A year before Columbus set sail for America, an African king was baptized and converted his kingdom into a Catholic nation that lasted nearly 370 years. King Nzinga a Nkuwu, ruler of Kongo, located in what is now northern Angola, decided to become a Christian not long after Portuguese mariners reached his shores in 1483. […]
While the brutal epidemic of women raped in the Congo has drawn much outrage in the media, lesser known incidents of men being raped by other men in the region and around the world are now coming to light, and apparently, in some places these occurrences are fairly common. Arab news organization, Al-Jazeera, recently reported […]
(via newsy.com) – 400,000. That is the number of women raped in the Democratic Republic of Congo each year. That means one woman is raped there nearly every MINUTE. The stunning statistics were published in a study by the American Journal of Public Health on Thursday. While the findings already top former estimates, the study’s […]
