Category: ARCHIVES

ITALY, MAY 15 2015(CISA) – On Wednesday May 12, Caritas Internationalis welcomed Caritas South Sudan as its member number 165, during its twentieth General Assembly in Rome, Italy. According to South Sudan Humanitarian Coordinator Joseph Pasquale, Caritas Internationalis 136 delegates from the world unanimously voted in South Sudan Catholic Church charity organization as its full […]

MONROVIA, MAY 12, 2015(CISA)-The World Health Organisation and the Liberian government has declared the country free from Ebola. The MSF’s Head of Mission in Liberia said that the Liberian government and people have worked hard to help them achieve 42 days of zero Ebola cases. Close to 200 Liberians health workers died after contracting the […]

KAKAMEGA, MAY 12 2015 (CISA) – Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) has introduced an anti-terrorism course in its curriculum to help advance efforts to fight terrorism in the country. The special program is compulsory for all the students and members of staff joining the university from September 2015 following the April 2 […]

ACCRA, MAY 12, 2015(CISA)-Church leaders in Ghana have called on African governments to create employment opportunities for Africa’s unemployed youth. “We strongly urge African governments to do all they can to create the necessary conducive political and socio-economic environments and employment opportunities for our teeming unemployed youth,” the leaders said in a joint statement issued […]

NAIROBI, MAY 12, 2015(CISA)-Church leaders in Kenya on Monday May 11 held interdenominational prayers in remembrance of the 148 people killed in Garissa on April 2. The prayers held at Ufungamano house in Nairobi brought together church leaders from the Catholic Church, Africa Inland Church, Deliverance church, and the Presbyterian Church. “As we remember the […]

NAIROBI MAY 8, 2015(CISA) – The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) has expressed concern over the recent High court ruling allowing the registration of an Association Gays and Lesbians. “This is a deliberate attempt by certain individuals and institutions to push dangerous agendas and ideologies that are unnatural, un-African and un-Christian. It is a […]

BUJUMBURA MAY 8, 2015(CISA) – The Catholic bishops of Burundi have urged the country to go on and hold elections in order to ease tension in the country and to have institutions in place. “We strongly recommend elections to be held so that the country has institutions elected by the people,” said the bishops in […]

DURBAN MAY 8, 2015(CISA) – The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) has donated a sum of R100, 000 to help victims of the recent xenophobic attacks in the country. The donation was made to the Pastoral Centre for refugees of the Archdiocese of Durban, one of the cities where most of the violent acts […]

NAIROBI MAY 8, 2015(CISA) -The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops has urged the government to take decisive actions to curb spiraling insecurity in the country. In a statement read by Archbishop Zacchaeus Okoth, Chairman of the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission, the bishops noted that as a country, we cannot sit back as Kenyans continue to […]

NAIROBI MARCH 24, 2015(CISA)-The Franciscans Mother Earth Network and Kenya Forest Service- a government organization mandated to take care of forests in Kenya in collaboration with other stakeholders came together to plant trees on March 21 to mark the international Day of Forests. Speaking during the celebrations at Ngong Forest Primary School, Fr Herman Borg, […]