An ailing Mali archbishop facing allegations of financial impropriety assured the Vatican on Tuesday he plans to show up at St. Peter’s Basilica to be made a cardinal by Pope Francis.
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Life at the first stop for many migrants who cross Mediterranean
The latest survivors of the dangerous sea voyage across the Mediterranean from Libya as European Union leaders expressed alarm at the rising numbers of migrants flooding into Italy.
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Pope Francis announces aid to war stricken people of South Sudan
The war has “caused a grave humanitarian crisis that has left half of the country’s population, around 7.3 million people, hungry every day.”
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Canadian bishops urge response to Africa/Yemen hunger and violence
United Nations sources report that as many as 30 million are threatened by hunger in South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria and Yemen—and 20 million “are at immediate risk.”
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Church-sponsored farm feeding those displaced by war in South Sudan
Solidarity with South Sudan’s farm has become a major teaching center, modeling agricultural techniques for farmers seeking more sustainable ways of producing food.
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South African parliament shows ‘moral bankruptcy,’ says council of churches
The government “has lost its moral legitimacy” and new polls are needed, the South African Council of Churches said.
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Pope Francis threatens to suspend Nigerian priests in long dispute over church leadership
“Whoever was opposed to Bishop Okpaleke taking possession of the diocese wants to destroy the church. This is forbidden,” the pope said.
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Cameroonian bishop’s reported suicide raises questions
Catholic leaders in Cameroon have urged prayers for one of the African country’s bishops, whose remains were pulled from a river on June 2, three days after his apparent suicide.
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Congo’s Ebola threat is pushing a vaccine through without full clinical trials
Congo’s Ministry of Health has approved the use of an experimental anti-Ebola vaccine to combat the disease. This is a radical step, but one the World Health Organization approves.
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Pope Francis will not visit South Sudan in 2017
With the civil war worsening and famine spreading, Pope Francis already in March had expressed doubts about the possibility of making the trip.