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Tanzania

Women Religious, Others Stand With Maasai as They Resist Tanzanian Government Evictions

November 2, 2023

Wearing his traditional red shuka and holding a spear, Issac Loilet sat outside his Tanzanian mud hut to ponder his fate, as the government continued evicting his tribespeople from their northern ancestral land in the name of wildlife protection.

As Conflict, Climate Cause Refugee Numbers To Rise, Catholic Agencies Urge More Support

June 20, 2023

On World Refugee Day, organized every year on June 20 by the United Nations, a senior official of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) urged increased support for migrants, as he warned that Sudan’s massive human movement due to war risked becoming yet another forgotten crisis.

Youth Home in Tanzania Named After Retired Brooklyn Priest

July 20, 2022

Journeying on a safari on the plains of the Serengeti often brings a traveler to Arusha, a city in northeastern Tanzania near the base of the dormant volcano, Mount Kilimanjaro.

As Refugee Child, She Knew No English; Now As Teen, She’s Poetry Champ

April 25, 2019

Belise Nishimwe remembers what it’s like to feel voiceless. Born in a refugee camp in Tanzania, she came to Portland at age 5 unable to speak or understand English. She couldn’t pass her first year of kindergarten.

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