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At least 52,250 Christians and 34,000 moderate Muslims or 85,250 Faith believers have been killed in Nigeria since July 2009.

After three years of postponement, the Third National Eucharistic Congress of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will be held in the country's second-largest city, Lubumbashi, from June 4 to 11, 2023.

Three Catholic Sisters from Zambia and Uganda have each been awarded an investment grant of $25,000 from the US African Development Foundation (USADF) to support their various community-based projects in the just concluded Builders of Africa Future’s Awards by the Africa Diaspora Network (ADN).

Two staff of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) have been shot and killed in the Amhara regional state of northern Ethiopia on April 9, Easter Sunday.

A study conducted by the Loyola Centre for Media and Communications (LCMC), a Jesuit apostolate of the Eastern African province has revealed that young people are struggling to find the meaning of their lives and “there is a growing inter-generational cut-throat finger pointing between the adults and young people on who is responsible for the falling away of young people from places of worship as well as for the increasing cases of mental health.”

“I must emphasize that the small Christian community is a backbone of the church in Africa. In Europe because of individualism like the Holy Father said, it could be difficult but here we have the structures and it is something that is woven into our culture. And so, the small Christian communities, the mission stations, the parishes, the deaneries, and the dioceses are all structures through which consultations can be done. And I think that when you get the small Christian communities walking...

Most Rev Andrew Nkea Fuanya of the Catholic Diocese of Bamenda, Cameroon, and member of the Synod Council has appealed to the clergy and faithful in Africa and beyond to be open to the Synodal process in that Synodality is not about changing the doctrines of the Catholic Church but a way of “talking with everybody.”

The Caritas Luxembourg in association with the Ministry of Cooperative and Rural Development of the Eastern Equatoria State, South Sudan, have formed a Savings and Credit Cooperative Society (SACCO) in Magwi County, to aid farmers to raise enough capital to better their agricultural productivity.

On the occasion of the 19th death anniversary of Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga, the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi is appealing to the faithful and all people of goodwill to “own the process” for the cause of beatification and canonization.

Rev Sister Sullen Tennyson, an American Catholic nun kidnapped from the convent of her educational and medical mission in Yalgo, Burkina Faso, has been freed after five months of captivity.