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What Africa Needs Saving From

Kelvin Banda OP – In many churches, congregations sing the hymn “Africa Will Be Saved” — and as the African continent laments countless tragedies, problems and forms of suffering which affect the everyday lives of people, it sounds good to sing that Africa will be saved.

Pope: Zero Tolerance For Abusers – They’ll Be Laicised

Pope Francis has endorsed an approach of “zero tolerance” toward all members of the church guilty of sexually abusing minors or vulnerable adults. The pope said he has decided whoever has been proven guilty of abuse has no right to an appeal, and he will never grant a papal pardon – meaning that the offending priest or bishop will be laicised or similar.

Holy Russia? Believers Debate Putin’s Record as a Christian Leader

While many commentators in the west see Russian President Vladimir Putin as an authoritarian leader who tirelessly plots to revive a Soviet-sized empire, others celebrate Putin as an Eastern Orthodox czar, warring with the forces of the Antichrist in an apocalyptic struggle for the soul of Christian civilisation.