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… William Vendley on Tuesday noted that religious groups from Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Congo and Indonesia were meeting on the sidelines of the talks in Lindau to discuss ways to …

… minute of it. "It's a cool place," said Ebila of Cleveland, who is originally from Baraka, Congo, and lived 13 years in a refugee camp in Namibia in southern Africa. "The staff is so good. …

… Jonathan Luxmoore … Catholic News Service … Catholic leaders in Congo have gathered more than 1.5 million signatures on a petition that demands local elections … development." Elections of mayors, town councilors and local administrators, the first under Congo's 2006 constitution, were scheduled under an agreed timetable for Sept. 22, nine months …

… filled with blue and green cots, some 270 immigrants from Central America, Haiti and the Congo will take shelter tonight, a stopover on their way to what they hope is a new life in other …

… 2019, the top 10 countries of origin for refugees admitted into the U.S. to be resettled were: Congo, Myanmar, Ukraine, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, Burundi and Colombia. Setting …

… It is a universal problem as scandals in Poland, Ireland, France, India, Philippines, Kenya, Congo, and Costa Rica, etc. have shown. In Africa, where some of the fiercest defenders of …

… Frederick Nzwili … Catholic News Service … The Congo River basin, which spans six African countries, is coming under pressure, partly due to … invaded the basin's forests, looking for pasture and water for their livestock. Rivers in the Congo basin are affected. The flow of the Ubangi River  – the largest tributary of the Congo … forest to combat climate change," said Musabate. He said the church is raising awareness using Congo's Forest Code and Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical, "Laudato Si'." Musabate said individual …

… Catholic News Service … Congo's bishops said territory in the east of the country is being ceded to violent extremists, … Bishop Gaston Ruvezi Kashala of Sakania-Kipushi, on the southeastern border with Zambia, said Congo's bishops had repeatedly denounced the "inhuman conditions" imposed by foreign mining …

… report provide example after example of troubling situations. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, "international NGOs (nongovernmental organizations), media and religious organizations …

… in feathered suits at Mardi Gras, as they chanted, "Don't bow down," memorializes the first Congo Square dancers who broke cultural barriers "with their unleashed body language." Although … fish, trap and gather fruit to avoid the constant threat of famine. The place we now call Congo Square originally served as a marketplace where African peoples also "used the land to … of Maafa, a Kiswahili term for great disaster, gathers New Orleanians of African descent in Congo Square, beautifully adorned in white — the African color for memorializing the spirit — to …

… Vatican press office, told reporters that the adolescent boys and girls from Syria, Nigeria, Congo and other countries had come to Italy from Libya through a humanitarian corridor …

… of the world relies on how we respond and respect and defend not only the Amazon, but also the Congo Basin, the Asia-Pacific tropical forest and Central America." [Brian Roewe is an NCR staff …

… our common home." Experts say tropical forests that are home to other indigenous groups in the Congo Basin, Asia and Central America also help regulate regional and international weather …

… to expand and strengthen JRS educational services. In 1994, Twayigira fled Rwanda for the Congo with her family when she was just three years old. By 1996, her father, mother, and younger …

… composition of migrants started changing last summer, when asylum-seekers from as far away as Congo and Cameroon arrived in Piedras Negras. They thought it might be a safer and less-crowded …

… Catholic News Service … Some Catholic bishops from Congo have endorsed the disputed election of Felix Tshisekedi as president, despite continuing … from other church leaders. The eight-member provincial episcopal assembly of Kananga, covering Congo's troubled Grand Kasai region, said the election of Tshisekedi, who is from the region, was …

… Catholic News Service … Catholic church leaders in Congo have questioned the official outcome of the Dec. 30 elections, saying the officially … results "do not correspond with the data collected" by the church's 40,000 observers. Congo's Electoral Commission declared Felix Tshisekedi the new president, with 38.5 percent of …

… age from 7 to 69 years old. With the exception of Maryknoll Sr. Armeline Sidoine, a native of Congo-Brazzaville who was missioned to China, the group is comprised of all lay people. "The way …

… Two evangelical pastors — one a French-born Baptist, the other a Pentecostal immigrant from Congo — told Religion News Service they often feel most French people don't understand them. This …

… human rights, while also seeking to reconcile political opponents, said church officials in Congo. Archbishop Fridolin Ambongo Besungu is "above all a pastor, who displays Christian … News Service that Ambongo, who was installed Nov. 25, would be ready to work with all sides in Congo's bitter political disputes. "He shows an open spirit and is always ready to calm and unify …