NAIROBI JUNE 14, 2016(CISA)-Kenyan Communication Don, Sr. Prof. Agnes Lucy Lando has made history in Fukuoka – Japan, by being the first African to be nominated to the position of member-at-large for the International Communication Association (ICA). If the nomination goes through, Sr. Prof. Lando will not only be the first African to sit on […]
Month: June 2016
GHANA: Country Hosts SMA Plenary Council Meeting
ACCRA JUNE 14, 2016 (CISA) – The Ghana Regional Council of the Society of African Missions (SMA), has hosted the Plenary Council Meeting of the congregation at its Regional House at Oshuiman, Amamoley Estate in Accra from May 30 to June 11, 2016. The meeting is the second to be held in Africa since the […]
KENYA: More Time Needed to Repatriate Somali Refugees, UN tells Government
NAIROBI JUNE 14, 2016 (CISA) – UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi has urged the Kenyan government to relax its November deadline for sending about 350,000 Somalis home from the Dadaab Refugee camp since parts of their country are unsafe. “The places of origin of many of the refugees in Dadaab are still very […]
LUXEMBOURG: EU Ministers Seek to Reduce Migration Inflow from North Africa
LUXEMBOURG JUNE 10, 2016 (CISA) – The Justice and Home Affairs Council of the European Union are meeting today to look into ways to reduce the number of refugees seeking entry to Europe from Libya and elsewhere in north Africa. The EU is citing the growing instability in the EU’s southern neighborhood as the reason […]
GHANA: CEPACS Calls for Closer Collaboration of Catholic Media Organizations
ACCRA JUNE 10, 2016(CISA) –The Pan-African Episcopal Committee of Social Communications (CEPACS) is calling for closer collaboration with Regional and National Social Communications Offices in Africa so as “to meet the needs of the communication apostolate for evangelization.” In a Communiqué sent to CISA June 10, issued at the end of the Meeting of the […]
GHANA: Church Launches Caritas Ghana
ACCRA JUNE 10, 2016(CISA)-Caritas Ghana, a branch of Caritas Internationalis, which pursues the Catholic Church’s pastoral role, was on June 2 launched at the International Press Centre in Accra. Speaking when he launched the organization, Most Reverend Gabriel A. A. Mante President of Caritas Ghana and Bishop of the Jasikan Diocese said that it will […]
KENYA: Cardinal Njue signs up HeForShe Campaign, Calls on Men to Mentor the Boy Child
NAIROBI JUNE 7, 2016(CISA)-John Cardinal Njue on Saturday June 4 signed up for the HeForShe Campaign that seeks to build a global solidarity movement for gender equality. “Today I commit to support the HeforShe campaign as a strategy to strengthen the call gender of equality which will go a long way in supporting the boy […]
KENYA: Mother Earth Network wins Award for Conserving Environment
NAIROBI JUNE 7, 2016(CISA)-Franciscans Mother Earth Network has won the first ever Environmental Stewardship award for exemplary interfaith work in conservation of environment. “I am humbled to receive this gift on behalf of Mother Earth Network and I take this as a motivation for others to do more for our mother earth, more still needs […]
UGANDA: Emulate the Uganda Martyrs by Sticking to the Truth, Says Bishop
NAMUGONGO JUNE 7, 2016 (CISA) – Bishop Joseph Anthony Zziwa of the Catholic Diocese of Kiyinda-Mityana has called upon the faithful to emulate the Uganda Martyrs by sticking to the truth. In his homily during the celebration of Martyr’s Day at Namugongo Shrine June 3, 2016, Bishop Zziwa noted that “only the truth would save society […]
SENEGAL: Leaders from West Africa to form Regional Force to combat Terrorism
DAKAR, JUNE 7, 2016(CISA) – West African leaders have discussed the possibility of setting up a force to combat extremists in the region. The decision was announced after heads of state of regional economic body, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met for the 49th session on June 4, 2016 in Dakar, Senegal. “We […]