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Appointed Bishop of Kilwa-Kasenga by Pope Francis in January 2024, Monsignor Désiré LENGE MUKWENYE received episcopal ordination and took canonical possession of his diocese on Sunday March 10, 2024 during a mass celebrated by Monsignor Fulgence MUTEBA MAGALU, Metropolitan Archbishop of Lubumbashi.

God's work is completed to take the road to salvation. The awaited Messiah has become incarnate to manifest, as never before experienced, the marvelous plan of salvation. The third intervention of Nicodemus "How is this possible?" (Jn 3:9), led Jesus to reveal to us the great secret: how God loved the world! He gave the only Son so that whoever believes in him may have eternal life and not go to his destruction (Jn 3:16). It is this Son who lived in the celestial spheres. He can speak to us of these things from Above. He came into the world to bring us the Kingdom of his Father that he intends to establish. This is why he also speaks to us of the things of the earth. The image of the bronze serpent in the desert (Nm 21),

In a Cathedral flooded with guests, the evening opened with the prayer of Father Aloïs KHONDE (director of the pastoral center of the Archdiocese of Kinshasa) followed directly by the reading of the program and the welcome speech of Father Freddy NGWASHI (Secretary of the Episcopal Commission of the Liturgy-CENCO) and the word of the CENCO on the general provisions of the ANUARITE Year with presentation of the National and Diocesan Committee by Monsignor Donatien NSHOLE (Chaplain of His Holiness the Pope and Secretary General of the CENCO).

Moderated by Father Pacôme Likobe, Pastoral Secretary for the Kin-West Apostolic Region, the first day of the General Assembly of Pastoral Care brought together around Monsignor Édouard Isago (Auxiliary Bishop of Kinshasa in charge of Kin-West) and assisted by Monsignor Édouard Kisonga (Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus), the priests, nuns and some lay people of this part of the Kin-West Apostolic Region on the afternoon of Thursday, March 7, 2024.

From Wednesday 14 to Monday 26 February 2024, the Archbishop of Bangui, Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, had crisscrossed the entire diocese of Alindao to meet the sheep of this area filled with several challenges. Aboard his jeep, he had left Bangui with his team on the morning of 14 February. Apart from many villages lost in the forest, the Archbishop of Bangui visited 11 cities and towns by some roads that were maliciously passable.

Thus, on December 1, 2023, the entire Church of the DRC opened this year with the mass celebrated in each diocese. For the future, CENCO has planned this Thursday, March 7, 2024 at the Notre Dame du Congo Cathedral in Kinshasa at 4:00 p.m. a conference to announce the general provisions of this jubilee year around the theme of the jubilee... On the side of Mouvement de Bilenge ya Mwinda (Youth of Light), the CENCO press release of March 4, 2024 mentions that the year 2023-2024 corresponds with the commemoration of 50 years of the official recognition of the pastoral work of the Bilenge ya Mwinda movement by His Eminence Cardinal Joseph Albert MALULA.

How beautiful it is to learn on this Sunday that our God is jealous. His jealousy is the excess of his love for his creatures. He is not passive. It is in the profession of faith of the Jews that we can meditate on it (Dt 6,1-19): God wants to be listened to as the One. The divine laws given to man are a constitution that must govern the relationship between God and men and men among themselves. We are faced with the decalogue.

Jesus, who goes to meet wounded humanity, shows us the face of the Father. It may be that within us there remains the idea of a distant, cold God, indifferent to our fate. The Gospel, on the other hand, shows us that Jesus, after teaching in the synagogue, goes out so that the Word he preached can reach, touch and heal people...

Let us remember that the diocese of Dori in Burkina Faso is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Koupéla. It covers the entire Sahel region with the following provinces: Séno, Oudalan, Yagha and Soum. This diocese will celebrate its 20th anniversary on November 20, 2024 and is divided into five parishes until then. The first bishop of Dori is Joachim Ouédraogo (from November 20, 2004 - November 4, 2011), Monsignor Laurent Birfuoré Dabiré has been leading it as the second bishop since January 31, 2013.

God has outlined a plan of love for men. He remains its Guarantor so that they do not get lost. The transfiguration is proof that God watches over his plan. It is his word that is always at work. The witnesses of the Old Testament (Moses and Elijah) are present there to show the witnesses of the New Testament (Peter, James and John), those whom Paul calls the pillars of the Church (Gl 2,9), that the Word was made flesh. But the human eyes of the apostles could not go beyond the perceptible...

With the press release published in the middle of the day on February 23, 2024 by Father Cédric KONBGO-GBASSINGA, Secretary General of CECA, the people of God who are in Bangassou and the entire Church of Central Africa rejoiced to learn of the appointment, by the Holy Father, of Reverend Father AURELIO GAZZERA, OCD Missionary of the Order of Discalced Carmelites as coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Bangassou.