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April 11, 2015

South Sudan church leaders push alternative peace process

Sister Mariya Soosai, a member of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, leads a group of children March 7 in an arithmetic class in a camp for internally displaced families inside a U.N. base in Juba, South Sudan. Some 34,000 people have sought protection at the base since violence broke out in December 2013.

JUBA, South Sudan - Church leaders in South Sudan are trying to breathe new life into their country's stalled peace talks.

Published in International
January 14, 2012

Climate change moves Ethiopian church to address food needs

Father Hailegebriel Meleku, deputy secretary general of the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat, said the country now is better poised to address its humanitarian problems, in part because church bodies have been mobilized during recent crises. Father Meleku is pictured in a November 2011 photo.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Climate change-induced drought that has afflicted the Horn of Africa presents the opportunity for the Catholic Church in Ethiopia to work more closely with the government to address food shortages and development concerns, said an official of the country's bishops' conference.

Recalling when Ethiopian regimes in the 1970s and 1980s either did not have the capacity or the political will to face a series of famines, Father Hailegebriel Meleku, deputy secretary general of the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat, said the country is now better poised to address its humanitarian problems, in part because church bodies have been mobilized during recent crises.

Published in International
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