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While sharing his experience and support for the ongoing Synod on Synodality in Rome, theologian Fr Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator has said that the process of listening and discernment that are the convention of conversations at the Synod is more important than the outcome that will come from the assembly.

Stephen Cardinal Brislin, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, has urged all the parishes in his jurisdiction to hold prayers for peace in the Holy Land.

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu OFMCap of the Catholic Archdiocese of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has called the Synod on Synodality in Rome as "the new Pentecost, which will certainly renew the church in the communion of its members and in the active participation of all in the life and mission of the church."

Ahead of the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to be held in Dubai beginning in late November, the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) is calling for ambitious outcomes in securing sustainable development at the global climate meeting.

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu OFMCap, the archbishop of Kinshasa and a delegate at the ongoing Synod on Synodality in Rome and a leading African voice at the assembly has declared that the outcome of the Synodal process will be “welcomed by everyone as the will of God.”

On October 5, 2003, Italian-born Catholic lay woman Annalena Tonelli was killed in Borama, the largest city of the northwestern Awdal region of Somaliland, then a separatist region of Somalia.

“Generally, the socio-economic well-being of Malawians has deteriorated, and yet, the political governing seems lost and clueless on finding solutions to the numerous challenges rocking the country. The country is at a crossroads; citizens are like the lost sheep whose shepherd has lost grip of the ethos of servant leadership," they noted.

In September, the Kenya National Association of the Deaf (KNAD) in collaboration with the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi Chaplaincy to the Deaf organized a march in the capital to present a petition to the National Assembly as part of a two-day celebration marking the end of the International Deaf Awareness Month.

Five years after bandits attacked Kapedo Catholic Church in the Catholic Diocese of Lodwar, Turkana East sub-county, killing two police reservists, three Catholic bishops in the bandit-prone areas of the North Rift region united in calling for lasting peace while reconsecrating the Church on September 27, 2023.

The Comboni Missionaries in Kenya have launched the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of their presence and service in the country in an elaborate event held at the Holy Cross Parish-Kacheliba, West Pokot, in the Catholic Diocese of Kitale on September 24, 2023.