Stan Chu Ilo est professeur principal de recherche sur la christianité mondiale, les études africaines et la santé mondiale au Centre pour le catholicisme mondial et la théologie interculturelle de l'Université DePaul, et le responsable du Réseau panafricain catholique de théologie et de pastorale.
The recent story of Father John K. Ojuok, a Kenyan priest serving in the Diocese of Ogdensburg in upstate New York, is a small local news item that reveals a much larger crisis. Fr. Ojuok, who had been ministering legally in the United States on an R-1 religious worker visa, travelled home to Kenya in September to visit his mother…
When Lydia Polgreen sat down with Howard W. French for The New York Times podcast The Opinions, they confronted one of the most important questions facing Africa and the world today: Can the world afford to turn its back on Africa? French’s answer, grounded in history and moral realism, is an emphatic no. A retreat from Africa would not only…
Les manifestations postélectorales en Tanzanie ont secoué beaucoup d'Afrique, exposant une fois de plus les profondes blessures de la gouvernance et de la démocratie sur le continent. Ils nous ont rappelé que lorsque les élections sont dépouillées d'équité, elles deviennent des instruments de domination plutôt que des expressions du peuple. Le président Samia Suluhu Hassan a été déclaré vainqueur de l'élection nationale, « gagnant » par...
One of the earliest disappointments I experienced as a newly ordained priest was that the first three sick people I anointed never recovered. They all died. I was then serving in a rural community in Eastern Nigeria where many had no access to good healthcare. The visit of a priest was not only for spiritual healing but also, in faith,…
The Nigerian Christian community has been shaken by a recent address given in Rome by Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah during the launch of Aid to the Church in Need’s 2025 Religious Freedom in the World Report. In his remarks, the Bishop of Sokoto acknowledged the widespread violence and insecurity ravaging Nigeria but questioned whether Christians in the country are being…
The U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that came into effect this past weekend offers a brief and fragile respite. For many Gazans, it is a pause long overdue: families returning to the ruins of neighbourhoods flattened by rockets and bombardment found dust and silence where kitchens, schools, and lives once were. In the silence, Gaza has revealed itself as…
On October 3, 2025, Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina took to Facebook Live with an extraordinary claim. After a week of protests led mostly by Gen Z activists filling the streets of Antananarivo and other cities, Rajoelina dismissed the movement as a coup attempt orchestrated by shadowy forces. He accused “a fringe of the opposition” and unnamed “foreign agencies” of paying…
A recent BBC investigation tore open a wound that has long bled in silence: young African women deceived with promises of education or job opportunity, only to be trafficked into darkness, sex slavery, and domestic violence. They leave home as daughters, chasing dreams of light, only to arrive in foreign lands as commodities. What bleeds here is not only the…
Le 8 septembre, le Pape Leo va marquer quatre mois en fonction. J'écris cet éditorial à la fois en hommage au pape Léo et en plaidoyer pour l'Afrique. Il est déjà clair que le pape Léon s'est montré une main ferme à la barre—pas de faux pas, seulement de l'aise, le but, et une clarté de vision calme. Ça n'allait jamais...
Dans son message pour la Journée mondiale de prière pour la création de 2025, le pape Léon XIV appelle les chrétiens à s'unir sur le thème « Les fruits de la paix et de l'espérance ». Il nous rappelle que «avec la prière, la détermination et des actions concrètes sont nécessaires pour que cette «soin de Dieu» devienne visible pour notre monde.» Cette saison de la création, il exhorte, est plus...