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		<title>SACBC Christmas Message 2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 03:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I wish you grace and peace as we prepare ourselves to welcome the newborn [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How the Church Helps Shape Young Catholics</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many young Catholics are actively involved in the Church, and it is the SACBC Youth Ministry’s job to guide them in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>From Words to Witness: Bishop Sipuka’s Call to Action at the G20 Interfaith Forum</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Religious leaders from across the globe gathered in Cape Town for the G20 Interfaith Forum (IF20) under the theme Ubuntu [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SACBC Discuss Education, Synodality, Formation and Finances at Plenary</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 07:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) held its August 2025 Plenary Session from 4–8 August at Khanya House, Pretoria. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Catholic Social Teaching Demands: Compassion before Profits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 05:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Fr Stan Muyebe OP &#8211; The Church’s teachings and successive popes have made it clear that compassion, the dignity [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SACBC Statement on Holy Family Church Attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 04:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SACBC Statement on Xenophobic Blockade of Access to Healthcare</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[SACBC statement on  Xenophobic Attacks Against Those Seeking Health Care But if anyone has the world&#8217;s goods and sees his [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SACBC Statement on the Recent Floods in the Eastern Cape</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Jesus came and stood among them. He said to them, ‘Peace be with you’” (John 20:19) In the wake of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cardinal Stephen Brislin Celebrates Pentecost with Zimbabwean Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 05:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cardinal Stephen Brislin, Archbishop of Johannesburg, made a  Pastoral Visit to the Zimbabwean Community on Pentecost Sunday at the Cathedral [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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