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  • Vol 46 No 8
  •  15th April 2005

Papabile

The late Pope John Paul II won many admirers in Africa and visited 42 of 53 states. The choice of his successor interests Africa in two special ways. Could one of the eleven African cardinals (of 117) win and will the new Pope relax Church strictures (kee...

  • Vol 45 No 19
  •  24th September 2004

Wayne Fredericks

We were sad to hear of the death on 18 August of Wayne Fredericks, a member of Africa Confidential's editorial board, aged 87. Wayne was one of the last survivors of a remarkable generation of Americans for whom public service was a noble calling, whose m...

  • Vol 44 No 21
  •  24th October 2003

Conclave expectations

The chances that the next Pope could be an African may have been overplayed by some of the international media but, in the view of some close Vatican-watchers, the continent's obvious front-runner, Cardinal Francis Arinze of Nigeria, might yet emerge as a...

  • Vol 42 No 18
  •  14th September 2001

Milingogate

Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo has been at odds with the Vatican since 1982, when he was removed from his archdiocese of Lusaka and given unspecified duties in Rome (AC Vol 41 No 20). There, he built up a huge following as a faith-healer. At 71, he b...

  • Vol 41 No 20
  •  13th October 2000

Laying off hands

Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, healer and exorcist in Rome for 18 years, has been silently sacked as Vatican Special Delegate to the Pontifical Commission for Migration and Tourism.

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