Coalition pour la libération et le Renouveau de l’Afrique
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
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.
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.
CALAR – A Declaration: Africa Remember Who You Are
The Coalition for Africa’s Liberation and Restoration (CALAR) is a collaborative initiative of numerous groups on the…
