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Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims at his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sept. 17, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Decries "unacceptable conditions" in Gaza, Urges Release of Hostages

Sep 17, 2025

By Victoria Cardiel

Pope Leo XIV said he was closely following the impact of Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza City, where about 600,000 civilians remain.

Thanksgiving Mass in commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of St. Pope John Paul II’s Apostolic Exhortation on the Church in Africa
and its evangelizing mission towards the Year 2000, Ecclesia in Africa. Credit: Fr. Herbert Niba

African Catholics in Diaspora Urged to Resist Secular Influences, to Practice Christian Faith “in season, out of season”

Sep 17, 2025

By Nicholas Waigwa

The Bishop of Cameroon’s Buéa Catholic Diocese has cautioned African Catholics in diaspora against secular influences that can draw them away from practising their Christian faith. 

Today, September 17, We Celebrate St. Robert Bellarmine

Sep 17, 2025

On Sept. 17, the Catholic Church celebrates the Italian cardinal and theologian St. Robert Bellarmine. One of the great saints of the Jesuit order, St. Robert has also been declared a Doctor of the Church and the patron of catechists.

Four members of the Missionary Sisters of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus (MCST) in Tanzania who lost their lives in a tragic road accident in the country’s Catholic Archdiocese of Mwanza. Credit: Suore Carmelitane Missionarie Italia Malta Romania

In Tragic Road Accident, Four Catholic Sisters Returning from Profession Event in Mwanza, Tanzania, Die Alongside Driver

Sep 16, 2025

By Nicholas Waigwa

Four members of the Missionary Sisters of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus (MCST) in Tanzania are among the five people who have lost their lives in a tragic road accident in the country’s Catholic Archdiocese of Mwanza.   

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South Africa’s Blessed Benedict Daswa “model of courage, apostle of life”: Catholic Priest at Beatification Anniversary

Sep 16, 2025

By ACI Africa Staff

At the 10th anniversary of the beatification of Blessed Benedict Daswa, South Africa’s first potential saint, a Catholic Priest has highlighted the virtues of courage and prayerfulness and the spiritual gift of apostleship in the late teacher murdered for denouncing witchcraft.

Members of the Bishops' Conference of Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe (CEAST. Credit: Radio Ecclesia

Reconciliation, Consecrated Life Focus of Upcoming Plenary of Catholic Bishops in Angola, São Tomé and Príncipe

Sep 16, 2025

By João Vissesse

Members of the Bishops' Conference of Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe (CEAST) are set to gather from Wednesday, September 17, at the Shrine of Our Lady of Muxima in Angola’s Catholic Diocese of Viana for their Ordinary Annual Plenary Assembly. 

Members of the Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference (GCBC). Credit: GCBC

Illegal Mining “cancer in Ghana’s national soul”, Catholic Bishops Lament, Call for State of Emergency in Mining Zones

Sep 16, 2025

By Silas Isenjia

Ghana’s Catholic Bishops have reiterated their concern about the spread of illegal mining in the country and urged the government to declare a state of emergency in “mining zones” as a step toward addressing the perennial challenge that has attracted condemnation from other Church institutions.

Silvia Toma before participating in the vigil with Pope Leo XIV on Sept. 15, 2025. / Credit: Victoria Cardiel/EWTN News

Jubilee of Consolation: Mother Who Lost Her Only Son Never Reproached God for Anything

Sep 16, 2025

By Victoria Cardiel

Silvia Toma has a scar on her soul: Four years ago she buried her 34-year-old only son, who had two little daughters.

Flowers are seen on Sept. 3, 2025, outside the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where a shooter killed two children and injured 21 other people on Aug. 27, 2025. / Credit: Alex Wroblewski/Getty

Parents of Annunciation Shooting Victim Say Daughter’s Progress is a "miracle"

Sep 16, 2025

By Kate Quiñones

The parents of 12-year-old Sophia Forchas, who was shot in the head during the Annunciation Catholic School shooting, say her progress has been “miraculous.”

Marian shrine in Mariamabad, Pakistan. / Credit: Agenzia Fides, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Catholic Father Murdered While on Pilgrimage to Marian Shrine in Pakistan

Sep 16, 2025

By Walter Sanchez Silva

Men on motorcycles murdered a father and injured a 16-year-old boy while they were taking part in a pilgrimage to a Marian shrine in Mariamabad, Pakistan.

