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
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
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
