Month: November 2014

BABOUA, NOVEMBER, 28, 2014, (CISA) – A polish missionary amongst 16 hostages abducted by Muslim rebels from the Central African Republic (CAR) on October 12 has been freed after two months in captivity. “A special operation by Cameroonian defence and security forces permitted the liberation of 15 Cameroonian hostages… as well as the Polish priest […]

FREETOWN, NOVEMBER, 28, 2014, (CISA) – Caritas Sierra Leone has joined the Fatima House of Light project run by the Handmaid Sister’s in its continuing intervention in the fight against the Ebola Virus. According to the Director of the Caritas Office, the Archdiocese of Freetown, Fr Peter Koteh, the aim of the project is to […]

John Cardinal Njue has called on consecrated men and women to use the year of consecrated life as a time of reflection. “Unlike other celebrations declared by the Church, the year of consecrated life is an activity that is calling those of you who have formally been consecrated to God through religious vows acknowledged by […]

NAIROBI NOVEMBER 28, 2014(CISA) – The Chairman of Communications Commission of Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB), Bishop Martin Kivuva has urged the government to improve its fight against terrorism through technology. The Bishop was speaking on November 26 during the launch of new collection of eBooks and eCommerce website by the Paulines Publications Africa […]

NAKURU NOVEMBER 28, 2014(CISA) -Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (CJPC) Chairman, Archbishop Zacchaeus Okoth has asked the government to declare the current state of insecurity in the county as national disaster. In a statement titled “Kenya a mourning nation… Act now” issued during the commission’s annual planning meeting on Wednesday November 26 at St Mary’s […]

PORT MORESBY, NOVEMBER 25, 2014(CISA) – Archbishop Stephen Reichert, Chairman of Catholic Church Health Services (CCHS), has called on the government to release salary and operational funds to the Churches to boost health services. He said that “health services in Papua New Guinea are suffering because the Government is not releasing funds promptly enough.” “We […]

MARSABIT, NOVEMBER 25, 2014(CISA) – Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya, Archbishop Charles Balvo has called on the faithful to unite and accept one another since in the Church there are no strangers. Speaking during the celebration to mark the closing of the Golden Jubilee year of the Catholic Diocese of Marsabit on Sunday, November 23, Archbishop […]

NAIROBI, NOVEMBER 25, 2014(CISA) – “This is a disease that can be handled and this is a crisis we will overcome but only if we work together,” the General Secretary of World Council of Churches (WCC), Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit has said. “Let us work together with all those who have good will, knowledge […]

NAIROBI NOVEMBER 25, 2014(CISA) – The Franciscan Sisters of St Anna are set to start a Kenyan chapter, Superior General Sr Vita De Wild has said. “We have reached a point in the Holland that we only have 40 sisters at an average age of 85.The time has come definitely that the sisters here take […]

ROME, November 21 2014(CISA)-Pope Francis on Thursday November 20 condemned the excessive consumption and misuse of food, saying that often the statistics surrounding the topic of hunger are twisted for the sake of national security. “There are few subjects about which we find as many fallacies as those related to hunger; few topics as likely […]