African prelates welcome Pope’s call to pray for peace
There were a total of 31 wars and armed conflicts during 2017, as reported by the Group for the Investigation into the Causes of War, based at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Africa
In Zambia, priests perform in ‘exemplary’ way
Tony Zender, who oversees projects in a number of English-speaking African countries for international papal charity Aid to the Church in Need, recently visited Zambia. It is a politically stable nation, though it has far to go in terms of development and lifting its people out of poverty.
In Nigeria, help for those orphaned and widowed by Boko Haram
The specter of Boko Haram may have fallen from the headlines, but a painful echo of its reign of terror in northeastern Nigeria endures. The group mainly killed men, leaving behind countless widows and orphans in dire straits.
Mali: ‘To secure peace we must start with our own family’
Mali has offered an example of a well-functioning dialogue between Christians and Muslims for the whole of West Africa. But the Malian form of Islam is a more tolerant one. This is continuing but since 2008 we have been observing a gradual Arabization of Islam, and this makes the situation overall more difficult.
Sudan Archbishop: ‘We must evangelize the culture’
Archbishop Michael Didi recently spoke about the situation of the Church in Sudan with international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need.