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Young girls under the age of 14 who are addicted to the killer drug “kush” in Sierra Leone will find help in an ongoing campaign by Caritas Freetown to address the rampant use of the substance, which has been officially classified by authorities in the country as a national epidemic.
In a gathering aimed at charting a new path for formation of members, leaders of the Religious Institute of Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) from across Africa met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The Archbishop of Malawi’s Catholic Archdiocese of Blantyre has underscored the essential role of Church leaders in guiding and forming the moral conscience of the people of God, especially during general elections.
Newman will join a list of several other Catholic saints considered patrons of other aspects of education. Get to know them here.
Pope Leo XIV urged university students to feed their “hunger for truth and meaning,” lamenting that modern education often loses sight of the “big picture.”
The trip will center on two key moments: a pilgrimage to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea and a visit to the tomb of St. Charbel Makhlouf.
Unless South Sudan’s instability is resolved, the evangelization mission of the Church in the country may not progress effectively, the Local Ordinary of the Catholic Diocese of Yei has said.
St. Frumentius helped in a great capacity to bring Christianity to Ethiopia. He was born in Lebanon, and was shipwrecked in East Africa while voyaging on the Red Sea. Only he and his brother, Aedeius, survived.
Bishop Alex Lodiong Sakor Eyobo of South Sudan’s Catholic Diocese of Yei has lauded the resilience of the people of God under his pastoral care amid ongoing economic, political, and security challenges in the world’s newest country.
Archbishop Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias of the Catholic Archdiocese of Luanda in Angola has encouraged the people of God to live each day rooted in the certainty of God’s presence and guided by virtues of faith and hope.
Archbishop Marcel Utembi Tapa of the Catholic Archdiocese of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has called on security agencies in the country to take urgent action to protect citizens and their property following an armed robbery at Kabondo General Referral Hospital, a health facility under his Metropolitan See.
African Catholics have marked this year’s Feast Day of St. John Paul II against the backdrop of two commemorations: 40 years since the late Pope’s August 1985 pastoral visit to Cameroon and 30 years since his 14 September 1995 post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on the Church in Africa and its evangelizing mission towards the year 2000, Ecclesia in Africa, which he issued in the same Central African nation.
Pope Leo XIV consecrated Mons. Mirosław Stanisław Wachowski a bishop during a Mass at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica on Oct. 26, 2025.
Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass for the closing of the Jubilee of Synodal Teams and Participatory Bodies, part of the Church’s wider Jubilee of Hope in 2025.
St. Evaristus was the son of a Greek Jew, originally from Bethlehem, and was the sixth Pope of the Catholic Church. He is traditionally considered a martyr, but there is no documentation of the event. He is buried in the Vatican, near Saint Peter.
Archbishop Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle of Ghana’s Cape Coast Archdiocese has called on Catholics in Ghana to give thanks to God as his Metropolitan See prepares to celebrate a Double Jubilee—marking both the ongoing Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year and the Diamond Jubilee of the elevation of the Cape Coast Church to an Archdiocese.
The Chairman of the Commission for Seminaries at the Malawi Conference of Catholic Bishops (MCCB) has described the increase in priestly and religious vocations across the southeastern African nation as both a “blessing” and a “heavy responsibility” for the local Church.
Coffee production requires great devotion, especially if those harvesting the beans are Catholic monks. High in a mountainous region of southwest Togo, a narrow West African country squeezed between Ghana and Benin, stands the Benedictine Abbey of the Assumption of Dzogbégan.
The chairperson of the Social Action Department at the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) has appealed to global leaders to take bold, tangible actions that promote justice, equity, and inclusion for the world’s most vulnerable populations during the ongoing Group of Twenty (G20) Presidency in South Africa.
Pope Leo XIV said the key to living in a difficult time, when the Church’s teachings are often challenged, is to embrace the hope that is “not knowing.”