a biased instrument for global imperialism. here it has the country and other african states to a band and the organization, claiming it turns a blind eye to nato and us crimes. that is the did not do anything against the former. you as president george bush for the was in iraq and turned a blind on when bought a bomb metal illegally invaded libya plus size made by the leader. mom, i got that. so the, the guy and all african countries must withdrawal from the i, c. c. and the f f will lead that effort. just a month ago, the south african president made a similar statement announcing his nations potential withdrawal from the i c. c. but his office denied the statement a few hours later, citing an error during a press briefing. debates over the nations i. c. c. membership have been heating up since south africa refused to support anti russian sanctions over the ukraine

conflict. a former south african law maker told us that the i c. c. is a western to used against other countries. me, she is not going to be to whatsoever as a, was the police or as it was suggested to be a tool. and this all know it was a to use is particularly for the 3rd world countries. and not you guys have to go to the full g to surely, you know, some people they knew that lady about. busy must a what? because of my fractions don't like the light doesn't come out. that's the guy. it has pulled weapons into the sheet that what you have from last year in

the us international relations exercise to lie to 2 stories to justify just donation off to was rejected or so important. that's a rap on the hour, but coming up a wave of violent attacks against the christian population is sweeping africa. find out more next on africa. now, thanks for joining in. don't go far the the

christianity under attack in africa. tens of thousands or killed. as long as co squads find safe havens in the lowest visits and remove towns of africa. kidnappings. the headings moved at, shattering the lives of communities and meetings, pain, and day, in a way. what exactly? hello and welcome to this week african now, so we come to you from midway in south africa. i mean the 1st russian orthodox church to be established in sub saharan africa. it is one of 2 on the continent.

the other is in kind of at a time when the russian orthodox church in ukraine is under, was sold this week's program expose the plight of christians and christianity in africa. moscow has accused ukraine of illegally attacking the ukrainian orthodox church. i know for a fact that the south african council of churches have had extensive conversations with all the parties involved, all the parties. um, but you know, if i decide that you are my enemy and you represent the devil can be very difficult to shift you. and so i, i want to challenge the church and say that is exactly, we'll ridge and it is the work of opening up dialogue between russia and america.

for starters, that dis, abels beginning of people, 3 torches. and any other thing you see on our television screens, both in the rush and even though when is in the war and what has happened way is the voice that says no. what's happening to the greek orthodox and the russian orthodox church is all they just complicit in whichever side or whichever country they are in? oh, is it a perception that in actual fact the church sank? defies the mind and done that across africa and they were a number of countries with questions of finding it extremely difficult to practice they face. the most common reason is as long as violence and countries such as nigeria, akina festa and sudan in these communities. christians faced serious restrictions

on, they were billeted to practice the faith freely, and it is not uncommon for them to be arrested and detained without explanation. the situation is most pressing in nigeria. we please continue to be kidnapped and often killed young women stone to diss and station lice. it's close now to nigeria . the priest is a little longer because priestess, i did, i get a plus b shows. i love, i broke her arm by not fuss by binding on many of the furthest visualize of it. so i can see that it says guided by which i just clearly thought. so does that. you know

people. the 1st is that these photo lies because they have access protection from keeps kristen would seem taxes, but for me you need your services. so this is defined what this happens. imagine it today because of the last thinking that yeah, we side, we still got. unfortunately, it don't know this got that job site, that is white and it is, it's been i to the most recent christmas that'd be comfortable. once i get all these forms of tech christians unable, once i get the most peace of mind to pump the priestess the past. so i have the subject performed a lot of process. that'd be too simply because as long as you guys, because of getting these in so many mean by so, so how do you display as well, but these, you know, displays and this is happening on a daily basis on the, on the house. you know, those top. ready the, the, the task on the road and don't pull out all the christians alone. i love it because that's why i didn't. this is because there's so many places you know that uh quick

