Mozambique
Africa’s six Anglican women bishops meet and issue call to combat Africa’s ‘triple threat’
By Fredrick Nzwili — January 19, 2024
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — The weeklong gathering outside Kenya's capital was the first time the six had met as bishops. 'We have never had time to meet just to pray, to know each other and fellowship,' said one of the prelates.
Missionary pilot Ryan Koher remains in custody in Mozambique, 6 weeks after arrest
By Bob Smietana — December 8, 2022
(RNS) — Government officials arrested the missionary and two South Africans, under suspicion they were supporting insurgents.
In private meeting, Pope Francis opens up about his faith after his election
By Claire Giangravé — September 26, 2019
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The official transcript of a Sept. 5 meeting with Jesuit clergy in Mozambique offers a peek into a less measured side of the Argentine pontiff. Francis opened up about his spirituality after being made pope — and criticized clericalism in the Catholic Church for its fixation on sex rather than equity and integrity.
Alarmed African churches demand end to persistent xenophobic attacks in S. Africa
By Fredrick Nzwili — September 24, 2019
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — As the latest wave of xenophobic attacks in South Africa dies out, churches in the country and others on the continent are demanding an end to the persistent problem, affecting economic migrants in one of Africa’s biggest economies.
New cardinals: The men are the message
By Thomas Reese — September 12, 2019
(RNS) — By making these men cardinals, the pope is handing them megaphones.
Pope Francis calls for peace in Mozambique ahead of contested presidential elections
By Claire Giangravé — September 6, 2019
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — During his homily, the pope invited Mozambicans to 'an attitude of mercy and goodness above all toward those who, by their place in society, quickly encounter rejection and exclusion,' and later visited an AIDS/HIV clinic.
Pope Francis blesses Mozambique’s reconciliation efforts on Africa visit
By Claire Giangravé — September 5, 2019
(RNS) — Francis endorsed the Aug. 6 peace treaty signed by the government and rebel leaders, calling it a 'landmark' in a struggle for reconciliation the church has done much to boost.
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.
After cyclone disaster, church organizations mobilize to help devastated Africans
By Paul O'Donnell — March 25, 2019
(RNS) — Christian relief organizations and agencies raced to aid Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, the three countries most affected by the tropical storm.
Forced sex camps prepare girls for child marriage in Zambia and Mozambique
By Reuters — May 22, 2015
CASABLANCA (Reuters) Girls as young as eight are forced to go to camps where they are shown how to please a man in bed in order to prepare them for married life, activists said at an international conference on ending child marriage.
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