Sudan now represents the world’s largest internal displacement crisis, with more than six million uprooted from their homes and communities inside Sudan’s borders.
Africa
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
Nigerian bishop: Islamic jihad, not climate change, behind mass killing of Christians
“Tell me, how does climate change drive someone to hack a person to death with a machete?”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Analysis: Britain’s bizarre, costly and cruel plan to deport migrants to Rwanda
Condemned by the Jesuit Refugee Service UK as a “cruel plan” that “violates human dignity,” the policy authorizes deporting people who come to the United Kingdom in search of safety to Rwanda.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
Netflix’s ‘The Greatest Night in Pop’ is the perfect Gen-X nostalgia trip
An in-depth look at the making of “We Are The World,” Netflix’s new documentary “The Greatest Night in Pop” is an intimate look back at a unique moment in music history.
Posted inFaith, News
Catholic clergy in Uganda accuse the West of a new colonialism through LGBTQ activism
Many Ugandan Catholics oppose Pope Francis’ approval of same-sex blessings. LGBTQ Ugandans have fled to neighboring countries to escape homophobia.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Abdulrazak Gurnah on war, chance encounters and destiny
Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘Afterlives,’ which was not published in the United States until 2022.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
After Christmas attacks on Christians, Nigerian bishops raise concerns of Islamist agenda—and government complicity
As many as 295 people were killed in a series of apparently coordinated raids on some 30 villages in Nigeria’s Plateau State that began on Dec. 23 and continued through Christmas Day.
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African bishops, with Pope Francis’ agreement, declare ‘No blessing for homosexual couples’
Reaffirming their fidelity to the pope and the Gospel, Catholic bishops in Africa have released a common response to a recent Vatican declaration, saying they “generally prefer” not to offer blessings to same-sex couples.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Vatican decree on blessing same-sex couples gets mixed responses from bishops in Europe and Africa
Global reaction among bishops to the Vatican’s declaration that priests may now bless same-sex couples appears most divergent in some European and African nations.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
What African theologians will mean to the future of the Catholic Church
African theologians have emerged over the last few decades as leading voices in ethics, liberation theology, ecological theology, ecclesiology and more—and their contributions are changing the worldwide church.