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The Catholic Mission Hospitals are still owed over 1 Billion Shillings by NHIF. We are still worried about what may happen after the planned reorganization of NHIF.

According to Tomás Insua, the conversation with the pope revolved around the deep concern of LSM “about the urgent need for action at COP28, especially in the face of the alarming promotion of fossil fuels by the host – United Arab Emirates – and so many other powerful nations.”

In the early hours of Monday, November 6, unknown assailants stormed a locality of Mamfe in Egbekaw town, Manyu Division of the South West Region of Cameroon, and opened fire on the residents while setting fire to several houses. According to authorities, the overnight attack left at least 20 civilians dead, however, local accounts suggest a higher death toll.

The late Bishop Paride Taban Abraham Kenyi, emeritus of the Catholic Diocese of Torit, South Sudan, has been nominated posthumously for the prestigious Opus Prize-an annual faith-based humanitarian award, whose $1 million award and two $100,000 prizes make up one of the world's largest faith-based awards for social entrepreneurship.

Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Abuja, Nigeria, has appealed to the people to support the government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu despite the contentious Supreme Court ruling that upheld his election on October 26.

Ahead of the upcoming 50th-anniversary celebrations of the establishment of the Pan-African Episcopal Committee for Social Communications (CEPACS), Rt Rev Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo, the chairman of the African Bishops’ communications committee has averred that preparations for the gathering of are in high gear and the delegates to the four-day jubilee will have an unforgettable experience.  

In celebrating 40 years since its establishment in 1984 and its contribution to women’s theological empowerment, Hekima University College (HUC), Nairobi, Kenya, has organized a conference dedicated to women theologians that will take place from March 7 -11, 2024.The theme of the conference is ‘African Women Theologians and Synodality’.

The African Synodality Initiative (ASI), a collaboration of the Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar (JCAM), the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa & Madagascar (SECAM) and the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) has organized a post-synodal Zoom webinar titled ‘Walking the Synodal Path: Reflections on the Synod on Synodality – Voices from Africa’.

“For several decades now, our region has been experiencing a security situation marked by multi-faceted wars that continue to cause millions of deaths, internally displaced people and refugees. We are convinced that the people of Burundi, DR Congo and Rwanda want to live together in security, collaborating with each other and with their governments to put an end to inter-state and inter-community conflicts,” said the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa (ACEAC) in a stateme...

Most Rev Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja has intimated that the Synod assembly meeting in Rome has no authority to change the teachings of the Catholic Church on “any subject matter” but only the pope.