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CitizenGo has condemned the harassment of their Campaigns Director for Africa and the United Nations, Ann Kioko, after she participated in a peaceful protest against the pro-homosexual ruling of the Supreme Court of Kenya.
Bishop Manuel Chuanguira Machado, the first Catholic Bishop of Gurué Diocese in Mozambique, has passed on in Quelimane after suffering illness “for years”. He was aged 73.
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), a UK-based human rights group, has welcomed the creation of an international fact-finding mission (FFM) for Sudan, noting that the move will see to it that perpetrators of abuses in the Northeastern African nation’s war are prosecuted.
Four issues affecting the Church in Africa stand out at the ongoing Synod on Synodality conversations. These are the issues that those representing the African continent at the Bishops’ meeting in Rome are focusing on.
The ongoing Synod on Synodality conversations are providing “good moments of sharing” and mutual understanding, an African Catholic Archbishop participating in the October 4-29 Synod has said.
The Holy See is “deeply concerned” about human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the chargé d’affaires of the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva has said.
In their pursuit for formal education, many Sierra Leonean girls still grapple with a myriad of challenges including poverty, domestic violence and retrogressive practices such as female genital mutilation (FGM) and early marriages.
Faith leaders “from across the world” are calling on participants in the 28th Conference of Parties Climate Conference (COP28) scheduled for November 30 in Dubai to ensure that the recently created Loss and Damage Fund is “accessible, comprehensive, restorative and effective” to meet the needs of affected persons.
Prayers are being sought for the “safe release” of three Catholic Nuns, a Seminarian and a driver reportedly abducted from Nigeria’s Abakaliki Diocese.
Archbishop Jean Mbarga of Yaoundé Archdiocese in Cameroon has encouraged bereaved families following the Sunday, October 8 fatal landslide in the capital city of the Central African nation to remain strong in the Lord, not giving up on prayer amid the challenging situation.
Members of the Comboni Missionary Sisters (CMS) in Mozambique have been lauded for facilitating the realizing “proper education” for women in the Southern African nation.
The key message of the Synod on Synodality is listening, a virtue that most leaders in Kenya lack, the Catholic Archbishop of the country’s Nyeri Archdiocese has said.
Bishop Belmiro Cuica Chissengueti of Angola’s Cabinda Diocese is advocating for formal education in the Southern African nation’s rural communities to address the challenge of rural-urban migration.
The National Director for Justice and Peace Commission of the Bishops' Conference of Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe (CEAST) has welcomed the Constitutional Court decision in Angola to reject a presidential decree allocating 10 percent of recovered assets to the Public Prosecutor's Office and the courts.
St. Theresa’s Eregi Girls High School of the Catholic Diocese of Kakamega in Kenya, which was temporarily closed following an outbreak of a strange illness is reopening this week with a number of psycho spiritual activities including counseling of the students.
The Archbishop of Yaoundé Archdiocese in Cameroon has expressed his “spiritual closeness” with those affected by the Sunday, October 8 fatal landslide in the capital city of the Central African nation.
On the occasion of the National Prayer Day at Subukia National Marian Shrine in Kenya’s Catholic Diocese of Nakuru, Bishop Alfred Rotich has cautioned the people of God in the East African nation against participating in the “song of tribalism”.
On the Feast of St. Daniel Comboni, the Provincial Superior of the Apostles of Jesus Missionaries (AJ) in South Sudan, an Institute of Priests and Brothers founded by two members of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus (MCCJ) in Uganda, has recalled the “missionary insight” that the Saint had for Africa.
Pro-lifers in Kenya, including religious leaders representing different faiths and denominations, are calling on the three Kenyan Supreme Court Judges who, earlier this year, voted for the registration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer persons (LGBTQ) Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the East African nation to “voluntarily repent and resign”.
There was little celebration in Nigeria as the West African country turned 63 as an independent nation on Monday, October 1.