stuff of weakness. attack the packing of coal. going to finish on what it wants to do before you see the business of government. that is the so i guess. so to some extent we can say, you know, government is the best. but when it comes to protecting christianity in the g, the woocommerce, they're going to have positive if. but if the government is not active or active, not on site disease, we followed the say that, well, me, there's a lot of fun. if this look, people are planned to attack the attack before, after every see has been done. first, the fitness of the items on the path was everywhere. used. cars are not in the us. many places on why is it that the, when they come to load the attack, billy not going to keep you know of that fits, i guess what i did, i get increased and so that's what i'm best time somebody go most site, you know,

and this is happened and not on my duty after the fact. so since i want to believe that it is because of these numbers just by essential, allow me to see the government is not leaving just by patient. government is bias which is happening. all of i do want, this is the most of us, the car is like what is basically the sub saharan africa, you know, uh, west africa applies. they need to come together and see how the cost to, you know, do city jump, do you need to come to do that uh see us on any of properties. so if i forget the guy's, let me hook me up. you guys know how one of the car is going down down, down, down, down. so unless we realize that we are fighting it from one enemy, that is a 50 or what be calling me a social economy of what each tell on every 6 of our life we live over from the

cell into. so i pulled up the compliment to come together. i'm like, i'm christian. as to son from the crystal publishing must be shown as much me this . that's the biggest packet. even before, just as if continuous entities, those on the east, it's much the same. one of the world's oldest churches in ethiopia, the tower he to church, appears to have as old a month long because i'm that spot did natasha's off to arrival sign on was formed . the divisions remain that risk tearing the institution the country a poss let me, uh oh,

the. in order to explain the reason behind the telling sophie to a fan or sort of saw her daughter. so there are 3 main points as the 1st one is, you know, as you know, your pin or sort of still have to start keeping the social control of phrase any ciocca and in other, uh, i know, you know, other countries in 14 countries also because you know each your panel sort of still had to charge and is found in different widths turn um, uh, end other off we can country. so this is the one thing or the reason of being the 1st reason behind the trolling in the 2nd bonnie, the territory of boundary as we know that you 2 pan or so those still have to try to keep us in the if you can 30 stories related with the peoples and are related with the social and the social perspective. so this is the 2nd thing. and the 3rd thing, or the mean the, the main thing that makes the challenges and you know, the, the, the, the, the look between also. busy literature will feature pan or sort of still have the

church as you know, on the western mainly it's not related with the west on the culture. so um the that the disorder telling. so these challenges leads us let's have a problem. uh, who is your pan or sort of still headquarters directly or indirectly within the government? and we've been either, you know, uh, forwarding for you. um, uh, forwarding telling, just so i think these are the 3 main problems they to a pin off talks to our door. church has been experiencing grass suffering, seen the toddy and envision the church is passing systematic, indestructible laptops, deal to is protection of the people of youtube you from west and the cultural invasion part of the church has been uniting the people. and you know, i believe it's paul or tucson to family for the territorial integrity of the country that didn't try to the charges on it because patient all the pressure on optics, kristen auto the water,

let the swap melissa out of the t a. d. stop by o swim the continent in motion beat. the persecution of christians is most sylvia in the northern co delgado, of province about a 100 columbus has a weight on the banks of this. and peasy river is a centuries old church, and the roman we travel to the church to meet bishop dean martino, who leads a community of 3000000 questions in the most. and beacon province of chase. this is the bedroom, a church on the bank for the assembly easy river in northern, loosened feet in a province called tate. it was both a 158 years ago. and in that time it's one a hospital, a hospital. it converts the one school and has bailey and who to services and also to any of our community bishop. and thank you so much to talk to us. please tell me a little bit about yourself. where are you from? and how did you land up here? impact i'm from the weapon to and so being

a missionary for 25 years and most indeed one is in some beacon and i've worked in several diocese again. this country has been saved in the north and are in the, in the center of the barn in the south, who am i put to that quite the one and 4 years ago. and i am 2019 and thought process pointed to the bishop of the diocese of texas tech. and then i arrived as bishop and i am a missionary, says, as before, can be increased responsibilities to me, said, always with a great desire to serve these people. and it's trish also with advocacy this. what was the situation like here 4 years ago when you came and what has been the most important things for you to focus on configure. when i arrived in to the 2019, the priority i had to face is placing missionaries in various stations. that event is being taught missionaries for many years, so i just have some and as i'm more than 50 is a home,

