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Bishop Joseph Kizito of Aliwal in South Africa attributes the violence to unfulfilled political promises since the end of Apartheid in 1994, and to a lack of service delivery.

As the conflict in Sudan enters its third year, the nation faces a humanitarian catastrophe: Millions have been displaced, thousands killed, and critical infrastructure left in ruins.

Leading African prelates are focusing on the papacy’s global moral leadership role as Leo XIV enters his second year in office.

Coptic Orthodox deacon pray during Easter mass, at Holy Cross Church in Cairo, Egypt, May 1, 2021. An Egyptian court Saturday, June 12, 2022, sentenced a man to die for the April stabbing death of a Coptic Christian priest in an attack that shocked the Arab World’s most populous nation. (Credit: Nariman El-Mofty/AP.)

Bishop John Tatah Berinyuy, the auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese Bamenda in Cameroon, was once kidnapped by separatists fighting to create a new country made up of the English-speaking part of the majority French-speaking African country.

Sr. Leonia Katunge SSJ poses in her legal regalia worn over her habit and veil in 2019, when she was admitted to the Kenyan bar as an advocate of the country’s High Court. (Image courtesy of Sr. Leonida Katunge)

Pope Leo XIV watches children perform a dance as he visits the Ngul Zamba (Power of God) orphanage in Yaounde, Cameroon, Wednesday April 15, 2026 on the third day of his apostolic journey to Africa. (Credit: Alberto Pizzoli, Pool Photo via AP.)

Bishop Osório Citora Afonso of Quelimane, Mozambique, in an undated photo. (Credit: Mozambique Bishops’ Conference.)

Bishop John Berinyuy Tatah, the Auxiliary Bishop of the Bamenda archdiocese, offers a profound vision that bridges traditional African values and the challenges of the modern world.

Father Moses Aondover Iorapuu said “this sudden admission of systematic killings of Christians in the north and middle belt regions by the UN is not only too late but grossly falls short of the reality Nigerians in these regions are experiencing.”