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Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar. | Credit: François-Régis Salefran CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

SECAM President Explains How Rejection of Fiducia Supplicans in Africa was Handled

Jan 22, 2024

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo recently recounted how the rejection of the blessing of homosexual couples was handled in Africa and at the Vatican.

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, OFM Cap., was the main celebrant of a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for synod participants on Oct. 13. | Credit: Vatican Media

The Devil “wants to see us divided,” SECAM President Says at Synod on Synodality Mass

Oct 14, 2023

“If we have the courage to look at our current reality as a Church, it won’t be hard to see how the Evil One is at work, ” Fridolin Cardinal  Ambongo Besungu, the Archbishop of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), who doubles as the President of the Symposium of Episcopal Conference of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), has said.

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