by Sheila Pires | Jan 22, 2026 | Uncategorized, Featured
Bishops and Apostolic Administrators of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) are gathered in Pretoria for their January 2026 Plenary Session, taking place from 20 to 27 January at Khanya House, the Conference’s headquarters. The eight-day...
by Sheila Pires | Jan 21, 2026 | Featured
The Apostolic Nuncio to Southern Africa took part in the opening session of the Plenary Assembly of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) underway at Khanya House in Pretoria, the Conference headquarters. In his address to the bishops gathered...
by Sheila Pires | Jan 21, 2026 | Uncategorized, Bishops' Homilies, Featured
At the morning Mass of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) January 2026 Plenary Session themed ‘Synodality and Mission’, Bishop Noel Andrew Rucastle of Oudtshoorn invited his brother bishops to embrace a leadership marked by fidelity, courage,...
by Sheila Pires | Jan 21, 2026 | Uncategorized, Bishop Statements, Featured, News
The President of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) has called on the Church in South Africa, Botswana and Eswatini to enter its next chapter with renewed missionary zeal, fidelity to the Gospel and courage in the face of injustice, as the...
by Sheila Pires | Jan 21, 2026 | Uncategorized, Bishop Statements, Featured
The Archbishop of Johannesburg has expressed deep sorrow following a tragic road accident near Vanderbijlpark in South Africa’s Vaal region, in which several schoolchildren lost their lives while travelling to school on 17 January 2026. In a message of condolence,...
by Sheila Pires | Jan 21, 2026 | Uncategorized, Bishops' Homilies, Featured
The Catholic Church in Southern Africa has been called to renewed discernment, deeper communion, and a more prophetic public witness as it marks 75 years since the establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in the region. The call came during the Opening Mass of the...
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