is that during the colonial war between portuguese uh and the resistance to for the colonial governments, all of the missionaries had to leave the emissions of to independence, fairly political regime, which is not very fond of the church. rather, on the contrary, they saw in the church a competition and an opposition. so the missionaries could not return on to that. i was here at the church a here at the end in from day to now. so much has changed. what are you doing to the church and is the community growing more for the day, but it isn't as long as you're reading this 3, this below, i found several mission 0 in school, destroyed by abandon, minutes, again, neglect, and also by will the and this per i'm a mission is a historic mission. it is the oldest of the diocese who attends at the stand and one of the oldest and most important in mozambique stands for its history or the contribution that has made to evangelization and above all the promotion of the mos in beacon man. you don't sense?

yeah, it was very important educational center, the switches from generations and generations of young people from 1884 to the present. it is train young people from all over central mozambique. not only from the province of tests, but also from the province of monica in the province of safari, holla, and then b, z as you it steals to some extent that we are in the middle of nowhere. so why was this place chosen as the place to build a church? and why is it important to have a community, particularly at this point as of the school year? the reason for the choice to build this ignition sound is because google visa, the now at the time was problem gateway to that we can continue to dollars. and even if they went to the coast of the indian ocean, that's with the interior of our this river runs the some bob with them out of it and go to it. so it was a phase of assets called interest silicates,

and at that time there was no contracts or look at it for the child support it was across the river by. but as long as the scale is get that as well, because we see nights this mission was bought from children who are rescued. the missionaries themselves, both children edwards to be sold during that time is involved with them ends. i'm becky, risk it, the children and brought them here for they educated them, you know, from nurtured and they started families or so there's michigan, as per complete data. it's kind of a daughter. this was an issue of the missionaries to come back slavery, to promote in google population who lives here around say it, and then be 0. that is, the reason bath is where it for you for you also have how do you feel about the future of christianity in africa? we receive reports almost on a daily basis of christian communities being attacked and nigeria and in other countries in africa. are you worried about the future of christianity in africa and

let them is associated lighting some challenges. okay, that's fine. yeah. would we would missing in sub saharan, with the us to pick this out in advance of islam to which has greatly affected christian communities and cut the key in the past. so modeling i was that g area and the central african republic area and also in camry. uh so in fact, and in recent years, islamic defenses ripple because the cold is allow me towards the learners, lama communities has been a great aggressiveness lead to in fact, in recent years. 50 is lot, make a sense, will so cold as well, and went towards non economic communities, has been a great effect of knowledge with adoptions, dances, and this in fact, as ended the presence of judge from east africa, i was just seeing the same thing. cool little those phenomena just perhaps not so serious with who was here from some all in kenya and tanzania. mozambie, but yeah, it was being radicalized that you ask for him. however,

i think that with it it came. yeah, well it's engineer the government has been able to mobilize, you have to confront of this is limited vaughn school. he had thoughts of you. i'm excited to meet elizabeth got a quote to him. and what about here with how do you see the future of christianity in us? is that something that was easy? i don't think i would all but 5 to the church and you will be more and more because of my life each other job. yeah. it will not be of the mass of the loss as of the cost of tradition of the so it will be, it should utilize or could is terrified and minorities patty, i'm a spirit, i think, of people know, consulted on face. see then, who will be witnesses of the gospel, kids in a very difficult concepts then due to secularization, the end of the whole culture, which often goes against the values of the gospel, nowhere while in africa. and in fact, the tendency. what's the good factor? we have the young church is that we know that the winds of secularism and other ideology in schools there's arrive via movies. we must also prepare new generations

and it doesn't have lights and faith. but i have to my knowledge of the size you mentioned earlier, is that make fund a maintenance and do you think we're looking at a class of sites or is it more about politics? this is list quite suspicious. a good in the presence of the these lovely presence, a small, not very significant. so that's the last year. ok, which is yours. we see mosques popping up everywhere and was on the line because as long as the strongest on the coast is mostly the engine level of the my, what do you watch with concern? because at the moment is long life is most and because facing is adage and see a little and so in the province of cobbler delgado, which also affects the neighboring provinces. this isn't comic act down or says the cause of the interest from a couple nights ago. because they cannot make and socially points of view, okay. see man to take advantage of the religious matrix. look into defense. interest is the opposite side, mozambique,

