One of the African continent’s leading cardinals has called on the Church there to focus its efforts on restoring hope to a people in danger of succumbing to hopelessness in the face of the continent's grave struggles.
“The African continent is full of problems: real poverty, political instability, violence, ethnic and religious conflicts, wars, terrorism, migration and refugees, bad governance, corruption, environmental degradation, trafficking in arms and drugs as well as people,” said Congolese Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Kinshasa. “There is despair and bad management of natural resources.”
