MALAWI: “Every Human Life is Sacred,” Religious Leaders Warn Against...
Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSAAs the country awaits fresh presidential election in the next few weeks after the Supreme Court ruled that the May 19 2019 election remains nullified, violent...
View ArticleZAMBIA: Bishop Chisanga Takes Covid-19 Awareness Campaign to Marketplace
ZCCB Communications DepartmentBishop Patrick Chisanga; bishop of the Catholic Diocese of MansaOn May 1st, 2020, Bishop Patrick Chisanga; bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Mansa led a prevention and...
View ArticleKENYA: Make Children’s Experience During Stay-At-Home Memorable, Bishops Urge...
Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSABishop Paul Kariuki Njiru, Chairman of the Commission for Education and Religious Education of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB)As the spread of...
View ArticleSOUTH SUDAN: Gender Based Violence Cases in Juba Increase Amid Coronavirus...
Gale Julius DadaAt least 183 cases of gender-based violence were reported to health workers between January and April this year, according to statistics from the Family Protection Center of the Juba...
View ArticleMALAWI: Church Reopens Liturgical Celebrations, Encourages Adherence to...
Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSAArchbishop Thomas Luke Msusa, ECM Chairman The Catholic Bishops in Malawi under their umbrella body Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) have opened churches which...
View ArticleSOUTH SUDAN: Archbishop Ameyu Commends Ecumenical Covid-19 Taskforce
Ginaba LinoArchbishop Stephen Ameyu Martinof South Sudan's Juba ArchdioceseArchbishop Stephen Ameyu Martin of the Archdiocese of Juba has disclosed the formation of an ecumenical COVID-19 taskforce...
View ArticleKENYA: Association of Sisters in Kenya Supports Children Amidst Covid-19
AOSK-CCCKMadre Ippolita Children Home in Machakos County received food stuff from AOSK fundThe Association of Sisterhoods of Kenya through its initiative program of Catholic Care for Children in Kenya...
View ArticleUGANDA: Archbishop Bakyenga Announces Installation Date of Mbarara’s...
Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSAArchbishop-emeritus Paul Kamuza BakyengaInstallation of the Archbishop elect of the Archdiocese of Mbarara, Auxiliary Bishop Lambert Bainomugisha has been scheduled...
View ArticleTANZANIA: Rt. Rev. Nzigilwa Appointed Bishop of Mpanda Diocese
Bishop Eusebius Nzigilwa, the new Bishop of Mpanda Catholic Diocese.Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Eusebius Nzigilwa, the current Auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Dar es salaam, new Bishop of...
View ArticleKENYA: Church Reaches Out to Needy Muslim Families in Malindi
By Janet Hinga From left, Mambrui Muslim leader, Ustadh Muutaman and Gongoni Parish Priest, Rev. Fr. Samuel Kenga at Madrassa Al-Ghannai, Kilifi. Photo by Sauti ya Jimbo, Malindi Diocese.The Catholic...
View ArticleSOUTH SUDAN: South Sudanese Bishop Resorts to Virtual Management after...
Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSABishop Edward Hiiboro KussalaWhen Kenya issued directives to curb the spread of COVID-19 in March, including ban on inbound and outbound flights after a report of the...
View ArticleMALAWI: What Happens to Education Sector If COVID-19 is Here to Stay?
Luke Bisani Catholic University of Malawi Students on Campus before COVID-19Perhaps it is not only the education sector that faces a hard bite in Malawi if Coronavirus is here to stay as disclosed by...
View ArticleSOUTH SUDAN: Consider Total Lockdown in South Sudan, Archbishop Ameyu Appeals...
Ginaba Lino CRNArchbishop Stephen Ameyu MartinThe Catholic Archbishop of Juba Most Rev. Stephen Ameyu Martin is calling on the government of South Sudan to consider total lockdown to prevent further...
View ArticleZAMBIA: Churches Concerned with Intimidation of Media As Country Prepares for...
By Mwenya Mukuka-ZCCB Communications OfficerFr Lungu talking to a journalistThe Christian Churches Monitoring Group (CCMG) is greatly concerned with the continued intimidation and harassment of the...
View ArticleMALAWI: PMS Malawi Awaits ECM Determination on Holding Children Congress
Pilirani TambalaFr. Vincent Mwakhwawa National PMS DirectorThe Pontifical Mission Society of Malawi has suspended preparatory meetings for the first ever Children Congress scheduled to run from 12th to...
View ArticleKENYA: “Speak The Truth, Report Fairly” Bishops to Journalists
Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSABishop Joseph Sagwe ObanyiThe Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) has urged journalists to be factual in their news reporting especially during this period of...
View ArticleETHIOPIA: Church Mobilizes Funds In Support of Federal Government’s Efforts...
By Gebru HabteyohannesThe Ethiopian Conference of Catholic Bishops (ECCB) has this week rendered its support to the Federal Government efforts to combat Covid-19 by making a contribution of...
View ArticleMALAWI: Archdiocese of Blantyre Mourns FIC Brother
By Luke Bisani Burial of FIC BrotherThe Catholic Church in Malawi has mourned the death of Brother Martinus Dariyo of Congregation of the Brothers of Immaculate Conception (FIC), who died on Sunday at...
View ArticleSOUTH SUDAN: Bishop of Tombura-Yambio Diocese Declares Novena Over COVID-19...
Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSAThe Local Ordinary of South Sudan’s Catholic diocese of Tombura-Yambio, Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussala has declared nine days of prayer for all the faithful to ask for...
View ArticleTANZANIA: We Have Lost a ‘Pioneer of inculturated African Theology’ Fr....
Pascal Mwanache, TECThe late Professor Charles NyamitiThe bishop of the Diocese of Mahenge Rt. Rev. Agapiti Ndorobo said that the family of God in East and Central Africa has lost an outstanding...
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