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Archbishop Zeferino Zeca Martins of Angola’s Huambo Archdiocese. Credit: Radio Ecclesia

Angolan Catholic Archbishop Urges Creation of “spaces” for Women in All Professions

Mar 13, 2024

By João Vissesse

Except for jobs that require physical exertion, women can thrive in professions where men currently dominate, the Archbishop of Angola’s Huambo Archdiocese has said, calling for the creation of spaces and opportunities for women to emerge in Church and society.

Confucius statue in Nanjing Confucius Temple, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, China. | Credit: aphotostory/Shutterstock

Vatican Seeks to Break New Ground in Confucian and Christian Dialogue

Mar 13, 2024

By Courtney Mares

The Vatican is drafting the guidelines with the goal of providing a valuable resource for individuals, organizations, and communities within and beyond the Church.

Pope Francis addresses pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his Wednesday general audience on March 13, 2024. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis: Virtue Enables us to Have "a tendency towards the right choice"

Mar 13, 2024

By Matthew Santucci

Pope Francis on Wednesday opened a new chapter in his ongoing catechetical series on vices and virtues.

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Christian Foundation Appeals for Safety Measures in Nigeria Schools as Abductions Resurge

Mar 13, 2024

By Agnes Aineah

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), a UK-based human rights foundation, is appealing to the Nigerian government to implement a “Safe Schools Initiative” to keep school-going children out of danger amid a resurgence of abductions in the West African country.

Today, March 13, We Celebrate St. Roderick

Mar 13, 2024

Roderick, also known as Ruderic, was a priest in Cabra, Spain during the persecution of Christians by the Moors.

Fridolin Cardinal Ambongo, President of the Symposium of Episcopal Conference of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM). Credit: SECAM

Africa Not “adequately” Benefiting from Foreign Investment in Its Riches: Cardinal Ambongo

Mar 12, 2024

By ACI Africa Staff

Local populations in Africa are not “adequately” benefiting from their natural resources that foreign entities venture into, Fridolin Cardinal Ambongo, the President of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), has said.

Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama during Holy Mass at St. Paul’s Gwagwalada Parish of Abuja Archdiocese. Credit: Abuja Archdiocese

“Our thoughts, prayers”: Archbishop on Abduction of Hundreds of Students, Women in Nigeria

Mar 12, 2024

By Silas Isenjia

The Catholic Archbishop of Nigeria’s Abuja Archdiocese has expressed spiritual solidarity with the hundreds of students and women abducted in the recent past in the West African nation.

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Catholic-led Researchers Decry Veiled “settlement of jihadists” Plan in Nigerian States

Mar 12, 2024

By Agnes Aineah

A Catholic-inspired group of researchers, criminologists and human rights activists in Nigeria is concerned that a section of Nigerian authorities is planning to expand activities of jihadists in some parts of the West African country under the guise of state ranching projects.

Participants at the SECAM seminar on the theme “Conflicts in Africa in the context of the exploitation of natural and mining resources”, from March 8 to 10, 2024, in Accra, Ghana. Credit: SECAM

SECAM Advocates for Continental Prayer Day to “amplify voices of marginalized” in Africa

Mar 12, 2024

By ACI Africa Staff

Participants in the seminar that the leadership of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) convened in Ghana’s capital, Accra, have advocated for the creation of a Continental Prayer Day aimed at bringing to the light particular challenges the people of God grapple with in their respective African countries.

Credit: Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM)

Bishops in Malawi Launch Vocations Sunday with Call to Conversion, “new evangelization”

Mar 12, 2024

By Silas Isenjia

Members of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) have launched Vocations Sunday in anticipation of this year’s Sunday, April 21 event, with a call to conversion and the fostering of “new evangelization”.

Injured parishioners receive Communion on the third Sunday of Advent, Dec. 17, 2023, at Holy Family Parish in Gaza. The Pontifical Collection for the Holy Land provides community aid and assistance for parochial activities for Holy Family Parish, the only Roman Catholic parish in Gaza. | Credit: Father Gabriel Romanelli/Facebook

Vatican’s Good Friday Holy Land Collection to Aid Humanitarian Efforts in Gaza 

Mar 12, 2024

By Matthew Santucci

The Vatican has overseen the Pontifical Collection for the Holy Land since 1974. Last year it raised more than $7 million.

