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Villagers returning from a market in the town of Yechila walk past scores of burned vehicles in Ethiopia's Tigray region July 10, 2021. Bishop Tesfasellassie Medhin of Adigrat restated his call for the local and international community to act to save millions of people trapped in war. (CNS photo/Giulia Paravicini, Reuters)

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Ethiopian bishop urges action to save millions in renewed war in Tigray

Fredrick Nzwili|Oct 5, 2022|2 Min Read

In this 2015 file photo, Jose Candido Hernandez Orellana of El Salvador shows the last reserve of his own corn harvest he lost in the start of the rainy season because of a drought. (CNS photo/Oscar Leiva, courtesy Catholic Relief Services)

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CRS launches campaign to build greater Catholic response to climate change

Dennis Sadowski|Oct 4, 2022|5 Min Read

Zimbabwean children are pictured in a file photo carrying vegetables as they walk past a house in Harare. A humanitarian official who works in Southern Africa said churches must offer a unified regional response to the problems crippling development in the region. (CNS photo/Philimon Bulawayo, Reuters)

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Multiple challenges help determine Catholic agencies' response in Africa

Fredrick Nzwili|Sep 29, 2022|3 Min Read

Displaced people fleeing the war in Cameroon. (Public Domain via CNA)

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Catholic church burned, priests and religious sister kidnapped in war-torn Cameroon

Catholic News Agency|Sep 18, 2022|2 Min Read

An Somali woman and her children stand near the carcasses of their dead livestock following severe droughts at a camp in Dollow May 24, 2022. Catholic Relief Services is among international agencies warning of famine looming in Somalia. (CNS photo/Feisal Omar, Reuters)

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CRS, others call for increased aid to prevent Somalia's looming famine

Fredrick Nzwili|Sep 9, 2022|3 Min Read

Formerly detained Father Oliver Opara (left) with Ummi Hassan; Bishop Matthew Kukah of the Diocese of Sokoto (not an abductee); Father Stephen Ojapah; and Hassan Fareed Hassan after the four were released from being held captive by terrorists. (Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Sokoto via CNA)

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Freed Nigerian priest recounts details of his kidnapping by insurgents

Douglas Burton|Sep 7, 2022|6 Min Read

The La Salle Agro-Technical school of Hagaz situated in the Gash-Barka region of Eritrea. (Arcangelo Gentile)

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Eritrean government seizes church-owned technical school

Fredrick Nzwili|Aug 29, 2022|3 Min Read

Sea-Watch crew members help a migrant boarding a rescue boat in the Mediterranean Sea July 23, 2022. African bishops are expressing "pain" at seeing young people migrate to lives of uncertainty. (CNS photo/Nora Bording, Sea-Watch handout via Reuters)

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African bishops lament inability to stop young people from leaving

Ngala Killian Chimtom|Aug 9, 2022|4 Min Read

Two sisters of the Daughters of Charity in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, gather for morning prayer in their convent chapel in this 2015 file photo. Catholic bishops in Ethiopia have warned that insecurity is shutting down churches and forcing more priests and nuns to flee their monasteries, as consequences of the war in the northern province of Tigray are felt across the country. (CNS photo/Petterik Wiggers, courtesy CNEWA)

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Nuns and priests flee, more churches shut in Ethiopia's Tigray region

Fredrick Nzwili|Aug 8, 2022|3 Min Read

Congolese protesters face off with riot police outside the compound of a U.N. peacekeeping force's warehouse in Goma July 26, 2022. (CNS photo/Arlette Bashizi , Reuters)

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Congolese bishops offer dialogue after anti-U.N. protests

Jonathan Luxmoore|Aug 5, 2022|3 Min Read

Bishop Oliver Dashe Doeme of Maiduguri, Nigeria, gives a testimony about Christian persecution Nov. 28, 2018, during a vespers service in the Crypt Church at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

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Nigerian bishop says vision of Christ gave him hope for end of Boko Haram

Kurt Jensen|Jul 29, 2022|3 Min Read

A general view shows miners at an artisanal gold mine near Kamituga, Congo, Aug. 1, 2018. (CNS photo/Djaffar Al Katanty, Reuters)

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House hearing examines child labor abuses in Chinese-owned mines in Congo

Catholic News Service|Jul 22, 2022|5 Min Read

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