Church News

The University of Kalemie vibrated this Thursday, April 16, 2024 under the intellectual air of His Excellency Monsignor Jean-Christophe Amade Aloma, Bishop of the Diocese of Kalemie-Kirungu (DRC). It is under the theme of The family and its foundation that this conference-debate was built. An intellectual and memorable meeting in this Alma mater which saw the participation of professors, priests, sisters, students and lay intellectuals.

After so much speculation about the letter from the Attorney General of the Court of Cassation to the Attorney General of the Court of Appeal of Matete, the veil has just been lifted by the meeting of this Thursday, April 16, 2024 with the meeting of the President of the Republic Felix Antoine Tshisekedi and Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo. Following the information published by the Focal Point of Presidential News in its platforms, Cardinal Ambongo gave an interview at the end of these discussions...

From April 28 to May 2, 2024, at the Fraterna Domus in Sacrofano, near Rome, three hundred parish priests identified by the Episcopal Conferences and the Eastern Catholic Churches participated in a worldwide meeting of listening, prayer and discernment promoted by the General Secretariat of the Synod and the Dicastery for the Clergy, in agreement with the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches) and the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches, entitled "Parish Priests for the Synod (cfr ECF)

After having prevented him from going to the VIP lounge by the authorities of the N'Djili airport on Sunday, April 14, the Congolese authorities are returning to a new targeted attack by a letter signed by a Prosecutor General at the Court of Cassation that has been circulating on social networks since its issue. This letter treats the Cardinal's behavior as seditious in its subject. According to its content, the Prosecutor, author of the letter treating the Cardinal's behavior as seditious, would have summoned him to his office on April 25 by a previous letter dated April 22, 2024. Having received the sanction of an empty chair at the meeting, the author of the invitation decided to cross a red line. This time, he is bringing the case to the Prosecutor General at the Matete Court of Appeal. In the publications that were spraying adrenaline into all the nerves depending on which side you were on, nothing very official was detected over the weekend in relation to this news.

His Excellency Monsignor José-Bernard LIKOLO, Apostolic Administrator of Molegbe, presided over the Eucharist on the morning of Saturday, April 27, 2024 in the large hall of the Saint Francis of Assisi minor seminary in Kota-koli. After the mass, he met with all the minor seminarians (178 in total).

From Monday 8 to Saturday 13 April, the sisters of the Congregation of the Child Jesus Providence of Rouen had a general assembly in the presence of the Mother General who travelled from France to the CAR for the said assembly. The closing Mass was celebrated at the regional house in Bangui on Saturday 13 April at 5:30 pm by Father Jean-Marie Konde (priest of the Archdiocese of Kinshasa in Fidei Donum). Commenting on the reading of the choice of seven deacons and the Gospel of the storm on the sea, the celebrant of the Mass exhorted the participants on the need to walk together in unity, trust and forgiveness, terms which also recalled the general theme of their assembly.

This letter expresses the concern of the bishops of ASSEPKIS about the crisis situation at the Saint Cyprien theologate in Bunia. Because the house of formation whose vocation is to prepare young people for the ministerial priesthood according to the spirit and norms of the Catholic Church of the Latin rite has been transformed since January 2024 into a place where an unhealthy and toxic climate is observed in the relationships between Formators and Seminarians. This calls into question, according to the terms of the letter, the fundamentals of priestly formation. Particularly mutual trust, good understanding, respect, obedience and discipline.

(the Provincial Episcopal Assembly of Bukavu) has been in ordinary session in the city of Butembo since Monday, April 8. These meetings are being held at the Spiritual Center of the Orant Sisters of the Assumption in Kasongomi.

By the CECA press release (n.35/CECA/SG/24) signed by its Secretary General Abbot Cédric KONGBO, the Central African community learned with great regret of the death of the Bishop of Kaga-Bandoro on Sunday, March 31, 2024, Easter Sunday, at 5 a.m. His body was brought back to the city of Bangui the same day for preservation at the morgue. By another official press release from the Episcopal Conference of Central Africa, a week later, with reference n.38/CECA/24, the entire program of the burial of Monsignor Thaddée was delivered.

Beginning on March 11, Ramadan plunged the Muslim brothers into spiritual depth through intense prayers and a daily fast that requires them to abstain from eating, drinking and smoking from dawn to sunset. They are allowed, during this long period, only two meals at sunset (Iftar) and before dawn (Suhoor).

Landing in Gemena on April 2, 2024, the Archbishop of Kinshasa took on the duty of visiting his biological family, celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the General Custody of the Friars Minor of the Capuchins in Congo Kinshasa and Brazzaville and celebrating his five years in his homeland since he became a cardinal.