South Africa bishop calls for more compassion towards migrants
A leading Catholic bishop in South Africa says the country needs to start looking at migrants “as people who are in need of help.”
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by bcadmin | Jun 8, 2022 | Church in Africa, lead, migrants and refugees, News, South Africa, Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, xenophobia | 0 |
A leading Catholic bishop in South Africa says the country needs to start looking at migrants “as people who are in need of help.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 30, 2022 | Church in Africa, Flooding, lead, Natural disasters, News, South Africa, Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference | 0 |
A series of floods in South Africa earlier this month left at least 443 people dead and 13,000 homes destroyed, causing Church leaders to point to the growing climate change crisis.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 24, 2022 | Catholic Church, Church in Africa, jobs, lead, News, South Africa, Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, xenophobia | 0 |
A job quotas bill that would limit the number of foreign laborers that can work in South Africa is being compared to apartheid by opposition party members.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 27, 2021 | Anglican Church, Church in Africa, News, South Africa, Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference | 0 |
Archbishop Desmond Tutu was “a beacon of hope during the bleak days of apartheid,” according to Bishop Victor Phalana of Klerksdorp.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 15, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholics and politics, Church in Africa, Eswatini, News, Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, Swaziland | 0 |
Eswatini needs a “dialogue about a dialogue” to set the scene for urgent negotiations toward democratic reform, the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference said after a weeklong solidarity and pastoral visit to the country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 5, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, News, Nuns, Religious Sisters, South Africa, Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, Women in the Church | 0 |
The bishops of southern Africa have appointed another woman to head their conference’s general secretariat, succeeding a religious sister who had served in that position for eight years.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 23, 2020 | Catholic Church, Church in Africa, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, lead, News, President Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa, Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, violence against women | 0 |
Dealing with gender-based violence can be helped with the lessons learned in the fight against the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, the bishops of South Africa say.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 24, 2020 | Catholic Church, Church in Africa, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, lead, News, South Africa, South African Council of Churches, Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference | 0 |
As South Africa prepares for the COVID-19 pandemic to get worse in the country, Church leaders are warning that the country must work to become more economically inclusive once the crisis is over.
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