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From January 4 to 11, 2025, the Bishops of Cameroon are meeting in Buea for their 48th annual seminar. This seminar is being held at the Bishop Pius AWA Pastoral Center. After the opening on January 4, the Bishops of Cameroon attended the consecration of the Divine Mercy Co-Cathedral on Sunday, January 5. This dedication was carried out by Monsignor Michaël BIBI, Bishop of Buea.

Monsignor Fulgence MUTEBA, Metropolitan Archbishop of Lubumbashi, proceeded this Sunday, January 5, 2025, to the canonical erection of the parish Blessed Isidore Bakanja, its dedication and the installation of its priests. The triple ceremony took place on the solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord.

On Sunday, January 5, 2025, Sunday of the solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, coinciding with the Day of Missionary Childhood in the Church of the Family of God, also known as the Pontifical Work of the Holy Childhood, a mass was said at Saint Peter's Square of the Saint Paul Cathedral Parish of Uvira by His Excellency Bishop Sébastien-Joseph MUYENGO MULOMBE. Children from different deaneries took part in this Eucharistic celebration.

Since the beginning of the year 2024, the Church of God in Central Africa had opened the jubilee of the 130th anniversary of the evangelization of the nation. Apart from multiple activities organized in the different dioceses, it was from the 3rd to the 5th that everything was focused on the national level to celebrate and close this great moment.

The Bishop of Basankusu, Monsignor Liberius PWONGO BOPE, ordained 5 new Deacons and 4 new Priests on behalf of his Diocese on this day when he celebrates his 33 years of priestly ordination. The ceremony took place during the Mass he presided over at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul of Basankusu, this Saturday, January 4, 2025.

By the initiative of Father Liévin, priest of the Saint Joseph parish of Ndim, the bridge was fully financed for its rehabilitation on December 30, 2024 as a New Year's gift for all its inhabitants. By making a strident appeal to its Christians as well as to men and women of good will, especially technicians, to come and lend them a hand, the bridge was plated with dignity. A joint work that mobilized the inhabitants from 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

This Sunday, January 4, 2025, under the "Blessed Albert Joubert" straw hut of the Archbishopric of Lubumbashi, the pastoral agents (priests and religious as well as their provincial leaders of different congregations) of the Archdiocese of Lubumbashi presented their wishes of happiness and blessings to the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lubumbashi and President of the National Episcopal Conference of Bishops of Congo CENCO, Mgr Fulgence Muteba.

The day after the celebration of Saint Mary Mother of God, on Thursday, January 2, 2025, His Eminence Dieudonné Cardinal Nzapalainga met with all the pastoral agents working in the Archdiocese of Bangui at the Paproisse Saint Paul des Rapides, one of the historical jewels of the Central African Church.

After its closure due to its dilapidated state, the Saint Hyppolyte Cathedral of Kikwit has just opened its doors this December 29, 202 after a year and five months. It was also the occasion for Monsignor Timothée Bodika to open the Holy Door according to the recommendation of the Universal Church for the Jubilee Year.

In his sermon, the local ordinary returned to the value of a family and at the same time, he called on parents and children to found a family similar to that of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, especially by cultivating values such as forgiveness, dialogue, cohesion... and to learn to reject the practices of division, hatred, conflict,... He ended his homily by inviting all the faithful to have a pious thought for all the families who are separated by the horrors of repeated war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

His Excellency Monsignor Dieudonné Uringi, Ucci, Bishop of Bunia celebrated a Mass to open the Holy Door which at the same time launched the Jubilee Year as planned in the Universal Church.

This Monday, December 30, at the twilight of the calendar year 2024, His Excellency Monsignor José-Bernard LIKOLO, Bishop of Lisala and Apostolic Administrator of Molegbe, while staying in Europe for health reasons, presided over the Eucharist of this day in memory of HE Mgr Dominique