ENUGU, DECEMBER 15, 2017(CISA)-The Catholic Television of Nigeria (CTV) has won five awards at the just concluded 2017 SIGNIS Nigeria Film Festival. The prizes were presented to AFRICAN CREDO, the music video of nine songs which has become the best-selling CD and DVD in religious circles since its launch mid this year, Nigeria’s Daily Trust Newspaper […]
JUBA DECEMBER 15, 2017(CISA)-Amnesty International, an international human rights agency has called for urgent global interventions to end the horrific human rights violations in South Sudan. “Coordinated and sustained international action is needed now more than ever to end the suffering in South Sudan, especially as the rainy season ends and the dry season begins, […]
DURBAN DECEMBER 8, 2017 (CISA) – About 5000 young people are attending Southern Africa’s Mini World Youth Day (MWYD) in South Africa’s third largest city Durban situated in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The conference which began on December 6 and will run until December 10 is dubbed ‘Mini World you Day,’ and is under the theme “The Mighty […]
CONAKRY DECEMBER 8, 2017(CISA) – Guinea has initiated a joint initiative of reconciliation with Mali after violence broke out at a gold mine at the border between the two countries. Bouréma Condé, Minister of the Territory of Guinea and his counterpart from Mali, Tiéman Hubert Koulibaly, said that it was important to restore friendship and […]
LUSAKA, DECEMBER 8, 2017(CISA) – Archbishop Telesphore-George Mpundu of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lusaka has said that the Church in Zambia will not recognize divorce being carried out in civil courts in the country. “The Church does not recognize divorces granted by civil courts of whatever level granted to Catholic couples because a validly contracted Catholic […]
MONROVIA DECEMBER 8, 2017 (CISA) – Liberia’s Supreme Court on December 7 cleared the way for a presidential run-off election, stating that it had not found enough evidence of fraud to halt the whole process. In a 4-1 majority ruling the court dismissed a complaint from the third-place finisher Charles Brumskine’s Liberty Party, which had […]
JUBA DECEMBER 5, 2017(CISA) – Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala of the Catholic Diocese of Tombura-Yambio has called on the South Sudanese to work together for peace in the country. “We are never defined by our past but our present, as no matter how hard the past, you can always start again. We wish to forget the […]
ACCRA, DECEMBER 5, 2017(CISA) – “I beg you my sons and daughters please do not let anybody deceive you, you have seen it with your own naked eyes the sufferings your brothers are going through in the desert, being eaten up by wild animals, pirates and drowning in the Mediterranean,” Archbishop Charles Gabriel Palmer-Buckle has told […]
VATICAN CITY DECEMBER 5, 2017 (CISA) – Pope Francis on December 2 appointed Rev Mirosław Gucwa, as the new bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Bouar. Until his appointment, the bishop-elect was the Vicar General of the Catholic Diocese of Bouar, reported Fides. According to the Vatican, the Pope on the same day accepted the renunciation […]
LILONGWE, DECEMBER 5, 2017(CISA)- Archbishop Thomas Luke Msusa of Blantyre, the chairman of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) has challenged the pro-abortion and pro-life activists to give room for a referendum so as citizens can decide what is good for them and the society. He warned them of generalising that majority of people are […]
