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Violence against Christians in Mozambique risks being ignored due to Ukraine and Gaza

February 26, 2024

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – A jihadist campaign mostly targeting Christians in northern Mozambique is being overlooked amid the global focus on the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza. “The biggest risk is that [the victims] will be forgotten due to other wars in the world,” said Bishop António Juliasse Ferreira Sandramo of Pemba in the northern Cabo

Catholic expert highlights cholera surge in Southern Africa after Covid ‘diverted’ resources

February 05, 2024

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – UN estimates about a severe cholera outbreak across the Southern Africa region may be wide of the mark, according to a Catholic expert who says the reality may be even worse. The UN has estimated that there have been more than 3,000 deaths in the past year and almost 200,000 people affected.

Italian nun killed by Muslim insurgents in Mozambique

September 14, 2022

On 6th September, a group of Muslim insurgents attacked a mission in Memba district, in Nampula province, Mozambique, and killed three residents, including an Italian-born nun. The combatants arrived from the war-stricken Cabo Delgado province on Saturday, burning villages and killing at least 10 people – catechists among them, according to the local bishop, the

Bishops of Southern Africa call for resolution to crisis in Mozambique

April 29, 2021

Islamist militants have been launching violent attacks in the province since 2017, causing at least 2,500 deaths and displacing hundreds of thousands of people. Last week, the UN’s World Food program said the latest attacks have affected more than 50,000 people and left thousands homeless.

Mozambique: Thousands missing, many feared dead after IS militants seize town

April 01, 2021

Members of the militant Islamic ISIS network have claimed responsibility for the attack, which may have left as many as 50,000 people homeless.

Daesh (ISIS) attack in Mozambique leaves dozens dead

March 31, 2021

Brazilian missionary Fr. Edegard Silva in Pemba told ACN the people were becoming used to these attacks. “They were already expecting it," he said, "because over the past two weeks these evildoers and insurgents had been carrying out a series of attacks in the Nangade region, and almost all the communities close to Palma has already been attacked.”

Even bishops are afraid to speak about witchcraft in Mozambique, says Sister

November 03, 2016

Sister Biasibetti says sorcery practices drive the trafficking of organs and body parts in the country

Pope Francis chooses ‘Bergoglio of Italy’ to lead the Archdiocese of Bologna

October 28, 2015

Bishop Matteo Zuppi will succeed conservative Cardinal Carlo Caffarra