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The newly installed Local Ordinary of Mali’s Catholic Archdiocese of Bamako, Archbishop Robert Cissé, has expressed his commitment to realizing his role of shepherding the people of God, remaining close to them.
At the burial of Alexandre Cardinal do Nascimento, Angola’s first and world’s oldest Cardinal, the Catholic Church leader, who died on September 28 has been remembered as a man who was firm in his Christian faith and loyal in his service to the people of God under his pastoral care and to society in general.
“When the Holy Father is talking about peripheries, I think the peripheries are moving. ... Maybe the peripheries are moving towards Europe,” Archbishop Kikuchi said.
The Local Ordinary of the Catholic Diocese of Benguela in Angola has reminded women Religious of their identity as Consecrated, emphasizing the calling to the virtue of humility.
The people of God put their trust and hope in those being admitted to Holy Orders, expecting them to bear “abundant fruits of holiness,” Bishop Emílio Sumbelelo of the Catholic Diocese of Viana in Angola has said.
Saint Thais was a penitent woman of Egypt in the fourth century. While little is known of her life, she was a sinful woman converted by a monk, perhaps Paphnutius of Thebes, who then lived three years in a narrow cell in most profound penitence.
Stephen Cardinal Brislin of South Africa’s Catholic Archdiocese of Cape Town has expressed concern about the yearlong Israel-Hamas war in the Middle East, noting that the ongoing violent conflict that started on 7 October 2023 is threatening to plunge humanity into “primitive barbarism”.
The Executive Director of Caritas Freetown in Sierra Leone has written to world leaders, including the United Nations, calling for urgent intervention in the ongoing violent conflicts in various parts of the world, especially in Africa.
The “Village of Mary”, as the Subukia National Marian Shrine is fondly referred to, was a vast sea of blue on October 5. Over 50,000 pilgrims donning one of the colours associated with Mother Mary flooded the shrine in Kenya’s Catholic Diocese of Nakuru to express their devotion for the Mother of Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Accra in Ghana is inviting the people of God to take part in a walk against illegal mining in the country, commonly known as Galamsey, to be realized on Friday, October 11 in partnership with the Conference of Major Superiors of Religious - Ghana (CMSR-GH).
In his letter to Catholics in the Middle East, the Holy Father expressed his closeness with those “who dwell in the lands of which the Scriptures speak most often.”
“I think we have to look at the question very much from … the Spirit. ‘Is the Spirit calling women?’” said Sister Mary Theresa Barron, OLA.
On October 7, the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the yearly feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. Known for several centuries by the alternate title of “Our Lady of Victory,” the feast day takes place in honor of a 16th century naval victory which secured Europe against Turkish invasion.
Pope Francis has announced a Consistory for the creation of 21 new Cardinals, who are to include two Archbishops from Africa.
The President of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) has outlined “a four-phase plan” that he said Catholic Bishops in Africa have agreed upon to address the challenge of polygamy on the continent.
A Small Christian Community (SCC) is ideally a group of people, who understand each other, and where close relationships are fostered, the leadership of the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) has said, and urged SCCs in the nine-nation region to keep their membership small.
The Chairman of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) has decried poor governance in various countries in the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA), noting that political leaders are causing the divisions in the region for their selfish interests.
In his Sunday Angelus address, the Holy Father asked couples to reflect on whether their married life is fully open to the gift of children.