, Togo has been shaken by strong popular protests that claim a limitation on the number of presidential mandates. Women are at the forefront of the popular protest against the power of President Faure Gnassingbe. Setting off from three different meeting points, the women, dressed mostly in black, were accompanied by men […]
Philippines: Life Under Threat
As the bloody campaign against illegal drugs and crime continues under the present administration, the Catholic Church in the Philippines responds by establishing community-based drug rehabilitation programs, caring for the victims and parents, strengthening the defence and the culture of human rights. Not since the Marcos dictatorship has human life in the Philippines been so […]
Angola: ‘The Thinker’
When we visited the Anthropological Museum of Luanda, we were fascinated by a small statue known as ‘The Thinker’, which is the cultural symbol of Angola and to which an evocative apologue is linked. The National Museum of Anthropology (Museu Nacional de Antropologia), which is located in the Barrio dos Coqueiros of Luanda, is one […]
Ecuador: Kichwa Community Commits To Eco-Sustainable Tourism
On the banks of the Napo River and in front of the Yasuní National Park, Sani Isla holds out against the oil industry. Sani Isla is the name of a Kichwa indigenous community of a thousand people living on the banks of the Napo River, in front of the Yasuní National Park. In recent years, […]
