In “For God and My Country: Catholic Leadership in Modern Uganda,” J. J. Carney profiles a strategy for being both Catholic and catholic—both uniquely ourselves and totally for the world.
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Review: African soldiers find kinship in the trenches of World War I
David Diop’s new novel centers on the filial love between two Senegalese riflemen, close childhood friends who joined the French army because they hoped to become French citizens at the end of World War I.
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A hospital run by Nigerian sisters provides free fistula surgery to women desperate for treatment
Sister Sylvia Ndubuaku: “We are for women the society has rejected. We receive traumatized women with this illness and we perform free surgeries for them.”
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Review: Tola Rotimi Abraham traces interior universes in her debut novel
Tola Rotimi Abraham is from Lagos, Nigeria. She writes this, her debut novel, with one foot placed in the intimate and communal confines of Lagos and the other inside her characters’ heads.
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How martial arts classes are empowering young people in a Jesuit Refugee Service camp in South Sudan
Isaac Auyub developed a passion for martial arts after fleeing Sudan. Now, he instills the strength her learned to in his students in a refugee community.
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Thousands have been displaced by violence in Mozambique. Catholics say what’s needed is aid—not outside troops.
Educators and humanitarian workers in Mozambique are expressing mixed feelings about a deployment of multinational forces to confront an intensifying Islamist insurgency in Mozambique.
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How involved should priests be in politics? Nigeria is a reminder it’s not just an American question.
The United States is not the only nation struggling with the problem of outspoken priests becoming entangled with the partisan politics of the day.
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How (and why) 8,000 migrants breached the Spanish-Moroccan border — and what it says about Europe’s migration crisis
Relations between Morocco and Spain are complex, fraught with clashing political and economic interests—with thousands of migrants caught in the middle.
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The Catholic Church wants air time in Zimbabwe. But the government is (still) saying no.
Zimbabwe’s broadcasting authorities promise to liberalize national media, but those concessions have not been extended to religious broadcasters at Catholic dioceses.
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Rich countries could prevent the next India. Will they?
The speed and virulence of the Covid-19 outbreak in India have been among its most shocking aspects. Could an outbreak as ferocious happen somewhere else?