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October 24, 2019

Girls still face obstacles in education, Ghanaian official says

Hellen Abla Avevor, headmistress of St. Catherine Senior High School in the Diocese of Keta-Akatsi, Ghana, center left, walks with other dignitaries during the decade celebration of the school Oct.19, 2019. Avevor commended the Catholic Church for its contribution to girls' education through the establishment of numerous girls' institutions across the country and called on stakeholders to prioritize girls' education in the country.

AGBAKOPE, Ghana -- A Ghanaian government official used a Catholic girls' school celebration to emphasize the need to educate girls as well as boys.

Published in International
October 9, 2017

Poverty, violence hinder progress for women and girls, says Vatican nuncio to U.N.

A Palestinian woman harvests wheat by hand on a farm near Salfit, West Bank, in 2016. Education is essential in enabling women in every country "to become dignified agents of their own development," said Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations Oct. 6 at U.N. headquarters in New York.
UNITED NATIONS – Conditions in many parts of the world force women and girls to bear the burden of carrying out everyday chores for their families and communities, keeping many of them from getting even a basic education, the Vatican's U.N. nuncio said Oct. 6.
Published in International