BUJUMBURA SEPTEMBER 15, 2015(CISA) – Conference of Catholic Bishops of Burundi (CECAB) has appealed for peace in the country after series of violence rocked the nation since President Pierre Nkurunziza was declared a winner in the presidential elections in July. In a statement issued at the end of their Plenary Assembly in early September, the Bishops […]

NAIROBI SEPTEMBER 15, 2015(CISA) – John Cardinal Njue has called upon Christians and well wishers to support the beatification process of Servant of God Maurice Cardinal Otunga. “Servant of God Maurice Michael Otunga touched the hearts of many through his leadership, concern for the less fortunate and promotion of justice. His beatification process needs financial resources […]

JOHANNESBURG SEPTEMBER 15, 2015 (CISA) – Pope Francis has declared February 1 as the feast day of Blessed Benedict Daswa who was beatified on September 13 in South Africa. Cardinal Angelo Amato, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints presided over the beatification ceremony that took place in Tshitanini, Thohoyandou, Limpopo, South Africa […]

JUBA SEPTEMBER 15 2015 (CISA) – South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has called on everyone in the country to “join hands” in implementing the recently signed peace deal to end more than 20 months of conflict, Reuters reported. “I call upon all of you to join hands with me,” President Kiir said September 15 and urged […]

ELDORET SEPTEMBER 11, 2015(CISA) – The Catholic Church has raised concerns over a vaccination that allegedly killed two babies in Elgeyo Marakwet County, calling for a public announcement of their postmortem results. “The church has more often than not raised concerns over vaccination administration in the country but the national government has ignored our input,” Bishop […]

BISSAU, SEPTEMBER 11, 2015(CISA) – Guinea Bissau’s President Jose Mario Vaz has dissolved his two-day-old cabinet after the Supreme Court ruled that his appointment of a new prime minister was unconstitutional. President Vaz fired Guinea Bissau’s Prime Minister Domingos Simoes Pereira in August and replaced him with Baciro Dja, prompting the nation into a political crisis, […]

VATICAN CITY SEPTEMBER 11, 2015 (CISA) – The Vatican on September 10 confirmed that Pope Francis will make his first apostolic visit to the African continent November 25-30. “Accepting the invitation issued by the respective Heads of State and the Bishops, His Holiness Francis will make an Apostolic Trip to Kenya from November 25 to 27, […]

JUBA SEPTEMBER 11, 2015(CISA) – South Sudan’s parliament has unanimously voted to adopt last month’s peace deal agreed by President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar. In a special parliamentary session held on September 10, 212 legislators present endorsed the peace deal which the two parties signed on August 17 and 26 respectively to end […]

OUAGADOUGOU SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 (CISA)– Catholic bishops of Burkina Faso have called for conversion among citizens and a change in mindset for peaceful, free and transparent elections. “All of us should aspire to a democracy which requires especially a change of mentality at all levels to achieve peaceful elections that are free and transparent,” said the bishops […]

TETE SEPTEMBER 8, 2014(CISA)-President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi of Mozambique has praised the role of the Catholic Church in the preservation of peace and national reconciliation in the country in the past years. Speaking during a religious Mass at St. Joseph Catholic Cathedral on September 7 in the western city of Tete, President Nyusi noted that […]