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January 17, 2019

African bishops, Canada’s D&P charge Congo election results of ‘monumental cheating’

Felix Tshisekedi, leader of Congo’s Union for Democracy and Social Progress, was announced as the winner of the presidential election.

Who really won the election in Congo matters immensely to the Congolese people, but it also matters to Canada’s Catholic development agency, which spent the last three years helping ordinary Congolese get ready to vote.

Published in International
November 6, 2018

Ethiopia's first female president welcomed by bishops

Pope Francis greets Sahle-Work Zewde, then-director general of the United Nations office in Nairobi, during a 2015 visit to Nairobi. Zewde was elected Oct. 25 as Ethiopia's first female president.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Ethiopia's bishops welcomed the election of the nation's first female president, Sahle-Work Zewde, and said they were pleased that women "are getting their rightful place in the development of the country."
Published in International
November 6, 2018

Brazil's newly elected Catholic president promises conservative moral agenda

Newly elected Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a Catholic, waves Oct. 28 at a polling station in Rio de Janeiro.
SAO PAULO – Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, a Catholic who campaigned to rid the nation of corruption, will take office Jan. 1 with a conservative moral agenda.
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