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Sr. Adelaide Felicitas Ndilu. Credit: ACI Africa

Giving Hope amid Hopelessness? Kenyan Dicastery for Communication Consultor on Practice of Hope Journalism amid Distress

Jun 4, 2025

The call upon Catholic journalists to be sources of hope in their messaging and delivery of information can be a challenge if very communicator is experiencing distress, a Kenyan Consultor of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication has said. 

Fr. Walter Chikwendu Ihejirika. Credit: Catholic Diocese of Ahiara

WCD 2025: How SIGNIS Africa is Promoting “Citizen Journalists of Hope” Initiative to Counter News Negativity

Jun 4, 2025

The leadership of the African region of the World Catholic Association for Communication, SIGNIS Africa, has used the occasion of the 2025 World Communications Day (WCD) to examine the five-year-old initiative targeting Catholic youths dubbed “Citizen Journalists of hope”.

Credit: Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi (ADN)

Catholic Journalists Have a Role in Shaping “the message of our time”: Media Council of Kenya CEO

Jun 3, 2025

Catholic media practitioners in Kenya have been challenged to actively contribute to shaping messages in today’s world, especially in the face of growing moral and social challenges.

Bishop Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo. Credit: Catholic Diocese of Oyo

WCD 2025 Theme, Sharing Hearty Hope “with gentleness”, Relevant for All: CEPACS President Urges “disarmed communication”

Jun 2, 2025

The 2025 World Communications Day (WCD) theme, “Sharing with gentleness the hope that is in your hearts,” is relevant to the people of God across the globe, not just to media practitioners, the President of the Pan African Episcopal Committee for Social Communications (CEPACS) has said. 

Bihsop Emmanuel Badejo, President of the Pan African Episcopal Committee for Social Communications (CEPACS). / Diocese of Oyo

Christian Communicators in Africa Urged “to make people see a larger story with God”

May 25, 2020

On the occasion of the 54th World Communications Day (WCD) this year marked Sunday, May 24, the leadership of the Pan African Episcopal Committee for Social Communications (CEPACS) has called on media practitioners on the continent who practice the Christian faith to tell stories that make people visualize the bigger picture of their respective lives, with God at the center.

Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM). / Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM).

The Eight Issues of Concern for Bishops in Malawi Who Want “a new era”

May 25, 2020

Catholic Bishops in the Southeastern Africa nation of Malawi have, in a collective message, outlined eight issues they describe as “current concerns and challenges that need urgent attention.”