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Africa Day 2025

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Africa Day 2025: SECAM Urges Africans to Be “architects of Africa we want”

May 26, 2025

On the occasion of the annual Africa Day marked on May 25, Africa’s Catholic Bishops are calling upon the people of God on the continent and its islands to participate in building up “Africa we want” as “architects”.

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