Fredrick Nzwili writes for OSV News from Nairobi, Kenya.
NAIROBI, Kenya (OSV News) -- As the synod discussing the future of the Catholic Church wraps up in Rome, bishops from Africa reiterated their support for church teaching on homosexuality and their opposition to homosexual acts, a topic that appeared in synodal
On Sept. 4, Gen. Brice Oligui Nguema was sworn in as the transition president for the tiny central African country of Gabon.
Nguema seized power Aug. 30 after overthrowing the incumbent president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, moments after an announcement that he had been
As authorities in Libya announced a three-day mourning period following a deadly flood disaster, a Catholic bishop in the North African country expressed the church's closeness to the people, many of whom are injured, missing or trapped by the storm waters.On Sept.
Days after President Paul Kagame of Rwanda warned Catholic pilgrims who "worship poverty" that he would round them up and jail them, Catholic clergy in the East Africa nation remained tight-lipped, even as the warning reverberated across the region.
Catholic bishops in Kenya appealed for an end to violence and for a pivot to dialogue, as scores are killed in anti-government protests.
The bishops are worried that escalating protests called by Raila Odinga, leader of opposition party Azimio La Umoja (Declaration of
Stopping food aid in Ethiopia from the United States and United Nations caused severe hunger that has killed hundreds of people in the northern Tigray region in recent weeks, and one local bishop said the situation is "beyond human imagination."
Bishop Tesfasellassie Medhin
On World Refugee Day, organized every year on June 20 by the United Nations, a senior official of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) urged increased support for migrants, as he warned that Sudan's massive human movement due to war risked becoming yet