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The Catholic Diocese of Manzini, the only diocese in the Kingdom of Eswatini, has launched the Diocesan Jubilee Year, celebrating 110 years of the arrival of the first Catholic Missionaries to Africa’s absolute monarchy.
20 bishops from the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) and the Council of European Bishops' Conferences (CCEE) gathered in Nairobi for a three-day seminar from January 23 to 26, 2024, to deliberate on their shared responsibilities in evangelization, mission, and pastoral care in light of the current developments in the universal Church; the Apostolic Constitution "Praedicate Evangelium" and the Synodality.
The Catholic bishops noted with concern that the failure of the government to live up to its responsibility of providing welfare to the people in the face of hard economic times and initiating sound policies that could revive the economy of the country, thereby creating a thriving business environment is leading young people and professionals to give up everything to emigrate in search of jobs and better living conditions.
A select number of Catholic bishops from the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) and the Council of European Bishops' Conferences (CCEE) are set to hold a three-day seminar from January 23 to 26, 2024, in Nairobi to deliberate on Synodality and the shared commitments and solidarity between the Churches of Africa and Europe.
With a continued and overwhelming opposition to the Vatican declaration Fiducia Supplicans (On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings) by African bishops, which admittedly allowed the blessing of individuals in same-sex unions, Catholic bishops of the Owerri Ecclesiastical Province in Nigeria have reiterated their rejection to the document approved by Pope Francis.