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Catholic officials decry resurgence of death penalty in southern Africa
… use of the death penalty in the past decade — including Guinea, Benin, the Republic of the Congo and Madagascar — Botswana's government claims it can be a good deterrent to prevent violent …
Pope joins Italians mourning deaths of ambassador and officer in Congo
… Pope Francis joined the people of Italy in mourning the murders of the country's ambassador to Congo and an Italian officer in his security detail, both young men the pope described as … shot and killed as they were traveling in a U.N. convoy. Attanasio, who had been ambassador to Congo since 2017, left behind his wife and three young children. Iacovacci was engaged to be … in forging fraternal and cordial relationships" with an aim of helping bring peace back to Congo. Iacovacci was "experienced and generous in his service," the pope said, noting also that …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: Hothouse Earth
… Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, the Amazon and Congo basins, and the Arctic. Scientists say those fires are aggravated by rising global …
EarthBeat Weekly: A year after 'Querida Amazonia,' some lessons for the U.S. church
… for the church around the world, reflected in ecclesial networks that have emerged in the Congo Basin , Mesoamerica, and Asia and Oceania , as well as the Amazon Basin . Unfortunately, …
EarthBeat Weekly: Environment defenders face dual threat of climate change, murder
… sees church networks like the ones that have formed in Asia and Oceania, the Amazon, Africa's Congo Basin and Mesoamerica as providing crucial support for communities that are under threat. …
Zairean rite offers example for developing an Amazonian rite, pope says
… and reflects the needs of Catholics in the sub-Saharan African nation, formerly Zaire, now Congo. The missal received formal approval from the Vatican in 1988 after a long process of …
Global climate action at stake in US election, faith activists say
… gas emissions in tropical forest countries including Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia. Tropical forest loss has increased since the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate …
EarthBeat Weekly: Amid East Africa climate crisis, church groups help farmers survive, adapt
… pour l’Action Sociale (Center for Social Action Studies) in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. The pandemic-related global economic downturn has also made outside assistance scarcer …
World Food Program wins 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
… of victims of hunger in the world," the committee said. It noted that in places such as Yemen, Congo, Nigeria, South Sudan and Burkina Faso, "the combination of violent conflict and the …
African Catholic climate activists warn against proposed pipeline
… buried in rock in the Albertine Graben basin of Lake Albert on the border between Uganda and Congo. But as the project shapes up, groups opposed to the pipeline warn that establishment means …
Lens on Creation: Bad prognosis for disease amid changing climate
… Saasita puts on protective clothing in Beni, a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. I met her last year while covering the Ebola outbreak that hit the country beginning in …
Enfocando la Creación: Mal pronóstico en lucha contra enfermedades
… Saasita se pone su equipo protector en Beni, ciudad en el este de la República Democrática del Congo. La conocí el año pasado cuando hacía un reportaje sobre el brote del virus de Ébola que …
New cardinals? They'll be more of the same
… Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, and Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of the Democratic Republic of Congo — don't expect a deacon's voice at the table. And for sure don't expect a woman. While the …
We need to embody a blues hope
… American blues music even before enslaved Africans first gathered in the early 1700s in Congo Square . As Cornel West phrased it post-9/11, a "blues nation has to learn from a blues …
Congo's new Ebola outbreak adds strain as agencies respond to COVID-19
… Fredrick Nzwili … Catholic News Service … As Congo battles the COVID-19 pandemic, a new Ebola outbreak has resurfaced in the northwest, just … Ebola in three eastern provinces. The cases were confirmed in Mbandaka, a port city on River Congo May 31. By June 8, there were 12 cases, nine of which had been confirmed and three … including a 15-year-old girl, in the region where another outbreak ended about two years ago. Congo "is currently facing a COVID-19 epidemic affecting 11 provinces, working hard to end one …