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“Dear brothers and sisters, this is a critical moment in the political life of your country. As you prepare for the general elections, pray and work hard to ensure that it is nonviolent, fair, transparent, credible and peaceful. To achieve this, there is groundwork to be done, putting into place needed infrastructures in the political sphere, preparing your minds and hearts for possible transition,” said Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ, who is visiting the Republic of South Sudan on an eight-day pastoral trip to mark the first anniversary of the papal visit to the country in 2023.The Prefect of...

Most Rev Benjamin Ndiaye, the Catholic Archbishop of Dakar has called for the respect of the constitution and for the country’s leaders to avoid circumventing set regulations in the wake of the deepening political crisis in the country."What matters most to me is that Senegal lives according to its constitution. That's essential!" The archbishop said on February 4, a day after President Macky Sall unilaterally announced an indefinite postponement of the presidential election, originally scheduled for February 25, 2024. 

The Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development (DPIHD), Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ, will make a pastoral trip to the Republic of South Sudan from February 2 to 9, 2024, to mark one year after Pope Francis visited the country in 2023.

In a presentation entitled “Understanding the Emerging Synodal Church in the light of ‘Praedicate Evangelium’,” Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J., the general rapporteur of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops tells a meeting of African and European bishops that the new Constitution reforming the Roman Curia was necessary for the Church to rediscover itself and respond to the needs of the time.

In a message of hope and outlining the agenda of the first 2024 plenary of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC), President Bishop Sithembele Sipuka highlights the successes and challenges of the previous year; gives a background of the position of the bishops on Fiducia Supplicans and pays a glowing tribute to South Africa late icons Zahara and Mbongeni Ngema.