South Africa
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New church plan on Ebola: pastoral care as well as health, education
By BRONWEN DACHS, Catholic News Service
Published January 8, 2015CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS)—Pope Francis will boost the church’s response to Ebola in West Africa through an initiative that focuses on pastoral care as well as health and education, a Vatican official told Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Monrovia. Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, met with […] Full Story
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Panic, hunger spread among quarantined West Africans in Ebola areas
By BRONWEN DACHS, Catholic News Service
Published September 4, 2014CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS)—Hunger and panic are spreading among people unable to work because of restrictions aimed at containing the spread of Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone, say church workers in West Africa. In Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, church groups “are trying to get food and distribute it to families who have asked us […] Full Story