Sister Dolorosa Strobl OP Turns 90!
lmmaculate Conception parish in East London celebrated the 90th birthday of Sr Dolorosa Strobl OP, paying tribute to her 36 […]
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Inkamana Benedictine Abbey Celebrates its First African Abbot
By Sydney Duval – The blessing and installation of Fr John Paul Mwaniki as the first African abbot of the Benedictine
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Stigmatines Prepare for Silver Jubilee in Botswana
The Stigmatines will be celebrating 25 years of their presence in Botswana, and at the parish of St Bernadette in Gaborone West, this September.
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Golden Jubilees for Two Daughters of the Immaculate Heart
Two Sisters of the Daughters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Witbank diocese celebrated their golden jubilees. (From left)
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Fr David Rowan SJ to Head Consecrated Life Body (LCCL)
Fr David Rowan SJ, Jesuit regional superior in South Africa, has been elected president of the umbrella body for religious
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Book on missionaries killed in Zim war tells untold story
The late Fr Ted Rogers deserves credit for having taken a bold step to acknowledge the missionaries who were killed during the Rhodesian/Zimbabwean war of independence.
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Sister Nokwanda Bam : My Journey as Precious Blood Sister’
As a girl, Sr Nokwanda Bam wanted to be a priest. Today she is a Precious Blood Sister. She told
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Sister Gerard Connellan: 75 Years of Religious Life!
Sister Gerard Connellan of the Newton Park, Port Elizabeth, convent has celebrated 75 years in religious life as a Little
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How the first SA-Founded Religious Order Came to Be
In only three years Francis Pfanner had become world-famous. In 1885 Mariannhill was given the status of an abbey, and Pfanner was consecrated its first mitred abbot. The abbot was passionate about spreading the benefits of education and Christianity further afield. Soon a network of mission churches sprang up through southern Natal, each on farmland that was sufficient to feed its congregants.
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