and style table africa. and to decrease the and also you may want to use your political move. yeah. all this stuff it kind of looking was on, but i think there is an interest by the church up to dialogues with them loans from the point of view of religious lead is somebody there is an open condemnation, a part of the insurgency in mozambique as an appeal that there is an understanding that this will and i think there is fact that there is no uniform. it's usually catherine churchman and christianity of africa. because this is the fluids that we've naturalization of africa. i almost have the evangelize ation was done by different face than different regions of the church. and that's what the differences of expression between the church of the english speaking world of east africa, the catholic church, for example, the sound, the complete and spoken ties advocacy. mantle is complimentary of that. would you agree with the statement that the future of christianity is in africa now?

the traffic, but i think that after will make an even greater than contribution to the church, but not only from the numerical forwarded views in the matter in the number of catholics, but also in the way of living the faith, them communicating while there is going consist is that the is sold by islamic extremist and northern mozambique would expand, and then this will prevent the community. a group of nuns are working hard with locals to restore, not only the church, but also the faith. the so i towing the community 2018 for us about to co ear that it's a of biblical formation and mission. and then i received this calling

to join the religion live and the missionary lives. so i've been in the community, seems there so it's been 5 years now, but i just made my 1st browse, so i am a none of a really new none for 3 months. and she said, mary, sarah, i'm from the seeds of the word communities, a castle. we couldn't community that he's the was invited to buy or bishop a mozambie teen tech to, to make this beautiful place be born again. all the beauty, all these amazing new dean. i'm in the middle of nowhere. how can i say, but at the same time, i think the people because this is, this is there's so i think it's fair for us as the church to give them

back all these beauty and all the dignity because when it was 1st built, there was no cameras, no pictures, no social media, so people commented and, and, and prizes. so it was built for them. this is a wonderful sanctuary. dedicated to 10 joseph. and it was built in 1985 by judges that it's the biggest center, wary of africa. it's very important as present and since the 50 s that was a little bit well take care. and now we, we are rebuilding everything. first the, the walls and then the soul. when we, we arrived, we saw the was very rarely. how can you say with names on it?

so the 1st and we, we did was to cover it. so i think it was for sake and the missionaries that, that, that have to, to run out because of, of most of the history of a fi teen or resolution. so it, it was for safe and i think it was because of that that was destroyed. we, we are helping to restore the, the beauty and the images. so when we 1st arrived, we took all the image down to restore them. they were very dirty. they were broken. so we've started with, with, with the images. so these tattoos, so we're, we're painting and restoring, basically, painting as it was before. we have no intention to change the, the history of this place. but we have to to,

to give back what as it was before every day mess and we have now o celebrations. morning, prayers and evening prayers. and we have, we are a community consecrated live community with brothers. and she says that if you pray and we were to rebuild the oldest things in it to me, to make it beautiful again, this belongs to the minutes, not only a place to 30, but to the sanctuary dedicated to send chose if everybody can help us to rebuild its, its such a huge a send to every we need help for sure. this communication is very young lives, so we have on sundays before are here always. they come to our house. they stop to was so and also there are lots of local people working on this. so

we're not alone doing this work, but it's been if we're already started before we arrive. our 1st mission is to make the word of god accessible to every one. and we do these in many ways, for example, to be subject to career. that is this period of 9 months that people come and study with as leaves our life with us just to taste a missionary. life does work of beauty. it is one way because making this accessible again, the word of god is a spread. so it's part of, of, of our carriers and to make the word of god accessible to all of the old people from the kids to the adults, to the young people. every church's has

a vital role to play in healing, lose, and promotion. a just peace for the world. well, that brings us to the end of this week shows. next week we will be visiting 90 would show you what we heard of hollywood and bollywood. well, we go to normally would in nigeria and ask with an african also saw being hard done by the international stage until then catch on any of the social media networks that you see on the screen for myself and the team until next week. good. by the date goes approach towards ukraine is full of contradictions. we are told a win for russia is a defeat for the west. for ukraine is not

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