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Lifting of moratorium on death penalty in Congo ‘a step backwards,’ cardinal says

March 22, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Map of Congo. / Shutterstock

ACI Africa, Mar 22, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).
The decision by the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to lift a 2003 ban on the death penalty is retrogressive, the local ordinary of the country’s Kinsh… […]

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South Sudan bishop: Our people ‘on brink of destitution, slowly perishing’

March 11, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

A camp for Internally Displaced Persons in Renk, South Sudan. / Credit: Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development (DPIHD)

ACI Africa, Mar 11, 2024 / 17:55 pm (CNA).
The people of God in South Sudan are in urgent need of external suppor… […]

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Pope Francis erects new diocese, names bishop in West African country of Guinea

February 23, 2024 Catholic News Agency 4

Monsignor Moïse Tinguiano was appointed bishop of the newly erected Diocese of Boké in Guinea on Feb. 22, 2024. / Credit: Conakry Archdiocese

Rome Newsroom, Feb 23, 2024 / 13:40 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis on Thursday erected the new Diocese of Boké… […]

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Nigeria fast becoming a hostile killing field, Catholic bishops in Ibadan province say

February 12, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Catholic Bishops of Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province in Nigeria. / Credit: Bishop Emmanuel Badejo

Ado Ekiti, Nigeria, Feb 12, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA).
Catholic bishops in Nigeria’s Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province (IEP) are alarmed by the recurrent a… […]

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British Catholic politician demands justice for Christians killed in Nigeria at Christmas

January 22, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Margaret and Dominic Attah with Lord Alton and other parliamentarians on # RedWednesday 2023. / Credit: Aid to the Church in Need

ACI Africa, Jan 22, 2024 / 16:45 pm (CNA).
British politician Lord David Alton of Liverpool has called on the U.K…. […]

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African bishops: ‘No blessing for homosexual couples in the African Churches’

January 11, 2024 Catholic News Agency 18

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM). / Credit: François-Régis Salefran, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 11, 2024 / 14:25 pm (CNA).
In… […]

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Black Pentecostal leader urges pope to withdraw same-sex blessing document

December 29, 2023 Catholic News Agency 6

Rev. Eugene F. Rivers III. / Credit: Ben P L from Provo, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 29, 2023 / 12:20 pm (CNA).
With some African bishops expressing concerns about the Vatican’s new same-sex blessing … […]

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Cardinal Sarah addresses First African Congress on liturgy

December 10, 2023 Catholic News Agency 6

Cardinal Robert Sarah, former prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. / Credit: Bohumil Petrik/CNA

ACI Africa, Dec 10, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).
The emphasis of cultural elements over Christian ones dur… […]

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Human Life International says pro-life training has reached 10,000 African seminarians

November 14, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

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CNA Staff, Nov 14, 2023 / 16:10 pm (CNA).
Human Life International, a U.S.-based pro-life Catholic group, has trained more than 10,000 African seminarians in its anti-abortion programs over the las… […]

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Nigerian bishop: Tens of thousands spent to rescue kidnapped priests, seminarians

November 3, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

ACI Africa, Nov 3, 2023 / 14:15 pm A lack of security is impoverishing the Church in Nigeria, the bishop of Nigeria’s Sokoto Diocese said this week, noting that in the northern part of the country […]

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