Fr. Don Bosco Onyalla

Fr. Don Bosco Onyalla is ACI Africa’s founding Editor-in-Chief. He was formed in the Congregation of the Holy Ghost Fathers (Spiritans), and later incardinated in Rumbek Diocese, South Sudan. He has a PhD in Media Studies from Daystar University in Kenya, and a Master’s degree in Organizational Communication from Marist College, New York, USA.

Bishops in South and South Sudan during the installation Mass of Archbishop Stephen Ameyu, Mass also attended by the Delegate of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Msgr. Visvaldas Kulbokas and the Charge d’Affaires of the South Sudan Apostolic Nunciature, Msgr. Mark Kadima. / ACI Africa

New Archbishop of South Sudan’s Juba Archdiocese Installed, Emeritus Wants “healing”

After months of a standoff pitting a section of the clergy and lay faithful of the Catholic Archdiocese of Juba...

A Poster announcing Saturday's National Prayer at State House, Nairobi, Kenya.

Call to Repentance Marks National Prayer Day over COVID-19 at Kenya’s State House

Kenya’s religious leaders drawn from various faiths, including four Catholic Bishops and a nun, heeded President Uhuru Kenyatta’s invitation for...

On December 12, 2019, Pope Francis (left) appointed Bishop Stephen Ameyu of Torit Diocese (right) as the new Archbishop of Juba in South Sudan

Plans underway for the installation of Juba Archbishop Elect, Vatican, Bishops Supportive

Plans are underway for the installation of the new Archbishop of South Sudan’s Archdiocese of Juba, Stephen Ameyu, with the...

Catholic Christians use sanitizer provided by the Church to clean their hands to prevent the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) after a Sunday Mass at the Holy Family Basilica in Nairobi, Kenya. March 15, 2020. / REUTERS/Njeri Mwangi

What Church Leaders in Africa Have Instructed to Prevent Spread of COVID-19

The pandemic of coronavirus that has spread to well over 80 countries across the world including at least 26 in Africa has...

Fr. Nicholas Kiri, South Sudanese Juba-based priest expected to oversee preparations toward the installation of Archbishop elect Stephen Ameyu in Juba on March 22, 2020. He was attacked on Sunday, March 8, 2020 by a group of Catholic youth protesting the appointment of the new Archbishop. / ACI Africa

South Sudanese Priest Shares His Ordeal, Attackers “must have been manipulated by someone”

The South Sudanese Juba-based priest who was attacked by a group of Catholic youth protesting the appointment of a new...

St. Theresa's Cathedral Parish church, Catholic Archdiocese of Juba, South Sudan, the venue where Archbishop elect Stephen Ameyu is expected to be installed on March 22, 2020 / ACI Africa

Back-and-forth Protests against Juba Archbishop-elect Get Violent, Emeritus Breaks Silence

Pope Francis’ reconfirmation of his earlier appointment of South Sudanese Bishop Stephen Ameyu as the new Archbishop of Juba was expected to...

Map Representing Dominant Religion in Africa

Freedom of Religion a Top Priority in Sub-Saharan Africa, Global Study Shows

A recent global study that examined nine democratic rights and institutions across 34 countries demonstrated that freedom of religion, which...

Msgr. Visvaldas Kulbokas (left), Delegate of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and Msgr. Mark Kadima (right), Chargé d’Affaires of the Apostolic Nunciature in South Sudan during Press Conference in Juba, South Sudan on March 6, 2020 / ACI Africa

Papal Transfer in South Sudan Reconfirmed, Installation Date of Archbishop Announced

Pope Francis has reconfirmed his earlier appointment of Bishop Stephen Ameyu of South Sudan’s Torit Diocese as the new Archbishop...

Fr. David Echioda of Nigeria's Otukpo diocese who had been kidnapped on March 1, 2020. He was freed on March 3, 2020 / Diocese of Otukpo, Nigeria

Nigerian Priest Abducted Sunday after Mass Has Been Freed

Nigerian priest Fr. David Echioda who was abducted by gunmen in Nigeria’s Benue State Sunday, March 1 has been freed,...

Archbishop Alfred Adewale Martins of Nigeria’s Lagos Archdiocese.

Communion on Tongue, Handshake Suspended in Nigeria’s Lagos Archdiocese Over COVID-19

Against the backdrop of the confirmed case of coronavirus in the West African nation of Nigeria after a Lagos-based Italian...

Coronavirus disease 2019, dubbed COVID-19

Prelates in East Africa Express Caution about Coronavirus in Africa

With the rising concerns of an imminent spread of COVID-19 against the backdrop of the first case in Africa reported...

The late Rwandan Gospel Singer, 38-year-old Kizito Mihigo who was found dead at Kigali's Remera police station on February 17, 2020. He was laid to rest at Rusororo cemetery in Kigali on February 22, 2020.

“The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away,” Mum to Rwandan Gospel Singer at His Burial

The mother of the popular Rwandan Gospel singer who was found dead in a police cell just over a week ago entrusted...

Delegation of South Sudan political leaders at the Vatican with Pope Francis in April 2019

Pope Francis’ “feet kiss” Gesture Pays Off as South Sudan Unity Government is Formed

After intense international pressure on political leaders in South Sudan including Pope Francis’ dramatic gesture of kissing the feet of President...

A Laity’s Take of Protests against Papal Transfer of South Sudan’s Torit Bishop to Juba

As the people of God in South Sudan’s Juba Archdiocese await the decision of Pope Francis regarding his earlier transfer of...

Bishop John Oballa making his presentation at the conference on Ecclesia in Africa / Tangaza University College

Ecclesia in Africa @25, An Ecclesial ‘revolution’, A Threefold Gap: A Kenyan Bishop

At a conference organized to deliberate on the challenges and opportunities of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of Pope John Paul II...

Nigerian Fr. Nicholas Oboh, kidnapped on February 14, 2020 and released February 18, 2020 / Augustine Mario/Twitter

Recently Abducted Nigerian Priest, Fr. Nicolas Oboh “has regained his freedom”

The Nigerian priest who had been kidnapped by gunmen Nigeria’s Edo State towards the end of last week, Fr. Nicolas...

The late Rwandan Gospel Singer, 38-year-old Kizito Mihigo who was found dead in police cells in Kigale on the morning of Monday, February 17, 2020.

Rwandan Gospel Singer, Former Seminarian, 1994 Genocide Survivor, Dead in Police Cells

Kizito Mihigo, a popular gospel singer in the Central African nation of Rwanda who has been described as a “devout Catholic known...

The newly ordained Bishop of South Africa's Aliwal North Diocese, Ugandan-born Bishop Joseph Kizito, blessing the people of God who witnessed his Episcopal ordination at Sauer Park Stadium, Aliwal North on February 15, 2020. / Fr. Paul Tatu/The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC)

Correct “erroneous ways of worship” in South Africa, Uganda-born Bishop Told at Ordination

At the Episcopal ordination of the Ugandan-born Monsignor Joseph Kizito, as Bishop of South Africa’s diocese of Aliwal North Saturday, February...

The late Bishop Peter Iorzuul Adoboh of Nigeria's Kastina-Ala diocese who died on February 14, 2020 / The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN)

Church in Nigeria “thrown into mourning following death” of 62-year-old Bishop

The people of God in Africa’s most populous country are mourning the death of a nearly 62-year-old Catholic Bishop who,...

A representation of the 10 States of South Sudan at independence in 2011.

“Victory for the people,” Church Leaders in South Sudan Laud Decision to Reduce States

In a bid to narrow down the gap between the government of South Sudan and the main opposition and form...