As the crisis of African migration to Europe deepens, those who are on the front line are issuing an urgent call to action. During a visit to the headquarters of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Bishop Bruno Ateba of the Diocese of Maroua-Mokolo, in the far north of Cameroon, shares his vision of the challenges that young Africans face as they try to escape the misery in which much of their continent is steeped.

The recent drone strike on a Caritas warehouse in Lviv, a city in western Ukraine, has been sharply criticized by church officials. Bishop Edward Kawa, the Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv, strongly characterized the event on 19 September, remarking it as "an attack on the poorest and most needy".