Select Page
by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2022 | Church in Africa, Environment, General Audience, lead, News, pipeline, Pope Francis, Tanzania, Uganda | 0 |
Ugandan climate activists met with Pope Francis at the Vatican at the end of his weekly Wednesday audience to ask for his support in their campaign to stop the construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 9, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Environment Ecology, Fossil fuels, Laudato Si, Laudato Si' Movement, News, Tanzania, Uganda | 0 |
The Laudato Si’ Movement is urging the International Union of Conservation for Nature to help stop a massive oil and gas project being implemented in Uganda and Tanzania.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 18, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Tanzania | 0 |
Tanzanian President John Magufuli died of heart-related complications March 17 at a hospital in Dar es Salaam. He was 61.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 7, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Tanzania | 0 |
Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Ruwa’ichi of Dar es Salaam said it was time for the country to accept that COVID-19 exists, noting that denying the truth has led to loss of lives and a lot of people getting sick.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 6, 2021 | Catholic Church, Church in Africa, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic, lead, News, Tanzania | 0 |
In just two months, the Catholic Church in Tanzania has lost 25 priests and 60 nuns to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 22, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in Africa, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Tanzania | 0 |
Tanzania’s president is finally acknowledging that his country has a coronavirus problem after claiming for months that the disease had been defeated by prayer.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 19, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Africa, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Tanzania | 0 |
Tanzania’s COVID-denying president is calling on citizens for three days of prayer to defeat unnamed “respiratory diseases” amid warnings that the country is seeing a deadly resurgence in infections.
Read MoreThe United Republic of Tanzania has stood out as the only country to declare victory over the coronavirus when, in April 2020, President John Pombe Magufuli, who is Catholic, told worshippers in an Evangelical Lutheran […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 29, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Africa, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Tanzania | 0 |
Tanzania’s president says God has eliminated COVID-19 in his country. His own church now begs to differ.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 25, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, News, Obituary, Tanzania | 0 |
Former Tanzanian President Benjamin William Mkapa, a Catholic who led several regional peace mediation efforts, died July 24. He was 81.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 9, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Africa, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Tanzania | 0 |
Tanzania’s president is again claiming the country is free of the coronavirus because of the power of prayer — six weeks after his government stopped publicly updating virus data.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 9, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Coronavirus, COVID-19, News, social distancing, Tanzania | 0 |
Catholic Churches in Tanzania are remaining open alongside other churches, even as the rest of world shuts places of worship to stem the spread of COVID-19.
Read More
Recent Comments