If Pope Benedict XVI does not personally adopt a larger advocacy for poverty elimination in Africa, this same poverty, coupled with the perception of the church’s indifference towards it, will trigger a significant exodus from the Catholic faith over the next twenty to thirty years
While the most expansive African debt forgiveness initiative yet was coming to fruition in Gleneagles last summer, the Vaticans presence was only marginally visible. Not a papal delegation but
A nation is liberated and its tyrannical past withers into history. After a period of political and sectarian violence an interim constitution is drafted. The provisional government consists of one