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New book captures Leo’s three-step approach to predecessor’s controversial legacy

Church in Africa

A Cameroonian policeman and a gendarme patrol in Lysoka, near Buea, in Cameroon’s Anglophone South-West region, October 07, 2018. (Credit: Voice of America.)

Cameroon bishop laments spiraling violence in Anglophone regions

Sep 10
Ngala Killian Chimtom

St. Josephine Bakhita is represented in this statue by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz in this photo released by the Holy See Press Office Feb. 3, 2022. (Credit: Holy See Press Office.)

Forum in Africa sets faith-centered priorities to eradicate trafficking

Sep 8
Ngala Killian Chimtom

South Sudan bishop warns country faces ‘bombs of youth anger,’ ‘unraveling soul’

Sep 6
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View of Freetown, Sierra Leone, April 28, 2024. (Credit: Misper Apawu/AP.)

Murder of priest in in Sierra Leone a ‘dark moment’

Sep 4
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Nigeria army patrols along the Kaduna Birnin Gwari area in Nigeria, Friday, March 8, 2024. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

Archbishop says displacement camps competing for space in Nigeria

Sep 3
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Former members of the Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Cong (FARDC) and police officers who allegedly surrendered to M23 rebels arrive in Goma, Congo, on Feb. 23, 2025. (Credit: Moses Sawasawa/AP.)

Catholic leaders question Trump’s claim of bringing peace to Congo

Aug 30
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In this Oct. 7, 2018 file photo, Cameroon’s President Paul Biya, of the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement party, wait to casts his vote during the Presidential elections in Yaounde, Cameroon. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

Cameroon Bishop puts government on red alert ahead of election

Aug 27
Ngala Killian Chimtom

A heavy machine drives past shipping containers stacked at a depo in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Aug. 1, 2025. (Credit: Themba Hadebe/AP.)

Jesuit calls Africa’s debt crisis ‘moral failure’

Aug 26
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Children leave school in Dschang, Cameroon, on Dec. 1, 2024. (Credit: Robert Bociaga/AP.)

Cameroon archbishop says priests ‘ready to die for the Gospel’

Aug 25
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Bishop Matthew Kukah of Sokoto, Nigeria, with priests. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Bishop says Africa’s ‘superfluous religion’ demands action, not just full churches

Aug 21
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