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Russell Pollitt, S.J., is America’s Johannesburg correspondent.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
Two power-hungry individuals may drag the country deeper into crisis for their own selfish gain.
FaithDispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
The bishops urge the country’s faithful to reject pessimism in the face of Malawi’s problems
Young people gather for a group photo after a Mass for peace at the University of Pretoria in South Africa Feb. 25. (CNS photo/Kim Ludbrook, EPA)
Synod on the Family
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
“It deepens our appreciation of the beauty of marriage and family as a God-given gift.”
Bishop Kevin Dowling on the day of the celebration of his silver jubilee of episcopal ordination.
Dispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
His advice for new bishops: “Start off very slowly, listen deeply to your people...‘Be’ with them!”
Students demonstrate for lowered university fees in Johannesburg.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
New scandals call in to question the state of South Africa's democracy 20 years after Mandela.
Oscar Pistorius appears for a bail hearing in the Pretoria Magistrate Court in February 2013. (Photo by Gallo Images / City Press / Herman Verwey)
Dispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
The South African paralympian will return to prison after an appeals court found him guilty of murder for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Pope Francis greets a family during the closing Mass of the World Meeting of Families on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia Sept. 27. (CNS photo/Paul Haring).
Dispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
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
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
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.
A new human-like specie named Homo "naledi" has been discovered in South Africa
Dispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
The discovery will, researchers claim, change our ideas about early human ancestors.
South Africa's first martyr, Benedict Daswa
FaithDispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
Benedict Daswa was brutally murdered for refusing to participate in witchcraft just nine days before the release of Nelson Mandela on Feb. 2, 1990.