Madagascar

Pope encourages vast crowds in Madagascar in fight against poverty, climate threat

By Claire Giangravé — September 9, 2019
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The pope's optimistic message of peace and faith has been balanced by the reality of the challenges Africa faces.

Pope Francis to address conflict, climate in Africa in three-country visit

By Claire Giangravé — September 3, 2019
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A top Vatican official described Africa as 'a laboratory for integral development' — a term that in this papacy refers to a sustainable society based on precepts in a 2015 papal encyclical on the environment.

Francis cardinals make up almost half of electors of next pope

By Thomas Reese — May 22, 2018
(RNS) — Pope Francis continues to remake the College of Cardinals so that almost half of the men who will choose his successor have been chosen by him.

As faiths mix, Madagascar’s LGBTQ community faces harassment and discrimination

By Domoina Ratsara — January 14, 2018
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar -- For LGBTQ people in Madagascar, backlash is still more common than tolerance or respect.
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