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  • Catholic aid agency works to improve public sanitation in Ghana

    Catholic aid agency works to improve public sanitation in Ghana

    • Oct 12, 2019

    Ghana’s rapid urbanization means Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is shifting resources to hygiene and sanitation, as the number of people without access to toilets increases to over 5 million.

    By Crux Staff
  • She was 16, he was a priest — and a man says he’s their son

    She was 16, he was a priest — and a man says he’s their son

    • Oct 9, 2019

    Africa has long lagged behind the United States, Europe and Australia in confronting the problem of priests having sex with children, given the church’s priorities here have focused on fighting poverty, conflict and traffickers who sell children off to war or work.

    By Nicole Winfield and Rodney Muhumuza
  • Anglophone bishops call for justice as Cameroon’s ‘national dialogue’ begins

    Anglophone bishops call for justice as Cameroon’s ‘national dialogue’ begins

    • Oct 1, 2019

    With the prayers of Pope Francis, a major national dialogue to resolve the crisis that has been rocking Cameroon’s English-speaking regions began on Monday, although separatist rebels refused to attend.

    By Crux Staff
  • New report shows over half of children in Cameroon face abuse

    New report shows over half of children in Cameroon face abuse

    • Sep 30, 2019

    A new report on child abuse in Cameroon shows that over 50 percent of Cameroon’s children have suffered various forms of abuse, with children with disabilities suffering proportionally far worse.

    By Crux Staff
  • Top African cardinal says pope’s anti-abuse rules should be ‘extended’

    Top African cardinal says pope’s anti-abuse rules should be ‘extended’

    • Sep 29, 2019

    Africa’s top prelate has hit back against the notion that clerical sexual abuse is a purely western problem, saying it happens on his home turf too, though he also pressed for Pope Francis’s newly minted reporting mechanism to be broadened to cover local issues.

    By Elise Harris
  • More needed to fight terrorism in Sahel region, Catholic agency says

    More needed to fight terrorism in Sahel region, Catholic agency says

    • Sep 27, 2019

    A recent pledge of $1 billion by a regional body to tackle the growing jihadist problem in Africa’s Sahel region “will not be enough to stop the crisis,” according to a leading Catholic aid agency.

    By Crux Staff
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