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Church workers give aid to people fleeing Islamist violence in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. (Father Pedrinho Secretti/Courtesy to Crux)

World

Over 400,000 flee Islamic insurgents in Mozambique

Crux Now|Nov 17, 2020|4 Min Read

A protester carries a portrait of imprisoned Chinese Bishop James Su Zhemin of Baoding outside the China Liaison Office in Hong Kong during a 2012 religious freedom demonstration. Bishop Su has been held in detention in China since 1997 and there is speculation he may be dead. (CNS photo/Bobby Yip, Reuters)

World

Government restrictions on religion reach new peak, Pew Research Center says

Catholic News Agency|Nov 15, 2020|4 Min Read

The flag of Mozambique. (mhojnik/CC BY 2.0 via CNA)

World

Catholic charity sends aid to Mozambique after reports of mass beheading

Courtney Mares|Nov 11, 2020|3 Min Read

Father Pierluigi Maccalli, a member of the Society of African Missions, is pictured in a file photo baptizing a child in Bomoanga, Niger. Father Maccalli, a 59-year-old native of Crema, Italy, and and three other hostages were released in Mali after being kidnapped more than two years. (CNS photo/Raffaella Russitto, courtesy Society of African Missions)

Faith

Freed missionary priest recounts harrowing tale of kidnapping

Junno Arocho Esteves|Oct 15, 2020|4 Min Read

An ear of corn eaten by desert locust is pictured in late June in a field near Lodwar, Kenya. Predictions of a return of desert locusts in East Africa are triggering concerns among Catholic Church leaders and experts in the region, where communities are still recovering from the destruction by the first wave. (CNS photo/Baz Ratner, Reuters)

World

Predicted return of deadly locusts triggers fear in East Africa

Fredrick Nzwili|Oct 14, 2020|4 Min Read

A family poses for a photo in mid-March in their home in Kaya, Burkina Faso. Most people in the Sahel region in Africa are poor and lack formal education and skills "that could enable them to ascend social and economic ladders," a report from Catholic Relief Services said. (CNS photo/Julien Ermine, Reuters)

World

CRS report says poverty, not religious conflict, causes Sahel violence

Bronwen Dachs|Oct 2, 2020|3 Min Read

A Muslim man is pictured in a file photo praying outside a mosque in Khartoum, Sudan. Sudanese bishops are welcoming a new declaration signed in early September that separates religion and state. (CNS photo/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah, Reuters)

World

Bishops hail new declaration eliminating state religion in Sudan

Francis Njuguna|Sep 24, 2020|2 Min Read

Marilyn Miranda, 9, draped in a Salvadoran flag, attends an immigration rally with her mother outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington June 4, 2019. A Sept. 14, 2020, decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for 9th Circuit in Ramos v. Nielsen brings the Trump administration one step closer to ending Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for almost all people with TPS in the United States. (CNS photo/Leah Millis, Reuters)

President was within rights to end TPS, court says

Rhina Guidos|Sep 14, 2020|3 Min Read

A truck travels over a bridge above a pipeline along the Athi River area near Nairobi, Kenya, Sept. 10, 2020. A similar oil pipeline in Uganda and Tanzania is being resisted over concerns that it will harm the people, environment and wildlife. (CNS photo/Fredrick Nzwili)

World

African Catholic climate activists warn against proposed pipeline

Fredrick Nzwili|Sep 11, 2020|3 Min Read

The Cathedral of St. Paul in Pemba, Mozambique. (Rosins/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0 via CNA)

World

Religious sisters missing after jihadist attack found safe and well

Catholic News Agency|Sep 7, 2020|2 Min Read

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World

Islamic militants kidnap hundreds in raid on Nigerian town

Catholic News Agency|Aug 19, 2020|3 Min Read

Protesters hold placards during a protest against the Zimbabwe government's record on corruption and human rights abuses, outside the Zimbabwe Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, Aug. 7, 2020. (CNS photo/Siphiwe Sibeko, Reuters)

World

Nuncio supports Catholic archbishop denounced by Zimbabwe official

Catholic News Agency|Aug 17, 2020|2 Min Read

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