Father Pugin had been shot in the face with a rubber bullet by the South African Police.
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Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
After priest wounded, South African Jesuits urge ‘peace on and around our campuses’
“The shooting of Father Graham has shocked and distressed many people, including students. He, along with the Society of Jesus, remain hopeful that a solution can be achieved.”
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Jesuit priest shot with rubber bullet as student protests in South Africa turn violent
Police apparently fired a rubber bullet point blank into the face of a Jesuit priest near the Witwatersrand campus in Johannesburg.
Posted inArts & Culture, In All Things
David Oyelowo talks about faith and filming “Queen of Katwe”
The self-sacrifice of an individual and the self-possession of a community drew David Oyelowo to his role in “Queen of Katwe.”
Posted inFaith, In All Things
The Unholy Alliance against Educated African Women
The forces arrayed against the education of the girl-child are legion and formidable.
Posted inFaith, Politics & Society
The Founding Father: Nelson Mandela and the re-creation of South Africa
How did this man so profoundly capture the aspiration and passion of an entire nation as he did mine that day in May 1994?
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Out of Africa: How a new generation of theologians is reshaping the church
How a new generation of theologians is reshaping the church.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
The Worst Sin I’ve Ever Committed
Father James Martin on the worst mistake he made working as a young Jesuit among the East African refugees who settled in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya.