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“We have many youths on drugs, we have many young people in violent families and we also have many women who are the breadwinners of the family or who are in the family that the children are mixed, in that a daughter is having four or five children from different fathers and a good number are also sickly," expounds Fr Kagwima.

Pope Francis has cancelled his trip to Dubai for the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Fr Nathaniel Kagwima IMC, the Superior Delegate of South Africa/Eswatini region contends that the challenge of priestly vocations in South Africa cuts across all dioceses and may be linked to a "fear of the unknown," among young people and the realities of the apartheid policy that governed relations between South Africa’s white minority and non-white majority until 1994.

Fr Hans Joachim Lohre, a German missionary and a member of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) who was kidnapped in Mali’s capital Bamako on November 20, 2022, has been released.

Gabon's Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI), chaired by transitional President Brice Oligui Nguema has announced that presidential elections will be held in August 2025 to end the ongoing political transition.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is expected to hold elections on December 20, 2023. Ahead of this decisive poll in which 23 candidates hope to unseat the incumbent, President Felix Tshisekedi, the Catholic Bishops are appealing to the electorate to be more vigilant and exercise the criteria of competence and moral uprightness in the choice of the candidates.

The Catholic Church in Tanzania is seeking information that could advance the cause of sainthood of the founding father and president of the nation, ‘Mwalimu’ Julius Kambarage Nyerere.

“The spillage from the dams into Lake Volta has now been halted, but the devastation remains. Thousands of people have already lost their homes, crops, and livestock because of the flooding. There could be disease outbreaks and devastating long-term impacts on hunger as 200,000 hectares remain covered by water,” stated Daniel Mumuni, the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) country representative in Ghana.In a press release dated November 14, CRS noted that the flooding caused by the overflowing o...

Regarded as one of the pioneer figures of African Theology, Fr Prof.  Bénézet Bujo has died at the age of 83.The native of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and professor emeritus of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, died after a long illness on Thursday evening, November 9, at the Friborg Cantonal Hospital.

The late Bishop Paride Taban Abraham Kenyi, emeritus of the Catholic Diocese of Torit, South Sudan, has been named the 2023 Opus Prize Laureate.