Faiths institute asks Gates Foundation to change tactics in Africa

An African faiths environmental institute is calling on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to stop funding green revolution technologies and genetically modified seeds for the continent, but instead support natural methods to help Africa achieve food sufficiency and protect its environments. In an open online letter that is also asking for signatures, the Southern Africa Faith Communities’ Environment Institute said the foundation... Read More

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February 12, 2021

Africa: World’s second-largest continent has few Covid-19 vaccines

In Sudan’s Nuba Mountains and in neighbouring South Sudan, mass vaccination against Covid-19 is so far off that it is not even mentioned, said a retired bishop responsible for remote hospitals that he has been unable to visit for almost a year. The malnourished people in the Nuba Mountains are “moving skeletons,” and their compromised... Read More

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December 23, 2020

Music school in C. African Republic allows students to experience alternative to war

Polish Capuchin Franciscan missionaries have opened the first music school in the Central African Republic in hopes of preventing children from being drafted into paramilitary groups. About 100 students study each afternoon with professional musicians from Poland and France at the African Music School in the western town of Bouar. Marcin Choinski, director of the... Read More

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November 27, 2020

New trustee appointment for Bambisanani Partnership

The Menston-based Bambisanani Partnership has appointed Brogan O’Connor as a trustee of the charity. Brogan has been involved in the work of the partnership ever since visiting South Africa as a St Mary’s student. Her exceptional work as a Bambisanani volunteer in South Africa was recognised by her being awarded the prestigious Sbonelo Magwaza Award... Read More

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October 8, 2020

Southern Africa bishops name third woman religious as secretary general

The bishops of southern Africa have appointed another woman to head their conference’s general secretariat, succeeding a religious sister who had served in that position for eight years. Dominican Sister Tshifhiwa Munzhedzi will succeed Precious Blood Sister Hermenegild Makoro as secretary-general. Sr Tshifhiwa assumed duties as Sr Hermenegild’s deputy in July and will assume her... Read More

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September 24, 2020

Aid making its way to flooded communities in northeastern Africa

As rising flood waters claim lives and displace thousands in Sudan, church and church-related humanitarian agencies are responding to the disaster caused by unusually heavy rains around sources of the Nile River. Sudan has experienced a series of torrential rains since mid-July that have led to the deadly flooding. At least 118 people have died since the... Read More

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September 8, 2020

Bishops to voters: Find candidates who can free Central African Republic

Catholic bishops in the Central African Republic warned most of their country is in the hands of armed bands and ‘ferocious mercenaries’ and urged voters to find candidates who can free it ‘from oppression, misery and ignorance’ in forthcoming elections. ‘God always saves, delivering the oppressed, liberating humanity and combating evil in all its forms,’... Read More

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