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On the memorial day of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, J. Baptiste, a Jesuit genocide survivor from Rwanda, shared his story of the tragic event. On behalf of fellow Rwandans, he concluded with a prayer: "My prayer today is to find the last remains of the victims…, then [this] commemoration will mean something different. Only then will our wounds heal and the ongoing reconciliation process move faster."

"Conflicts in Africa in the Context of the Exploitation of Natural and Mining Resources" was the theme of a seminar in Accra, Ghana. Participants in the seminar convened by the Symposium of the Episcopal Conference of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) called for the end of the ruthless depletion of natural resources by multinational corporations and foreign powers.

The morning of 24 February 2022, in Abidjan, capital of the Ivory Coast: the garden at CERAP or to use its full name, the Centre de Recherche et d’Action pour la Paix (Centre for Research and Action for Peace) resounds with cheers and the joyful shouts of young people.

Held at the Jesuit Africama House in Nairobi, the event marked a critical phase in the policy's development, reflecting a comprehensive approach to gender inclusivity in education.

The theme of this year’s World AIDS Day is “Let the communities lead!” This assertion rightly recognises the agency of the affected people and their communities while admitting the futility of action that excludes the active participation of every member of society.

A Catholic leader in South Africa, a country where mineral wealth long has been an economic mainstay, says that today the Church in his country often encounters “the suffering face of Christ in sick mine workers.”

In OCTOBER's edition of the AJANEWS issue, they basically focus on the community being the center of care and support for young people living with HIV.

From 16th October 2023, The Institute of Daughters of Mary Help of Christians held a three-day seminar on Sexual Abuse and HIV/AIDS.

Tragically, the stories shared by these African girls are not unique. Globally, 15 million adolescent girls have endured forced sex at some point in their lives, according to a report by the U.N. Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children.

Since 2020, Jesuit scholastics studying philosophy at the Catholic University of Central Africa (UCAC) have been organising what has now become a tradition, an “Ecological Week”.