Pastoral Letter On Violence Against Women, Girls And Children
“A bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh” (Gen. 2:18, 23) Brothers and sisters, This is a very sad and tragic moment in our land when women and young girls are...
Category: Bishops
Bishop Sipuka: What’s Needed to Help Fix South Africa
In part two of our interview with Bishop Sithembele Sipuka of Mthatha, the SACBC president talks to MANDLA ZIBI about social issues facing the nation and the Church.
New Bishop: I’m Not Alone
When the youngest bishop in South Africa takes office in his rural Eastern Cape diocese, he will feel the support from the people he is serving. Uganda-born Mgr Joseph Kizito will be ordained bishop...
Bishop Sipuka On His Life, His Diocese and South Africa
Earlier this year Bishop Sithembele Sipuka of Mthatha assumed the presidency of the SACBC. In a two-part interview he told Mandla Zibi about his life, ministry and vision. At the bishop’s plenary session in February...
Justice & Peace Warns Govt to Get Waterwise
The head of the bishops’ Justice & Peace Commission has called for a ten-year moratorium on mining in 22 strategic water source areas across South Africa. The response to the water crisis in South...
SACBC’s Khanya House welcomes Archbishop Mpako and SC editor
Officials and staff members of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) head office in Pretoria enjoyed special visits on successive days. Visiting the new Khanya House in Waterkloof for the first time were Archbishop...
Religion At The Fore In Motsepe R100m Jobs Fund
The Catholic Church is among the 33 faith-based organisations that will help handle the Motsepe Foundation’s R100 million job-creation fund, according to Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg. The archbishop attended the initial meeting of...
Archbishop Buti Tlhagale: ‘Don’t blame migrants for govt failures’
By Sheila Pires – Attacks on migrant communities and their businesses are likely to continue because they “are now inextricably linked to service delivery protests”, according to the archbishop of Johannesburg. “To disentangle the two...
Why the Lenten Appeal Income Went Down
A decrease of 15% in giving in this year’s Bishops’ Lenten Appeal collection has forced administrators to dip into an emergency donor fund to cover necessary allocations. This year’s Lenten Appeal raised just over...
Hong Kong Bishop Reminds People That All Involved In Protests Are Human
As demonstrations pitting pro-government groups against pro-democracy protesters continue, a bishop urged Catholics to pray for the realisation that all are humans and not “cockroaches or dogs.” Ucanews.org reported Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Ha Chi-shing...
U.K. Must Do More To Fight Trafficking, Bishop Says After Bodies Found
By Simon Caldwell – The U.K. government must step up its efforts to provide sanctuary for migrants and to fight trafficking gangs in the wake of the discovery of a truck containing 39 frozen corpses,...
Johannesburg Synod Vows To Make New Resolutions Real
A lesson from the Johannesburg archdiocesan synod ten years ago is that unless you identify structures to assist in implementation, documents just remain idealistic words, Archbishop Buti Tlhagale OMI of Johannesburg said. This year’s...
