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The Universal Church celebrates the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church. Our dear Mother is in Heaven. She lived on this planet where we constitute the visible Church, now living with her Son in the invisible Church. In the visible Church, we continue the mission that her Son entrusted to us: to make disciples of all nations; in the invisible Church, our brothers the saints savor victory alongside the angels in the heavenly court of the Almighty Father. This is why we unceasingly join our voices to those of the angels during the Masses with the Gloria and the Sanctus.

Before returning to his Father, He who had no counterfeit in his language, Christ had promised the Spirit of truth to his disciples. In a faith sustained by the words of the Master, the latter remained assiduous in the upper room with the Mother of the Savior. The Spirit descended upon them. From then on, they saw themselves dispossessed of all kinds of fear and possessed a supernatural courage to adopt a new language, to stand in the face of persecutions and to live in complete freedom according to the saving plan of salvation.

In Belgium, he first went to Lumen vitae to meet the leaders of this institution dear to the Church. At the end of his interview with the leader, he was invited to say a word to the students who had come from different dioceses of Africa. Ironically, the Prelate arrived at the right time, during the liturgy course. He took advantage of it, since he was in the field, to insist on the liturgy as a theological science in its own right and goes beyond songs and the celebration of the sacraments. The Father Bishops expect a lot from them to put the fruits of their research at the service of the particular churches.

On the occasion of the Joan of Arc celebrations, Cardinal Dieudonné was the guest of honor of Monsignor Jacques Blaquart, Bishop of Orléans for Loiret. Very moving moments, intense in emotion and spirituality. Meetings with civil authorities, exchanges with the different social classes of the population punctuated his stay. It is practically impossible during the Joan of Arc celebrations not to participate in the parade of May 8. His presence honored this moment. It was on this occasion that he presided over the solemn mass at the Sainte Croix Cathedral in the presence of Monsignor Jacques Blaquart, the Bishop of Mauritius, the Bishop Emeritus of Verdun, originally from Orléans

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.