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Archbishop Zeferino Zeca Martins of the Catholic Archdiocese of Huambo in Angola has urged hundreds of thousands of pilgrims at the annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Muxima in the Southern African nation to live “genuine love”.
Pope Francis arrived Tuesday in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, the first stop in the pope’s four-country tour of Southeast Asia and Oceania. The trip is expected to be the longest and most challenging international voyage of his pontificate to date.
St. Gregory the Great, a central figure of the medieval western Church and one of the most admired Popes in history, is commemorated in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Catholic liturgy today, September 3.
Africa’s experience of “Church as a family of God” makes Synodality, which invites the people of God to journey together in communion, participation and mission, “a new word for an old idea”, John Cardinal Onaiyekan of Nigeria has said.
Pope Francis has condemned the August 24th terrorist attack in the town of Barsalogho, Burkina Faso, which claimed the lives of over 150 people and many others wounded.
Members of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) have concluded their 10-day Ad Limina visit, saying that they return to the East African nation re-energized to serve in their respective Episcopal Sees.
Seminarians from Ghana’s three Major Seminaries of theology, who are having their pastoral experience have concluded their three-day workshop with the pledge to “adopt a synodal approach” in their way of life and ministry now as Seminarians and in future as Priests.
Members of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) are concerned about the increasing number of private “ministries” that a section of Priests and Laity have established in the West African nation.
The September Martyrs are a group of 191 faithful Christians who were martyred at the hands of the French Revolution on September 2 and 3, 1792.
“To be a servant of God anywhere is not easy. But for a Catholic Sister, to serve in a non-Catholic institution is a different call altogether,” this is how Sr. Prof. Agnes Lucy Lando starts our conversation.
Members of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) are concerned about the country’s growing debt and describe it as a burden that depicts a “new form of enslavement”.
Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala of the Catholic Diocese of Tombura-Yambio (CDTY) in South Sudan has lauded the country’s Minister of General Education and Instruction for her “tireless dedication in advancing education” across the East-Central African nation.
“Let us pray for the cry of the Earth,” Pope Francis urged the faithful in a video released Aug. 30.
Members of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Diego-Suarez (CIM-D/S) in Madagascar are empowering vulnerable women, including single mothers, with vocational skills.
The Catholic Church in Nigeria can have a greater impact on the people of God in the West African nation than she is currently having if the government complemented her formal education and healthcare initiatives through “subsidies”.
Seminarians from South Sudan’s Catholic Diocese of Tombura-Yambio (CDTY) who are following Priestly studies and formation programs outside the East-Central African nation have been urged to come back home enriched, and in a position to transform the country which is the newest and youngest in the world.
Residents of Umunze, a community in Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria, are gripped by “fear and uncertainty” following the military's invasion of their churches on August 18, disrupting public worship in various places, including some Catholic Parishes in Ekwulobia Diocese.
Not much is known about the life of St. Aristides, excpet that he lived during the second century and was an avid confessor of the faith and Athenian philosopher.
The multi-year Synod on Synodality, which Pope Francis extended to 2024, is “ongoing” at different levels of the Church in Eastern Africa, including Parishes, Dioceses, and national forums, the Secretary General of the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) has said.
A huge pastoral gap exists among women Religious serving in non-Catholic institutions, a Kenyan Catholic Nun has said, and proposed that the Church addresses the pastoral needs of Catholic Sisters serving in non-Catholic settings, especially when designing Diocesan and national pastoral programs.