After three years of record drought, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya are being hit by extreme heavy rainfall claiming 260 lives and displacing 2 million people

Justice and Peace Commission publishes voter education manual to help South Africans make informed decisions during the 2024 general elections

Ahead of general elections, Church leader calls for political parties to include religious minority candidates and ensure that non-Muslim citizens are not further marginalized

Interview with Alice Ekman, senior analyst in charge of the Asia portfolio at the European Union Institute of Security Studies (EUISS)

To avoid Africa becoming a continent of despair, Church must invest in the education of youth, president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar tells African Educational Pact congress

Those who defend war have invented a pleasant-sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder. (Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza)

The Independent National Authority for Recognition and Reparation offers measures of financial reparation and paths to restorative justice to victims of child abuse within the Church

“The Face of the Faceless” is based on the life of a Franciscan Clarist nun who worked for women's empowerment and motivated villagers in northern India to her practice of non-violence

Hayao Miyazaki's latest animated film, like many of his other works, is imbued with animist references and Shinto values, evoking spirits, strange deities, and harmony with nature

A Belgian newspaper re-opens scandal that erupted in 2015 and estimates that some 30,000 babies were forcibly given up for adoption with the complicity of the Catholic Church