Jubilee 2025: Faith Leaders Petition G20 to Cancel Unjust Debts

by Sheila Pires | Nov 3, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured, Justice and Peace

As the world observes the 2025 Jubilee Year, faith leaders across South Africa have united in a bold call for debt cancellation and global financial reform. On Monday, November 3, 2025, a multi-faith delegation, led by the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference...

Feed. Heal. Liberate. Africa: Church Leads Call for Debt Justice and Human Dignity Ahead of G20

by Sheila Pires | Oct 27, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured, Justice and Peace

At a time when the world looks to Africa for both moral and developmental leadership, the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC), through its Justice and Peace Commission, in collaboration with Caritas Africa, Jesuits Africa, and Catholic Sisters’...

“No Amount Is Safe”: SACBC and DG Murray Trust Unite to Raise Awareness on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

by Sheila Pires | Oct 8, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured, Justice and Peace

As part of International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Day, observed globally on September 9 each year, the SACBC Justice and Peace Commission, in partnership with the DG Murray Trust, hosted an awareness workshop at Khanya House on October 6. The...

Bishop Mbuyisa Welcomes Report on Tembisa Hospital Corruption

by Sheila Pires | Oct 6, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured, Justice and Peace

The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) Justice and Peace Commission has welcomed the recent report by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) exposing the looting of more than R2 billion from Tembisa Hospital. In the statement signed by the Chairperson...

Water Insecurity and Climate Change

by Sheila Pires | Sep 16, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured, Justice and Peace

In this week’s reflection for the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) Justice and Peace Series on the Season of Creation, Fr. Peter Knox SJ reflects on the theme of water insecurity and climate change. Drawing on his recent experiences in the...

Women and Men Are Equally Responsible for Our Common Home

by Sheila Pires | Sep 9, 2025 | Uncategorized, Justice and Peace

It is easy to adopt popular stereotypes about the roles of women and men in society, in the family, the workplace, and in politics. If we don’t reflect on what these are saying about both women and men, we tend to repeat what we have been taught from our childhood....