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Month: February 2013

AFJN’s Rev. Aniedi Okure and Jacques Bahati on NPR’s All things considered on Catholicism in Africa

February 25, 2013

When Pope Benedict XVI said he was stepping down, he broke a tradition that had been in place since 1415.

Straight Talk Africa Guest Rev. Okure Examine if African Leaders Can Learn from the Pope’s Retirement

February 20, 2013

African leaders can learn from the Pope resignation says AFJN Executive Director Aniedi Okure in an interview with Straight Talk Africa. To read Rev. Okure’s article “Lessons from Pope Benedict…

AFJN quoted in article in Redress Information & Analysis on Ethiopia and Ogaden people

February 9, 2013

In the harsh Ogaden region of Ethiopia, impoverished ethnic Somali people are being murdered and tortured, raped, persecuted and displaced by government paramilitary forces.