Day: 2 March 2016

NYERI, MARCH 1, 2016 (CISA) – Archbishop Peter Kairu on Monday February 29, led the faithful of Catholic Archdiocese of Nyeri in breaking the ground for the construction of a shrine in memory of Sr Irene Stefani ‘Nyaatha.’ The shrine will be constructed in Gikondi parish, where Sr Irene Stefani who was beatified in May […]

ACCRA MARCH 1, 2016 (CISA) – West African bishops have expressed solidarity with countries in the region affected by persistent terrorist attacks during the just concluded second West African Catholic Bishops’ regional plenary assembly in Accra, Ghana. In a statement sent to CISA, the bishops stated that violence perpetrated by extremist groups such as  Boko […]

NAIROBI, MARCH 1, 2016 (CISA) – African nations with high numbers of refugees and migrants have been encouraged to cultivate peace and enhance development so that they may reduce such forms of exodus from their countries. During a workshop organised by the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) and attended by the Commission for Refugees, […]

ACCRA MARCH 1, 2016(CISA) – Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Jos and President of the Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria has been elected the new president of The Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (RECOWA) and The Regional Episcopal Conference of Francophone West Africa (CERAO). Archbishop Kaigama takes over from Cardinal Théodore Adrien Sarr, Archbishop Emeritus of […]

VATICAN CITY MARCH 1, 2016(CISA)-Pope Francis has called for peaceful coexistence in the face of “a devastating outbreak of violence against Christians in the world.” Speaking when he received  Ethiopian Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Pope Matthias I, in the Vatican February 29, Pope Francis told Pope Matthias I “what unites us is […]