GRAND-BASSAM, C么te d鈥橧voire 鈥 The regional conference of West African bishops has commended a regional economic union for its efforts to promote peaceful transfers of power, while also noting areas of concern, including religious intolerance and youth unemployment.
Outside Paris, a clinic aims to tackle an age-old practice
ST.-DENIS, France 鈥 Miriam clearly remembers the day she was cut, bundled by two village women into a bathroom at the age of 7, where a third performed the procedure. 鈥淚t was very, very painful,鈥 the young Malian woman says softly, as her two tiny children pinch her cheeks, crying for attention.
ACCRA, Ghana - The bishops of the Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa called on Catholics to defend traditional marriage and the family as they met in the Ghanaian capital.