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Catholics in South Sudan voice alarm over forced marriage
Catholic clerics in South Sudan are raising alarms over forced child marriages, complaining that the traditional practice scuttles girls’ dreams of higher education. Source: Crux.
Report claims 700 Christians killed as ‘farewell gift’ to Nigeria’s ex-president
A leading Nigerian human rights organisation has published a report claiming that largely Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed about 700 Christians in May as “farewell gifts” to former president Muhammadu Buhari. Source: Crux.
Bishops urge ‘reason and restraint’ amid spiral of political violence in Senegal
Catholic bishops in the overwhelmingly Muslim West African nation of Senegal have called for “reason, restraint and responsibility” amid a mounting spiral of political violence. Source: Crux.
Catholic bishops plea for end to fighting in Sudan
The people of Sudan are suffering and yearning for peace, according to Archbishop Stephen Ameyu Martin Mula of Juba Archdiocese in South Sudan. Source: The Tablet.
Bishops call for tighter religious regulations after ‘starvation cult’ deaths
Kenya’s Catholic bishops have expressed disgust at a “starvation cult” and called for stiffer regulations in creating religious groups, after at least 73 bodies were exhumed from mass graves in the Khakahola forest, in the east of the country. Source: Crux.
More than 50,000 Christians killed in Nigeria by Islamist extremists
More than 50,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria since the outbreak of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency in 2009, a new report published by a Nigerian non-governmental organisation has revealed. Source: Vatican News.
Two Catholic Relief Services aid workers killed in Ethiopia
Two Catholic Relief Services workers were shot and killed on Easter Sunday, while riding in a vehicle in the Amhara region of Ethiopia on their way back from an assignment in Addis Ababa. Source: CNA.
African bishops appeal for help after deadly cyclone
After a deadly tropical cyclone ripped through southern Africa, killing more than 400 people at last count, the Catholic bishops of the region are calling for help to allow those affected to “restore their lost human dignity”. Source: Crux.
Bishop shares plight of Christians in northern Nigeria
Christians are living “under bondage” in northern Nigeria, according to a local bishop in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, where the predominantly Muslim north meets the predominantly Christian south. Source: Crux.