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Mr Pier Francesco Pinelli, the Temporary Administrator of Caritas Internationalis (CI) has appealed to delegates from the 46 member organizations of Caritas Africa meeting in Rome for the Regional General Assembly from May 7 to 10, to improve the efforts of mutual understanding and cooperation for common paths of development.

“Information publicly available shows that “Pastor” Paul Mackenzie has been arrested and treated casually on multiple occasions, but each time released to go and continue. For this reason, we find that the narrative being driven that those churches, and by extension, religion, need to be regulated is a façade meant to divert attention from the real problem, which is that the state has failed to play its role of dealing with crime,” stated the religious leaders on March 3, 2023.

“If we correct the misdeeds of those in leadership, remove the conditions that make for corruption, decentralize the economy and educate all citizens with skills and values, then the next decade of freedom will see us being better than we are as a country,” says Bishop Sipuka on Freedom Day.

Pope Francis has decided to amend the composition of the Synodal Assembly to include 70 non-bishop members; priests, deacons, consecrated men and women, and lay women and men, with a right to vote in the upcoming General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in October.

Going off script and in a passionate appeal to Kenyans, politicians and religious leaders, Most Rev Hubertus Matheus Maria van Megen, the apostolic nuncio to Kenya and South Sudan has appealed to the conscience of the people urging them to defend the country and to “put our shoulders under it.”“Khartoum is an example, Sudan is the same problem, as Kenyans let us work together, let us not lose ourselves in political bickering, in rivalry, in who is the greatest, who is the most important, w...

As fighting intensifies in Sudan between the Sudanese Army Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the Sudan and South Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SSSCBC) has reported that two rockets have hit a priests’ house and the Cathedral of Mary Queen of Africa in the Catholic Diocese of El Obeid on April 13.

“We as a church; bishops, priests, all of us need to stand ready to serve. We don't need to rule. We don't need the money because the Christ, which is the greatest prize that we receive does not come from man but from God alone,” urged Archbishop Hubertus Maria van Megen, the Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya and South Sudan.

After a shaky 24-hour- ceasefire lobbied by countries seeking to evacuate their citizens from Sudan failed on Wednesday, April 19, fierce fighting could still be witnessed around Khartoum with the UN fearing for the people as food supplies dwindle and medical services collapse.

CRS underscored the “critical importance” of respecting the neutrality of frontline humanitarian workers who in many cases face significant threats, including harassment and intimidation, criminality, and direct and indirect attacks.

The Final Document from the African Synodal Continental Assembly submitted to the General Secretariat of the Synod in the Vatican underscores the Church in Africa has lived out Synodality since the Second Vatican Council. It highlights the need for recognition of the role women and youth play in the Church and proposes pastoral care that focuses on marriage and family and their challenges in modern-day Africa.