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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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African cardinal: Fiducia Supplicans seen as ‘cultural colonization, Western imperialism’

March 20, 2024 Catholic News Agency 24

A screenshot of Fridolin Cardinal Ambongo during the March 17 interview with KTO. / Credit: KTO

ACI Africa, Mar 20, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA).
Fiducia Supplicans, the declaration by the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith (DDF) permitting t… […]

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German bishops to Church in Africa: Initiate canonization of German martyrs

March 16, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

German martyrs who gave their lives in the service of the Gospel in Africa. Clockwise from top left to bottom right: Bishop Cassian (Franz Anton) Spiess, Father Karl Maria Weber, Brother Bernhard Ignatius Sarnes, Bishop Adolph Schmitt, Sister Ma… […]

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Christians in Gaza face ‘worst period’ since start of war, report says

March 14, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Celebration of Mass at Holy Family Parish in Gaza. / Credit: ACN & Holy Family Parish

ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 14, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).
The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has released a report highlighting that the Chr… […]

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Attack on Coptic monastery in South Africa takes lives of three monks

March 13, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

The Coptic Orthodox Church said Pope Tawadros II is aware of the attack that happened March 12, 2024, in the Coptic monastery of St. Mark and St. Bishop Samuel the Confessor in Johannesburg, South Africa. / Credit: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Imag… […]

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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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Gaza teen waits to follow vocation: ‘My faith is flourishing amidst the challenges of war’

March 11, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

Suhail Shadi Abu Dawod with Father Gabriel Romanelli, the parish priest of Gaza, on the seashore in Gaza last summer 2023. Romanelli, belongs to the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE), a Catholic clerical religious institute founded in Argent… […]

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Bishop-elect in Central African Republic vows to foster peace through dialogue with rebel groups

March 6, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Monsignor Aurelio Gazzera, coadjutor Bishop-Elect of the Diocese of Bangassou in the Central African Republic (CAR). / Credit: ACN

ACI Africa, Mar 6, 2024 / 16:20 pm (CNA).
Monsignor Aurelio Gazzera, coadjutor bishop-elect of the Diocese of Ban… […]

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This tailoring shop in Jordan helps Iraqi refugees knit their lives back together

March 3, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Woolen scarves produced at the Rafedìn tailoring workshop in Amman, Jordan. The workshop is hosted in the premises of the Latin parish of Mar Yousef and it provides employment for approximately 20 young Iraqi women who sought refuge in Jordan. /… […]

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Vatican reiterates calls for hostage returns, cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war

February 29, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

A picture taken from a position in southern Israel on Feb. 29, 2024, shows smoke billowing over the Gaza Strip amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. / Credit: JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images

CNA Staff, Feb… […]

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