VATICAN CITY MAY 23, 2017 (CISA) – Pope Francis has elevated Archbishop Jean Zerbo of Bamako to the rank of Cardinal alongside five other prelates. “I wish to announce that on June 28, a consistory will be held to appoint five new Cardinals. Their origin from different parts of the world manifests the catholicity of the […]

CAIRO MAY 23, 2017(CISA)-Egypt has referred 48 people for military trial over suspected involvement in church bombings that killed close to 70 people. Bombings near Cairo’s Coptic Church December 2016 killed 25 people while two church bombings April 9 2017, in Alexandria and Tanta killed more than 45 people during Palm Sunday services. Islamic State claimed […]

KINSHASA MAY 23, 2017 (CISA) – A fourth person has died in an Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a spokesman from the World Health Organization (WHO) said on May 23. Since the WHO declared the outbreak on May 12 in north-eastern Bas-Uele province, 37 suspected cases are being monitored, WHO’s Congo spokesman […]

KITUI MAY 19, 2017(CISA)- Bishop Anthony Muheria has urged Christians of the Catholic diocese of Kitui, where he worked for nine years, to pray for him as he prepares to take up his new role as the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Nyeri. “…I must confess how hard it was and still is, for me to […]

NAIROBI MAY 19, 2017(CISA)- Cardinal Berhaneyesus Souraphiel, President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Ethiopia (CBCE) and Chairman of the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) has called on all Kenyans to pray ahead of the General Elections. “I would request Kenyans citizens to continue to pray for peaceful elections. The people […]

DAR ES SALAAM, MAY 19, 2017(CISA) – Bishop Salutaris Libena,  chairman of the Liturgy department of TEC  has urged priests to use new regulations of the Roman Missal. Roman Missal is a liturgical book containing the prayers and responses needed when celebrating the Roman Catholic Mass throughout the year. Speaking during a diocesan liturgy coordinators meeting which involved coordinators […]

Through the parish priests My dear Christians of Kitui, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says Yahweh…” (Is 55, 8) The Lord’s ways are indeed different from your own. But His will is always right… by now you have all received the news of my transfer to the […]

MASERU MAY 16, 2017(CISA)-Christian Council of Lesotho has called on Lesotho’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to speed up preparations to conduct free and fair General elections in June 3. “We are glad preparations for elections are underway. The Independent Electoral Commission must keep working around the clock to try to manage the process. What we demand […]

ABIDJAN MAY 16, 2017 (CISA) – Soldiers in Ivory Coast have today accepted a government proposal on bonus payments and agreed to return to barracks, ending a five-day mutiny over pay. The proposal accepted by the soldiers’ means 8,400 mutineers will receive an immediate bonus payment of 5 million CFA francs ($8,400). Another 2 million CFA […]

LAGOS MAY 16, 2017(CISA)-Pope Francis has appointed Nigerian Archbishop, Jude Thaddeus Okolo as Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland. Archbishop Okolo becomes the first African to represent the Holy See in the country. He previously served as nuncio to the Central African Republic and Chad in 2008, then as diplomatic representative to the Dominican Republic in 2013. […]