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Unaccompanied children crossing the Lesotho-South Africa border in search of better lives are living in “desperate conditions” in their host country, an official at the Justice and Peace Commission (JPC) of the Lesotho Catholic Bishops Conference (LCBC) has said, and urged the South African government to support efforts by the two countries to improve the living conditions of the stateless children.
Bishop Titus Joseph Mdoe of Tanzania’s Catholic Diocese of Mtwara has called upon Fr. Lazaro Makula, whom he ordained a Priest on June 27, to live a life of sacrifice during his Priestly ministry, and to exercise patience.
On the annual celebration of the International Day of the African Child (DAC), which was belatedly marked in South Sudan on June 26, the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in the country has emphasized the need to pay keen attention to the safeguarding of minors.
These “proto-martyrs” of Rome were the first Christians persecuted en masse by the Emperor Nero in the year 64, before the martyrdom of Saints Peter and Paul.
Kenya’s youths, who successfully spearheaded and actively participated in protests against the controversial Finance Bill 2024 have found favor with members of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB), who have particularly lauded the Generation Z (Gen Z) for manifesting patriotism and altruism.
The President of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SCBC) has described the meeting of Catholic Bishops in the two nations as providing an opportunity to show their collegiality and togetherness.
Lasting peace in and rebirth of Africa are only possible if Christians and Muslims on the continent go beyond their differences and decide to uphold “mutual respect and cooperation”, John Cardinal Onaiyekan has said.
Members of the Central African Episcopal Conference (CECA) are calling on the people of God in the country to uphold human dignity, saying it ensures a harmonious relationship with all God’s creation.
Each man, in a different way, gathered together the one family of Christ and, revered together throughout the world, they share one martyr’s crown.
On June 29 the Church celebrates the feast day of Sts. Peter & Paul. As early as the year 258, there is evidence of an already lengthy tradition of celebrating the solemnities of both Saint Peter and Saint Paul on the same day. Together, the two saints are the founders of the See of Rome, through their preaching, ministry and martyrdom there.
A section of Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) members have had an audience with the country’s Head of State, President William Samoei Ruto, at State House in Nairobi, the capital city of the East African nation.
Efforts to evacuate residents of Dar Mariam who are stuck in the ongoing civil war in Sudan have been unsuccessful as bombings near the residence of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA), popularly known as Salesian Sisters of St. Don Bosco, intensify.
The spirit of the Synod on Synodality has been introduced in Africa and is spreading across the world’s second-largest and second-most populous continent, an African member of the Vatican Theological Commission of the Synod has said.
Parishioners of Immaculate Conception Parish of the Catholic Diocese of Pemba in Mozambique’s port town of Mocímboa da Praia, who fled when their town was attacked in 2020, and their Church razed down, are slowly coming back and gathering to pray at the ruins of their church.
Members of the Clergy must manifest generosity, compassion, love and altruism, Bishop Michael Odiwa of the Catholic Diocese of Homa Bay in Kenya has said.
Celebrated by the Roman Catholic Church on June 28, and by Eastern Catholics of the Byzantine tradition on August 23, Saint Irenaeus of Lyons was a second-century bishop and writer in present-day France.
The leadership of the Association of Consecrated Women in Eastern and Central Africa (ACWECA) has highlighted the mission of the 10-nation forum of Catholic Nuns ahead of the planned double celebration scheduled for August in Malawi.
Archbishop Ignace Bessi Dogbo, the recently appointed Local Ordinary of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abidjan in Ivory Coast is proposing three approaches that he says are “effective” in facilitating a participative Synodal process in Africa.
The Pontifical charity foundation, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) International, has launched an emergency campaign in Portugal to raise funds to support refugees in the ongoing war in Sudan who have found refuge in neighbouring South Sudan.
Catholic Bishops in the of Ecclesiastical Province of Abuja in Nigeria are urging the government of the West African nation to help the young people in the country realize their potential through empowerment strategy.