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Catholic Bishops in Eswatini, Botswana, and South Africa are calling on Priests in the three Southern African nations to encourage the people of God under their pastoral care to “give more freely” to the Bishops Lenten Appeal (BLA) initiative.
Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk issued a video message as Ukraine entered ‘the second week of this horrible war.’
Bishop Joseph Obanyi Sagwe of Kenya’s Catholic Diocese of Kakamega has encouraged the people of God in his Episcopal See to remain dedicated to peace throughout the electioneering period in the East African nation.
Archbishop Samuel Kleda of the Catholic Archdiocese of Douala decries bad governance and corruption in Cameroon.
A Kenyan Catholic Nun who was promoted to the rank of a Nairobi-based university’s first full professor has said that the promotion is an opportunity for her to mentor young researchers.
Two of the six suspects in the case of the shooting of Mons. Christian Carlassare, the Bishop-elect for the Catholic Diocese of Rumbek in South Sudan, have been freed because of what the judge has termed “lack of evidence against them.”
Church leaders in South Africa have expressed their “full support” for Pope Francis’ offer to arbitrate for an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The leadership of Senegal’s National Laity Council (CNL) has demanded a “public apology” from a Muslim leader, Imam Serigne Lamine Sall, over his “blasphemous and offensive remarks” made on a private TV channel about the Catholic faith.
The pope was speaking at his Wednesday general audience.
The pope’s homily was read by Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
The date for the Episcopal Ordination of Mons. Christian Carlassare of South Sudan’s Rumbek Diocese that had been initially scheduled for Pentecost Sunday last year has been announced.
With the heated political campaigns ahead of Kenya’s August 9 elections, aspiring leaders have started distributing food parcels to residents of Turkana County who have been enduring hunger for years, a Catholic Priest in the East African country has said.
Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja in Nigeria has called on religious and political leaders in the West African country to lead with wisdom by working on their own faults before correcting others so as to free themselves from “blind guides.”
The Apostolic Administrator of the Catholic Diocese of Rumbek in South Sudan, Bishop Matthew Remijio, has appointed a committee to prepare for the Episcopal Ordination of the Bishop for the South Sudanese Diocese.
Speakers were drowned out by a stream of obscenities.
‘In my house, we have 37 people,’ Father Vyacheslav Grynevych said.
An official of the overseas development agency of the Catholic Bishops of Ireland, Trócaire, has urged world leaders from developed countries to involve nations in the Global South in making decisions on issues of climate change.
Officials of the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) have called on the Zambian government to study the effects of a ban on imports to the Southern African nation before instituting such a move.
Pope Francis approved the change.
Officials of the Jesuit Institute South Africa have called upon the country’s government to cut its diplomatic ties with the regime of Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, among other actions against the Eastern European nation that launched a military invasion of Ukraine on February 24.