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HEAL Africa

Clip: 2/3/2012 | 8m 44s

A Christian couple in Congo is bringing hope to women traumatized by war.

In two decades of fighting over Congo's vast mineral wealth, more than five million people have died, and the widespread sexual violence against women, committed by roving militias, has become an epidemic. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on HEAL Africa, a faith-based refuge for women that has trained some thirty doctors, who provide the only emergency care in eastern Congo.

02/03/2012 | Rating NR

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Farmworker Justice

Clip: 2/3/2012 | 9m 20s | Pressure from churches has improved wages and working conditions. (9m 20s)

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