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FUNERAL MASS FOR FR. RAPHAEL ADEBAYO Today Thursday 12 January, 2023. 10am. Holy Cross Cathedral,
Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi, a young civil servant from the Democratic Republic of Congo, assassinated for opposing corruption, will be beatified. Vatican News As a young Congolese civil servant, Floribert had refused to give in to corruption and allow the importation of a shipment of bad rice from Rwanda. killed in hatred of the
By Jude Atemanke Enugu, 23 November, 2024 / 10:05 pm (ACI Africa). Pope Francis has hailed the 100-year-oldย Bigard Memorial Major Seminaryย in Nigeria for its โinvaluable serviceโ to the people of God. ย In a goodwill message addressed to the Rector of the National Major Seminary based in the countryโsย Catholic Diocese of Enugu, Fr.ย Albert Okey Ikpenwa,
Consecrated religious in Ghana make time alongside their numerous other activities to help the wider community recognise the need to protect Creation, focusing especially on plastic pollution, which has become a major problem especially in suburban areas near cities.1 By Sr. Sylvie Lum Cho, MSHR Pollution is easily spotted in Donkorkrom, in the Eastern Region
For more than a year, religious organizations have lobbied Congress and the Biden administration to fix a sudden procedural change in how the government processes green cards for religious workers, which threatens the ability of thousands of them to continue to minister in the United States. The Catholic Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey, and five
By CSN Media The members of the African Biblical Leadership Initiative (ABLI), led by Professor Jerry GANA, paid a courtesy call to the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN) to acquaint and request the partnership of the Catholic Church in a Bible based International Conference proposed to take place in Nigeria later in October, 2024. In
Father Paul Sanogo and seminarian Melchior Maharini, who were kidnapped from theirย Missionaries of Africaย community in Nigeriaโs Catholic Diocese of Minna, came back to the community on Aug. 23 weary, traumatized, and sick. The two had spent three weeks in captivity, where they were flogged almost daily, made to sleep on rocks out in the open,
By Br. Alfonce Kugwa in Kampala, Uganda Catholic journalists, media practitioners and members of the civil society involved in the care of migrants and refugees are gathered in Kampala, Uganda to reflect on better ways of reporting on migrants and refugees in the continent. The workshop that is running from 10-15 July 2023 at St.
AFRICA SYNODAL CONTINENTAL ASSEMBLY Final Communiquรฉ 1-6 March 2023 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia IN AFRICA, THE SYNOD IS ON! Introduction In union with the universal Church, the Church in Africa celebrated the Synodal Continental Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 1stย to 6thย of March 2023.ย This Synodal Continental Assembly was organised by the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of
