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January 11, 2024
YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – With Nigerians sounding alarms over what some describe as a mounting “genocide” against Christians in Africa’s most populous nation, observers are also expressing disappointment that the U.S. State Department has failed to designate Nigeria a country of special concern for religious freedom violations. Over the Christmas holidays, reports from Nigeria suggest that
January 09, 2024
Cardinal Robert Sarah has given his first in-depth and public interview on Fiducia Supplicans, the controversial new document on same-sex blessings from the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) released in December.  The former Prefect for the Congregation for Divine Worship, the Vatican’s Liturgical Office now headed by former Bishop of Leeds Cardinal
July 28, 2022
If demography and culture are destiny, then the Vatican – and wider Christian community – have a serious problem, in the Western world at least. The German Synodal Path may be an attempt at liberal pushback against what many German Catholics see as an alienating conservativism by the Vatican, but it faces an uphill struggle
May 18, 2021
The Vatican on Monday announced the resignation of Bishop Joseph Banga Bane, just two days shy of the Congolese prelate’s sixty-fourth birthday. Pope John Paul II named Joseph Banga Bishop of the Diocese of Buta in 1995 when he was just 38 years old. Just last month, Bishop Banga celebrated the silver jubilee of his
March 03, 2021
Hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped from a state boarding school in the north west Nigeria state of Zamfara last week have been released, a local official announced.
February 03, 2021
As opposition parties in Tigray warn of a "humanitarian disaster", Bishop Paul Swarbrick has called on the UK government to increase its support for the people of the Ethiopian region.
February 13, 2020
The Catholic Church has sometimes had a tense relationship with the Rwandan government. But last month officials announced that they were donating a 14-acre plot for the construction of a new Catholic cathedral in the capital, Kigali. It will be built on land that was formerly occupied by one of the country’s largest and oldest
June 22, 2018
The priest was told to 'reconsider his ways' after using rap music to attract young people to church
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