The Foreign Minister of Ghana, Samuel Ablakwa, on a recent visit to Kiev, Ukraine, asked his Ukrainian counterpart to help secure the release of two Ghanaians held as prisoners of war. According to a report by the BBC, of the 272 Ghanaians said to be fighting in the war, more than 55 young men have been killed. Another investigation by…
President Trump is dragging the U.S. into an unnecessary war without any national conversation or the approval of Congress. This military operation is both ill-advised and wrong-headed. President Trump is going into it alone without the consent of any of America’s allies in the Middle East, the G20, NATO, or elsewhere, except Israel. Iran was already negotiating in good faith,…
As Christians across the globe enter the sacred season of Lent, Pope Leo XIV has issued a compelling message urging the faithful to rediscover the transformative power of listening, fasting, and communal conversion. His reflection, titled “Listening and Fasting: Lent as a Time of Conversion”, frames Lent not merely as a ritual obligation but as a spiritual reset—an invitation to…
“Remember that you are dust, and unto dust you shall return. Repent and believe the Gospel.” The liturgy of Ash Wednesday places before the Church a truth that is at once sobering and profoundly liberating. “Remember that you are dust.” Humanity is dust—finite, vulnerable, radically dependent on God. Yet this incompleteness is not a defect in our humanity. It is…
The Church in Africa is one of the most vibrant and rapidly growing communities in global Catholicism today. The Pontifical Yearbook, in its 2024 edition, reports that Africa accounts for 20% of the world’s Catholics and is characterised by a highly dynamic spread of the Catholic Church. From the Second Vatican Council to the Synods on Africa (1994 and 2009),…
The recent attack and capture of President Maduro of Venezuela by American law enforcement and military, and the first consistory of the world’s cardinals convoked by Pope Leo, show two contrasting approaches to leadership that I wish to analyze in this essay. In the last eight months or so, people have begun to draw a sharp contrast between the two…
“Gen Z” (Generation Zoomer), a term borrowed from the practice of using zoom, refers to people born between 1997 and 2012. This generation saw the massive expansion of the Internet, a gigantic information warehouse, and the dizzying rise and global spread of different social media platforms. Their period of growing up also included the Great Recession (late 2007–mid-2009) and the…
La première Exhortation apostolique du pape Léon XIV, Dilexi Te (« Je t'aime »), a été publiée à une heure décisive pour l'Afrique et pour le monde. Il vient comme notre continent se tient à la fois blessé et espoir — où vit l'une des populations chrétiennes les plus dynamiques de la terre, mais qui porte toujours les fardeaux les plus lourds de la pauvreté, de la faim, de la traite des êtres humains et des déplacements...
On October 1st, 2025, Pope Leo XIV warned a global audience that “God will ask us if we have cared for our common home.” The Pope was speaking at the Raising Hope Conference, an international gathering on climate justice organized by the Laudato Si’ Movement to mark the tenth anniversary of Pope Francis’ landmark ecological encyclical. How has Pope Leo…
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...