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In an emotional encounter but one that was spiritly lived as a witness of God’s mercy and the power of unrelenting prayers, members of the Missionary of Africa (White Fathers) gathered in Rome at their generalate both in person and online for a thanksgiving and testimony conference, heard the touching and inspiring testimonies of the Lord’s grace from their confreres: Seminarian Dominic Merikiori Mahinini and Frs Hans-Joachim Lohre (Ha-Jo) MAfr and Paul Sanogo MAfr who were kidnapped between the years of 2022 and 2023 for a total of 392 days. 

Ahead of President Felix Tshisekedi's inauguration on January 20, 2024, and with presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) still contested, Catholic bishop's condemned the December elections as fraudulent and warned that it could undermine the unity of the fragile country.

The Association of Sisterhoods of Kenya (AOSK) has launched the second phase of the Sisters Led Youth Empowerment Initiative (SLYI) program, which focuses on expanding provisions of quality technical skills and services to disadvantaged and vulnerable youth across the country in an elaborate ceremony held at the Savelberg Retreat Center, Nairobi, on January 14, 2023.

Irish-born Fr Gabriel Dolan, a member of the St. Patrick’s Missionary Society (Kiltegans), founder and Executive Director of Haki Yetu Organization, which advocates for the rights of the marginalized communities living in informal settlements in Mombasa and an activist against land and historical land injustices in the region will be presented with the 2023 Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad at an awards ceremony in Ireland on January 16, 2024.

Friends, family and confreres of the late Fr Josiah Asa K’Okal, IMC have eulogized the late priest as a man of the people and a jovial priest who never shied away from living his missionary life as a Consolata, especially in his mission of evangelizing the people on the margin of society.