“Time is running out” as famine, disease and fighting close in on the population, with no end in sight, said U.N. resident and humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, Clementine Nkweta-Salami. “The international community cannot stand by as this crisis spirals out of control, as the noose of this conflict tightens its stranglehold on the civilian population,” […]
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis extolled Wednesday the “apostolic zeal” of St. Daniele Comboni, an Italian missionary priest and bishop who fought to end slavery in Africa. Comboni witnessed “the horror of slavery” as a missionary in the mid-19th century in what is now Sudan. In his writings, he spoke of slavery more than 450 […]