Central Africa Republic: prayer

02 Jul 2021
While the 2019 peace agreement signed in the CAR was a step forward, it has not yet been fully implemented, as militia attacks continued to occur. Pray for meaningful dialogue between state and…

Central African Republic: peace in trouble

28 Mar 2019
CAR descended into civil war in 2012, displacing a quarter of the country's 4.7 million population, with fighting often erupting over gold, diamonds and uranium. Democratic elections in 2016 were a step forward…

Central African Republic (CAR): new peace talks really matter

01 Feb 2019
90% of CAR’s population are Christian; Islam is practised by 9%. All the people are suffering. As a new round of peace talks between armed groups and the government began on 22 January,…

Persecution of minority Christian women

06 Dec 2018
Five new reports - about Egypt, Ethiopia, Iraq, Colombia and the Central African Republic - unmask the multiple domestic, societal and state dynamics used in the persecution of Christian women and girls in…

Central African Republic: Christian mission massacre

22 Nov 2018
More than forty people were killed in a militia attack on a Christian mission in Alindao, around 180 miles east of CAR’s capital Bangui, on 15 November. The attackers torched a church and…

Central African Republic: Christian / Muslim divide

07 Jun 2018
Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Imam Oumar Kobine Layama and Rev Nicolas Guérékoyamé-Gbangou have international recognition for their peacekeeping efforts, and have blamed foreign mercenaries for an upsurge in violence. The so-called 'Christian rebels', the…

CAR: church elder and aid workers killed

16 Mar 2018
Gabriel Ole, an elder in Bangui Baptist church, worked for UNICEF. He was killed in a violent ambush in the Central African Republic (CAR), along with two officials from the ministry of education…

Peacemaking Power of Prayer

01 Jul 2017
Religious leaders have achieved a truce between rebel groups in the Central African Republic through a ‘spiritually inspired’ method. JUNE 20, 2017 —One of Africa’s worst conflicts may have finally ended through a rare…

Ongoing conflict in CAR

23 Jun 2017
The mayor of a town in Central African Republic (CAR) said on 21 June that over a hundred people are dead after heavy fighting broke out, despite a peace agreement signed recently in…