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The life of St. Joseph Allamano, who never stepped outside his native country Italy owing to ill health but “prepared the groundwork” for great missionary work across the world, teaches that it is possible to be a missionary without having to leave one’s native country, the representative of the Holy Father in Kenya has said.
The Director of the Institute of Consecrated Life in Africa (InCLA), Nigeria, has called upon members of the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (ICLSAL) in the West African nation to renew their commitment to the charisms of their respective Institutes ahead of the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year.
Members of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) have expressed their solidarity with their colleagues in Mozambique, where post-election protests have resulted in deaths.
Fr. Alexander Muyebe, the Malawian-born member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) who died on November 8 has been eulogized for his commitment to justice and human dignity in Zambia, where he served as the Executive Director of the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR).
On Nov. 11, the Catholic Church honors St. Martin of Tours, who left his post in the Roman army to become a “soldier of Christ” as a monk and later bishop.
The Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is set to partner with Standard Chartered Bank Kenya in reaching out to victims of floods that resulted from the April-May rains in the Nairobi communities of Mathare slum and Embakasi served by the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi (ADN).
The Catholic Diocese of Mbulu has launched the yearlong Silver Jubilee celebrations of the Sacred Heart of Jesus movement in the Tanzanian Episcopal See.
The President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has condemned the growing rate of involvement of young people in crimes promoted by the “excessive” consumption of “hard drugs” in Nigeria.
Archbishop José Manuel Imbamba of the Catholic Archdiocese of Saurimo in Angola has cautioned against overreliance on diamonds in the Southern African nation that is reportedly Africa’s fourth largest diamond producer and the sixth globally, its 2023 production estimated at 9.8 million carats.
Nov. 10 is the Roman Catholic Church’s liturgical memorial of the fifth-century Pope Saint Leo I, known as “St. Leo the Great,” whose involvement in the fourth ecumenical council helped prevent the spread of error on Christ's divine and human natures.
It is with a heavy heart that South Africa’s newest Cardinal, Stephen Cardinal Brislin, has accepted his transfer from Cape Town Catholic Archdiocese to the Catholic Archdiocese of Johannesburg.
Abductions in the West African nation of Nigeria that are targeting members of the Clergy are giving the country “a very bad image”, the Director of Social Communications for the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja has noted with concern.
Survivors of human trafficking keep memories of their usually unpleasant experiences in the hands of the traffickers, which when recounted, invoke empathy for the trafficked and negative emotions for those involved in human trafficking.
The Diocesan Administrator of the Catholic Diocese of Bafatá in Guinea Bissau has called on politicians and other government stakeholders in the tropical country on West Africa’s Atlantic coast to pay attention to the plight of the people, who he said are crying for help.
The feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran is celebrated by the entire Church. It marks the dedication of the cathedral church of Rome by Pope Sylvester I in 324.
The Catholic Church in Africa is already synodal, a Nigerian Priest has said, adding that for the synodal Church to be “effectively missionary”, Local Ordinaries on the continent must accept “to enter into the new style” of being Church.
There is need for more and more Clergy and women and men Religious to participate in the worldwide mission of the Church, the Provincial Superior of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) in Angola has said.
Bishop Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe of the Catholic Diocese of Makurdi in Nigeria has called for action to address escalating insecurity in Nigeria’s Benue State, which has led to the closure of over 15 parishes in his Episcopal See.
With a donation from the Pontifical and charity foundation, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) International, members of the Contemplative Nuns, the Poor Clare Sisters, serving in Zimbabwe's Catholic Archdiocese of Harare, are looking to purchase a better host-making machine, and scale up the production of hosts for Mass to meet the demand in the Zimbabwean Metropolitan See.
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, commented on the historic election, in which a majority of Catholics voted for Trump on “ The World Over with Raymond Arroyo.”