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With never-ending wars and poverty, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a deeply wounded country.
With challenges such as high cost of living and insecurity in vast regions of Cameroon, few people may see the reason to participate in the country’s presidential elections slated for October, members of the National Episcopal Conference of Cameroon (NECC) have said.
Pope Francis has appointed Mons. Augustin Simmel Ndiaye, who has been serving as the Rector of the Burkina Faso-based Catholic University of West Africa (UCAO) as the Local Ordinary of Saint-Louis Du Sénégal Diocese in Senegal.
In his written catechesis, the Holy Father described Jesus’ encounter with Zacchaeus as having a “special place” in his own spiritual journey.
The April 1–2 conference in Rome brought together Catholic and Jewish scholars from around the world to the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Members of the Standing Committee of the Inter-Regional Meeting of the Bishops of Southern Africa (IMBISA) are appealing for spiritual solidarity ahead of the 14th Plenary Assembly planned for September, during which the nine-nation forum of Catholic Church leaders will be marking its Golden Jubilee.
Caritas Rwanda, the humanitarian and development establishment of the Episcopal Conference of Rwanda (CEPR), has outlined activities to aid its operations in 2025, including how to mobilize resources and become more sustainable.
Officials of Caritas South Sudan, the development and humanitarian arm of the Catholic Bishops in the East-Central African nation, have expressed their solidarity with members of the Sudan and South Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SSS-CBC) in the call on all parties involved in the rising tensions in the country to refrain from violence.
Catholics will remember St. Francis of Paola on April 2. The saint founded a religious order at a young age and sought to revive the practices of the earliest monks during a period of corruption in the Church.
The people of God in Angola need to “invest” their energies in fostering reconciliation, the Executive Secretary of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Angola and São Tomé (CEAST) has said.
The third youth pilgrimage of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abidjan in Ivory Coast has ended with a call for young people to embrace peace and show resilience amid life’s challenges.
Cameroon’s Catholic Bishops have called on the “competent authorities” in the Central African nation to address any electoral insecurities that may mar the country’s presidential elections slated for October.
In an April 1 update about the 88-year-old pontiff’s continued recovery, the Holy See Press Office said Pope Francis’ condition continues to improve.
The planned Diocesan Assembly in the Catholic Diocese of Dassa-Zoumé in Benin to be realized from April 28 to May 1 is to be a platform for dialogue and reflection on the 30-year journey of the Beninese Episcopal See in a spirit of synodality, the Local Ordinary has said.
Pope Francis’ prayer intention for the month of April is for the use of new technologies.
The latest installment in the Augustine Institute’s “Based on a True Saint” series, “The Boy from Milan,” focuses on soon-to-be saint Carlo Acutis.
April 1 is the feast of a little-known saint whose story demonstrates the power of the Church as the home of forgiveness, redemption and mercy. St. Mary of Egypt was a prostitute for 17 years before she received the Eucharist and chose the life of a hermit.
Fr. Isaac Agabi, a member of the Clergy of Nigeria’s Catholic Diocese of Auchi, who was abducted alongside a Seminarian on Trinity Sunday 2020 has recounted his experience as an abductee, attributing his successful escape to Our Lady of Perpetual Help.