March 17, 2021 Re: Establishing the Senate Human Rights CommissionDear Majority Leader Schumer, Republican Leader McConnell, Senator Menendez, Senator Risch, Senator Klobuchar, and Senator Blunt, We, the undersigned Catholic Religious Organizations, members of the...
The Africa Faith and Justice Network is one of several organization who sent a letter to The Honorable Antony J. Blinken, United States (U.S.) Secretary of State, expressing the need for a U.S. Special Envoy Africa’s Great Lakes Region. The letter “The...
By Jacques BahatiFebruary 24, 2021The world was shocked on February 22, 2021 when news of the ambush and killing of the Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) hit the media. What the world, and many media outlets, failed to report is that...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 25, 2021 Washington DC – On February 23, 2021, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria issued We Must Pull back from the Brink of Collapse, a letter to the “People of Goodwill in Nigeria.” The Bishops acknowledged the ongoing...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 17, 2021 Washington DC – The General Council of the World Trade Organization (WTO) voted to appoint Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, from Nigeria, as Director-General beginning March 1, 2021. Dr. Okonjo-Iweala is both the first...
February 16, 2021 By Mariah Omer, AFJN Student Intern Divina Maloum is a young Cameroonian peace and social advocate. She is a winner of the fifteenth International Children’s Peace Prize, of 2019. Maloum was awarded for her efforts in “Promoting...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 20, 2021 Washington, DC – Today President Joseph Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. The empty National Mall, absent inaugural crowds, was a sober reminder of the January 6th Capitol riot. It was...