Speaking in his Angelus address on March 3, 2024, about the Israel-Hamas war, Pope Francis made an emotional plea for negotiations to reach a deal that both frees the hostages immediately and grants civilians access to humanitarian aid. | Credit: Vatican Media

Ukrainian Officials Criticize Pope Francis’ "white flag" Remarks on Russia-Ukraine War

Mar 12, 2024

By Matthew Santucci

“Our flag is a yellow and blue one. This is the flag by which we live, die, and prevail. We shall never raise any other flags,” Ukraine’s foreign minister wrote.

From left to right, Matthew Heidenreich, Amayrani Higueldo Sanchez, and Charlie McCullough. | National Eucharistic Pilgrimage

Meet the young Catholic pilgrims who will walk thousands of miles with the Eucharist this summer

Mar 12, 2024

By Jonah McKeown

These “Perpetual Pilgrims” will walk thousands of miles across the United States this summer, carrying Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.

Today, March 12, We Celebrate St. Theophanes the Chronicler

Mar 12, 2024

St. Theophanes was born in Samothrace, Greece around the year 759. He was orphaned while still a young child, but was left a large inheritance. 

A camp for Internally Displaced Persons in Renk, South Sudan. Credit: Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development (DPIHD)

Help Rescue South Sudanese “on brink of destitution, slowly perishing”, Bishops Appeal

Mar 11, 2024

By ACI Africa Staff

The people of God in South Sudan are in urgent need of external support, the President of the Integral Human Development Commission of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SCBC) has said.

Bishop Henry Juma Odonya of Kitale Diocese reading the message  on behalf of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) members during the Kainuk Cross Border Peace Holy Mass on Sunday, 10 March 2024. Credit: Lodwar Diocese

Catholic Bishops in Kenya Decry Inter-Ethnic Violence, Urge “political will” for Unity

Mar 11, 2024

By ACI Africa Staff

Catholic Bishops in Kenya are decrying protracted inter-ethnic clashes in the Catholic Dioceses of Kitale and Lodwar among members of the Pokot and Turkana communities dwelling at the border of Turkana and West Pokot Counties of the East African nation.

Archbishop Edward Tamba Charles of the Archdiocese of Freetown during an interview with ACI Africa at his office in Freetown. Credit: Caritas Freetown

“Not synodal”, Archbishop in Sierra Leone against “monopolizing” Parts of Holy Mass

Mar 11, 2024

By Agnes Aineah

The Eucharist is the centre of a synodal Church requiring the participation of all “by virtue of their common baptism”, the Archbishop of Sierra Leone’s Catholic Archdiocese of Freetown has said, and cautioned individuals and groups against monopolizing activities of Holy Mass.

Late Bishop Pius Suh Awa and a view of the Bishop Pius Awa Memorial Pastoral Centre. Credit: Buea Diocese

At Death Anniversary, Catholic Bishop in Cameroon Remembered for Impacting “many people”

Mar 11, 2024

By Jude Atemanke

At the Eucharistic celebration marking the 10th death anniversary of Bishop Pius Suh Awa, the Cameroonian Catholic Bishop who died on 9 February 2014 after having served as Local Ordinary of the Catholic Diocese of Buea for over three decades has been remembered for impacting many during his Episcopal ministry.

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"There is real danger of civil war in Haiti": Catholic Archbishop of Port-au-Prince

Mar 11, 2024

By Diego Lopez Marina

Port-au-Prince Archbishop Max Leroy Mésidor shared his perspective on the difficult situation facing his country and the pastoral work of the Church.

Kainuk Cross Border Peace Eucharistic celebration. Credit: Catholic Diocese of Lodwar

Prejudice, Blame Game Fomenting Inter-Ethnic Violence among Kenya’s Pokot, Turkana: Bishop

Mar 11, 2024

By ACI Africa Staff

Prejudice and blame game are among vices fomenting violent confrontations between members of the Pokot and Turkana communities in Kenya, Bishop John Mbinda of the Catholic Diocese of Lodwar has said.