by Rev. Rocco Puopolo, SX | Apr 9, 2010
This article was first published in AFJN’s March -April newsletter As Rwanda prepares for presidential elections in August 2010, the truth about its political system, often characterized as one of the best in Africa, is finally being exposed. Since the Rwanda...
by Rev. Rocco Puopolo, SX | Oct 9, 2009
By Rocco Puopolo, S.X., Executive Director As you read this very newsletter, a number of Bishops from Africa and around the world are meeting in Rome for the Second Special Assembly for Africa, commonly called the African Synod. The theme for this synod is The Church...
by Rev. Rocco Puopolo, SX | Jun 2, 2009
June 2, 2009 The persistence and the complication of wars in Africa are partially due to small arms proliferation. The consequences of small arms on African people due to international conflicts within Africa, rebel group activities, mercenary groups, and...
by Rev. Rocco Puopolo, SX | Apr 8, 2009
Posted April 8th, 2009. Adapted from an article originally written for the US Catholic Missions Association.On March 19th, at the end of the Mass celebrated in the National Stadium in Yaounde, Cameroon on the feast of St. Joseph, Pope Benedict XVI presented the...
by Rev. Rocco Puopolo, SX | Mar 10, 2009
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has become somewhat infamous as one of the most well-funded failures of Western attempts at development. On the continent of Africa, the rather unsuccessful IMF policies of the past have included damaging structural...
by Rev. Rocco Puopolo, SX | Dec 4, 2007
In October 2003, James Jay Carafano, Ph. D. and Nile Gardiner, both from the Conservative think-tank the Heritage Foundation, proposed to the Bush administration the creation of a centralized Africa command for the U.S. military. With this proposal as the basis for...
by Rev. Rocco Puopolo, SX | Mar 25, 2007
After Pope Benedict XVI, the UK Bishops and the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops have officially reached out to support their Zimbabwean counterparts. Bishop Wenski, of the Orlando...
by Rev. Rocco Puopolo, SX | Feb 27, 2007
The continent of Africa is getting a healthy dose of attention from Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope’s new book, Jesus of Nazareth, has been written about quite widely in the international press, especially for what the Pontiff has said about Africa, notes that Pope...
by Rev. Rocco Puopolo, SX | Oct 3, 2004
Louisville hosted the 2004 AFJN annual meeting from October 2-3. Members came together in the gracious Kentucky city to honor the San Egidio community for their peacemaking work in Africa, particularly their recent attempts to bring the Sudanese parties together....
