NAIROBI JUNE 23, 2015(CISA) – Bishop Virgilio Pante, on June 21 urged refugees in Kenya not to lose hope despite the difficulties they face every day. The bishop who is also the Vice chairman of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB), Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Seafarers was speaking at St. John the Baptist Riruta […]
Day: 23 June 2015
NIGERIA: Re-introduce Religious Education in Schools, Archbishop Martins Urges
LAGOS, JUNE 23 2015 (CISA) – Archbishop Alfred Martins of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, has called for the re-introduction of moral and religious education in Nigeria’s education curriculum. In a press statement, Archbishop Martins said religious education is important to help stem the, “alarming rate of moral decadence in educational institutions and in Nigerian society,” […]
KENYA: Cardinal Njue Urges Christians to Respect the Family Unit
NAIROBI JUNE 23, 2015(CISA)-Cardinal John Njue has called upon Christians to respect the institution of the family as the basic platform for social well being. He observed that emerging errant characters among the youth can be greatly attributed to shaky family set ups in which the children are not given the attention they crave. The cardinal was speaking […]
S SUDAN: Do Not Abandon the Displaced, Priest Urges NGO’s
TORIT JUNE 23 2015 (CISA) – Fr Mark Opere Omol, spokesman for the Catholic diocese of Torit in South Sudan has made an appeal to the few humanitarian organizations that have remained in the country not to leave. “The UN estimates that about 4 million and 600 thousand people are at risk of starvation. There is […]