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Question: why has Africa been spared the worst of epidemic

September 21, 2020

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CWN Editor's Note: Kenyan journalist Mathew Otieno, writing for Mercatornet, observes that Covid casualties in Africa have been nowhere near as dire as experts had predicted—for reasons that the same experts have difficulty explaining.

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Mon28 April
Easter

Monday of the Second Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of St. Peter Chanel, Priest & Martyr (NZ, Feast); Opt. Mem. of St. Louis Mary de Montfort, Priest

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We continue in our Easter joy in the Second Week of Easter, as in the Preface I of Easter "overcome with paschal joy, every land, every people exults in your praise." Today the Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Peter Chanel (1803-1841). St. Peter was born in France in 1802. He was…

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