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Bishops in Liberia Decry “gross violations” in Enforcing COVID-19 State of Emergency

May 7, 2020

Bishops in the West African nation of Liberia have decried brutality on the part of security agencies in the process of enforcing the three-week state of emergency, which the country’s President declared on April 10 as a measure to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Participants at Nairobi Conference on Human Trafficking, from left: Bishop Bishop José Luis Gerardo Ponce de León (Manzini - Swaziland), Bishop Virgilio Pante (Maralal, Kenya), Fr. Daniel Rono (SG, KCCB) / KCCB/Rose Achiego

African Human Trafficking Convention Tasks Bishops’ Conferences to Spearhead Action Plans

Oct 7, 2019

The just concluded Nairobi convention on the challenge of human trafficking has tasked the local Churches in Africa under their umbrella bodies, that is, Conferences of Catholic Bishops, to spearhead the plans of action, which the meeting resolved and outlined in 26 recommendations.

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