MUTARE NOVEMBER 14, 2017 (CISA)-Catholic Brazilian Franciscan Brother who was arrested and accused of trespassing in Zimbabwe’s Chiadzwa diamond fields has been released following payment of a fine of US$100 to the Mutare magistrates’ court. Rodrigo Peret of the Pastoral Land Commission of Uberlândia was arrested in Mukwada area alongside twenty others belonging to a group […]
MOGADISHU NOVEMBER 10, 2017(CISA)-Pope Francis has authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate Decree of Sr Leonella Rosa Sgorbati of Consolata Missionaries who was assassinated on September 17, 2006 in Mogadishu. Pope Francis made the announcement on November 8 in audience with Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B — Prefect of the Congregation for […]
NAKURU NOVEMBER 10, 2017(CISA) – Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) have promised to spearhead peace building initiatives across the country in remembrance of the late Bishop Cornelius Korir of the Catholic Diocese of Eldoret. In a statement read at the Christ the King Cathedral in the Catholic Diocese of Nakuru after a Holy Mass in […]
LUSAKA NOVEMBER 10, 2017 (CISA) –Archbishop Telesphore Mpundu, President Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) has said there is need to stop young people leaving the Church for the evangelicals. “As people who are on mission, we are not lone rangers. We move as a family. In the recent past we have head threats to the […]
NAKURU NOVEMBER 10, 2017(CISA)- The Conference of Catholic Bishops in Kenya (KCCB) yesterday held a special Mass for the late bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Eldoret, Rt. Rev. Cornelius Korir. The Mass that was celebrated at the Cathedral of Christ the King, Nakuru was led by His Eminence John Cardinal Njue of the Archdiocese of […]
VATICAN CITY, NOVMBER 9 2017- The Mass is not a show, but a beautiful, transformative encounter with the true loving presence of Christ, Pope Francis said. That is why people need to focus their hearts on God, not focus their smartphones for pictures during Mass, he said. When the priest celebrating Mass says, “Let us […]
DJIBOUTI OCTOBER 17, 2017 (CISA) – Bishop Giorgio Bertin of Djibouti has called on the people of Somalia to have hope and unity after the country suffered a deadly terrorist attack on October 14. “I would say that even though what has happened is a catastrophe, we mustn’t despair. It would be a double attack […]
NAIROBI, OCTOBER 13, 2017 (CISA) – “The current crisis can offer Kenya an opportunity to carry out honest dialogue about the underlying unresolved grievances, concerns and anguish,” the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) has said. While calling on Kenyans to desist from any act of violence, the bishop conference committed to resolving the political stalemate […]
NAIROBI OCTOBER 13, 2017 (CISA) –Amnesty International has condemned the government’s decision to ban demonstrations in the central business districts of the three main cities, Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu. According to the human rights NGO the ban may be used to legitimize police crackdowns. “This ban, announced just two weeks ahead of a fraught repeat […]
NAIROBI OCTOBER 10, 2017(CISA) – Bishop Alfred Rotich, emeritus of the Military Ordinariate has called on political parties to dialogue to solve the elections issues and enable Kenyans vote peacefully on October 26. “As the Church, we have reached out to political parties, asking them to dialogue with each other for the sake of Kenyans who […]
