Why does the media only focus on homosexuality and divorce? For Africa’s prelates, poverty, hunger and the mayhem caused by Boko Haram are the issues that matter The African bishops have vowed to speak with one voice on the synod and are determined to resist any steps to dilute the Church’s moral teaching. Earlier this week, the Archbishop of Kaduna in northern Nigeria, Matthew Man-oso Ndagoso, speaking after a pre-synod gathering of African delegates, played down claims of tensions between Synod Fathers, insisting they had not come to Rome “to fight each other”. But he confirmed that his brother bishops would resist any attempt to change church doctrine – particularly on divorce and gay unions. Many, he said, were frustrated by the media’s focus on ch