Christian radio stations are getting used to advertise peaceful coexistence between faiths and communities in a number of the most troubled parts of the world.
Father Alexis Ouedraogo, director of Radio Notre Dame in Burkino Faso, told Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), that a part of the work of his radio station is to counter terrorists within the country who want to “to divide the Burkinabè and to make them fight one another”.
As a part of his work, Father Alexis has held conversations with an Islamic imam in an try to promote inter-faith dialogue and to indicate that differences do not need to be resolved with violence.
“This [dialogue] can lead us to ascertain relationships between one another and to serve one another, and by doing so, help us to live in in solidarity,” he said.
ACN said that last yr it provided £450,000 to support 22 radio projects in 19 different countries around the globe.
Among the projects are the Radio-Television team of the Boma Diocese within the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Earlier this yr violence flared up between M23 rebels and government forces, with the rebels taking the eastern city of Goma.
Reports on the bottom indicate that tens of millions of individuals have been forced to flee their homes, hospitals are overcrowded, and refugee camps are attacked.
The Goma airport is currently closed in consequence of war damage and unexploded shells rendering the grounds unsafe. Until the airport will be reopened, the flow of much needed aid into town is severely limited.
In one harrowing report, prisoners from the Goma central prison escaped, and broke into the ladies’s wing of the prison where over 100 inmates were raped.
ACN can be supporting radio projects in Haiti, which has been hit by “rampant violence” and in Ukraine, which has endured a three-year long conflict with Russia.
