The national measures being taken against the spread of the coronavirus in South Africa are unprecedented and are considered among the strictest in the world.

In the series finale of ‘Plague,’ Mike looks at what’s happening in the church in HIV and AIDS care today and then reflects on comments and questions from listeners about the ongoing debates over LGBT issues in the Catholic Church.

About 3,000 women were murdered in South Africa in 2018 -- five times more than the global average, according to the World Health Organization.

Police arrested at least 70 people in South Africa's commercial capital, Johannesburg, Sept. 2, after protesters looted mostly foreign-owned shops and set fire to cars and buildings in the second outbreak of urban rioting in a week.

Though the ruling African National Congress party (ANC) has won the South African elections, it has done so with a dwindling support of the popular vote.

Two boys at a Catholic boarding school in Zimbabwe are among the more than 300 people killed in the aftermath of a cyclone that slammed into Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi in mid-March.