The letter Pope Francis sent Monday to the world’s Roman Catholics acknowledged the latest round of child sex-abuse scandals in the United States – yet his words reached across the globe to African Catholics too, just weeks after the Church’s nuns also spoke out about sexual abuse at the hands…
Six people were killed Sunday in Kinshasa, as security forces shut down protest marches against President Joseph Kabila’s government organized by lay leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Roman Catholic churches. Florence Marchal, a spokeswoman for the United Nations mission there, told MONUSCO-affiliated Radio Okapi that there also were…
In Democratic Republic of Congo, the Roman Catholic community leaders planning a peaceful march on Sunday say they will go ahead with the protest despite a lack of approval from Kinshasa authorities. The Comité Laïc de Coordination (CLC) said Friday that “Christians, believers and men and women of goodwill” from all walks…
Roman Catholic bishops meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi on Wednesday praised his recent decision to commute the sentences of death-row inmates, as well as the release of 7,000 prisoners incarcerated for minor crimes. John Cardinal Njue, the Archbishop of Nairobi, and Rt. Rev. Philip Anyolo, chairman of the…