KINSHASA, JANUARY 23, 2015 (CISA) –The Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo has urged people to peacefully oppose President Kabila move to delay presidential elections until a census is held and further condemned police brutality against protesters, reported BBC. The Catholic Church has backed protests against President Joseph Kabila extending his rule. Cardinal […]

NAIROBI JANUARY 23, 2015(CISA)–The Catholic Church in Kenya has no reason to fear the proposed regulations that would regulate and monitor religious leaders working in the country. In a phone interview with CISA, the Chairman of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB), Commission for Clergy and Religious (Liaison Committee) Bishop Anthony Ireri Mukobo, said […]

NAIROBI JANUARY 23, 2015(CISA) – The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) has expressed concern over the increasing incidences of grabbing of public utility land by the so called ‘private developers’. In a statement signed by Bishop Anthony Crowley, on the grabbing of Lang’ata Primary School playground and the brutal action of the police on protesting […]

NAIROBI JANUARY 20, 2015(CISA) – Bishop Virgilio Pante, the chairman of the KCCB Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Sea farers has called for reconciliation initiatives to help curb violence within refugee camps. Speaking during the World Refugee Day at the Kakuma Refugee camp in the Catholic diocese of Lodwar on Sunday January 18, Bishop Pante […]

NAIROBI, JANUARY 20, 2015 (CISA) – Archbishop Peter Kairo of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nyeri has invited Christians to renew their bond of communion in service to the Church. In a statement sent to CISA, to mark the opening of the annual week of prayer for Christian unity, Archbishop Kairo urged Christians to “live with […]

BAHIR DAR, JANUARY 20, 2015(CISA) – Pope Francis has erected a new Diocese in Ethiopia which will be known as the Diocese of Bahir Dar – Dessie. The new diocese in Ethiopia has joined together the two districts of Bahir Dar and Dessie.   The new diocese or eparchy will have as its new Bishop, Lisane-Christos […]

ACCRA, JANUARY 20, 2015(CISA) – Leaders from West African countries will this week be holding a regional summit under the regional block ECOWAS to discuss the possibility of forming a united military force to fight Boko Haram. Speaking to Reuters on Friday January 16, Ghana’s President John Mahama and chairman of the ECOWAS said the […]

NAIROBI, JANUARY 20, 2015(CISA) – President Uhuru Kenyatta today faulted the Ministry of Lands and the National Land Commission for failing to resolve the Lang’ata Road Primary School land dispute. “We will begin to take action against Government officials who fail in their mandates,” said President Kenyatta following the tear-gassing of pupils protesting the grabbing […]

FREE TOWN, JANUARY 20, 2015(CISA) – Pujehun district in the southern region of Sierra Leone has gone for 44 days without any new case of the Ebola virus, Sadiq Siilah the chairman of the district council has said. Records show that since the outbreak occurred in the district on August 8 last year, there had […]

COLOMBO, JANUARY 16, 2015(CISA) – Pope Francis said that there are limits to freedom of expression, especially when it insults or ridicules someone’s faith. He gave the response to a question put to him by a French journalist regarding Paris terror attacks on Thursday 15 during a press conference on the flight from Sri Lanka to […]