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… mutes the effects of sexual abuse … by Jacky Jones. The words we use do matter. … Contested Congo Election Fuels Fears Of Violence … Nigeria -- … Bishops Laud Senate for Outlawing Gay …
Morning Briefing
… can a Manila archbishop make? … . Luis Antonio Tagle installed as archbishop of Manila Congo DR -- … The Catholic archbishop of Kinshasa on Monday condemned election results handing DR Congo President Joseph Kabila a new five-year term after polls that were sharply criticised by …
Morning Briefing
… for the US where he remains working as a Marianist in Dayton, Ohio. … Catholic church in Congo issues poll warning … Scotland: … What to expect from the anti-gay marriage brigade … , …
From rumba to voodoo, subtext abounds on pope's Africa trip
… Romano , the daily Vatican newspaper, blasted a U.K. ban on a comic book called “Tintin in the Congo” as “politically correct lunacy in the shadow of Big Ben.” Originally serialized in Belgium in the 1930s, “Tintin in the Congo” recounts the adventures of a young reporter named Tintin and his dog Snowy. Stephen …
Avoiding 'condom-gate' in Africa
… when there’s a famine or a war. Even then, you can’t take anything for granted. The Second Congo War and its aftermath cost an estimated 5.4 million lives from 1998 to 2008, the deadliest …
Heroes' ray of hope for Africa's future
… of people in nations such as Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Côte d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Uganda and the Congo. By contrast, Ten African Heroes brings a ray of hope into the African political landscape. …
The New York Times' abortion agenda
… raped on their way to, and even inside, Kenya. I know about the idiocy of military forces in Congo, Sudan and Burma. But I do not think the answer is for a foreign government -- the United … is not just another medical procedure. Even the poorest of women -- in Somalia, in Kenya, in Congo, in Sudan, and in Burma -- know intuitively that it is a dreadful end to a separate human …
'Machine Gun Preacher': What would Jesus do?
… to want to establish a theocracy and uses religion to justify his brutal reign in Uganda, Congo and Sudan. Sam becomes aware of the children the Lord's Army has abducted and turned into …
Central Africa desperate for world attention bishops, CRS tell US gov't
… (CRS) are joining the call for a United States Special Envoy to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the entire Great Lakes Region of Central Africa. In a joint letter to Secretary … wrote that they do so “out of deep concern for the suffering that the people of the Eastern Congo continue to endure.” An array of armed groups, including the Congolese army, local …
Top Ten Papal Trips
… predictions beforehand, and surprisingly positive vibes afterwards. John Paul II, Zaire-Congo-Kenya-Ghana-Burkina Faso-Ivory Coast, May 5-12, 1980: The first ever papal trip to Africa, …
Sex and money? It's about power
… Public Health reports 400,000 women were raped from 2006 to 2007 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where sexual violence is the worst in the world. According to published UN statistics, …