FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 16, 2022 Washington, DC – The Africa Faith and Justice Network, a Catholic 501(c)3 organization, has named Dr. Steven Nabieu Rogers as its new Executive Director. With Catholic missionary congregations and numerous Africa-focused...
Africa Faith and Justice Network (AFJN) has taken the challenge of crying out against human trafficking in its recent activity in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Amidst the insecurity in the country, AFJN members in Nigeria took ten days in July to hold advocacy and awareness...
October 12, 2021 Pictured: AFJN Youth Workshop in Jos By: Ayo Adeyemi, AFJN Student Intern The turbulent region of Jos is the capital of Nigeria’s Plateau state located in the middle belt of the country. The city has seen a rampant history of bombings, kidnappings,...
In October, ahead of the 2021 election in Jos, Nigeria, AFJN – Nigeria youth produced and circulated a video calling for nonviolence ahead of the elections. Generally elections in Nigeria are bloody and politician are known to use youth to perpetrate the...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJuly 30, 2021 Washington DC – Today, on this World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, the world acknowledges the millions of people who are being trafficked around the globe. According to the United Nations’ “Global Report on Trafficking in...
On July 29, 2021, the Africa Faith and Justice Network was mentioned and former AFJN executive director, Rev. Aniedi Okure, OP, was quoted in Valentine Iwenwanne’s article “Nigeria: Stories of modern-day slavery (and the under-funded fight to end...
June 16, 2021By: Sr. Eucharia Madueke, SNDdeN Today the 16th of June, we celebrate the International Day for the African Child. This day, 46 years ago, hundreds of black South African school children lost their lives demanding for their rights to be educated in their...
June 12th is the annual World Day Against Child Labor that was started by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 2002. The sad reality is that “over 218 million children around the world” are deprived according to the International Labor...
On May 25, 2021, at 2:00 am ET (US and Canada; 9:00 am Kenya) the Africa Faith and Justice Network premiered a video sponsored by the Coalition for Africa’s Liberation and Restoration in honor of the 1-Year Anniversary of CALAR’s “A Declaration:...
