2+ hour, 24+ min ago   (812+ words) Jan 18, 2026 / 07:00 am Archbishop Dabula Mpako of South Africa's Catholic Archdiocese of Pretoria has issued a canonical decree requiring a group of parishioners who reportedly incited a series of protests at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in the archdiocese to…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (619+ words) ACI Africa, Nov 26, 2025 / 14:43 pm The National Catholic Board of Education (NCBE) and the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) Justice and Peace Commission have issued a" joint statement condemning the rising wave of violence affecting schools across South Africa, describing…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (858+ words) ACI Africa, Nov 14, 2025 / 12:24 pm The bishop of the Diocese of Bagamoyo in Tanzania has denounced the extrajudicial killings connected to the country's disputed Oct. 29 general elections, stressing that those suspected of breaking the law should be allowed to go through…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (402+ words) ACI Africa, Oct 24, 2025 / 12:32 pm A Catholic priest in Burkina Faso has appealed for prayers for the safe release of an evangelical Christian missionary abducted in Niger on Tuesday, Oct. 21. The note further said the American missionary is "dedicated to training…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (553+ words) ACI Africa, Sep 29, 2025 / 15:24 pm Members of the Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD) marked the International Day of Peace on Sept. 21 with an appeal to the international community to cancel Zimbabwe's debt, saying such a step would help revive the…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago   (504+ words) ACI Africa, Sep 17, 2025 / 06:00 am Four members of the Missionary Sisters of St. Th'r'se of the Child Jesus (MCST) in Tanzania are among five people who lost their lives in a tragic road accident in the country's Archdiocese of Mwanza on…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago   (680+ words) ACI Africa, Sep 11, 2025 / 14:04 pm Archbishop In'cio Saure of the Archdiocese of Nampula in Mozambique and other Church leaders in the southern African country have denounced the illegal occupation of Church land in the country and the inaction of authorities there....

5+ mon, 5+ day ago   (100+ words) Catholic News Agency provides reliable, free, up-to-the-minute news affecting the Universal Church, giving particular emphasis to the words of the Holy Father and happenings of the Holy See, to any person with access to the internet. A service of EWTN…...

6+ mon, 18+ hour ago   (912+ words) ACI Africa, Jul 17, 2025 / 14:28 pm Bishop Joseph Mary Kizito of the Southern African Catholic Bishops" Conference (SACBC) said on July 15 that South Africa"s health sector has been brought to its knees not by foreign nationals, but by the recent suspension…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago   (851+ words) Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 11, 2025 / 14:23 pm Here's a roundup of Catholic world news from the past week that you might have missed. Plans are underway for the first-ever Eucharistic congress to take place in Malawi, a country in southeast Africa, according to…...