Category: ARCHIVES

LUANDA JULY 5, 2016(CISA) – Angola is ready for African continent’s Assembly of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar’s (SECAM) 17th Plenary scheduled from July 18 – 25, 2016 in Luanda its capital city. According to Vatican Radio, Portuguese correspondent, Anastacio Sasembele reports that the Bishop of Caxito, António Jaka, met with the media […]

MONROVIA JULY 1, 2016(CISA)-UN Peace keeping mission in Liberia announced June 30 that it will be leaving the country. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told Reuters that much had been done to prepare for the transition, but that more was still needed adding that “this will be beginning a new phase of self-reliance.” “The constraints […]

JUBA JULY 1, 2016 (CISA) – The government has cancelled July 9 Independence Day celebrations due to economic crisis. “We decided not to celebrate the July 9 Independence Day, because we don’t want to spend that much,” Michael Makuei, the minister of information, told reporters on June 28 adding.  “We need to spend the little that […]

TIMBUKTU JULY 1, 2016 (CISA) – The United Nations Security Council has agreed to add 2,500 peacekeepers to the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali. The resolution, which was approved unanimously by the 15-nation council on June 29, stated that the Mali peacekeeping mission (MINUSMA) should “take all necessary means to carry out its mandate … […]

KINSHASA JULY 1, 2016 (CISA) – Catholic Bishops in the Democratic Republic of Congo have raised election concerns that threaten to plunge the country into chaos. According to the Constitution, presidential and parliamentary elections should be held by the end of the year but so far, a date has not been established, reported Fides “This […]

DURBAN JUNE 28, 2016 (CISA) – Bishop Abel Gabuza of the Catholic diocese of Kimberly has expressed concern about rising levels of violence and political intolerance ahead of 2016 municipal elections and has warned South Africans not to take the country’s peace for granted. “The peace that we currently enjoy in our country should not […]

WAU, JUNE 28 2016(CISA)-The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is currently accommodating thousands of civilians fleeing violence in Wau state. In a statement June 27, UNMISS  said that it provided protection to approximately 10,000 civilians who fled the violence June 17-18 when fighting erupted in the town between unknown gunmen and the South […]

KINSHASA, JUNE 28, 2016 (CISA) – The National Conference of Bishops (CENCO), has called for immediate national dialogue ahead of the forthcoming general elections to avert possibilities of violence. “A political dialogue is now the only way to avoid chaos, political leaders should make the needed concessions for a sincere national dialogue to take place,” […]

ABUJA JUNE 28, 2016 (CISA) – A delegation of Nigerian bishops from Ibadan ecclesiastical province paid a solidarity visit to the Diocese of Maiduguri that has been devastated by Boko Haram. The delegation was led by Archbishop Gabriel ’Leke Abegunrin of the catholic Archdiocese of Ibadan, and Bishop Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo, Bishop of the catholic […]

NEW YORK JUNE 24, 2016 (CISA)– The United Nations Security Council on June 23 urged the president of Democratic Republic of Congo to hold elections by the end of the year as required by the constitution. In a resolution to renew UN sanctions, the 15-member Security Council emphasized the protection of fundamental freedoms and human […]