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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Pope Visits Africa's Growing Flock


Pope Benedict XVI, left, is welcomed by Cameroon President Paul Biya on arrival at the airport in Yaounde, Cameroon Tuesday, March 17, 2009. Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Cameroon Tuesday on his first trip to Africa, the fastest-growing region for the Roman Catholic church. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)


From The Christian Science Monitor
By Scott Baldauf


A
s Pope Benedict XVI makes his first trip to Africa
as the head of the Roman Catholic Church, he will confront a phenomenon that can only be called a mystery.


Why is it that Africa – a continent of bloody conflicts, forced migration, rampant health problems, and profound poverty where as many as 800 million people suffer from chronic hunger – contains some of the most exuberantly religious people on earth? How do Africans find so much hope amid the hopelessness?


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