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Kenya’s Parliament Speaker Urges Conference on Family Delegates to “harness collective strength” to protect Family Unit

May 14, 2025

Participants in the Second Pan-African Conference on Family Values (PACFV) in Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi, have been urged to foster synergy in the efforts to protect the institution of the family amid attacks from multiple quarters. 

Bishop Robert Prevost greets the faithful in Peru within the Diocese of Chiclayo. (photo: Courtesy photo / Caritas Chiclayo)

Pope Leo XVI, First Missionary to Become Pope in a Long, Long Time

May 14, 2025

The U.S.-born Pope spent about a dozen years as a missionary in Peru and returned there later to serve as a Bishop.

Apostolic Nuncio in Kenya Urges Religious Orders’ Jointly Owned University to Reclaim Catholic, Christ-centred Identity

May 14, 2025

The Apostolic Nuncio in Kenya has urged Tangaza University (TU), the Kenya-based institution of higher learning that is jointly owned by some 22 Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (ICLSAL), to reclaim its Catholic identity in every aspect of its mission and academic.

In Newly Launched Book, Angolan Catholic Priest Shares Insights into Language-Culture Relationship

May 14, 2025

Readers of the book, “Languages and Cultures – Introduction to Ethnolinguistics and African Oralities”, which was launched on Monday, May 12 are to gain insights into the relation between language and culture, the author of new publication has said. 

Today, May 14, We Celebrate St. Matthias, Apostle

May 14, 2025

Matthias, whose name means “gift of God”,  was the disciple chosen to replace Judas as one of the twelve Apostles. The Acts of the Apostles state that he was also one of the 72 disciples that the Lord Jesus sent out to preach the good news.

Defend Family Values, “don’t yield to pressure”: Kenya Christian Professionals Forum Official to Africa’s Leaders

May 13, 2025

Africa’s leaders need to be actively involved in defending the family institution and its values, the Chairman of the Kenya Christian Professionals Forum (KCPF) has said. 

Let’s Call on West African Leaders to Provide “coordinated, efficient responses” to Religious Extremism: RECOWA Bishops

May 13, 2025

Members of the Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (RECOWA) have proposed that those at the helm of the countries in the region put their heads together in addressing conflicts in the region, key among them religious extremism.

The Vicar General (Pastoral), Rev. Fr Emmanuel Faweh Kazah, in the company of the Dean of Kafanchan Deanery, Rev. Fr Rock Douglas, Sr Rosemary Joseph, SOB and Sr Peninah, SOB, paid a visit to Church of Mount Carmel, Unguwar Rimi Bajju. The Parish Priest, Rev. Fr Christian Gayus and a cross section of the Members of the Parish Pastoral Council had an emergency PPC meeting, where the delegation took time to expound to them the gravity of the sacrilegious act that was committed in the Parish.

Catholic Church in Nigeria’s Kafanchan Diocese Desecrated, Tabernacle “forcibly opened”, Bishop Directs Reparation

May 13, 2025

The church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish of Nigeria’s Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan was recently broken into and consecrated hosts in the tabernacle stolen, the Chancellor of the Nigerian Diocese has said.

“A builder of bridges”: Apostolic Nuncio in Angola Weighs in on Start of Pope Leo XIV’s Pontificate

May 13, 2025

Peace, dialogue, reconciliation, and global solidarity are to define the Pontificate of Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, who has been elected as the Catholic Church’s 267th Pontiff and taken the Papal name Leo XIV, the representative of the Holy Father in Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe has said.

“Pray, work for vocations”: Catholic Bishops in Angola to Christians on Good Shepherd, Vocations Sunday

May 13, 2025

On the annual event of the World Day of Prayer for Vocations 2025 marked on the Fourth Sunday of Easter, also known as Good Shepherd Sunday, Catholic Bishops in various Angolan Episcopal Sees have called upon the faithful to foster vocations to Priestly and Religious Life through spiritual solidarity, encouragement, and material donations. 

Catholic Bishop in Kenya Calls for Strengthening Families as Foundation of Church, “social fibre of society

May 13, 2025

Bishop Cleophas Oseso Tuka of Kenya’s Catholic Diocese of Nakuru has emphasized the importance of strengthening the family as the foundation of the society and the Church.

“Reject hatred, retaliation”: Catholic Bishop in South Sudan Cautions after Second Church Official Killed

May 13, 2025

Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala of the Catholic Diocese of Tombura-Yambio (CDTY) has cautioned against the temptation to avenge the murder of a young official of a Parish in his Episcopal See, noting that revenge will only deepen “the cycle of destruction” in the South Sudanese Catholic Diocese.

Former United States Ambassador to the Holy See Francis Rooney speaks to “EWTN News Nightly” anchor Catherine Hadro on Monday, May 12, 2025. / Credit: EWTN News

He'll Be "a fantastic Pope’": Former Holy See Ambassador, Friend of Pope Leo XIV

May 13, 2025

Francis Rooney said Pope Leo XIV will be a “fantastic pope” because he “can communicate with people in a very clear but nonthreatening way.”

Today, May 13, We Celebrate Our Lady of Fatima

May 13, 2025

May 13 is the anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady to three shepherd children in the small village of Fatima in Portugal in 1917.  She appeared six times to Lucia, 9, and her cousins Francisco, 8, and his sister Jacinta, 6, between May 13, 1917 and October 13, 1917.

Newly Elected Pope Leo XIV Ushers In “new energy, new hope” with His “many hats”: Apostolic Nuncio in Nigeria

May 12, 2025

The Catholic Church has entered a new era of missionary dynamism and global unity with the May 8 election of Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost as the Catholic Church’s 267th Pontiff, the Apostolic Nuncio in Nigeria has said.

Learn Servant Leadership from Papal Conclave, Election of Pope Leo XIV: Catholic Bishop in Kenya to African Governments

May 12, 2025

The 2025 Conclave that brought together 133 Cardinal Electors on May 7 resulting in the following day’s election of Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost as the Catholic Church’s 267th Pontiff has a lot to teach governments, especially those in Africa, a Kenyan Catholic Bishop has said. 

Pan-African Conference on Family Values Opens in Kenya with Call to “fight for” Family Institution “without apology”

May 12, 2025

The Second Pan-African Conference on Family Values (PACFV) has opened in Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi, with a call to unapologetically defend the institution of the family as willed and made by God “in the Garden of Eden”.

Pope Leo XIV smiles as a jubilant crowd joins in prayer on Sunday, May 11, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

Being American, Pope Leo XIV's Pontificate Could Mean Increased Charitable Giving: Papal Foundation President

May 12, 2025

President of the Papal Foundation, which carries out the Holy Father’s humanitarian aid projects, thinks Leo XIV’s papacy might increase charitable giving in US.

“Satan is never far from God’s servants”: Catholic Bishop in Kenya Urges Caution among Clergy at Priestly Ordination

May 12, 2025

A Catholic Bishop in Kenya has urged the Clergy to be cautious of how they relate with the people of God under their pastoral care, noting that “the evil one is closer” to them, waiting for them to fail in their Priestly calling.

Actions of Christians “must be rooted in shared belief system”: Catholic Bishop at Ecumenical Lecture in Eswatini

May 12, 2025

Bishop Sithembele Anton Sipuka of the Catholic Diocese of Mthatha in South Africa has challenged members of the various Christian churches in Eswatini to go beyond the engagement in “charitable works” and examine the common “belief system” as followers of Jesus Christ.