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Pilgrims turn Spain’s Santiago de Compostela into the world’s latest overtourism flashpoint

Church in Africa

Young people in South Sudan. (Credit: Vatican News.)

African Church leader backs new report urging reforms on debt relief

Jun 26
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Graffiti artist Alexander Ikawah paints Pope Francis on canvas in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 21, 2025. (Credit: Brian Inganga/AP.)

Cameroonian bishop reflects on the legacy of Pope Francis for Africa

May 3
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Pope Francis in Kinshasa, Congo, on Jan. 31, 2023. (Credit: Jerome Delay/AP.)

African Theologian says Pope Francis was a post-colonial pope

Apr 22
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Catholic groups say shrinking donor funding worsening humanitarian crises in Africa

Apr 8
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Church in Tabora, Tanzania.

Priest criticizes ‘taboo’ against reporting clerical abuse in Africa

Apr 3
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Godfrey Okoye University Campus in Thinkers Corner in Enugu, Nigeria. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Catholic leader urges the African Church to use Lent for economic decolonization

Apr 1
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South African soldiers line the street leading to Cape Town’s city hall where South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his annual state of the union address, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (Credit: Nardus Engelbrecht/AP.)

Africa’s history ‘a history of extraversion and violence,’ priest says

Feb 18
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Children relax outside a Catholic church in Pemba city on the northeastern coast of Mozambique in this Monday, April, 29, 2019 photo. (Credit: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP.)

African theologians critique post-colonial states for hindering synodality

Sep 6, 2024
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Deacon Willard Witherspoon distributes Communion during Mass at St. Peter Claver Church in Baltimore in this 2016 file photo. (Credit: Bob Roller/CNS.)

African Church reflects on the possibility of ordaining women as deacons

Jul 31, 2024
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Cardinal Fridolin Among Besungu leaves after receiving the red three-cornered biretta hat from Pope Francis during a consistory inside St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, Oct. 5, 2019. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Cardinal urges reconciliation in a fractured continent of Africa

Jul 23, 2024
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Pilgrims turn Spain’s Santiago de Compostela into the world’s latest overtourism flashpoint

Sep 15
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Community honors life of 10-year-old Harper Moyski, killed in shooting at Minneapolis church

Sep 15
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Pope honors 21st century martyrs: Christians killed by Islamic militants, mafias, Amazon ranchers

Sep 15
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Chicago suburb where Pope Leo XIV grew up celebrates his 70th birthday with gospel music, balloons

Sep 15
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