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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.

Since February 12 at 12:15 p.m. that HE Bishop José-Bernard LIKOLO arrived in Yakoma aboard the humanitarian plane in the presence of an immense crowd of Christians around the tarmac of the aerodrome. All the faithful were doubly joyful: First, the welcome of the Bishop for the very first time in Yakoma since his appointment, on August 1, 2023 by the Holy Father as Apostolic Administrator Sede vacante of Molegbe; then for the closing of the Centenary of evangelization of the parish of Saint Jean Berchmans from February 12 to 18, 2024.

It was during the mass he celebrated, this Sunday, February 11, 2024, in front of the chapel of the chaplaincy of this hospital in the presence of the general director, the nursing and administrative staff of this health establishment. In his homily inspired by the liturgical texts of the day (Leviticus 13, 1-2.45-46; 1 Corinthians 10, 31-11, 1 and Mark 1, 40-45), the first pastor of the Diocese of Kisantu, among other things, exhorted the participants in this Eucharistic celebration on the importance of our physical and spiritual proximity to the person who is suffering,

Speaking of the joy in the ethos of the Christians of Yakoma, it was plural. First the reception of Mgr the bishop for the very first time in Yakoma in general since his appointment, on August 1, 2023 by the Holy Father as Apostolic Administrator Sede vacante of Molegbe; then for the closing of the Centenary of evangelization of the parish of Saint Jean Berchmans from the 12th to the 18th of this month.

Father Bishop, you are currently the image of the river into which all kinds of garbage are thrown. This river drains them patiently and calmly towards other dwellings, always revealing the beauty and clarity of the flow of water. It is the image of “Christ, who, when insulted, did not insult in return, when mistreated, did not threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.” 1 Peter 2:23

On this February 2, 2024, the leaders of Consecrated Life in the Archdiocese of Bangui in the CAR spent this day at the Saint Michel parish under the direction of Reverend Sister Lucie Mbomi, head of Consecrated Life in the Archdiocese of Bangui. After the welcoming words by the parish priest, the consecrated men and women were honored in the morning by three conferences on Consecrated life according to the vision of the Church, on Consecrated life in the service of the mission in the Church Family of God and on Consecrated life facing the challenges of managing new information and communication technologies. These were presented respectively by