Pushing for Internet Access

Cardinal Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace at the Vatican, has called for the extension of internet and other technological facilities to rural areas in order to improve upon the quality of education in villages and towns in West...

Praise for Zambia’s Social Progress

United Kingdom Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening visited Zambia in July. She said Zambia had enjoyed impressive economic growth and had seen 1.2 million more children in schools and 40 per cent reduction in child mortality. She...

Church Experience in Africa: Cheerful Offering

This is a typical Sunday mass at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church in Nkwanta/Jasikan Diocese. Dancing is one of many aspects of the adaptations of the faith experience (enculturation) of the Roman Catholic Church in Africa. The celebratory and musical feel of...

Kenyan Javelin Thrower

Kenya is renowned for its distance runners who have won races all over the world. The Kenyans showed their prowess again recently at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, where they won 10 gold medals. Nine of the 10 gold came in running events, while Julius...

Fighting Grain-Killing Mold

A young woman from Kenya received an international award for innovation in food security. Charity Mutegi, a 38 year old agricultural scientist from Kenya, was the 2013 winner of the Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application. Mutegi led efforts to develop...

Spotlight on: Powerful African Women

Chief Prosecutor of the ICC, Fatou Bensouda Fatou Bensouda of The Gambia was sworn in as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in 2012. Justice Bensouda is the first ever international maritime law expert from The Gambia. She works constantly towards...

US-Africa Parish Twinning

For five years St. Anne Catholic Church in Barrington, IL (Diocese of Chicago) and Rugari Parish in DR. Congo (Diocese of Goma.) partnered and together they have made a difference. in 2012 Paul and Adrienne Kalmess, members of the justice and peace office at St. Anne...