Pope Benedict XVI has for the second time in two months appealed for the international community to send aid to the suffering people of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The eastern part of the African nation is being convulsed by a second wave of violence and spreading hunger, leading the Pope to describe the suffering Read more
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Missionz project 2012 – street kids in Kinshasa, Congo
Friday, October 19th, 2012
Mission Sunday 2012 will be celebrated around the world on Sunday 21 October, which aptly occurs while Pope Benedict along with Cardinals and Bishops are gathered for the Synod on the New Evangelisation. The main office of the Pontifical Mission Society of the Propagation of the Faith in Rome decides where the Mission Collection should Read more
Tintin: Racist in Congo, hero at Vatican
Friday, November 11th, 2011The Vatican’s official newspaper has come to the defence of boy hero Tintin.
The book Tintin in the Congo, has been placed in the adult section of British bookstores after being branded racist for its depiction of Africans.
The book, published by Egmont, has a protective band around it and warns that its portrayal of Africans as wide-eyed simpletons would offend some readers and was based on “the bourgeois, paternalistic stereotypes of the period.”
However, the idea that Tintin, the fearless journalist with the funny hair, could be racist is merely the imagining of an “integralist political correctness,” says the Holy See’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano.
The paper called the boy reporter, a creator of Belgian artist Herge, a Catholic hero.
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Congo women raped – one a minute
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
More than 400,000 Congo women and girls between the ages of 15 to 49 were raped during the 12-month period of war in 2006 and 2007. This new figure is 26 times more than the 15,000 women that the United Nations has reported were raped there during the same 12 months. The figures were published Read more
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