As the government attempts reburial of victims of the genocide, family members and Catholic church officials charge that the government is attempting to prevent a thorough historical accounting.
Africa
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vantage Point
From 1993: The Flight to and from Thika
In this 1993 piece, James Martin reflects on the realities of refugees he met in Thika, Kenya.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Zambia is first African country to default on debt during Covid. It may not be the last.
Jesuits in Africa are calling on the Catholic Church to press for better repayment terms on debt across the region.
Posted inExplainer, Faith
Explainer: What is the Zaire rite—and why is Pope Francis talking about it now?
Pope Francis has held up the Congolese liturgy as a model for similarly inculturated rites in other parts of the Catholic world.
Posted inFaith, GoodNews
Pope Francis meets with the missionary priest freed after two years of captivity
Recalling his abduction and two-year captivity, Father Maccalli told Vatican News that during that time, “tears were my bread for many days and were my prayer when I didn’t know what to say.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Local priest: The Canary Islands are ‘turning into a prison’ for migrants
So far this year, over 16,760 migrants have survived clandestine voyages from Africa’s west coast to Spain’s Canary Islands, more than 5,500 arriving over just the last two weeks.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Insurgency threatens Mozambique. The church is helping the most vulnerable.
“This war destabilized not only our region, but all of Mozambique,” said Luiz Fernando Lisboa, C.P., bishop of the Diocese of Pemba, the province’s capital. “The church’s role has been to help victims. But we must also speak out.”
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Where homosexuality is still illegal, Pope Francis has thrown a lifeline to L.G.B.T. Catholics
“It definitely will save lives, especially in countries where there is active persecution of L.G.B.T.Q. people.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Nigeria’s Catholic leaders call for an end to crackdown on #EndSARS protestors
The demands of the demonstrators have quickly expanded into a broad critique of government corruption, incompetence and impunity as human rights abuses and economic malaise continues in Nigeria.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Why is Zimbabwe conscripting its doctors? It’s all about control.
The latest move to militarize Zimbabwean society appears an attempt not to reward career military officers who remain loyal to the ruling ZANU-PF party but to exert control over a different group of professionals who have been pressing for reform.