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Members stand to show image of Church Life Africa in Nigeria. (Credit: Augustine Institute.)

New program set up to teach lay catechists for growing Catholic population in Africa

  • May 15
  • Charles Collins
Coptic Orthodox deacon pray during Easter mass, at Holy Cross Church in Cairo, Egypt, May 1, 2021. An Egyptian court Saturday, June 12, 2022, sentenced a man to die for the April stabbing death of a Coptic Christian priest in an attack that shocked the Arab World’s most populous nation. (Credit: Nariman El-Mofty/AP.)

Advocate says sentence of Egyptian Coptic scholar has created a ‘chilling effect’ on Christians

  • May 14
  • Ngala Killian Chimtom

Church leaders in Africa reflect on papal leadership in Leonine era

  • May 10
  • Ngala Killian Chimtom
A man carries wood on his bicycle as he rides past a cemetery in Beni, Congo, Tuesday, July 16, 2019. (Credit: Jerome Delay/AP.)

Islamic militants attack Congo villages near Uganda, killing 40 people, local group says

  • May 9
  • Jean-Yves Kamale
A minibus drives past an empty checkpoint where a mannequin dressed as a soldier stands in downtown Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, April 19, 2026. (Credit: Bernat Armangue/AP.)

Sudan’s Forgotten War: A Church leader cries out for peace

  • May 5
  • Ngala Killian Chimtom
An election poster with President Cyril Ramaphosa in Soweto, South Africa, April 22, 2024. (Credit: Themba Hadebe/AP.)

Freedom is not solely a liberation from structural injustice, South African priest

  • Apr 30
  • Ngala Killian Chimtom
Pope Leo XIV, with the Archbishop of Bamenda, Andrew Nkea Fuanya, left, frees a white dove at the end of a meeting for peace at Saint Joseph's Cathedral in Bamenda, Cameroon, with the local community Thursday, April 16, 2026, on the fourth day of his 11-day pastoral visit to Africa. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Cameroon bishop says Pope Leo’s visit could be a turning point for war-ravaged country

  • Apr 25
  • Ngala Killian Chimtom

At least 100 dead in Nigeria after air force ‘misfire’ on market, sources say

  • Apr 13
  • Dyepkazah Shibayan and Haruna Umar
Members of the Nigerian army provide security during an event in Minna, Nigeria, Dec. 22, 2025. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

Nigerian court convicts more than 300 in mass terrorism trial

  • Apr 12
  • Dyepkazah Shibayan, 
    Associated Press
Pa Chrysantus Nfor in the Nkwen precinct of Bamenda, Cameroon. (Credit: Facebook.)

97-year-old man ready for his third papal encounter in Cameroon

  • Apr 11
  • Ngala Killian Chimtom

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Pope to visit France in September with a stop at UNESCO

  • May 16
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New Orleans kept accused priest in pulpit despite complaints: misconduct ‘involved adults’, archdiocese admits

  • May 16
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The Vatican has said a lot about artificial intelligence. A primer ahead of the pope’s encyclical

  • May 16
  • Nicole Winfield

Trump administration sues Catholic diocese to seize land near El Paso for border barrier

  • May 16
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