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A Grave Disappointment – Sierra Leone’s Child Rights Act Is a Hollow Victory for Girls
1 On October 14, 2025, a day after the International Day of the Girl Child, Sierra Leone’s Solicitor General, Robert Kowa, announced that President Julius Maada Bio had assented to the Child Rights Act 2024, making it the law of the land. This...
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Engage children at all levels in climate justice
Indeterminate
The Standard
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Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry of Kenya Deborah Barasa,plant a bamboo tree on, September 18th 2025, during world Bamboo day celebrations. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard] If children could be given room to play in the...
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Pope Leo makes urgent appeal for religious freedom, persecuted Christians
Pope Leo XIV issued a strong defense of religious freedom Oct. 10, calling it “not optional but essential,” and describing it as a moral foundation of peace, reconciliation, and authentic human flourishing. Addressing representatives of Aid to the...
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Pope Leo XIV Calls for Global Defence of Religious Freedom
Rome, 10 October 2025 – In the golden light of an autumn morning, the Hall of Popes fell silent as Pope Leo XIV rose to speak. A delegation from Aid to the Church in Need—bearing stories of suffering, of displacement, of quiet martyrdom—had come...
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Pope Leo XIV: Right to religious freedom is not optional but essential
Vatican City, Oct 10, 2025 / 13:21 pm Pope Leo XIV on Friday received at the Vatican members of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), a pontifical foundation that supports the Catholic Church in its evangelizing work in the world’s most needy,...
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Chapo seeks church blessings
Good afternoon. What are the most common non-residential buildings being built in Mozambique? Quite possibly churches and mosques. Religion is booming, in particular evangelical Christianity. Many evangelical churches in Mozambique are like...
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Pope Leo XIV: Right to Religious Freedom Is Essential
Center-right
National Catholic Register
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He clarified that when this freedom is denied, ‘the human person is deprived of the capacity to respond freely to the call of truth.’ Pope Leo XIV on Friday received at the Vatican members of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), a pontifical...
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Leo XIV: Without religious freedom, trust gives way to fear and violence
Receiving in audience the Aid to the Church in Need International, the pontiff cited Pope Francis who, in his last message to the world, stressed the link between this fundamental right and peace. For Leo, “we do not abandon our persecuted...
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Nyerere’s ideals still shape Tanzania and beyond
DAR ES SALAAM: JULIUS Nyerere, the first President of Tanzania, remains a lasting symbol of freedom, integrity and servant leadership across Africa. Twenty-six years after his death, his vision of unity and self-reliance continues to influence the...
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Pope: Religious freedom an ‘essential element to seek and live truth’
Pope Leo XIV meets with members of Aid to the Church in Need, a pontifical foundation, and praises their work to uphold religious freedom as an essential element of human life. By Devin Watkins Ahead of the publication of the Religious Freedom in...
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Jihadists kill and kidnap in new Mozambique attacks
Neutral
East Coast Radio
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TotalEnergies was expected to resume this year a massive LNG project near Palma that was halted in early 2021 after a militant strike on the town killed more than 800 people. Around 15 insurgents entered Palma, around 30 kilometres (20 miles) from...
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US Senate Committee Chair Decries 'Killings Of Christians' In Nigeria, Across Africa As ISIS Beheads 30 In Mozambique
Left-wing
Sahara Reporters
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In a statement condemning the growing wave of religious persecution across Africa, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), has decried the continued killing of Christians by Islamist extremists,...
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As child abductions rise in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado, churches serve as safe spaces
MAPUTO, Mozambique (RNS) — In the remote villages of Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, fear seems constant. Families say they no longer sleep through the night, children jump at the sound of footsteps and parents clutch their little ones close,...
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Escalating violence in northern Mozambique leading to new wave of displacements, UNHCR warns
The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR says it’s concerned about the “rapid rise” in the number of displaced people in northern Mozambique. Since the start of the year, violence in the southern African country has displaced 100,000 people, the agency says,...
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Mozambique plans to reduce the public accounts deficit to 1,525 million
According to the draft law approving the Economic and Social Plan and State Budget (PESOE) 2026, which was approved today by the Council of Ministers and will be submitted to the Assembly of the Republic, the budget deficit will be lower than...
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Mozambican man to spend month in jail before being deported after Sea Point owl attack
Pro-Government
Cape Times
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The Cape of Good Hope SPCA has welcomed the conviction and sentencing of 38-year-old Mozambican man Gustigu Mthini for a violent attack on a protected Spotted Eagle Owl along the Sea Point Promenade, earlier this year. In a shocking incident on...
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“Be examples of unity, communion”: Catholic Archbishop in Mozambique to Pastoral Agents in Maputo Province
He said, “It is necessary that the local Church remains attentive to the voice of the Holy Spirit and be willing to reassess its paths.” Archbishop Nunes added in reference to the ongoing Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year, “The Jubilee we...
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Our Lady of Rosary Feast: Catholic Bishops in Angola, Mozambique Call for Prayers for Persecuted Christians Worldwide
“This prayer, so ancient and devout, allows us to meditate on the mysteries of the life of Jesus and Mary. It strengthens faith, keeps away temptation, and helps us resist negative influences,” the Catholic Church leader said. Calling the Rosary a...
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Rome to host official launch of Religious Freedom Report 2025
(ZENIT News / Rome, 10.08.2025).- Religious and public leaders will be gathering on October 21 at the Pontifical Patristic Institute Augustinianum in Rome for the worldwide presentation of the latest edition of the Report on Religious Freedom...
Mozambique: Over 113,000 Cabo Delgado families displaced by rebels need support
More than 113,000 families need support from the Mozambican authorities in Cabo Delgado province, displaced due to terrorist attacks, according to estimates presented on Monday by the Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction (INGD) in...
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