“We will never get [the pandemic] under control here in the United States until we get it under control everywhere,” C.R.S.’s Sean Callahan said.
Africa
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Pope Francis warns us: Covid-19 is not the only global crisis we’re facing right now
The debt crisis in the developing world threatens a staggering impact on the world’s most vulnerable people. “We’re approaching the greatest wave of debt crises and debt restructurings the world has ever seen.”
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Catholic Church leaders in Africa: U.S. return to Paris climate accord could make up for ‘lost momentum’
President Biden’s turnabout on the Paris climate accords was cheered by environmental activists in Africa, a continent that contributes a tiny amount to the problem of global warming but stands to suffer mightily because of climate change.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Paul Farmer went to Africa to fight Ebola. He found a people devastated by war and racism.
Paul Farmer’s new book explores his work with others in West Africa. Farmer and his team went there to respond to the longest and largest Ebola epidemic in recorded history.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Remembering Janice McLaughlin, the Maryknoll sister who found freedom in the struggle for African liberation
Even as a child she sensed that Africa was her destiny, the roots of her mission vocation found in a fourth-grade geography textbook that pictured giraffes loping across the plain
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Nigeria’s Catholic priests are in fear for their lives after a slew of kidnappings and attacks
The growing attacks on priests and their ministries has left many living in fear. “The security situation is not just bad; it is extremely so,” said Father Bassey. “You want to hurry to get back home; you don’t want to be in a lonely place; you can’t step out and take a stroll.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis accepts the resignation of Cardinal Sarah as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship
A number of the cardinal’s public statements on the liturgy and other topics reflected a pre-Vatican II traditionalist outlook that at times openly contrasted with the direction given by Pope Francis.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Remembering Margaret Snyder, Catholic feminist pioneer
A prominent figure in United Nations efforts to help women in Africa escape poverty, Margaret Snyder was inspired by her parents and by Catholic mentors from her hometown.
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Africa was winning the Covid-19 battle. Then came rising death rates (and waves of misinformation).
Leadership lapses and the spread of erroneous information and fear about possible treatments for the disease also threaten a successful Covid-19 response in Africa.
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Were Orthodox Christians massacred in Ethiopia?
“It really does look like there was an atrocity and a massacre, but precisely the motivation and the details, I think we need to suspend judgment at the moment,” Laurie Nathan said.