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“All looting of humanitarian assets and attacks on humanitarian facilities is utterly unacceptable. Humanitarians save lives and must be able to safely deliver life-saving supplies to those in need,” stated Peter Van der Auweraert, the Humanitarian Coordinator ad interim (ai) in South Sudan.

“The height of everything is the despicable and savage repression that the police and their accomplice militia inflicted on the demonstrators, including minors found on their way. In carrying out their macabre work, they did not hesitate to fire live ammunition, even targeting the vehicle of a political leader,” said Msgr Donatien Nshole, Secretary-General of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) in a press conference on May 22, 2023.According to Fr Nshole, CENCO had deployed m...

The meeting under the theme, “Reading the Signs of the Times Together: Catholic Care for Children”, brought together the Catholic Care for Children International (CCCI) and Catholic Care for Children Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Uganda, Malawi and Sri Lanka. 

Celebrated American writer, public speaker, and leadership consultant, Chris Lowney, will from May 24 to June 3, 2023, facilitate a Leadership Workshop at the Hekima Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations (HIPSIR).

Founded in 1984 as a Jesuit School of Theology to a few students of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), Hekima University College (HUC) has advanced its mission as a centre for excellent formation, research and intellectual scholarship committed to offering a high-quality, integral, and contextualized education to include students from about fourteen local and international religious congregations.

More than 130 people have been killed and thousands displaced from their homes after heavy rainfall on May 2 and 3, caused floods and landslides in Western Rwanda.According to Ms Marleen Masclee, Trócaire’s country director in Rwanda, the heavy rainfall “swept away everything in their path demolishing homes, cutting off roads, and wiping out crops and livestock.”

One month and with no solution in sight since fighting broke out in Sudan, tens of thousands of South Sudanese refugees who had previously fled their country because of conflict are now returning home to seek refuge from the ongoing violence.  

The Catholic Media in the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nairobi will on May 21 commemorate the 57th World Day of Social Communications 2023, at the Divine Word Catholic Parish, Kayole, Nairobi.

Ms Espila was elected by delegates from the 46 member organizations of Caritas Africa meeting in Rome for the 10th Regional General Assembly from May 7 to 10, to discuss the future of Caritas in Africa and the efforts of mutual understanding and cooperation for common paths of development.

According to the Sudan INGO Forum, which is comprised of 70 INGO members and observer members providing humanitarian and development assistance and peacebuilding interventions across Sudan, the ongoing violence has directedly impacted aid operations and is preventing life-saving assistance from reaching millions in need.