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A year of violence threatening the stability of the Central African Republic (C.A.R.) has escalated recently, leaving more than one million people in need amid calls for foreign aid and warnings of the potential for genocide.
As the conflict in South Sudan continues, aid agencies are struggling to provide assistance to the thousands of people caught up in the violence.
About 1,000 Dutch Catholic churches – around two-thirds of the total in the country – will be shut by 2025, Cardinal Willem Eijk warned Pope Francis at an ad limina visit recently.
“According to the 2013 Afghanistan Opium Survey, cultivation amounted to some 209,000 hectares, outstripping the earlier record in 2007 of 193,000 hectares, and representing a 36% increase over 2012.”
Researchers say the Christian population is growing in regions that experience anti-Christian persecution, though this threatens their ability to contribute to societies.
The mission of the Church is to touch peoples’ lives with the love and the mercy of God, truly believing in the power of God’s love which is far above and beyond our faults and failings.
