BAMAKO AUGUST 28, 2015(CISA) – Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is working to support displaced people and hungry school students in Mali despite ongoing violence while calling for more humanitarian aid to help stabilize the country. “For Catholic Relief Services, this means that the lack of law and order in the North can cause humanitarian emergencies, and […]
Month: August 2015
S SUDAN: Rebels, Army Trade Blames over Attacks
JUBA AUGUST 28, 2015 (CISA) – South Sudanese rebels and the army have for the second time in a week accused each other of attacks, barely a day after President Salva Kiir signed a peace deal. Former Vice President Riek Machar said that South Sudanese government troops had attacked towns held by the rebels, reported Reuters. […]
UGANDA: Kampala Archdiocese Opens new Church in L Victoria Island
KAKYANGA AUGUST 28, 2015(CISA) – Catholic Archdiocese of Kampala on August 23 opened a new church to be known as St Mary Catholic Sub-Parish church at Kakyanga, one of Lake Victoria’s islands. The new sub-parish is under Buyege Catholic Parish in Bussi sub-county, Wakiso district. The church was opened by Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga of the […]
KENYA: President Kenyatta Calls for Collaboration to Handle Drug Menace
MOMBASA, AUGUST 28, 2015(CISA) – President Uhuru Kenyatta has called upon all leaders to join hands and work with security agencies to ensure elimination of drugs and substance abuse and traffickers made to pay for their crimes in Coast region. “My administration will not relent. We shall destroy any vessel on land, sea or air that […]
KENYA: Church that is not Missionary is not a Church, says Cardinal Njue
NAIROBI AUGUST 25, 2015 (CISA) – John Cardinal Njue has called upon faithful to embrace missionary work in their dioceses, parishes and the outstations. “The missionaries sacrificed their lives to bring us the good news. There in our outstations, parishes and the dioceses we must insist on embracing the missionary work. Remember if there is a church […]
S AFRICA: Benedict Daswa to be Beatified
JOHANNESBURG AUGUST 25 2015 (CISA) – Benedict Daswa will officially be declared blessed on September 13, 2015, the Southern Africa Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) has announced. “We invite as many as possible of the faithful to be present at the beatification ceremony. It is our wish that those who cannot come to the ceremony be united […]
NIGERIA: Bishops Call for Co-operation to End Corruption
IBADAN AUGUST 25, 2015(CISA) – The Catholic Bishops Conference of Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province in Nigeria urged Nigerians to cooperate with the government to create sanity by rejecting corruption in the county. “We call on our compatriots to cooperate with the current administration to bring sanity back into our country by showing common determination to reject corruption, […]
SUDAN: Michael Didi Adgum to Replace Cardinal Wako as Archbishop of Khartoum
KHARTOUM AUGUST 25, 2015 (CISA) – Pope Francis has appointed bishop Michael Didi Adgum Mungoria as Archbishop Coadjutor of Khartoum to replace Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako. Bishop Mungoria’s appointment that is to take effect January 2016 was announced on August 15 when Cardinal Wako retires from active service in the archdiocese of Khartoum. The Archbishop Coadjutor […]
DR CONGO: Stay in Africa and Build a Better Continent, Bishop Urges Youth
KINSHASA AUGUST 25, 2015 (CISA) – Bishop Nicolas Djomo of the Catholic Diocese of Tshumbe has called on the African youth not seek solutions to their problems outside their country but instead struggle to build a better society. “Do not allow false trappings of wealth lure you to move out of your countries in search of […]
KENYA: Nuncio urges Church in Africa to keep Investing in Youth
NAIROBI AUGUST 21, 2015(CISA)-Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya and South Sudan Archbishop Charles Balvo has said that Catholicism in Africa will grow further over the years if the Church continued to invest in the youth. “Nearly thirty years ago I lived in West Africa and the last two years in Kenya and I also travel often […]