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“Do not be afraid”: Catholic Archbishop to Members of Commission for Pastoral Care of Migrants, Itinerants

Sep 16, 2025

By João Vissesse

Archbishop Zeferino Zeca Martins of Angola’s Catholic Archdiocese of Huambo has encouraged members of the Episcopal Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants (CEPAMI), an entity of the Bishops' Conference of Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe (CEAST), to realize their mission with courage, faith, and determination even in the most difficult contexts.

St. Cornelius, Pope, Martyr and St. Cyprian, Bishop, Martyr

Sep 16, 2025

Saint Cornelius was elected Pope in 251 during the persecutions of the Emperor Decius. His first challenge, besides the ever present threat of the Roman authorities, was to bring an end to the schism brought on by his rival, the first anti-pope Novatian. He convened a synod of bishops to confirm him as the rightful successor of Peter.

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Malawi’s Future “depends on choices we make today”: Catholic Commission Officials Urge Electorate to Vote “with courage"

Sep 15, 2025

By Nicholas Waigwa

Officials of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) in Malawi are appealing to the electorate to participate in the country’s general elections as the future of the Southern African nation “depends on the choices” made during the Tuesday, September 16 polls.

Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji. Credit: Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN)

Nigeria Now Full of “fear, flight and funerals”: Catholic Bishops’ Conference President

Sep 15, 2025

By Agnes Aineah

Nigeria is “sinking in many fronts”, the President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has said, lamenting that apart from economic hardships that Nigerians are grappling with, many communities in the West African nation have been thrown into perpetual mourning owing to unending insecurity.

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UK-Based Christian Entity Denounces Targeting of Women and Children as Violence Rages On in Sudan

Sep 15, 2025

By Silas Isenjia

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), the UK-based human rights organization that specializes in religious freedom and works on behalf of those persecuted for their Christian beliefs, has decried increasing atrocities against women and children in Sudan as the country’s civil war in its third-year rages on.

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“We must not refuse to carry the Cross”: Archbishop at Evangelization Centenary in Ivory Coast’s Bouaké Archdiocese

Sep 15, 2025

By Justin Assalé

Archbishop Jacques Assanvo Ahiwa of the Catholic Archdiocese of Bouaké in Ivory Coast has urged the people of God to embrace the Cross of Christ with courage and humility as his Metropolitan See marks 100 years of evangelization.

Pope Leo XIV celebrates the prayer vigil for the Jubilee of Consolation on Sept. 15, 2025, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News

Where Pain is Deep, Hope in Jesus Must be Stronger: Pope Leo XIV at Jubilee of Consolation

Sep 15, 2025

By Eduardo Berdejo

With a call to trust that Jesus is the one who dries the tears of those who suffer, Pope Leo XIV celebrated the prayer vigil for the Jubilee of Consolation on Monday.

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“Do the same”: U.S. Catholic Bishop Urges Newly Ordained Priests in Uganda to Emulate Pope Leo XIV’s Humility

Sep 15, 2025

By Nicholas Waigwa

Bishop Patrick Michael Neary of the Catholic Diocese of Saint Cloud in the U.S. has called upon the four newly ordained Priests of the Congregation of Holy Cross (CSC) in Uganda to anchor their Priestly Ministry in humility, prayer, and closeness to the people of God in the example of Pope Leo XIV.

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Kenyan Catholic Bishop Lauds Mill Hill Members Choosing Hostile Missions for Evangelization

Sep 15, 2025

By Agnes Aineah

Members of the Mill Hill Missionaries (MHM) go to lands where they risk their own life for the kingdom of God, Bishop John Oballa Owaa of the Catholic Diocese of Ngong in Kenya has said. 

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Caritas Entities “prophetic sign in today’s world”: Catholic Official in Lusophone Africa

Sep 15, 2025

By João Vissesse

Caritas organizations in Portuguese-speaking African countries (Lusophone countries) are “a prophetic, united, and active voice” in addressing the challenges that vulnerable members of communities face, the Director of Caritas Angola has said.