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Roundtables hope to spread examples of Catholic teaching on active nonviolence
… Four September roundtables included testimonies from people in the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Congo, Kenya, Honduras and Brazil, as well as those working alongside migrants on the U.S.-Mexico …
Sisters offer lifesaving care at Kakuma Refugee Hospital
… more than 200,000 refugees from South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Ethiopia and Uganda. The Kalobeyei settlement, just outside Kakuma Refugee Camp, …
A retrospective and look ahead for Hope Amid Turmoil series
… unity, fraternity and democracy with the threads of life. Or in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where María de Lourdes López Munguía, a Franciscan Missionary of Mary, accompanies women … with armed conflicts in the area. "If today I would ask myself, how has this experience in Congo transformed me? — my first response is silence, a silence full of lives, names, stories; a …
As oil activities encroach on sacred sites, a small Ugandan community feels besieged
… the other custodians minding hallowed natural sites in the remote district of Buliisa near the Congo border. "According to the program of Total, custodians are not there," said Wakitinti, …
Cycle of food insecurity continues in Africa as aid heads to other world crises
… classifies the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as food insecurity hot spots of "very high concern" as they have a "high number of people … part, is closely tracking food security in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Madagascar, Somalia, Congo, Central African Republic, Kenya, Nigeria, Mali and Burkina Faso. It is working on several …
A life of 'constant fear': The plight of African LGBTQ refugees
… than 200,000 refugees from Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and Ethiopia. The LGBTQ people here say religious leaders always incite their … and full of challenges," grieved one of the lesbian refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, requesting anonymity so that her family residing in the camp would not know about her … Francis told the news organization , just days before his trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan from Jan. 31-Feb. 5. Fr. Jose Padinjareparampil, director of Don Bosco …
Vatican Observatory summer school teaches how 'you can't do astronomy alone'
… Tools for Astronomical Surveys." Jesuit Fr. Williams Dhelonga of the Democratic Republic of Congo, told Earthbeat that the highlight of the program had been the encounter of people and …
Pope Francis to 1.5 million youth in Portugal: Be 'beacons of hope in dark times'
… earth — from countries as diverse and far away as Ukraine, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Samoa — flew high above the crowds as the pope spoke. On the ground, sleeping bags, …
Pope Francis meets with abuse survivors in Portugal, as country reels from latest revelations
… he does not meet with victims," she wrote. "He did not hold such meetings in Hungary, the Congo, Romania, or Panama, even though the church's victims in each of those countries surely …
Pope, Council of Cardinals look at need to reform diocesan chanceries
… of Québec; Juan José Omella Omella of Barcelona; and Fridolin Ambongo Besungu of Kinshasa, Congo. …
Dozens of children massacred in Ugandan school, Pope asks for prayers for victims of 'brutal attack'
… (ADF) swooped into the Lhubiriha Secondary School in the town of Mpondwe, near the border with Congo. Children educated in the school were between the ages of 13 and 18. Some victims were … and underlined "the importance of collective efforts to tackle cross border insecurity between Congo and Uganda and restore durable peace in the area." The ADF is a shadowy rebel group linked … Ugandan military launched attacks on the rebel movement, forcing it to relocate into Eastern Congo, where the absence of state authority has allowed several rebel groups to operate and …