by Sheila Pires | Dec 17, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured
The Catholic community of the Diocese of Keimoes–Upington gathered at St Augustine’s Co-Cathedral in Upington for a Memorial Mass offered in suffrage for the late Most Reverend Edward Gabriel Risi OMI, who served as Bishop of Keimoes–Upington for 25 years. The Holy...
by Sheila Pires | Dec 16, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured
In his Christmas Message to the People of God in Southern Africa, Cardinal Stephen Brislin, President of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC), invites the faithful to contemplate the mystery of the Incarnation as a source of hope in a world marked...
by Sheila Pires | Dec 16, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured
The Apostolic Nunciature to South Africa has announced the appointment of Archbishop Zolile Peter Mpambani S.C.I., Archbishop of Bloemfontein, as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Keimoes–Upington, following the passing of Bishop Edward Gariel Risi OMI on 04...
by danvdb | Dec 12, 2025 | Bishops Foundation Newsletter, Uncategorized
The Bishops' Foundation Newsletter The Church in Southern Africa is mourning the death of Bishop Edward Gabriel Risi, Bishop of Keimoes-Upington, who passed away on Thursday morning, 4 December 2025, at the age of 76. His death followed several months of ill-health;...
by Sheila Pires | Dec 11, 2025 | Uncategorized, Bishop Statements, Featured
The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) has issued a statement following the assassination of whistleblower Marius van der Merwe, expressing concern about the impact such incidents have on public trust, justice, and the country’s social fabric. The...
by Sheila Pires | Dec 9, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured
The President of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) has lauded the enduring vision and prophetic witness of Abbot Francis Pfanner, calling his “legacy of non-racialism…a way to promote respectful intercultural living” and urged the Mariannhill...
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