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Politics & SocietyNews
Lilian Muendo - Catholic News Service
In Kenya, while leprosy has significantly declined, many elderly are still need of care.
Nigerians carry placards during a May 22 protest in Lagos against the killing of innocent citizens, presumably by herdsmen, in some parts of the country. Catholics marched in various cities around the country. (CNS photo/Peter Dada)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Linus Unah
Benue State is in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. This region, a hotbed of sectarian unrest, has suffered particularly because of clashes between largely Muslim Fulani cattle herders and mostly Christian farming communities.
A woman religious fills out a voter registration document on Jan. 31 in Abuja, Nigeria, for the country's 2019 presidential and general election. (CNS photo/Afolabi Sotunde, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Linus Unah
Using pastoral letters and circulars with exhortations on civic duty, as well as pulpit and parish bulletin announcements, the church has been informing voters on the importance of exercising their right to vote.
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
Christian and Muslim leaders in the Central African Republic have accused foreign states of complicity in a May 1 gun and grenade attack on a Catholic Mass.
Precious Blood Sister Catherine Tukay examines a young patient in the Catholic clinic in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, April 30. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)
Politics & SocietyNews
Paul Jeffrey - Catholic News Service
Bishop Gassis' visits came in the middle of decades of on-again, off-again fighting between the central government and several rebel movements in the South and other peripheral areas of the country.
Philippine activists hold banners to mark International Human Rights Day in Manila Dec. 10, 2017. (CNS photo/Mark R. Cristino, EPA)
FaithDispatches
Kevin Clarke
In April scores have died in a series of attacks and assassinations in Mexico, the Philippines and Nigeria. Catholics at prayer during Mass have been targeted in a number of attacks.