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At the conclusion of a three-year Diocesan Synod that targeted young people, Archbishop Samuel Kleda of Cameroon’s Douala Archdiocese urged the more than 20,000 participants to come to terms with the love God for them even as they make meaning of the modern world and resisting vices, be disposed to reciprocate God’s love.
Bishop John Oballa Owaa of the Catholic Diocese of Ngong in Kenya has called upon Priests ministering in his Episcopal See to make the fostering of hope and the building of faith part and parcel of their Priestly ministry.
“His fight is our fight”, Catholics in Nigeria's Catholic Diocese of Makurdi have said, declaring solidarity with their shepherd, Bishop Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe, who has received arrest threats for telling the world that Nigeria is unsafe for Christians.
Archbishop Jude Thaddaeus Ruwa’ichi of Tanzania’s Catholic Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam has urged Priests in his Metropolitan See to be true to their Priestly calling, adequately nourishing the people of God under their pastoral care in Christian faith.
A Catholic missionary Priest ministering in Liberia is helping patients in “extreme poverty”, including people with disabilities to access medical services free of charge.
The Chairperson of the Social Action Department at the South African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) has called for increased awareness on human trafficking and gender-based violence among other social injustices that are said to be on the rise in South Africa.
As Sudan’s civil war completes the two-year cycle and enters its third year, representatives of faith-based networks and religious communities have painted a grim picture of the “dire” situation in the Northeastern African nation, where they “mourn the loss of lives” and bemoan limitations in interventions to save lives.
In the spirit of the ongoing Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year, members of the Association of Consecrated Women in Eastern and Central Africa (ACWECA) have been cautioned against undermining the apostolate to families.
Efforts to end the many years of conflict between Christians and Muslims in the Central African Republic (CAR) are starting to bear fruit, the Coadjutor Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Bangassou has said, noting that each of these groups is careful not to be the cause of any fighting.
As more young people become spiritual healers in Southern Africa, where they are also referred to as “Sangoma”, Catholic Bishops in the three-nation regional Conference are mulling over the idea to fully embrace them in the Church and even allow them to receive Holy Communion.
Coordinators of Justice and Peace Commissions in the member Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of the Inter-Regional Meeting of the Bishops of Southern Africa (IMBISA) have resolved to “vigorously” pursue strategic partnerships that can contribute to the realization of “lasting peace” in their nine countries.
The ongoing Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year should inspire “hope and transformation” in learners in Angola-based schools under the auspices of the Poor Servants of Divine Providence (PSDP), the Provincial Superior of the Religious Congregation also known as Calabrians in Angola has said.
Amid escalating political tensions and the fears of renewed armed violence in South Sudan, Christian youths in the East-Central African nation have called for calm, unity, and peaceful coexistence.
John Cardinal Onaiyekan has faulted the Nigerian government for failing to care for the elderly, saying that senior citizens are suffering neglect, abandonment, and poverty in a country they once helped to build.
Caritas in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has launched an appeal for humanitarian assistance for the victims of the April 5-6 flooding that left a trail of destruction in the country’s capital city, Kinshasa.
Bishop Christian Carlassare of the Catholic Diocese of Bentiu in South Sudan is appealing for prayers in the ongoing process of finding the Local Ordinary of the country’s Catholic Diocese of Rumbek, where he is the Apostolic Administrator.
Catholic Activists under their umbrella organization CitizenGO Africa have urged the Kenya Red Cross to ignore calls to cancel the five-day Pan-African Conference on family values scheduled to take place in Nairobi from May 12.
As the Lenten Season draws to a close, ushering in the Holy Week and Easter, Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of Nigeria’s Abuja Catholic Archdiocese has invited the people of God under his pastoral care to engage in a “deeper” personal reflection and “true repentance”.
The 1994 Rwandan genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed left the Catholic Diocese of Byumba in the Northwestern region of the country with a severe shortage of Priests.
Reduction of international funding is negatively affecting the reaching out to refugees in Angola, the Executive Secretary of the Episcopal Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants (CEPAMI) has said.