ZIMBABWE: Push Mugabe Out, Region’s Catholics Urge
Mon, Dec 22, 2008
PRETORIA, December 19 -There can be no solution to the horrific crisis in Zimbabwe as long as Robert Mugabe is in power, the Catholic Church in southern Africa says. |  | RWANDA: Genocide Architects to be Locked up for Life
Mon, Dec 22, 2008
ARUSHA, December 19 -High ranking military officers at the time of the genocide are jailed for life for their key role in the massacre of more than 800,000 people. | | KENYA: Poll Violence Planners to Face Special Tribunal
Mon, Dec 22, 2008
NAIROBI, December 19 -Persons suspected of planning and executing Kenya’s worst political violence early this year will be tried by a special tribunal. |
| | KENYA: Involve Youth in Peace Building, Group Urges
Posted: Mon, Dec 22, 2008; Country: Kenya
NAIROBI, December 19 -A global network of young religious leaders urges that young people be involved in all initiatives meant to bring about peace after the post-election violence. |  | | | UGANDA: Catholic Archbishop Faults State Rush to War
Posted: Mon, Dec 22, 2008; Country: Uganda
GULU, December 19 -A Catholic archbishop in war-torn northern Uganda accuses the government of engaging in an unreasonable war against the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army. | | | | TANZANIA: African Churches Grouping Has New Head
Posted: Mon, Dec 22, 2008; Country: Tanzania
NAIROBI, December 19 -The head of the Anglican Church of Tanzania, Archbishop Valentine Mokiwa, is the new President of the All Africa Conference of Churches. | | | | AFRICA: Pope Receives Four New Envoys to Holy See
Posted: Mon, Dec 22, 2008; Country: Africa (General)
VATICAN, December 19 -Pope Benedict XVI receives the Letters of Credence of 11 new ambassadors to the Holy See, four of them representing African nations. | | | | AFRICA: Missionary Institute to Create 3 New Districts
Posted: Mon, Dec 22, 2008; Country: Africa (General)
ROME, December 19 -The Society of African Missions will next year celebrate the 150th anniversary of the death of their founder, French Bishop Melchior de Marion Brésillac and inaugurate three new districts in Africa. | | | | KENYA: Cardinal to Represent Africa in Migration Body
Posted: Mon, Dec 22, 2008; Country: Kenya
GENEVA, December 19 -The Catholic Archbishop of Nairobi John Njue is among cardinals from five regions of the world elected to the governing committee of an international Catholic organisation dealing with migrants. | | | | YOUR SAY: Christmas Hope Lifts Africa’s Sad Hearts
Posted: Mon, Dec 22, 2008; Country: Kenya
Dear Editor, | | | | KENYA: Faiths Join Protests Against Curbs on Media Freedom
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2008; Country: Kenya
NAIROBI, December 16 -Violent scenes reminiscent of the dark days of President Daniel Moi’s dictatorship returns to the Kenyan capital after parliament passed a bill which tightens the state’s grip on the broadcast media. | | | | ZIMBABWE: Africa’s Churches Request God to Take Mugabe
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2008; Country: Zimbabwe
MAPUTO, December 16 -Africa’s largest grouping of churches says the crisis in Zimbabwe is deadlocked because of the intransigence of President Robert Mugabe, and Christians should pray for an end to the “illegitimate” regime. | | | | DR CONGO: Catholic Bishops Call for US Help to End Conflict
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2008; Country: D.R. Congo
WASHINGTON, December 16 -Two visiting Catholic bishops calls for the United States’ help in ending the deadly conflict in the east of the country. |
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