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- Oct 16, 2019
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Nigerian bishop says ‘border wall’ would be good for Nigeria
- Church in Africa, Interviews
- Oct 16, 2019
The Bishop of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan Kukah, told Crux that migration is “the ultimate manifestation of our state of despair.”
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Top African cardinal says pope’s anti-abuse rules should be ‘extended’
- Church in Africa
- 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.
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Congo’s cardinal-designate has lifelong passion for human rights
- Catholic News Service, Church in Africa
- Sep 15, 2019
Congo’s new cardinal will use his position to highlight Africa’s problems, while also bringing a lifelong passion for human rights to the international stage, said Catholic associates.
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Pope calls on Mauritius to welcome and protect migrants
- Pope in Madagascar
- Sep 9, 2019
During the eight hours Pope Francis spent in Mauritius, a multiethnic island nation in the Indian Ocean, he urged the inhabitants of the country to remember their immigrant roots and to integrate those who are arriving as they were welcomed by their ancestors.
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On Sunday, Pope Francis saw the best and worst of Madagascar
- Pope in Madagascar
- Sep 8, 2019
An estimated 70 percent of the population of Madagascar suffers from extreme poverty, living on less than $2 a day. Life expectancy is 65, 12 years less than in the United States.
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Stop labeling and call people by their names, Pope tells African youth
- Pope in Madagascar
- Sep 7, 2019
The devil, the pope said Saturday in Madagascar, “also knows our names,” but he prefers to remind people of their sins, to make “us feel that however much we do, nothing can ever change, everything will remain the same.”
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