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Jean-Baptiste Hounsou

St Raphael parish to spread smiles with TalentFest this August

The Church as an institution in society is made up of people with variety of talents. From the soothing voices of the choir, to the instrumentalists bringing out some...

124-year-old Catholic church in Texas burns to the ground

A historic 124-year-old Roman Catholic church in a rural Texas farming town that serves 244 families burned to the ground on Monday. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol,...

Pope Francis surprises ill religious sister with visit

Pope Francis took advantage of his lighter summer schedule to make a surprise visit to a convalescing Daughter of Charity earlier this week. Sr. Maria Mucci, 74, has...

From a newsroom cleaner to best journalism student: Story of a Sacred Heart Parishioner

If you work as a newspaper journalist, one of the people you would least expect to read your full-page feature story and give you feedback is the newsroom cleaner. The...

Oglio

Six years and still no sign of Jesuit Fr. Dall’Oglio, kidnapped in Syria

Six years ago Monday, on 29 July 2013, Jesuit Father Paolo Dall’Oglio was kidnapped in the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa. The area was controlled by the so-called...

Basilica

Uganda gets 3rd Minor Basilica

The Holy Father Pope Francis has approved an application that was presented by the Archbishop of Kampala,  Most Rev. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga to elevate Munyonyo Church to...

secam

2019 SECAM Plenary Assembly closed in Uganda.

The 5oth anniversary General Assembly of  the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) has come to a close in Uganda. The week long event...

young people

Editorial: From a father to his beloved young people – Pt.2

Christus vivit is a post-synodal apostolic exhortation of Pope Francis, written in response to the Fifteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, on young...

Secam

Archbishop of Ouagadougou elected SECAM president

His Eminence Philippe Nakellentuba Cardinal Ouédraogo, Archbishop of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Consolatrice al Tiburtino has been...

sma

SMA-Ghana elevated to provincial status

The Ghana Region of the society of African Missions has seen a change in status after its elevation from a Region to a Province. This revelation was made by the former...