African Catholic Voices

Sr Teresia Wamuyu Wachira, Co-President of Pax Christi International and John Ashworth, Fellow of the Rift Valley Institute, and Catholic missionary address the current crisis and conflict in Sudan. They help us to understand the complex nature of this conflict, the suffering of the people especially the poor, women, and children, and how greed, corruption, ethnic and religious factors as well as geo-politics and international actors continue to fuel the conflict in Sudan, South Sudan and the rest of Africa. They give a message of hope and peace to Sudan, Africa, and the rest of the world.

Dans ce podcast, le Père EbubeChukwu et la Sœur Titilayo ont entretenu une conversation avec trois jeunes étudiant·e·s de la République Démocratique du Congo. Ces jeunes membres du BBI ont exprimé leur joie après avoir participé activement à la visite du pape au Congo cette année (janvier/février).
Ils ont également remercié le pape pour avoir pris le temps de les rencontrer. Les jeunes racontent ce qu'ils ont retenu de leur rencontre avec le Saint Père. Ils nous ont rapporté que le pape leur a recommandé d'être des témoins de la foi dans leurs pays et auprès de leur peuple, aujourd'hui déchiré par la guerre. Il les a par ailleurs demandés d'être les porteurs de l'espoir et de l'Amour de Dieu.
Ces jeunes ont de plus abordé les difficultés qu'ils rencontrent dans les paroisses avec les autorités ecclésiales. Ceux qui sont à l'Est du Congo où il y a la guerre ont raconté l'engagement des jeunes catholiques à aider les réfugiés à travers le partage du bien et la provision des logements et de la sécurité.
Ils travaillent également pour la croissance de leur cohorte.

In this engaging conversation, Sr Titilayo chats with Father Basil Obieje on his activities and involvement with the Congolese youth while on mission to the country. He shares with us that his mission with the young people was highly engaging, engaging, fruitful, and fulfilling.
He believes that young people need the accompaniment of priests, religious, and elders to tread the part of righteousness and morality. He emphasizes the necessity of assisting them, and argues that we must not neglect their presence.
Fr believes that it is necessary that these young people who are the “Church of Now” be taught the Good News of Christ in order to pass it to their children in the future.

Welcome to the African Catholic Voices. In this episode, co-host, Father Ruffino Ezama speaks with Father Anthony Kimbowa Kibira. Anthony is the provincial superior of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus (MCCJ), Uganda. In this conversation, Fr Anthony walks us through his journey of synodality as a combonian missionary.
The listener will observe that the conversation is not about how he implements synodality in his ministry, but how his openness to the spirit of synodality guides his steps as a missionary.
This conversation will take the listener to different countries where Fr Anthony happened to work and study. And, curiously, his appreciation of the particularities of different Churches where he walked as a pilgrim of love and hope resonates through the conversation.
For you, what is synodality, and what is your synodal journey like?
Kindly let us know what you think of Fr. Anthony's idea of Synod and Synodality as a place and moment of discernment in prayer.
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Hello, we are pleased to introduce you to the second episode of an engaging and educative conversation between Sr Titilayo Aduloju and some young Ugandan faith influencers of the Building Bridges Initiative. In the first episode, they told us about different activities they have been doing since they started, such as planting trees and cleaning their church compounds.
In this second episode, they reclaim the faith of the Ugandan Martyrs again. They encourage other youths worldwide to embody Christ in their different places of work, by allowing the faith of their ancestors to shine in their lives.
Please share your thoughts on their perspectives.
Is it possible that they are the true heirs of the Ugandan Martyrs?
How can their faith be the same as that of every other youth?