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Children play at the Nyumbani Children's Home, which cares for over 100 children with HIV whose parents died of the disease and provides them with housing, care and PEPFAR-supplied anti-retroviral drugs in Nairobi, Kenya, on Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Luke Messac
The longer PEPFAR remains hobbled, the greater the number of patients who will suffer the terrifying consequences of stopped treatment—a kind of reverse Lazarus effect.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Matthew Loftus
I am well aware of the dangers of “raising awareness” and making a show of one’s fasting. But I am telling people about this publicly so that they can consider whether Pepfar is something they would like to fast over.
White South Africans demonstrate in support of U.S. President Donald Trump in front of the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
President Donald Trump said that he would hold South Africa accountable for rights violations against white Afrikaners, a group of people he described as “innocent disfavored minority farmers.
Residents walk by charred vehicles in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Jan. 31. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed groups have competed for power and control of this vast nation’s potential fortune.
Altar servers lead a procession at the start of Mass in Marondera, Zimbabwe, Jan. 1, 2024. (OSV News photo/Philimon Bulawayo, Reuters)
FaithDispatches
Marko Phiri
Catholic institutions in Zimbabwe and other African states once could rely on support from retired missionaries. Now the decline in missionary numbers has left African religious communities facing a financial crunch.
Members of the Mozambique military patrol the streets of Maputo, the nation's capital, on Nov. 8, 2024, a day after a “national shutdown” against protests over the outcome of general elections. (OSV News photo/Siphiwe Sibeko, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
After another disputed election, street protests wrack Mozambique. while a northern province, Cabo Delgado, endures a deadly Islamist insurrection.