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2025 AFJN End of Year Report: Activity Highlights & Updates
Read the Africa Faith and Justice Network’s 2054 End of Year Report: Activity Highlights and Updates
2024 AFJN End of Year Report: Activity Highlights & Updates
Read the Africa Faith and Justice Network’s 2024 End of Year Report: Activity Highlights and Updates
2023 AFJN End of Year Report: Activity Highlights & Activities
Read the Africa Faith and Justice Network’s 2023 End of Year Report: Activity Highlights & Activities
Africa Day: Pan African Liberation and Restorative Justice
Join Africa Faith and Justice Network, the Advocacy Network for Africa, Africans Rising, and American Friends Service Committee for a webinar on Friday, December 9th. Ahead of the US-Africa Leaders Summit, a sterling collection of deeply-experienced Africa experts will unpack the issues of Climate Injustice, Looming Famine, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and Raging Wars. Individually and collectively, these emergencies are snuffing out African lives and inflicting serious pain and suffering.
Maintaining the People’s Sovereignty Over Seeds
Since 2014, Africa Faith and Justice Network (AFJN) has been educating Ghanaians about the dangers of agro-colonialism, a new form of colonization by foreign multinationals and agents of non-African countries who are taking over Africa’s agriculture sector. For Ghana, this simply means a sinister takeover of Ghana’s food production system in order to ensure that Ghanaians remain food dependent.
Reforming the UN Security Council: Why it must be on the US-Africa Leaders Summit Agenda
The Africa Faith and Justice Network invites you to a discussion, “Reforming the UN Security Council: Why it must be on the US-Africa Leaders Summit Agenda ” Naledi Pandor, Minister for International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa said that “It is unacceptable that 77 years after its establishment 5 nations wield disproportionate decision making power in the United Nations system as a whole.”
Invitation Sign on (à Signer): Letter to Pope Francis/ Lettre au Pape François Avant son voyage Reportée en Afrique en Juillet #2
Votre Sainteté, nous vous prions de mentionner ces problèmes dans votre message aux citoyens des pays hôtes, aux dirigeants politiques africains et à toutes les personnes de bonne volonté dans le monde. Faites savoir aux personnes affectées que nous ne sommes pas indifférents à leur souffrance et que nous ne souhaitons pas être complices par notre silence.
Invitation Sign on (à Signer): Letter to Pope Francis/ Lettre au Pape François Avant son voyage Reportée en Afrique
Votre Sainteté, nous vous prions de mentionner ces problèmes dans votre message aux citoyens des pays hôtes, aux dirigeants politiques africains et à toutes les personnes de bonne volonté dans le monde. Faites savoir aux personnes affectées que nous ne sommes pas indifférents à leur souffrance et que nous ne souhaitons pas être complices par notre silence.
Press Statement on Owo town, Nigeria Church Massacre
Washington, DC – On June 5, 2022, Pentecost Sunday, gunmen armed with explosives opened fire in St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo town killing at least 50 people and wounding many more. Ondo State is largely known as one of the more peaceful states in Nigeria. In response to the massacre, the Catholic Diocese of Ondo’s Directorate of Social Communications issued a press release calling for “peace and normalcy to return.”
Press Statement: AFJN Calls Nations to Ensure Equal Treatment of Refugees Fleeing Ukraine, Including Africans
AFJN Calls Nations to Ensure Equal Treatment of Refugees Fleeing Ukraine, Including Africans
AFJN Jobs: Executive Director
The Africa Faith and Justice Network is now accepting applications for the Executive Director Position.
Join AFJN’s Ntama Bahati July 20th for the Interfaith Vigil for Global COVID-19 Vaccine Access on the National Mall
The Africa Faith and Justice Network (AFJN) is cosponsoring the “Interfaith Vigil for Global COVID-19 Vaccine Access” on Tuesday, July 20 from 12:30 – 2:00 pm (EDT US and Canada) on the National Mall in Washington, DC. AFJN’s Policy Analyst, Ntama Bahati, will be offering a prayer. All are welcome to participate in person or online.
Juneteenth 2021 – A US Federal Holiday
Today we celebrate Juneteenth, the oldest celebration of emancipation of African Americans from slavery in the United States. Beginning in Galveston Texas, it is now celebrated every year on June 19th. In 2021, President Joe Biden signed a federal law making it a federal holiday. Unfortunately slavery is still taking place in different forms: compelled service, oppression, involuntary servitude, debt bondage, forced labor, and human trafficking.
AFJN Reflections on the International Day of the African Child
AFJN’s Sr. Eucharia Madueke, SNDdeN provides reflections on the International Day of the African Child and the video premiere of Mmadueke Onyinye Silvia’s spoken poem “Africa, My Africa”
World Day Against Child Labor – 12 June
The Africa Faith and Justice Network has been advocating for an end to child labour for years. We talk about fair labor practices and justice within our educational, advocacy, and empowerment workshops. Rooted in Catholic Social Teaching, we highlight the inherent dignity of every human being, no matter what age.
AFJN Celebrates the 1-Year Anniversary of CALAR’s Declaration with a YouTube Video
On May 25, 2021, at 2:00 am ET (US and Canada; 9:00 am Kenya) the Africa Faith…
Press Release: The Time to Act is Now – AFJN on Nigerian Bishops’ Letter “We Must Pull Back From the Brink of Collapse”
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 crisis in the country and warned of a “looming collapse” and failure of the “Nigerian project” if things do not change. In the letter the Bishops’ address the “serious insecurity […] loss of lives and property” and the unwillingness for those in power to act to remedy the situation. Leaders must set the example to “seek a common purpose” and exercise their “political will.”
Africa Faith and Justice Network 2020 End of Year Report: Activities and Highlights
Read the End of Year Report and learn how the Africa Faith and Justice Network managed to further in our mission even amid the COVID Pandemic.
In the News: CALAR Declaration
The CALAR A Declaration: Africa Remember Who You Are has obtained media coverage around the globe. Read…
AFJN in the News: CALAR Declaration featured in AMECEA NEWS BLOG
On August 28, 2020, CALAR was featured in the AMECEA NEWS BLOG’s article “KENYA: Free Your Minds, Put an End to Practices That Make Africa Bleed, Be Innovative, CALAR Challenges Africans” by Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSA.
