Health Care That Reaches Everyone: Faith and Humanitarian Leaders Call for Urgent Investment Ahead of Global Fund Summit

by Sheila Pires | Nov 20, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured

As world leaders prepare to gather in Johannesburg on 21 November 2025 for the Global Fund’s Eighth Replenishment Summit, the Catholic Health Care Association of Southern Africa (CATHCA) and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) are issuing urgent calls for investment in...

G20 side event in Johannesburg: Catholic Church calls for debt cancellation in the Jubilee Year of Hope

by Sheila Pires | Nov 20, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured

By Kati Dijane As global leaders are gathering in South Africa for the G20 Summit – the first time the forum has taken place on African soil – a powerful faith-based response by the Catholic Church was taking shape on the sidelines. On Wednesday, 19 November 2025,...

Faith Leaders Urge G20 to “Turn Debt into Hope” Ahead of Historic Johannesburg Summit

by Sheila Pires | Nov 20, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured

Leaders of faith communities from across the world have issued an appeal to G20 leaders, calling on them to confront the global debt crisis as a moral and humanitarian emergency ahead of the G20 Summit in Johannesburg — the first G20 summit to be held on African soil....

Archbishop Mpambani on SACBC 75 anniversary: “We need more prayers, wisdom, and strength from the Lord”

by Sheila Pires | Nov 18, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured

The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) concluded its November Board Meeting in Pretoria, where bishops gathered to prepare for the upcoming January plenary and the landmark celebration of 75 years since the establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in...

Cardinal Napier: Synodality Must Take Root Among the People

by Sheila Pires | Nov 18, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured

The Diocese of Eshowe devoted a full day to reflection on synodality as priests gathered for a presentation led by the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) vice chairperson of the Commission for Synodality, Bishop Thulani Victor Mbuyisa CMM of Kokstad...