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Talk in Rome turns to new cardinals in 2010
… Kiêt, Ha Noi, Vietnam •tArchbishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo •tArchbishop Kazimierz Nycz, Warsaw, Poland •tArchbishop Willem Jacobus Eijk, Utrecht, The …
Grieving for Haiti
… row, nuclear arsenals, corruption on Wall Street, the suffering of Haiti, Gaza, Darfur, Peru, Congo, Malawi, and Bangladesh -- these are all connected. We need to ask, why are the Haitians so …
Health care African style
… Information Service of Africa. The Catholic Diocese of Uvira in the Democratic Republic of Congo is building a new hospital in South Kivu, which is near the border with Rwanda and Burundi. … about the hospital. It is name after Fr. Giuseppe Crippa , an Italian Xaverian missionary to Congo from 1966 to his death in October 2009. …
Obama's Nobel speech reveals humble, thoughtful president
… law by brutalizing their own people. When there is genocide in Darfur, systematic rape in Congo or repression in Burma — there must be consequences. And the closer we stand together, the …
A new Catholic horizon
… and to “Globalization.” By midcentury, Nigeria, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo will be among the 10 largest Catholic nations in the world, displacing from the list Poland …
Not counting women and children
… the U.N. reported 27,000 reported rapes in just one region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Multiply that by the rest of the country and the number of years the fighting has endured …
African bishop on Islam, oil , and why selling the Vatican is a stupid idea
… malaria and even dying of malaria every day is very high in Nigeria. We are told that after Congo, we are perhaps the next highest number. The United Nations have decided to zero in on …
The power of the sun
… Sisters in Action Around the World … African Photovoltaic Project … The Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur have ministered in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1894 and in Nigeria since 1963. Aware that the lack of clean water and electricity were major problems for both Nigeria and the Congo, they reviewed energy needs and researched energy alternatives. It soon became evident that …
Botswana, where African stereotypes go to die
… between the Muslim-dominated north and sub-Saharan Africa, for example, or between war-torn Congo and Sudan and zones of relative calm such as Gambia. Nowhere do generalizations about …
Ghost of Maputo Protocol hangs over African Synod
… a loss of development aid. Gaston Asitaki, for example, who heads a pro-family association in Congo, recently complained of “nasty pressure on our parliament to ratify the Maputo Protocol” …