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Politics & SocietyDispatches
Two power-hungry individuals may drag the country deeper into crisis for their own selfish gain.
FaithDispatches
The bishops urge the country’s faithful to reject pessimism in the face of Malawi’s problems
Synod on the Family
“It deepens our appreciation of the beauty of marriage and family as a God-given gift.”
Dispatches
His advice for new bishops: “Start off very slowly, listen deeply to your people...‘Be’ with them!”
Politics & SocietyDispatches
New scandals call in to question the state of South Africa's democracy 20 years after Mandela.
Dispatches
The South African paralympian will return to prison after an appeals court found him guilty of murder for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Dispatches
The pope’s visit struck cords in Africa on a number of levels. Some of the thorniest political debates in the United States are also difficult ones in Africa.
Dispatches
The mounting refugee problem in Europe—often seen as a result of the Syrian war—has attracted the attention of the world’s media. But there is another, often forgotten, dimension to the crisis which has been on going for a number of years: the political instability in North Africa, Eritrea specifically.
Dispatches
The discovery will, researchers claim, change our ideas about early human ancestors.
FaithDispatches
Benedict Daswa was brutally murdered for refusing to participate in witchcraft just nine days before the release of Nelson Mandela on Feb. 2, 1990.